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Power Tour Is Closing In And I Haven't Touched The Motor!
Added: 2026-06-01

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When rebuilding an engine, proper bearing clearance is critical for longevity and performance. Main bearings should have approximately 0.003 inch clearance per inch of journal diameter, while rod bearings typically require 0.002 inch clearance per inch. For high-performance or supercharged applications, additional clearance (around 0.003 inch) is recommended to accommodate increased heat and thermal expansion. Clearance is measured using a dial bore gauge by comparing the bearing bore size to the actual journal size. The video demonstrates measuring an LS engine's main bearings, finding approximately 0.002 inch clearance on one bearing, which is insufficient for a hot rod application and requires either larger bearings or additional machining to achieve proper clearance.

[00:00:07]power tour. It's quickly approaching at mock speed. We've got about 3 and 1/2 weeks left. Still got a whole lot of stuff to do. I ain't even touched the motor yet. I have no clue what kind of shape it's in. Not to mention, we may or may not be a little bit financially challenged at the moment. I was planning on doing a full build on the motor. new crank rods, pistons, forged pistons, boring it out and all that. Well, money has told me, "No, no, you're not." So, what we're going to do is the next best thing, which is the world's finest backyard butchery rebuild that money can buy. Basically, what that means, a hone and a ring, new bearings, put it back together. Fingers crossed that it don't fly apart. Yep. In this week's video, I would like to get it tore apart. See what we got going on. Um, I can buy start buying parts this week. We'll do that. And in the meantime, while I'm waiting on parts, there's a whole lot more that we could be doing to this whole pile of garbage here. Can't do nothing to talk to y'all, though. So, let us get busy.

[00:01:14]And I think we'll start by draining the oil. I'm assuming it's got oil in it. I really don't know. We're fixing to find out, though.

[00:01:22]Hopefully though we don't see any major glitter, you know, from wor out bearings. Fellas, that looks fresh. It sure does. I don't if y'all can see that or not, but that's fresh oil.

[00:01:37]I don't Well, there's a little bit of something or another in it. It don't look bad, though. That is fresh oil, though. Well, there's the Earl. It was pretty fresh looking. Yeah. What I was seeing was these air bubbles. I thought it might have been a little, you know, shiny pieces. I don't think so. Uh, we might be okay. Let's pull the heads next and look at the cylinders. See how bad they are. I got to get these coil packs off. Firstly, this is my first uh tear down of an LS.

[00:02:10]By the way, seeing how I'm pretty brand new to LS motors, I don't have a lot of metric tools.

[00:02:20]So, I'm having to hunt for sockets and wrenches and whatnot.

[00:02:27]What do it has under here? He has rockers. Looks about like I thought it would. Yep. Uh, a little bit of sludge, but it ain't bad.

[00:02:38]Oh, that little fell there ain't going to do it though, is it?

[00:02:47]I do plan on doing the trunion upgrade on these.

[00:03:07]These are one used head bolts also torque to yield. So we will be throwing those away and buying some new ones.

[00:03:17]Might use these push rods. Might not. I got to measure check valve geometry.

[00:03:30]Wow wee.

[00:03:37]Let's go ahead and pull this valley cover off.

[00:03:41]Well, that there strips or rounded.

[00:03:46]That one is too.

[00:03:49]I don't know what the deal is with these all these bolt heads rounding off, but it's starting to get on my nerves a little bit.

[00:04:00]What's got me? Do these knock sensors have to come out first?

[00:04:06]I bet they do.

[00:04:14]My finger. Tada.

[00:04:17]All right, let's get this little fella off of here. Is there some bolts that I don't know about?

[00:04:26]Oh, it ain't moving. Hm. Interesting.

[00:04:31]When in doubt, whoop on it with a Hummer.

[00:04:38]Huh. Apparently, I have forgotten bolts or something cuz it ain't even budging.

[00:04:44]Let me work on this minute and see if I'm missing something. Well, I've been battling these heads for a few minutes now. I told y'all I'm brand new to LS.

[00:04:54]Uh, I got on the interwebs and looked up are LS heads hard to remove. It said no, they're quite easy. Then I looked up how how many head bolts does an LS have? It says 10 big ones and five small ones.

[00:05:06]Well, I've only removed two small ones.

[00:05:09]Let me get you over and show you what's going on. Yes, I am a big dummy. I removed this one and this one. Well, I never thought to look in here and find these other three that are covered up with dirt and grease. Well, there they are. Yeah. Let me get them removed and we'll pull the heads off.

[00:05:31]Now look at there, fellas. I didn't even have to hit it. There you go. What do these look like? Well, they look like heads with valves. We will probably just lap these in. There's a little something another trash stuck in that one there.

[00:05:47]We'll set them over here for now.

[00:05:52]I don't feel a ridge. I see a little discoloration, but there's no ring ridge filter. We still got crosshatch. Yep. I see it in that one. I see it in that one. I believe this motor be may be okay. Let me get y'all over here and let you look at it. Don't know if it'll pick up on the camera, but yeah, we still got some crosshatch.

[00:06:13]Oh, yeah. Uh let's pull the oil pan cuz it's been sitting upright for a year more. We'll pull the oil pan. Then we'll flip it over and pull the crank rods and pistons and all that.

[00:06:30]Is that all of them? Nope. Nope.

[00:06:36]There we go.

[00:06:41]Well, I don't see anything, you know, real bad. Ain't no shiny stuff. So, still looking good, fellas. I reckon we'll go and pull this and the front cover off, too. Might as well.

[00:06:57]Well, all righty then. I don't know if I can hold this and break it free or not.

[00:07:03]350 ftish pounds is quite a bit. It really is.

[00:07:10]Oh, yeah.

[00:07:15]GOLLY PETE. COME ON, MAN.

[00:07:19]WOO!

[00:07:22]There we go.

[00:07:27]See if we can't get this little fell here to come off. Now, I think we have to have a new one of these because of the blower. You We got a pulley that has bolt to it. It ain't cheap either. No, sir.

[00:07:46]All right. Finally got that thing off.

[00:07:48]No, we won't be doing the distributor modification like we did on the other one. I don't think there's going to be enough room because of the blower. I don't know. It might be, but we ain't doing it. Not right now. Anyway, about 75% of these bolts are 10 mm. So, that's nice. I don't know how that comes off. Is there another bolt? I got a pickup tube right here.

[00:08:18]Come on, man. I guess we got to take that son of a gun off.

[00:08:23]We got a bolt back here holding that pickup tube.

[00:08:28]There may be another one too somewhere.

[00:08:31]I found it. I found it.

[00:08:37]Now, will it come off? Oh, yeah. Look at there. That's Earl pump, by the way, if you don't know.

[00:08:45]Here's one good thing about LS's that I have learned. They got trays that the lifters go into. Well, you can turn this here. It'll push all the lifters up in the trays and it should hold them.

[00:09:02]That way you pull this out without having to pull the lifters. It makes it nice if you're doing a cam swap.

[00:09:13]But for some reason, this don't want to come out.

[00:09:17]Fooy on that for now. Let's flip her over.

[00:09:23]Well, my bolts are hitting. We're getting fluid everywhere. What in the world?

[00:09:34]Let's get this fell tore apart.

[00:09:37]Uh, start with this right here.

[00:09:46]WHAT WE GOT? WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

[00:09:48]WELDERS. It looked like it was put together yesterday. Sure enough. I don't know how well that'll show up on camera, but look that bearing. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Sure ain't. They come off like that.

