Thread: Project Special K

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What they said... WIX! 8-)

Thanks for the tips on filters, before I had a chance to read everyone's response I bought a edelbrock one that works with my carb, no big deal, but it looks a lot like the wix inline filter for more money than the wix!
Had some more progress on frame here is a before and after shot of the rear frame support. I think the new one is much more beefy. I took these shots before welding in the new cross member.

After welding, with shocks painted black

Got a little more time in on the truck today. I'm thinking maybe I should add yet another cross member to tighten the frame up. Any thoughts?
Here are some wet paint shots, used a flat black to hide all of the imperfections!

I'm thinking like a ladder setup in front of where the gas tank mounts.

I would! Do you have the material already?

No material yet, but local steel scrap yard has different rectangular stock. The rear piece was a 1.5"x4" by 38 inch scrap that cost about 16 bucks. I'm sure there are more similar sized scrap to be found there, so I'd start with what is available.

That sounds like a good place to start!

Got the gas tank remounted and decided not to add further structural support at this time, do to access space and differential clearance. As I was measuring up the tank clearance for a new crossmember. I found the frame rails to be about a 16th of inch closer together than they were, before I added the rear frame member. Since the gas tank clearance was tight, I ground off some of the lower frame member to get the gas tank to fit back where it was before. After bolting it in, I figured it gives a lot of sheer wall support since it bolts two four separate areas on each side of the frame. I figure that must add some strength to the frame as well a relief shear spot should I get hit from behind. So for now no more frame members even after getting a scrap pierce of 2"x 4", 6.5 feet long foe additional support. I figure I can always add latter on if needed.
The gas tank has some beefy mounting plates which are about 1/4 inch thick. I figure there must be a lot of support there.

Big progress today got the motor dropped back in the truck and more importantly created some wiggle room in the garage. I'm afraid my quest to get my wood shop is taking over my free space for the Harley and the truck. Need to clear out some of the junk we'll never use, and reorganize the space so everybody gets along! Anyway I met my goal of getting it in by December, now to get the tranny hooked up, replumb the gas, and water lines and fire the beast back up! I have a friend with a long vacation coming this way over the holidays, so maybe the two of us can bang out all of the above. He helped me the first time I put the engine in, and missed the start up by one day! So we'll see if we can improve upon that! My transmission jack AKA harley jack got stuck today, but has done a great job in the past getting the transmission where it needs to be! Who says you can't improvise!

Looking Good Steve! Hey, how about a pic of that black & gold fender cover? I don't think I've seen that one before... HMmm... LOL..

Getting close, Steve! Truck looks good!

Looking great, Steve!

Well got the transmission reconnected to engine, and then modified the already modified transmission mount to fit the moved foward tranny bolts and still clear the brake booster, etc.

With transmission bolted in, got some stuff done on engine, mounter carb, adjusted and put in new belt to fit my new under-driven pulley, which was necessary for engine clearance. The guy's at Napa were a big help getting the right size belt only took three trips!the phots show various stuff going back on, and the pulley clearance from the cross member.