Holy Cow, never seen that before.

Just curious, as it took davepl a while to find his engine casting date, and eventually found it on the passenger side of the block kind of above where the starter sits, where is your casting date? I see you've got the high distributor tower as well. Is it a 3963512 block?

-- Edited by seventy2plus2 on Saturday 3rd of March 2018 07:03:06 PM

 Clint, it appears to be a 512 block  

 

 

 

Removed the dash. What a mess. The pad and removable brace are totally rotten. Good thing I have spare parts. At least the the metal structure is still solid. 

davepl wrote:

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I'll be tossing a black dash with a single crack, but it does have a big crack, and I'm in Seattle. My brother is visiting from Regina but I don't think it'd fit in his carry on!

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 Thanks for the offer but am lucky enough to have a really good dash pad in my parts stash. 

Not overly busy on the car lately but did get the back up engine built.

 

Nice !

davepl wrote:

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I like the retro finned valve covers, but will they clear the brake booster on these cars?

-- Edited by davepl on Friday 25th of May 2018 08:56:01 AM

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 Fingers crossed. If I recall correctly the space between the steel valve cover and the booster was about an inch and I don't believe that the aluminum valve covers are that much taller.

Need to clean and detail the engine compartment a bit and then I'll find out.

Wow looking good Eric..still planning on popping by to see your car hopping soon all the posts on 69"s getting me excited hoping tmrw is pic day

cdnpont wrote:

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Nice job on the pan Eric. Is it difficult to butt weld them in?

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 A real pain in the butt.

I don't track my time so can't say how long it took me, a couple weeks of evenings. I tack about every 3", then break down to 1" and then work my way around and around and around......till it's done.

I'm not skilled enough to know for sure if you're doing a "good" job or not, but it sure looks like it... and a lot of work! Kudos on all the fresh metal!

I made similar tools to clamp panels together and it works well on healthy 18ga. I felt that the floor pan was a little lean in a few spots so I opted to have fitted the patch to zero gap and about a 1/16 to 1/8 overlap in a few spots to keep the pan from falling through. The narrow overlap gets eaten up by the weld puddle. I will take a pic from underneath and post it.

My weapon of choice is a Hobart 120V mig welder that I use .032 flux core wire in. It spatters more than with solid wire and mig gas but I am used to it and move outside often where I found the shielding gas to blow away in the Saskatchewan breezes we get. Hence the flux core provides a better weld environment.

The other project was dealing with the fuel tank and sending unit. I could not find a supplier of a dual line (supply and return) fuel sender for the full size car so I opted to get one for a Chevelle 396 application. I never realized that GM had different sizes of the head on the sender.

The Chevelle head is about 2" in diameter and the full size is 3 1/2". I made an adapter and bent the lines to suit the the B body tank and installation.

 

I did clean and paint the tank and straps but was excited to get the tank installed, so no pics of that.