[00:10:01]Uh, tangs go together. Tangs are on the inside of the motor. All right, let's get this little fella out of here.

[00:10:14]There we go.

[00:10:17]Tada. We got some wear. Uh, it looks like they're coated from the factory.

[00:10:22]See that black around the outside? Yeah, she got some wear, but Oh, well, that's some scuff in there. You know what we'll do? We forget we saw that. Yeah. You know what I need to do firstly? Uh, let me pause.

[00:10:37]And I need to put punch marks on these so we can put them right back where they go. I don't know that it really matters, but I've done it all my life, fellas.

[00:10:46]Why stop now? I'll be back in a minute.

[00:10:49]Numeral 70 is the last one.

[00:10:54]Number two, it's two or five. Uh, that's the one I started with. Five looked like a two. So, yeah, it's got both numbers on it. I'm going to do the main caps, too, cuz I have no idea if they're numbered or not. So, we'll just go ahead and do it.

[00:11:10]There's a one. Now, we can continue getting these fellas out of here.

[00:11:20]That bearing looks brand new. Also, I will look tonight in uh Messenger, see if he told me how many miles it had on it, but it uh it looks pretty good so far.

[00:11:34]Little bit of scoring up and down, but eh, I ain't worry about it.

[00:11:44]Oh, yeah. Looks good. Now, wait a minute. I'm looking at this wrong or something cuz this this tang here is on the outside. I'll have to study up on that. See if I'm backwards.

[00:12:00]Crank looks good. Oh, yeah.

[00:12:05]All right. Let me get the rest of these out.

[00:12:08]If I run into any trouble or see something bad, I'll be back.

[00:12:13]Well, we got a slight issue. The very last one, the head on this uh rod bolt has decided to round off. I can't get the little fella to break free no matter what I do.

[00:12:27]So, that's good. Yep. That's real good.

[00:12:33]Nope.

[00:12:35]This ain't something to tell the dad blame, Captain Man.

[00:12:40]Well, let me fight this for a little while.

[00:12:43]Hopefully, it'll come free.

[00:12:46]Well, I'm a little perturbed.

[00:12:48]So, we're going to leave that alone for a while and pull these main caps. See what they look like.

[00:13:06]Well, my socket rounded this one off, too. Um, I'm going to have to get a good set of metric sockets. I guess that there is old cheap 12point.

[00:13:17]I don't know if this going to come loose or not. I still hadn't got the rod bolt to loose either. Nope. Sure ain't. Well, this is great, fellas. This is just grand.

[00:13:27]Yep. All righty.

[00:13:30]Let me pull this in here.

[00:13:33]See what we got going on this main bearing.

[00:13:41]What we got? Well, it left the bearing.

[00:13:47]It won't come off.

[00:13:50]Here we go.

[00:13:52]She got some wear, fellas. Yep. Sure does. Actually, that's more than wear.

[00:13:56]That's That's chewed up. Yeah. We going to see that or not on the bottom half of it. I ain't good. No crank.

[00:14:08]Uh, I feel a little bit.

[00:14:13]It ain't super bad, but I do feel a little bit. Let me, uh, let's pull at least these two here.

[00:14:23]What we got here?

[00:14:25]It looks pretty good. That's the thrust bearing, too. Yeah, it ain't bad.

[00:14:34]And there looks good, too. Yep.

[00:14:37]Now you get that little fell out.

[00:14:42]Yeah. Well, I finally realized that you got to take this rear cover off to get that rear main off. Uh, so I did that.

[00:14:50]The bearing and crank look good back there. Trying to get this one to come loose. I got it to move just a hair with this right here.

[00:15:11]There we go. There we go. Got that one loose.

[00:15:17]Throw that in the garage.

[00:15:20]What does it look like? Just fine and dandy. Yep. I want to show y'all this crank. The one that's bad. See that old line?

[00:15:31]Um, I have turned it around, scratched it with my fingernail. You can just barely feel it every once in a while.

[00:15:39]You know what we're going to do? That little fella there. We're going to polish her out. We're going to send her.

[00:15:44]Oh, yeah. I got to figure out how to get this fell here loose. Once I do that, I get crank out and I'll micro rod main uh journals. That way, I'll know uh what bearings to get. I don't if there's any wear. It ain't much. Maybe a half a thousand. Anyway, let me work on this for a little while. See if I can get it loose.

[00:16:12]I got her loose. We need a new rod. But bye, George. I got her loose.

[00:16:20]There the little fella is. I cut into it with a cut off wheel. So, yeah, we got to have a new rod. From what I understand, a 5.3 and 6 are the same rods.

[00:16:33]So, I should be able to find one pretty easily.

[00:16:37]Uh, anyway, we will reuse that piston.

[00:16:41]Uh, let me pull the crank out and get it over here on the table somewhere, get it cleaned up, and I'll do a little measuring on it.

[00:16:52]I'm just going through them once again.

[00:16:55]double and triple check and make sure I'm right.

[00:16:59]And it looks like the mains we got about a half of a thousandth wear. Rods about a thousandth. Well, just a just a hair over. There's like 1.2,000.

[00:17:14]I got to figure out what size bearings I want to get. I'll probably get stock size for mains. That'll give us a half a thousandth extra clearance on the rods.

[00:17:23]Not sure yet. I'll figure all that out tonight. I'll order some bearings. We'll get some gaskets. We'll get some rings.

[00:17:31]Uh I got to get a rod. This was not the best. Uh first experience tearing the LS part. Nope. Round it off. Two uh bolts.

[00:17:41]Got to get me some good metric socket.

[00:17:43]Sure do. Anyways, I'm going to go in the house tomorrow.

[00:17:47]Pretty sure we're going to go to the junkyard cuz I got to have a transmission. I want a 4L80E. We're going to go to the junkyard. see if we can find one. Hopefully we can. We'll grab that and bring it home and probably do a shift kit on it and all that.

[00:18:00]Anyways, I'll see y'all tomorrow. Till the next day and slight change of plans.

[00:18:05]Yep. It's actually evening time. I didn't make it to the junkyard. Nope. Um I had a lot of computer work last night and well, let's just say I saw the sun come up this morning. So needless to say, I got up late. Um didn't have enough time to gather tools and head to Nashville. So, here's what we're going to do this evening. Let me turn the camera around. I'll show you. We will be putting cups in our ARMS uh this evening. As luck would have it, look here. Uh I had a a big enough piece of pipe. It's 8 in on the inside. Found it over mama's in the basement. It's like, yes. And this piece was already cut 2 in. That's what I wanted. Yep. I already got it marked out right here. We'll cut this line. This drops down in there. You weld it. Got a welded plate on the bottom. And that cup that came with the uh airbags on the front, you remove it.

[00:18:57]That lets airbags sit down a couple more inches. Get us a couple more inches lower in the front. Oh yeah. Let me fire a plasma cutter up. We'll cut that little fell out.

[00:19:19]Right there.

[00:19:30]Now, will this fit in there?

[00:19:33]No, sir. We got to trim probably right in here mostly.

[00:19:40]Let this grindy grind when I find my glasses.

[00:19:54]I'm going to put it about right there probably.

[00:20:01]There's a large gap here, but that's why they make a lot of wire. Yep. You fill that gap up.

[00:20:20]I got that welded up. We'll look at it here in a minute. Now, I got to have a plate for the bottom. So, what we'll do is trace a a circular circle out.

[00:20:39]That's good enough.

[00:20:40]Let me do the cuddy cut. This is going to be hard. Yep. Mhm.

[00:21:01]What does it fit like?

