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that is a work of art man.

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

OH boy... look at the fingernails clearence between the pulley and radiator. Could it get any closer?

Could I get you to take a picture of what you did to secure the radiator to the framework of the truck? My radiator should be in this week and I need to start fabbing something.

Thanks in advance.

Farmer thats a factory mount extended to the length I needed and braced up to support . If you look close in the pic you can see a cross threaded bolt on top of the cross member , that has been corrected also.

Luvondope looking forward to checking your street out, or any street for that matter . It's hard to stay at a slow pace and keep the quality of my work up.

mepr thanks for the compliment .

hyperwrx I'll try and post the requested pics . There is actually more room then the picture shows . I have a spal pusher in front of the radiator , but have a thinner steel water pump pulley and flex fan that will fit if I decide to go that way later . Remeber that is a thick aluminum pulley with countersunk allen bolts . The origanal plan was to get the air conditioning functional again . My wife is pretty understanding about my projects , but it's easier to spend if she hears it run or I drive it .

I'm so ready to fire this thing off it's killing me . It's got 255/60/15 road huggers on back for break in . Then we go to 235/60/15 et street radials and the drag strip . The time slips will folloew the passes with the tune tips .

you better get some videos of this machine!!

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"but its that gut feeling of you're drawn to what feels right for yourself and what you're passionate about..."

Still hoping for those radiator pictures!

Radiator pics
In this one you can see where i cut back to the support and bent it in a s shape at the bottom. fuel hose is used to isolate rad from support. You can also see the bottom angle brackets that keep the bottom of the radiator in place . I should really paint that nasty battery tray.

This is the front side , again fuel hose , I have more room to cut to move the bottom of the radiator toward the grill , but will only do that if I run a fan on the water pump.


This is the gap between the radiator and the pulley . Also shows top radiator mount . A peice of angle iron bolted to support and then self tapping screwed to top of radiator flange . More fuel hose .

hotrod80: thank you very much

found one more

that last pic looks familiar... lol



lee did damn near the same thing

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"but its that gut feeling of you're drawn to what feels right for yourself and what you're passionate about..."

Latest pic , and i have the same overflow bottle except blue and minus the advertisment.

boy that truck looks familiar. did you buy it from someone on here?

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"but its that gut feeling of you're drawn to what feels right for yourself and what you're passionate about..."

The truck originally came from oklahoma . I bought it off ebay in January . It was "already set up for a small block" . Which means we pulled a perfectly good 56,000 mile 4 cylinder and threw it away. Here is the day I rolled it off the trailer. If it would have had the original motor in it I would have never taken it out .

Well, it's been a while, My neck has not been good , explosion at work , low on money , ETC. It's now in muffler jail . Check it out.





Anyway We should finish up tommorow , I will follow up with pics . I still have to have a driveshaft built . Been working on thinks for a week and a half and it does not look like i've done anything . I'tll get there eventually.

Muffler looks nice.

Question- I have to do my driveshaft also. What are you using for your base shaft to work from?

I am thinking about 2nd gen camero for starters and think I will have to have it shortened a bit due to my v8 sitting back a little bit.

those motor mounts are the same design as mine.. the only difference is mine are all 3 peices of round tubing!

that is awesome!

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!!!FINALLY!!!
-1977 Luv mikado

I had the front part of a 2nd gen Camaro shaft cut off with a torch and the rear part of a truck shaft cut off . When I take it to the driveline shop , all they have to do is cut a peice of tube and balance it . The yokes can get expensive . Some shops willeven trade you or give you credit for your old parts. You can see the cut off shaft in the picture to keep it from loosing tranny fluid . Man I need a winch on my trailer.

thanks

Well , I got it out of the muffler shop , but was running late and had to work tonight . I'll post try to post pics tommorrow . 10.4 to 1 compression is hard to keep quiet . It is set up so I can pull the muffler and go open headers . I have a tranny leak at the dipstick and a collent leak at the heater valve .

let's hear it.