Thread: 53 Is back from the Body Shop
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05-17-2017 08:21 PM #1
Got the pickup back today for the time being. He was a long ways with the carpet and did a fantastic job with the cut and sewing on the hump. He has a tiny garage to do his work and my 53 was staying outside, well the weather took a turn for the worse with hail, and high wind with the threat of tornadoes in the forecast so I thought I better bring it home and get it inside. I'll put the pedals and column back in now so it can at least drive on the trailer instead of a winch.Seth
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05-17-2017 08:23 PM #2
Got any suggestions for a new gas pedal for me. I got a new POS from Ebay a long time ago and it looks like a Lokar but it is a piece of crap and it broke already. I need a good firewall mount pedal with a cable.Seth
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C.S.Lewis
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05-18-2017 03:42 AM #3
Carpet looks good, and so does the abs firewall cover.
Can't help any on the pedal....I usually source them out of a wrecking yard.
.I've NEVER seen a car come from the factory that couldn't be improved.....
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05-18-2017 05:46 AM #4
Speedway has a big selection - Shop Accelerator Pedals - Free Shipping @ Speedway MotorsRoger
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05-18-2017 06:37 AM #5
I made this one for my T-bucket. Like you, I couldn't find a good heavy duty pedal that didn't cost a bunch. This was made from scrap stuff I had laying around.
The mount is a piece of reshaped square tubing. The arms are 1/2" rod and the spoon is a slug from a hole saw that I bent to shape. Simple, but it worked great and I was able to fit it where it needed to go, instead of trying to work around a ready made part.
Isn't exactly what you asked for, but it's an option.
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05-21-2017 11:34 AM #6
" I made this one for my T-bucket. Like you, I couldn't find a good heavy duty pedal that didn't cost a bunch. This was made from scrap stuff I had laying around.
The mount is a piece of reshaped square tubing. The arms are 1/2" rod and the spoon is a slug from a hole saw that I bent to shape. Simple, but it worked great and I was able to fit it where it needed to go, instead of trying to work around a ready made part."
Making my own is defiantly an option, Kinda stuck between this whole time vs money thing. The abs firewall cover was money well spent.Last edited by 53 Chevy5; 05-21-2017 at 11:56 AM.
Seth
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C.S.Lewis
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05-18-2017 06:46 AM #7
I agree with Mike, the carpet looks awesome as does the firewall cover.
Love the spoon pedal Hotrod46 has too!
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05-18-2017 11:16 AM #8
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The carpet looks great! I have an extra throttle pedal for a 72 Chevy I can send you if you want. It looks real similar to the 88-95ish ones. Maybe you can go to the junk yard and get one of these and make it work?
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On the weather, I saw there were a couple of funnel clouds spotted by Fonda. I spoke with my friend yesterday and he said it was just north of his place. Another friend of mine that lives in Harlan shared a video on FB of a nasty storm moving across the sky. It was a tornado traveling but looked like a hurricane coming onto shore.
The power lines got blown down in our town and we were without power for 12hrs or so. My in laws lost a tree and a window, and my Dad lost a tree and it almost took out my 1972 in bed pick up camper.And it's only May. Haha
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05-20-2017 07:30 PM #9
Got the seat put back in to go to the upholstery shop again and got the pickup drive able again. The interior is really coming together, I can't wait for the seat to be recovered , that will be a few weeks yet though.Last edited by 53 Chevy5; 05-21-2017 at 06:44 AM.
Seth
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05-21-2017 11:43 AM #10
Finally got up the nerve to install my new tail gate latches, I always get nervous about welding things to new panels. I'm pretty happy how they turned out. I was going to weld a solid bead across the top just for looks but the latches are thinner than I thought. I burned a hold in one welding the pin to the housing, that took a bit to fix. I think I will use some seam sealer just to smooth out the top instead.Seth
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C.S.Lewis
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05-21-2017 11:53 AM #11
Put some more color on a bunch of misc parts and jammed the box. I was going to paint the fenders at the same time but the sealer didn't lay down as smooth as I liked so I'll sand them down a bit before I paint them. After this, the box is the last thing left to paint. Last week I was thinking about putting A/C in the shed window and yesterday the furnace was running keeping the shop up to temp. 40 deg with rain and gail force winds vs last weeks balmy 80 deg.Seth
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05-20-2017 07:26 PM #12
Thanks for the offer, I tried one of the standard GM pedals b/f but it mounts too high in the pickup. I'll figure something out but later, bigger fish to fry on it right now. Them storms wreck a lot in a hurry. Neighbors cattle barn roof blew off and landed on the machine shed roof caving that in, then it got picked up again and wiped out his commodity shed.Seth
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05-22-2017 11:45 AM #13
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I hear you on the weird weather!!!! We wanted to avoid turning on the AC in the house but after sweating it out 1 night I told the wife that was enough. Then it was off and we had to turn the furnace on last night. I had the same thoughts of putting the window ac in the garage too. I did that last year and that is the ticket! The seat looks nice even if it isn't finished. The bed is looking great. I'm in the same boat with you as far as time VS money. I was going to build a throttle pedal too, but I'm just going to get another Lokar one. I have one int he Vette and it has worked awesome. Now, the POS china Lokar copy I had in it previously, didn't make 5 passes. Total garbage. Keep working at it, you're making a lot better progress than I!Ryan
1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR Stage 3 cam, SuperT10
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05-22-2017 06:27 PM #14
We were all in that boat last week! Thursday night at 10 I jump outta bed and muscle the a/c unit into the window and flip it on 'cause it was 86 degrees in our bedroom.
Then Friday night we're running around shutting the windows 'cause the heater kicks on and it's barely 50 degrees out!
But the weekend was so nice I got a sunburn on my neck and ears from sitting in the field at the swap meet.
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05-22-2017 08:58 PM #15
A/C is well worth the time and money. Instead of siting on a butt buggy in front of a fan, I actually get work done. Weather was perfect tonight for painting , mid to upper 60's right after a rain, no dust, it turned out real nice. I have an alignment scheduled for wed, box won't be on yet but that's ok. Saturday I hope to drive it to town with the box on and get the back spacing and tire fitment measured and get some rims and tires on the way. I'm trying to jam it all in this week because next week tues my youngest who is 14 and I are going to the Black Hills for the week for a little father-son time. Then the week after that it is Vacation Bible School from 6:30 to 9:00 Sun through Thur and I was asked to help out with that. Both of those things are a welcome break though. I reluctantly helped with VBS last year but I ended up loving it and hated to see it end. Those little kids are sure a lot of fun.Seth
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