[00:21:04]Well, you got all the way THROUGH IT.

[00:21:06]WELL, THAT AIN'T GOOD.

[00:21:08]Let's see.

[00:21:10]I can make it work.

[00:21:30]And there you have it, fellers. We have one cup installed on one AR. I got to do a little bit better on my cutting cuz then had a bunch of gaps right over here and then down there in the bottom too.

[00:21:43]That's why the weld looks like garbage.

[00:21:44]It has nothing to do with me not being able to see. Nope. Anyways, there's one.

[00:21:50]Still got to do the ball joint. Probably won't get that to that tonight. I'm going to pull the other AR off now and do the same thing to it. Probably call it a day after that.

[00:22:03]Heat.

[00:22:22]Heat.

[00:22:37]Well, I'm out of gas. Yep. Got her about halfway welded up. Run out of gas. Yep.

[00:22:45]So, I'll have to go tomorrow before I go to the junkyard, get gas, cuz tomorrow's Friday and the gas place is not open on Saturday. Uh anyway, I got tools piled up ready for the junkyard. Let me show you this though. Oh yeah, this is awesome. I went by Hoopies and Hot Rods Feller's place. Y'all heard me talk about them before. All I texted them and said, "I need a rod cuz I messed one up." Well, look look here what I got, fellas. Yep. They gave me a rod. Uh just so you know, 5.3 and 6.0 use the same rod and they gave me the main bolt.

[00:23:22]Remember, rounded it off. That That's main cap bolt. And remember the little motor mount brackets we used on the 65 C10. Look here. They gave me them, too, so I don't have to buy them. Awesome.

[00:23:34]Appreciated Hoopties and Hot Rods, fellas. Y'all go check them out. Uh I think they post mostly on Instagram. So I will put a link to their Instagram in the description below. Y'all go check them out. Join whatever you do on Instagram. I don't do Instagram.

[00:23:47]Anyways, I'm going in the house. I'm getting myself in the uh bed at a decent hour tonight because I got to get up, go to town, and then go to Nashville. Um might see y'all tomorrow night. We'll just see. Well, I managed to make it to the junkyard today. I'm out of breath, but that's a good thing cuz we got us 4 L in this wheelbarrow here. I ain't got just a little bit more to go with it, then I get it in the truck head to the house. Woo! Well, I made it back with the little fella. Pretty sure I'm going to have to have back surgery. Yep. Lift her up three times. Once in the wheelbarrow, once in the truck, then once right here. Spilled some fluids right there. And it was good and red.

[00:24:26]Wasn't burnt looking. I believe it's probably going to be a pretty dog on good transmission.

[00:24:31]Right now, we're back on the cups. This one's done with a brand new ball joint.

[00:24:38]Got the other one welded up. Fixing to knock that ball joint out. Put a new one in. All right.

[00:24:46]You really need about six hands to do this. Well, I've only got two. So, this is what you have to do right here. You put that there. You put that there.

[00:25:00]You put that there. Get her a little more centered and bring her on down.

[00:25:09]All right. Make sure number one that that's pretty centered. Number two, make sure you don't have to use the bathroom cuz when she pops Yep, you're going to pee yourself.

[00:25:23]There she goes. That wasn't too bad.

[00:25:26]That first one scared me out of death. Let me see if I can knock the rest of the way out with a hammer.

[00:25:36]Oh, it fell out. Awesome. Let me get the new one.

[00:25:42]I like to try to Hey, come back now. I like try to peck it in just a little bit cuz sometimes they don't want to act right. You put that little fella right there. Just like that. Put that fella right there. Just like that.

[00:26:02]Put that little fella right there. Just like that. Get her lined up. Oh, I got to do this, don't I? Yep. Yep. Mhm.

[00:26:16]Going down.

[00:26:19]Well, something ain't jing here. What is going on? Our ball joint is a little bit crooked going in. Let me see if it'll straighten up or not.

[00:26:31]Maybe it will.

[00:26:37]Oh, yeah. She straightened up.

[00:26:42]There you go, fellas.

[00:26:45]Let's get over and put these back on.

[00:26:49]Let's climb on under this little fella here. And we got to get these A arms put back. They go in with these here. Ubolts like this right here. And uh they got a hole right here that matches up with this right here. This one was turned on the bottom. I guess I put it on backwards or you know this was upside down. Uh anyways, here are the cups also that I just took off here.

[00:27:16]This is what we're getting rid of. We're going to drop down at least that much.

[00:27:19]That's 2 in. Uh anyways, let's see if we can't get this little fella back up in here. Right there.

[00:27:30]Actually, fool on that for now. Let's just let's do it like this right here.

[00:27:37]We'll just get our Ubolt started.

[00:27:43]Then we'll worry about lining it up.

[00:27:46]Come on, man.

[00:27:49]There's one. There's one more.

[00:27:54]Get the back side.

[00:27:56]Yeah, I guess right here.

[00:28:03]Why won't that go up in there? I would love to know.

[00:28:14]Now, let me come out here.

[00:28:17]Get this put somewhere where it goes.

[00:28:28]Get up in there. All right. Put this nut on temporarily.

[00:28:35]All right. Now I got something to hold it in place and I can work on this getting this dimple lined up.

[00:28:45]So you got to turn.

[00:28:58]All right. There it is.

[00:29:00]Oh yeah. Look here, fella. Chewing in.

[00:29:04]Let me get that tightened up.

[00:29:14]If y'all will remind me sometime before we leave, I'd grease all this stuff.

[00:29:23]All right, there's one.

[00:29:25]Let me get the other AR on.

[00:29:28]Then we'll go to working on rotors and brakes and all that.

[00:29:31]Got both lower A arms on. And well, we got another issue. Yeah, it's just typical here in Backyard Butcher Capital of the world. Yep. Uh, this bag needs to be centered in that cup, but as you can see, no sir, I can't get a fanger in over here and I can drive a truck in over here. Um, don't know why it's doing that. This, you know, is heavily that way, too. Why do they build them like that? I don't know, fellas. Maybe the spring was biased to this side. I don't remember. But what I got to do is take this plate off. We got to move the bag that way. Yep. Fun, fun, fun. We do things right because we do twice.

[00:30:13]Sometimes three or four or five times.

[00:30:15]Yep. Owed to the joys of modifying vehicles.

[00:30:25]All right. You can see right here, we're biased that if you just go by the bolt holes, we're biased that way probably an inch, if not more. Same thing here. Look at these bolt holes. It's that way. I don't know why they make it like that. I really don't. But what we got to do is move them over. And that's just dumb.

[00:30:46]But I got to do it. I was really planning on having the front end done, brakes, and all tonight, but I don't think it's going to happen. Now, let me let me get to working on this.

[00:30:56]Yeah, it needs to be right here. You got one hole lined up here. Then I'll have to cut this out for that fitting. I don't know why they did it. I just know they did it. I'm going to scoot it over to this hole right here. We'll bolt it on and put it on the truck and just see about what it looks like.

[00:31:19]All right, let's see if that's going to make her line up about right there. Bring it on up.

[00:31:28]Well, it's better, but it's still too far out.

[00:31:32]Yeah, I'm contemplating making a new upper plate. I really didn't want to. Let me put another bolt in. Make sure we're lined up.

[00:31:42]I mean, it's a whole lot better. This way I can live with, but this way is not not good. Now, all right. From here to here is about an inch. From here to here, inch and a quarter. I'm It ain't got to be perfect. I'm okay with that. But this one here is only uh maybe 3/4. And I bet you money we're double that back here. Let me see what I think.

