47 Chevy Fleetline

man just look at these things they are so beautifull.




i owe randy vickers a big thanks. THANKS

couple days ago i cut out the spare tire well...

today i got back there dropped the gas tank, had some holes on the side of the tank.
cleaned up the trunk with a wire brush.
started to make a gear shifter....

I need to invest in some tools. Riggs car kicked my butt today. all I wanted to do is cut a notch out of two 1/4" pieces of steel. we used a drill, jigsaw, hand grinder, a hammer and a air die grinder to make a rough cut. nothing worked good. jigsaw burned it's blade up in one pass. my hand grinder is screwed up and only works for 2 or 3 minutes at a time. the cooling fan broke off and now it over heats. Riggs hand grinder is missing the adapter to use my kind of cut off disk. we managed to get two pieces rough cut and then took them to Riggs bench top grinder to smoth out the work. the motor is bad on it. as soon as you touch it, it stops. man!!! I stopped for the day and Riggs is out looking at tools now. lol I haven't had this much trouble with something like this in years. something simple turned into a side show.

i ran to sears and got 4'' cut off wheels.... got a small section of the fender well cut off. then i was cutting a piece of metal and the grinder got away. so after that i said forget it.

Hows that old sayin' go?....Like two monkeys tryin' to f**k a football.....

when the grinder got away it hit my leg. THANK GOD i had on 2 shirts a work jacket, it hit my leg and did a number but at least hit didnt hit 3 inches to the left. then i would be in the hospital. and i didnt need stitches.

I could have stitched ya up.

RebStew wrote:I could have stitched ya up.

Either that or just use some duct tape, then you won't need any stinking stitches!

we were in the garage last night, tried to get the mounts mounted. but the tranny is hitting the orginial crossmember so i need to trim some more of it off. i plan on jacking the car up and putting jack stands under it, then pull the rear end. while im under that ill trim up the rest of the org. tranny crossmember.

ive cut all of the org. tranny crossmember out now. been pulling old gas line. started on the brake lines. going to replace everything. started to pull the org. rear end also. man those brake pads look brand new.

JRiggs wrote:ive cut all of the org. tranny crossmember out now. been pulling old gas line. started on the brake lines. going to replace everything. started to pull the org. rear end also. man those brake pads look brand new.

Whatcha gonna do with the old torque tube rear, there Rigg'sy ole pal?????

LRS30 wrote:

JRiggs wrote:ive cut all of the org. tranny crossmember out now. been pulling old gas line. started on the brake lines. going to replace everything. started to pull the org. rear end also. man those brake pads look brand new.

Whatcha gonna do with the old torque tube rear, there Rigg'sy ole pal?????

we cut the torque tube up with a saw.. you would have to convert it to an open driveshaft

RebStew wrote:

LRS30 wrote:

JRiggs wrote:ive cut all of the org. tranny crossmember out now. been pulling old gas line. started on the brake lines. going to replace everything. started to pull the org. rear end also. man those brake pads look brand new.

Whatcha gonna do with the old torque tube rear, there Rigg'sy ole pal?????

we cut the torque tube up with a saw.. you would have to convert it to an open driveshaft

And the search for a rear for Ferral's project continues.....Do you still have that old S-10 rear Steve? Sorry for the Hi-Jack Rigg's.....

we cut the torque tube off about 3 inches up pass the pumpkin..

john b has a torque tube rearend that you may be able to talk him out of