Gave away my LS

[RanchWelder]

Your truck project is amazing. Nobody gets to rebuild a super clean 70's truck as nice as your's is. It's mint.
The metal dash makes it so much easier to complete the interior. Yours is cool. The glove box was the only thing missing, and there's a new one on the seat... your life sucks!

There's a guy who is installing a 305 LS with a NV4500 in his 4wd. You should keep up with his thread, so you can get a tune fore your rig and get the Chevy as close to running asap. It doesn't need new paint or anything else, in order to drag your dragster to the track.

The blue over yellow paint, is really kinda cool.
Wheels are amazing... run it like it is. Lil' polish, good enough. It's timeless with the patina all grung-ed up.
The metal is very straight, from what I can see.

My plan was to build you beyond the truck and make that lil' monster roar too.

Matching pain jobs? That would be high art, matching the Chevy Truck pain on the rat rod...

Lil' monster trailer...

I want a ride in it when it is sick fast!

The car flipping over is a CH-Vette... never do that!
Not even for the advertising $ on the underside.

At least we can get a partial look at his frame... design.
Before it was ruined....

The Track team must have been pissed, after it landed... and that's the end of tonights racing ladies and gentlemen, everybody go home.... now.

 

[squaredeal91]

I bet that ruined everything flipping that thing over hard like that lol at least someone got some pictures of the happening. The center caps for those wheels are kinda interesting, my dad made those or had them made in the 80s and then he painted them and put center cap decals on. And yes metal is straight. Next time I go over there I'm going to clean it up. I haven't seen the bottom of bed in years
Funny story about this 69 is that it's actually my moms truck and growing up my dad be talking about it likel it was his and I'm like the floor Matt's have mom's name on it lol. There still in there!!

 

[CalSgt]

Got plans of msd kit to run a carb on it.

Holley Terminator ECM is hard to beat for simplicity, they even sell kits with prebuilt harnesses. I think all you need beyond that is air & water plumbing, a fuel pump and relay to run it.

 

[Ricko1966]

I really think the adapter plate idea sounds pretty cool. I've heard of the hose clamp idea for driveshaft balancing , I've made/ shortened several driveshafts that work pretty good but never tried it yet. Probably should tho.

I don't know how you are shortening driveshafts so if you already know thi I apologize. Make a mark from the yoke down the side of the drive shaft.If you cut just through the weld ,no further just through the weld, at the yoke the yoke will slide out of the driveshaft tube. Shorten the tube the yoke will slide back in snug which keeps it straight,make sure your mark is lined up. Be sure the yoke is not rotated Now weld it just like the factory did. If it was balanced before it will still be balanced. Some will say it's not it is definitely close enough to not matter,the tube has consistent wall thickness and you are taking an even amount off,so you lose an even amount all the way around.

 

[squaredeal91]

I don't know how you are shortening driveshafts so if you already know thi I apologize. Make a mark from the yoke down the side of the drive shaft.If you cut just through the weld ,no further just through the weld, at the yoke the yoke will slide out of the driveshaft tube. Shorten the tube the yoke will slide back in snug which keeps it straight,make sure your mark is lined up. Be sure the yoke is not rotated Now weld it just like the factory did. If it was balanced before it will still be balanced. Some will say it's not it is definitely close enough to not matter,the tube has consistent wall thickness and you are taking an even amount off,so you lose an even amount all the way around.

No apologies needed, that's how it's done.

 

[Ricko1966]

No apologies needed, that's how it's done.

I've seen others do it wrong,so just making sure

 

[squaredeal91]

I've seen/ probably made-some bad ones lol. But I learned Yoke timing is crucial.

 

[Ricko1966]

I ve seen guys cut them in the middle the weld them back together, some people's children.

 

[RanchWelder]

I've seen/ probably made-some bad ones lol. But I learned Yoke timing is crucial.

I have to agree. If you match what you pulled apart by de-greeing everything as close as possible, the rotational mass should only vary by a few grams at the most. I'm convinced it's not rocket science, just good basic set up and detailed balancing. From what I've read, the wheels off the ground, at varied and even high RPM will tell the tail. I have seen a shaft balanced in a professional axle shop and the theory of what he did is exactly like it reflects mounted to the drive line, for us home schooler's purposes.
Probably pissed off a few axle specialists sharing this is all...