[00:32:10]It's probably inch and 3/8. So, I don't know. Let me let me think about this for a moment.

[00:32:19]We may just go with this and rework my holes up here. Let's do it. Yeah, it'll probably Okay, look what I just now realized. We got a slotted hole. It'll slide back enough that'll that'll probably center it up. Awesome. Let me get this marked and get her cut and drilled and whatever. Probably going to just blow it out with a plasma cutter.

[00:32:43]Wait a minute. If if I'm going to move that, I got to move it now. You big dummy.

[00:32:50]Slider right there.

[00:32:56]You got to come on out right here.

[00:32:59]About like that. And then this in here about like that. I probably do that and with a we call it burr carbide burr. And then this one here. I might cut it out with a plasma.

[00:33:22]I'm going to leave that.

[00:33:24]Let me get the plasma cutter. Cut this out.

[00:33:39]I got plenty of room for that. Yep, that'll work. All right, let me get this bolted back up and get it on the truck.

[00:33:46]That ain't bad. We're front to back, we're good now. This way, eh? Quarter inch. I ain't worried about it. What I'm going to do now, though, get this little fella on up about well about right there. Make sure it's good and centered and straight.

[00:34:05]Well, I was going to draw a line. I can't get to that bottom piece. So, um, I got to rethink this. What about right there?

[00:34:18]There's a mark.

[00:34:23]That's sort of close.

[00:34:25]Get my light so I can see.

[00:34:30]I bolted that up without hooking up a line. So, we got to unbolt that. Yep.

[00:34:36]What did I tell y'all a minute ago? We do it right because we do it twice.

[00:34:41]Now bring this down. Look at my marks.

[00:34:46]Do some measuring. Find center. Punch.

[00:34:50]Drill.

[00:34:51]Bolt. All right. What do we got here?

[00:34:55]That's 4 and 3/4.

[00:34:58]Is it the same here? Close enough. So, what is half of four and 3/4? two and 38. That's where we need to make a mark.

[00:35:08]Punch a punch and drill a drill right there.

[00:35:13]There. All right, let me get a punch.

[00:35:36]I just got that off charger. I just put it on there this morning. I'm going to throw this away. It won't even drill two holes.

[00:35:45]All right, let me get a a bolt before I forget.

[00:35:52]Hook our line back up.

[00:36:01]I would have been extremely extremely mad if id have put this all together and then did that cuz you can't get to it from the top. You Well, I can reach in there. Yep. Okay. Maybe I wouldn't have been real mad.

[00:36:19]Well, this fell here bolt into this fell here without a bunch of trouble.

[00:36:28]I think we got it right there. Maybe.

[00:36:32]Oh, YEAH.

[00:36:38]Would you look at it? Would you just look at it?

[00:36:45]Yep. I think that'll be pretty good. Let me show y'all the clearance we got before I go any further. We got plenty of room now. Like I said, it still needs to come to the front, but it's good enough. I ain't going to worry about it.

[00:36:57]Nope. Looks good front to back. Oh yeah, buddy. Uh, now let's get the spindle, brakes, and all that on. Put it on, man.

[00:37:06]Put it on.

[00:37:08]Ow, my finger.

[00:37:20]Oh yeah.

[00:37:24]Let me go clean some bearings up real quick.

[00:37:27]and put a seal in the new rotor and hub.

[00:37:32]I shall return.

[00:37:35]Here we go. Here we go, guys. Fresh bearing grease, fresh seal.

[00:37:41]We're going to push that bearing out the front. I'm going to put that Oh, that fell on me. It scared me half to death.

[00:37:53]All right, back her off.

[00:37:56]Where's my hole?

[00:37:58]About right there. I think should be plenty good. Is this one long enough?

[00:38:06]Yeah, I do believe it is. Where are my chanties? Where are my chanty locks?

[00:38:12]They're gone missing. I had them a minute ago. I found them.

[00:38:18]I found them.

[00:38:22]Where's my cap? Holy crap. I'm going to clean that nasty stuff out and we'll shove some in it. Sho full, boys. Shower full.

[00:38:39]Do it. Spinny. Spin. Spin. Yes, sir. It sure does. All right. Let me go get the caliper in the uh pads. This is what they call a non bracketed caliper.

[00:38:52]There's no bracket, no bolts. Remember how you know normally you'll have a bolt? Well, these just fit right up in here and you got they're called clip on.

[00:39:01]You got that little clip and you got that little clip and the bolt holds it in place. But it might help if I get me some some brake shoes or brake pads first. I'll be right back. Well, I just learned something on these pads on this one. Anyway, right hand inner. The other one says left hand inner. I've never seen that before, but okie dokie. I think you go ahead and put this one in here. If I ain't misting.

[00:39:31]You put this one on right here. Just like that right there.

[00:39:36]And you put this one on right here. Just like that. Right there. Come on, man.

[00:39:43]What has got me? Something's got me.

[00:39:46]Interesting. It's supposed to slide on up in there. H, there it goes. There she goes. Now, and I forgot exactly how this goes.

[00:40:05]I think like this and this.

[00:40:07]Got to pick that up.

[00:40:11]That goes in there. Well, there's no way that that Oh, yeah. It fell apart.

[00:40:20]Well, there's no way that that is going to go in there. There just not enough room. So, what am I doing wrong here?

[00:40:30]All right. I think I have it figured out. Your spring goes on top. I was trying to put it in that way for some reason. I don't know, fellas. Y'all know how my brain is when I get something on it. Well, I can't I can't deviate from it.

[00:40:45]But I finally figured it out. Great googly in the morning, man. Why can't nothing ever be so simple? Hey, look. It is simple. It just went in. Look at there. It's actually supposed to be a little bit tighter than that. That ain't That ain't very goodly. Nope.

[00:41:05]OH YEAH.

[00:41:08]NOW, let's route our hose.

[00:41:12]See if it's going to fit. I hope it does. Goes under here.

[00:41:18]Yeah, it ain't going to work. These ones are completely different. How this has got the crook.

[00:41:24]Both of these are flat. So, yeah, I got to change the hose out. I'll be right back. Well, there you have it, fellas.

[00:41:32]One side is completely done with the exception of a shock. I'm not sure what we're going to do there just yet. Um, well, you remember on Jolly Green, I ended up using the stock ones, I think, front and back, cuz they had enough travel. If these have enough travel, I'll just get some stock ones. But, uh, I'll study on that maybe tonight. But, yeah, we got one side done. I got to do the other side. But, right now, I'm starving. Yep. Sure am. I'm actually wasting away to nothing. Can't you tell?

[00:42:02]I'm gonna go house and eat. Uh, I'm going rest a little bit and then I might come back out and finish this other side. Either way, I won't see y'all anymore tonight. I shall see you tomorrow. Would you look at him? Would you adjust? Look at him, fellas. He's on the ground. I do mean we ain't got but Well, that tire's low, but uh Well, that there's basically on the ground. Let's go look on the other side real quick.

[00:42:28]Like, that'll be a more accurate representation.

[00:42:32]got probably three two and a half to three inches. I ain't worried about it. It's low enough.

[00:42:39]He sure is. Uh well, I tell you what.

[00:42:42]Let me sit this on the camera stand. I'm going to stand by him. I'm 6' tall. Look where this little fella hits me. It was way up here. I I couldn't see the top of it. Now I can. And it's got some nice patina. We got to get our fireworks thing off from that burnout I did.

[00:43:00]If the whole truck had this type of patina, it'd be pretty awesome. Uh, anyway, let me show y'all. I've been shopping today. Let me show you. We'll start right here. There's a bunch of stuff I got from Amazon just a few minutes ago. I don't remember what all of it is. It's It's I think all motor parts. Uh, Summit, that's bearings and different whatnot. Motor parts. Also, I would take you outside and show you the glass I got today, but it's coming a flood. But just know that over there in the back of that truck is a windshield and back glass. And then inside are both door glasses.

[00:43:39]Then let's go up here. I scored big time right here, buddy. This is a genuine Holly Hyram.

[00:43:49]Just the base, the bottom cost you about $800.

[00:43:53]I got this for $200 off Marketplace.

[00:43:55]Sure did. Yep. You can see the big old blower sitting on top of it. That's what it's for. Got a plate coming that bolts to the lower intake and then the blower bolts to it. Uh here's the thing. This is for an LS7. LS7s have different ports in the heads. They're a more rectangular instead of cathedral. Let's just go over here and I'll show you the cathedral head. If I can find the heads.

[00:44:21]There's the infamous LS Cathedral port head. Uh the LS uh it's wider. I want to say it's a little shorter and it doesn't have this this point this cathedral at the top. So in order to run that intake with LS1 heads at by adapters, I found them on eBay. I think they're supposed to be here tomorrow. Everything's shipping pretty fast. It's awesome. um to buy well to buy a regular uh LS intake for 661 blower it's it's about probably about yay tall it's a copy of my LT1 intake manifold is what it is uh you know they machined it out and bolted the plate to the top that one is $1,000 but it's sits real low I want the blower sticking out of the hood that's that's why I'm going with this well to get a Holly high ram with the plates and everything fixed up for the uh 671 blower. It's uh like 1380 taxes and shipping. We've saved at least 700 by me buying the parts that I've had to put this together. Pretty good savings, I think. Yep. Then, well, let me get the stuff out of the box. I'm going to show y'all what Evil Energy has done. It's pretty awesome. Evil Energy has sponsored basically the whole fuel system. Um, right here is this is 6 A drill line. It's the what do you call it? PTFE. It's basically indestructible.

[00:45:55]It comes with I'm not sure what that is cuz I've never fooled with these lines.

[00:46:01]Um, that's probably fittings. Let me open that bag real quick. Yes, sir.

[00:46:04]That's a bag of fittings. 45s, 180s, straights. That's awesome.

[00:46:12]And what was this? What did I say? This was 6 A in 3/8. This will be uh I'm going well I I'll tell you about that when we run the fuel system, but this is 8 a 20T of it. Same thing the PTFE bag fittings going to 1/2 in fuel line plus you know big blower two carbs.

[00:46:36]Got to have the fuel.

[00:46:38]Then they sent us this here inline aluminium fuel filter. That's awesome with of course different size fittings depending on what line you run.

[00:46:51]And see if I can get this little fella out of there. a low pressure um I guess you'd call it higher volume 110 gallon per hour fuel pump uh with all the assorted 15s down in thither.

[00:47:09]But wait, there is even more fellas.

[00:47:13]Look at here what they send us. We got to have carbore devices. Look at here what they send us. Yep. Not one but two.

[00:47:21]Yep. There'll be two 750 double pumpers sitting on top of that blower. Oh, it's going to be pretty. Let me get this thing out of the bag real quick.

[00:47:31]Would you look at it? Would you just look at it? Yep. Looks pretty dog on nice. Um Oh, yeah. I thought I saw uh sight glass. There it is right there.

[00:47:44]They're going on the back, too. 750 double pumper electric choke. This right here is going to give us lots of a homepow a home. You got a bag of fittings and uh studs, carb studs and whatnot. Wire for the choke. Yep. This is awesome, fellas. It sure is. But wait, there's even even more. Yes, sir. They sent us a radiator for a lock jaw here. I don't remember if it's a three or four row. Of course, it's all aluminium though and comes with fan shroud and two electric fans. Oh yeah, evil energy has really come through. I would show you the radiator, but I hope you can hear it coming to flood. It's on the front porch. I don't feel like getting soaking wet. We won't get it put on this week anyway. You'll see it next week. But yes, Evil Energy. Uh y'all really helped us out on this build here. Um I'm pretty sure we'll still have a discount code.

[00:48:39]If so, I'll put it on the screen right here. should be a link. I will put that in the description. Use that link and I believe if you use that link, you're going through this and that garage. I'll get a little kickback if you buy something from them. Uh anyway, check the description out. Evil Energy, you are awesome. Uh let's uh let's see what we can work on. I ain't got a whole lot of time this evening. Like I said, I've been uh shopping around town. Uh let's see what we can get done. Unfortunately, you know, this is a full floater, so we got to pull the axle out. and a big old nut. Maybe two. Then we get the drum off.

[00:49:19]I ain't sure if any grease is going to come out of this. So, got to put us a drain pan there. I don't see none yet.

[00:49:28]What's that axle look like?

[00:49:30]Looks pretty good. Yep.

[00:49:33]Oh, yeah. Man, I've got a spanner socket.

[00:49:40]for this if I can find it. I look and see there should be some tabs bent over, but I don't I don't see any tabs bent over. Not in the thingamabob.

[00:49:52]Let's see what I got.

[00:49:56]Well, that act like it don't fit.

[00:49:59]Interesting.

[00:50:01]It does, but something ain't jing. I'm turning it with my finger anyway. So, let's turn it. Turn it. Darn it.

[00:50:12]There we go. The locking wisher.

[00:50:17]Just like it right there.

[00:50:19]Oh, I see. This one was sort of Yep. I think that's what was holding this up.

[00:50:25]Now you got another nut in there.

[00:50:36]I believe there's a worooer. No, that may be the bearing. I don't know. Let's see if this will come off, though.

[00:50:42]Oh, yeah. Like a glove. Yep, that is a busher.

[00:50:48]There is That's the bearing race there.

[00:50:53]All right, let's pull this fell off here. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[00:50:59]What do the drum look like? Not bad. Uh, got a lot of grease dried in it. We'll have to clean that up. Seal.

[00:51:10]It probably need to get a seal. So, we may not get the brakes done tonight.

[00:51:16]But let's get this torn apart and get our new shoes on. Yeah, this thing is just covered up with grease.

[00:51:24]I'll have to get a seal. Where do we start? We start taking a picture. I got to have my camera. One good thing about having all this grease, uh, this the hardware springs and stuff ain't rusted up. So, that's good. Oh, yeah. Goodness, that thing is just caked with grease. You go right there. Who is next? This one right here, I think.

[00:51:49]OH, YEAH. COME ON.

[00:51:52]You shall go here. I don't need this.

[00:51:54]Let's move it cuz it's full of oil. I'll drop my tools in it probably. Oh yeah.

[00:52:00]Who's next?

[00:52:02]This one here is very weirdly shaped.

[00:52:08]Oh man, that pinched my fingers. Oh, it hurt.

[00:52:14]There we go.

[00:52:20]Get this parking brake thing on my ball.

[00:52:24]Put it right there.

[00:52:27]And Get the parking brake cable off. You got to pull that spring.

[00:52:35]And there you go. That is garbage. I'm going to take that off cuz it's been cut. Yeah.

[00:52:45]Get out of here, sir. That was aggravating.

[00:52:49]Now we got to get the what's that called? Wheel cylinder out.

[00:53:01]Tada.

[00:53:03]Before we put that on, let me get the brush.

[00:53:08]Maybe clean some of this up.

[00:53:15]Yes, sir. We will be putting a seal over here.

[00:53:19]And then we're going to check the rear end grease. Also, uh I think if I mistaken, I put a seal on the other side before I put the rear end under the truck.

[00:53:32]So, I think we're good over there.

[00:53:37]All right, that is probably good enough.

[00:53:40]I ain't trying to get it spotless, but she was nasty.

[00:53:45]Well, here's the deal, fellas. I got the wrong parts three or four years ago when I ordered them. Uh these wheel cylinders are for a half ton. Why did I do that? I don't know. Uh knowing they're wrong. Um I've been scratching my brain cuz here's the deal. This is an inch and a eigh bore with 11in brakes, which is not heavy duty brakes. Well, if you look up a 75 C10, which is what this truck is, you you can't find that. if it's an inch and a eighth borinch brakes. I was like, "What in the world?" Well, you know, this rear end come out of old red, you know, it wasn't in this truck. And I didn't know what year old red was. Well, scratched my brain for a little bit and well, I got on Rock Auto and look up different years of uh C20s. Well, I got down to 73, which is the first year of square bodies, by the way.

[00:54:40]Got looking at the wheel cylinders. They had an inch and a eighth without heavy duty brace. So there you go. Well, what was the deciding factor is all of them, the bleeder and the line going in were straight, were angled. Well, when I got to the 73 and nonheavy duty brakes, guess what? They were all angled just like that right there. Got two of them coming. We'll be here tomorrow from Ireland. Also got the seal coming. So, we're dead in water with the brakes. I might try to clean up my springs or whatnot and get all that old nasty grease off. But for now, we'll push that to the side. But we got to do something pillars. We're running out of run out of time. And like I said, you know, I shopped all day today. Matter of fact, the glass I went and got.

[00:55:26]There's the doors, windshield, and the back glasses right over yonder. I got to get the rubbers for them. But I think right now it's late. Like I said, I was shopping. Um, ain't got a whole lot of time left in the day, but let's fix that big ginormous hole over there with that license plate. We'll clean this up. Put our seat belts in. Put our seat in.

[00:55:48]Might go ahead and put that door in. If I'm feeling frisky, we might cut that windshield out. Get it out of the way.

[00:55:54]Just knick-knack bull crap, basically.

[00:55:56]All right. How are we going to do this?

[00:55:59]It would be nice if I could do that cuz, you know, there's some pretty bad stuff there. and then wrap her on around.

[00:56:08]Matter of fact, let's do that. Let me put a screw or two right here.

[00:56:23]Using my body hammer.

[00:56:36]Looks good to me. Uh, let me let me get some of this mess swept out.

[00:56:53]Yes, I'm going back with the old seat cuz I don't have time to worry about getting some DIFFERENT ONES. HOLY CRAP.

[00:57:02]HOLY, that old fell's heavy.

[00:57:05]Um, if I think about it, I might get a cover for it.

[00:57:13]Maybe a little extra cushion on that side over there.

[00:57:23]I'm out of breath now. I did get the tracks freed up. So maybe we can get them seat bolts in a little easier. Let me let me work on that for a minute.

[00:57:37]Got that side tightened down. Let's get this fella here now.

[00:57:47]Now will it slide back?

[00:57:51]Oh yeah. Look at there fellas.

[00:57:59]All right, got to get the seat belts in, fellas. Safety third as always.

[00:58:08]Good enough. Look at there. It even works. You know what? I forgot though, the buckle for this side. Let me see if I can't scoot this forwards and get that buckle in there.

[00:58:21]Hey, I got to go to the other side, though. The wire that goes from one side to other's broke. I didn't feel like fixing it.

[00:58:31]Now that we got the cab fixed, I see how much leg room I got because before I couldn't get my leg under the steering wheel. Sure. Couldn't. Oh, yeah. There's plenty more room now. I just showed you that cab was well, it have been doing the I don't know, fellas. It have been doing this. Yeah, cuz the steering column would have come down. Ain't nothing wrong with this now. Oh, no.

[00:58:50]off. It's like a Cadillac. Well, that's a couple more small things done. We ain't got to do now. Seat belt. Seats.

[00:58:57]Cover the hole up. What I got to do now is put this cow vent back in. You I pulled it out cuz I was going to replace the kick panel. Well, I decided not to.

[00:59:07]So, I got to put that in. And you have to loosen the E bra uh foot pedal. Get it out of the way. And then I got to screw our dimmer switch back down. Uh, was that Yeah, it feels pretty good.

[00:59:21]Anyway, let me get that done.

[00:59:24]And then, well, like a dummy, I should have pulled this out first cuz it's still got glass in it. What's going to fall in the cab? Um, let me get that done. We may pull this out and uh we may try to cut this rubber out on this here and pull that windshield out.

[00:59:46]Now, I got to get this brake pedal back in here where it goes.

[00:59:59]Now I got to get something to get my uh what's that called? Dimmer switch. I don't know where it goes. I guess I'll put it wherever I want to. Looks pretty good to me, man.

[01:00:13]We got all that little knick-knack bull crap took care of. I think now I want to put that door on. We got to get her, you know, get her gaps right.

[01:00:22]There ain't enough metal left on the door to be worrying about gaps. Uh, let's put it on the the door skin. Yo, it flops. We need to secure it some kind of way. Y'all look at right here. This is where one of our fender bolts used to go. Well, is now a mouse condominium. What in the devil?

[01:00:42]I don't need to be touching this with my fingers, but there you go. An old mouse house is probably a bunch more up in there. Uh, I don't really know where we're going to bolt this fender cuz it's supposed to bolt here. I believe this has been smashed laid over.

[01:01:00]Uh, I don't know. We'll figure something out. I may just have to weld a piece of metal here, drill a hole in. That's probably what I'll do right now. Let's get this door on.

[01:01:11]I really hope I don't scratch the paint on it. Scooting it across the floor like that.

[01:01:19]Let me get my little platform. Do like I did last time. Excqueeze me. Squeeze me.

[01:01:26]Oh, I just destroyed everything. Well, I do apologize for that, but my big old claw hoppers got in the way.

[01:01:38]Let's see.

[01:01:39]All right, let's try that right there.

[01:01:49]I fix to get angry. I ain't joking with you. Yeah, it's really really getting on my last nerve, man. Here we go for the 932nd time. GET UP THERE.

[01:02:10]My George, I got one started.

[01:02:20]I don't know if this is nature's lock tight or if it's rust.

[01:02:27]I don't think it's going to back out.

[01:02:31]Let's check door gap.

[01:02:39]It looks pretty good. Honestly, it does.

[01:02:42]Uh, I ain't going to worry about it. Uh, but you see this? Yeah, we can't go down the road there like that. We got to attach the door handle. We got to get this stuff straightened. Now, this is where I caught on the cable. It just crinkled this. Uh, let me see if I can't straighten this out and get some of it screwed together some kind of way. All right. What kind of surgery can I do here to sort of straighten this out a little bit?

[01:03:15]If we had just a little bit more metal here, I could screw it to the the frame part of the door. We can right there. I don't really know. We're going to probably put one or two here. That'll help that area out. I'm afraid I'm going to pull the door handle off eventually.

[01:03:35]I'm using flathead Phillips, but they don't want to they don't want to screwed into the metal real good. But let's put one right here.

[01:03:48]Put another knob here.

[01:03:55]That may I bet that's going to interfere with the glass. Yeah, may have to get shorter screws. But for now, it's going to have to do um where else can I screw it together? What about right here?

[01:04:16]Maybe there's one little brace right here.

[01:04:30]I'm going put one right there.

[01:04:37]Oh, yeah.

[01:04:40]That helped us out a lot.

[01:04:43]Um, let me put one right here. Right there, maybe.

[01:04:50]Nope.

[01:04:56]There we go. That helped out a lot right there. I wish there was something right in here, but I think the window's in the way there.

[01:05:06]The main thing I worry about is ripping that door handle off.

[01:05:12]See, it even latches. I did have the door lock. It fell off when, you know, I caught the cable there. I don't know what to do with it. I was going to put it on. Uh, the door lock still works.

[01:05:25]See? Watch. Can't open it.

[01:05:28]Pull that little fell up. Oh, I can't get it to pull up now. Well, that ain't good. Let me get some chanty locks, but I can't get this to come open now. So, that's that's real good. Yeah, you should have done that a long time ago.

[01:05:44]What am I going to do? I can't get the door open.

[01:05:49]Well, um, let me see if I can figure out which one is the lock. I think it's right there.

[01:05:58]Yeah, it won't come back up, fellas.

[01:06:03]It sure won't. That ain't something the captain right there.

[01:06:09]Did I get it then?

[01:06:11]Yes. Don't lock it again, you All right, I will try to get this a little more secure. Let me let me fold my door back. I don't want nobody to see my unlock mechanism.

[01:06:30]Um, anyway, if I can get this a little more secure, I will. But I mean, it works. It shuts. It's all I'm worried about, fellas. Let's put one here in case the wind starts flopping it. We can't have that. So, I want to rip the door skin off.

[01:06:53]We might take this off, but for now, I'm going to leave it. I wanted to have a window.

[01:07:01]I I think the regulator and everything's okay. I ain't got no door handles. These two screws I got to get shorter ones because it's going to hit the glass.

[01:07:10]Won't let it go down. But other than that, I'm okay with it. Well, we got us a driver side door. Well, part of one anyways. And again, see that black sticking out down there? We got to paint it mostly brown cuz, you know, mostly brown on the door. Uh, it functions.

[01:07:33]You can't ask for much more than that.

[01:07:36]We're probably going to have to pull that off. Uh I do need a a mirror. Is the Yeah, this is this one here any good or is it busted? Eh, I may try to find one. We'll see. I got to have at least one mirror. But uh we're making progress. Uh like I said, we'll do finish the brakes tomorrow.

[01:07:57]Um, I don't know if we're going to jump on the motor after that or continue working on this cuz I'm waiting on motor parts. I'll tell you about that in a minute. But we need to do a crossmember.

[01:08:05]We need to do a fuel line, fuel system.

[01:08:09]Need to do windows. Um, if we only get windshield and back window, I'm okay.

[01:08:14]Uh, we don't have to have the side windows, but if it rains, it would be nice to have them. We'll see. Motor parts. Uh, I still got to order a cam springs. the blower drive pulley system.

[01:08:28]Uh dampener. It's got to be a Corvette dampener to make the blower pulleys match up. Then we'll have to have uh Corvette accessories. I got to work all that out. Um I'm sure there's some more knick-knack bull crap, but I'm broke fellas. I spent literally all my money.

[01:08:45]But never fear, I get paid tomorrow. And I'll just go ahead and tell y'all it's pretty decent paycheck. Yep. Uh, you know, I revamped the channel over the last couple of months. It It has paid off. Yep. Um, yeah, I think we're going in the right direction. Uh, anyway, I ain't going to get in all that cuz, you know, some of y'all get mad when I talk about money. Um, let me say this real quickly. Uh, the floorboard video came out over the weekend, man. It brought out the know-it-alls and naysayers. I'm not going to get into that other than, let me say it again because I said it in the first two minutes of the beginning of this build. The main goal of getting this fell on the road, taking it on power tour is the way he looks and then have that gig ginormous blower sticking out of the hood. And people look at it and say, "What in the world?"

[01:09:38]That's the goal, fellas. If I buy a new cab, uh, it won't be locked jaw and it won't be I won't, you know, won't be able to make that goal. No, I'm not going to stop working on it because I'm wasting my time and wasting my it's my time and my money. I'll do as I see fit.

[01:09:54]Uh, so please stop telling me buy a new cab, buy new fenders, cuz it's not going to happen. Uh, you know, the goal of the of the build. Live with it. I'm sorry if you don't like it. You just have to get over it. Yeah, that's all I can tell you. It will be lowered. Well, it already is lowered. get over that, too.

[01:10:10]Uh anyway, uh I'm going in the house.

[01:10:12]I'm hungry. Tomorrow, like I said, we'll we'll keep on working. See y'all then.

[01:10:17]Well, I just got out of therapy.

[01:10:20]Um pretty sure I set a record today.

[01:10:22]Yep. Other than buying a house or buying a vehicle today, I spent more money in just two or three hours than I've ever spent in my entire life. It's It's I cried a little bit, but it's stuff we got to have. If we want to build, if you want to play, you got to pay. Stuff we got to have to make this motor go apow.

[01:10:43]Um, I ain't going to tell you everything I bought, but it was a lot. Yeah.

[01:10:46]Hopefully, most of it will be here in 2 or 3 days. Pretty sure we'll hear the motor run in this video. But let me turn the camera around, see what show you what I got from uh Ireland just a minute ago. I have not one but two brand spankingly new wheel cylinders. And if you will notice, here's the old, here's the new. They are identical. So remember 73, the first year of square body. They got some oddball wheel cylinders. Uh the rest of them are pretty much the same.

[01:11:17]Uh there's the wheel seal we need.

[01:11:19]Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to turn the camera off because it's just boring brakes, fellas. Y'all seen me do it 100 times before. Turn the camera off. We're going to get both brakes done. I'm going to get me a brake line ran from our proportion valve all the way back here to our hose. Got to run lines across here. I will check in, but far shown you. You done seen it, man.

[01:11:41]Yep. Anyways, let me set the camera down, get busy. Hopefully, I can get both of these things done today. Brakes are installed on both sides. I am working on the hose now, getting it mounted. And here's my bracket.

[01:11:53]Remember, it was down here. We had to cut it off cuz it was in the way. Well, Mr. Moth, what are you doing, bud? Can y'all see him on camera? Probably not.

[01:12:03]Uh, anyway, uh, got to use this here bracket to hold our hose where it goes.

[01:12:07]I'm going to put it Where was I going to do? About like that, I think. Somewhere in there. Um, let me get my welder out. We'll weld this here. I don't have a clip for this.

[01:12:19]I'll have to go get one.

[01:12:21]And then once I do that, got to go up front, run our line back to here. Uh, fill it up with fluids. Bleed it. Brakes will be done.

[01:12:31]>> Oh yeah.

[01:12:43]All right, we got that welded in. This little feller shall go in like this.

[01:12:49]Uh, let me raise it up, you know, just to make sure that we got enough length on it.

[01:12:56]Going up.

[01:12:59]I took it up pretty much as far as I will ever go with it. And we got plenty of room. Oh, yeah. Still got lots of slack. Once I get a clip, I'll put that on there. It's got a little slot. It's got a Yeah, certain way it goes. I'll figure that out. But right now, I'm going set the camera back down.

[01:13:18]I got to flare me line. Run it. Got a union flare flare. Run it, flare it, hook it up, and be done with the line.

[01:13:26]Well, I was fixing to hook up a line to our proportioning valve. That's this fella right here. And where did that fitting go? It wouldn't even start cuz it was so rusty. Well, I got it started and then jammed in there with our gun.

[01:13:40]It's, you know, freed up. Clean threads up. But look at the inside here. That's where our flare is going to seal. See how rust it is? That will never seal.

[01:13:49]Promise you. I think I've got one of them over here in the 65 C10 pile. You know, cuz we never started brakes on it yet. I had I bought the brake stuff. Let me dig through this. See if I can find it. And if I find it and it looks like it matches, which I think it should, uh, we'll go ahead and change that out. If not, well, then I'll have to go inside and find one and buy it. Well, I got one right there. Look at it. Uh this little fella here pretty rough shape. Yep. That would have never sealed. So let's swap them out real quick. Like all right, let me get these lines hooked up and get a new one ran and I shall return. We got that fell installed and I got a line running all the way back to here. Let me get over here and show you how she looks cuz I got her all prettied up. Yep. She runs up through here, up through here. Got her connected. Started making my lines from the other end of the hose out to each wheel. I ain't got the fittings. Nope. You know, it's 3/16 there. And the wheel cylinder, the thread on the nut is uh 7/16 wool out there on other end of the hose is 38. I have none of those.

[01:15:08]only one of 716. Well, I don't even know where it went. I had laying on the table, so I don't guess I have any now.

[01:15:13]Uh, anyways, um, I'm done. My knees have said, "You're done. You're done. I'm going in the house. I'll get fittings tomorrow.

[01:15:21]I'll finish this up. We'll bleed them.

[01:15:24]Hopefully, we'll get the transmission, the shift kit done if we have time." And my niece say, "Okay, we can continue working." I'd like to get over and start cleaning on the motor parts. But until then, I shall see y'all tomorrow. Just got back from the aio zone. Getting some brake fittings. Here they are right here. I got me some orange loctite, too.

[01:15:45]I was out of that. Got 7/16 and 38 for 3/16 line. And got a lot more parts.

[01:15:52]They just keep trickling in all day long. Look at the pile of parts we've got for this truck. Yes, sir. Every bit of that. Most of it's motor stuff. Some of it's fuel stuff.

[01:16:06]Still got a lot to do, fellas. Let's get these brakes done. I bought a 100piece set of tube nuts on Amazon, but they won't be here till tonight sometime. So, that's why I went ahead and bought these ones. So, let's go ahead and do the flare. Got to do that. Got to lock her down. Lock her down, boys. Lock her down.

[01:16:33]Then flip it to operation one on 316.

[01:16:37]You go chomper. Come on now. Get back.

[01:16:41]Operation two on 316.

[01:16:45]Chomp. Well, it usually goes all the way like that. Then that's done. Let me hook this into the hose. I got to route it like I want to. And then we got to flare the cut and flare the other end.

[01:17:01]How do I want to route this little fella so we don't get crushed when we drop her on the ground? I think I can still use those little clamps.

[01:17:09]So, let's do that. After I get that fella screwed in there, I think we'll come down approximately like this. I don't want to bend it like that, though. Cut it off probably right here.

[01:17:36]Now, will that work or do I need the trimmer? Well, it may be a little short.

[01:17:42]You you I have never in my entire life. Maybe I can gain some by straightening this out. Yeah, I think so. Let me take her loose and get it over and flare it. This one here is the 7/16 thread chomper.

[01:18:07]And Chompa, whoever sent me this, once again, you are awesome cuz that is Man, it's wonderful. Will it fit in? Oh yeah, I think we got plenty. Let me get these tightened up. Get the other one ran and uh we'll throw some fluids in it.

[01:18:27]Put the power bleeder on it and bleed the little fellas.

[01:18:32]Brake lines are ran. It is time to bleed this fella here.

[01:18:38]Uh you know, the front has been empty for three or four years. Hopefully none of the pistons or the cups, you know, have dried out. Um I don't see any dirt.

[01:18:49]That's good. So, fill her up, boys. Fill her up.

[01:18:54]Let's hook this fell up. Just like it right there. Let's put this little fell in here. I just filled it up with the old brake fluid.

[01:19:06]I tried to get it on about 10ish PS of eyes.

[01:19:11]That's about it right there. Let me walk around.

[01:19:15]Make sure we ain't got no leakages anywhere.

[01:19:19]Then we'll uh we'll start bleeding her on the right or rear. Well, both banjo bolts uh on the front are leaking. So, I'm going to take this big socket and put over the fitting. Not the banjo bolt, but the fitting whoop on it.

[01:19:37]Maybe that'll seat that copper worooer, which is brand spanking new, both of them.

[01:19:42]And then we'll tighten her up a little more. Maybe. No. Well, I mean, it might have a little bit, but not really. Let me do the other one, too. Hopefully, this will fix the issue.

[01:19:56]I think I got all the leaks took care of now. Let's bleed this little fella. See what we get out of it. Are we getting any fluorids? Nope. Not yet. We're getting decent flow.

[01:20:08]I don't see no air bubbles. So, I think we're good over here. Let's go to other side real quick. Like, I'm sure I'm going to get some comments cuz I started on the wrong side. Uh, well, normally your brake line runs down this side.

[01:20:22]Well, on the square bodies, they run down that side. Uh, so normally you'd start over here on a on a square body, but most other vehicles you start over there. Anyway, it don't matter, fellas.

[01:20:34]Don't matter at all. I don't see no more air. I think we're good.

[01:20:41]Tighten it up. I'm going to go to the front and do them and then we'll check the pedal. See what it feels like. I got the fronts bled.

[01:20:50]Let's step on the pedal. What do we have? We got a good pedal is what we got. Oh yeah. I think that'll be just fine. And danderly, what are we going to do next? Well, it ain't like I I ain't got a whole lot to do. Well, I reckon let's get the fluid out of this some kind of way. Get it flipped over and put a shift kit in it. I got the transmission on our work table here.

[01:21:14]Drain the fluids. It don't look bad. It looks dark in here, but look at it on the sides. No, it don't look bad. It does have a drain plug that I couldn't get loose. And then it's got this fella right here. It's just a hole with a rubber plug. I do believe this probably came from the junkyard. They poked a hole in it, drain the fluids, then put that back in it. Uh, we'll have to do something with that cuz I ain't leaving that rubber plug like that. No sir. Some saboti could happen. Somebody pull that out, drain all my fluids. I go to fire it up and I burn it up. Uh, anyway, let's get the pan off and see what we got.

[01:21:52]Well, these fellas were put on with a a 3/4 in bag. They won't budge.

[01:22:00]Bye, George. I got something to take care of that. A 10 mama impact.

[01:22:15]All right. What do we got underneath here? Is it bad? Is it good? Look at here, fellas.

[01:22:21]There's nothing other than that piece of plastic. Look at that. No clutch of material. Of course, you know, you got a little bit on the magnet. You always do. That's awesome. I believe we got us a pretty good transmission. Here's my thinking.

[01:22:39]Uh, this came out of a 99 Chevy Express van 2500. Uh, that's the 2500. Do they make a 3500 van? The 1500s ain't going to have a 4L80. There's a 2500 and up. But here's my thinking.

[01:22:56]If we' have got it out of a truck, a pickup, 2500, 3500, they're used for towing trailers and heavy loads, and the transmission takes a beating. Vans are work vans, and they I mean, they're going to haul equipment around, but they ain't hauling a load like a truck normally does. So, if you're going to get a 4L80 or any transmission out of junkyard, go get you one out of a van first. Uh, you can see where they drilled into the filter when they drilled that hole to drain the fluids. Yep. Big dummies.

[01:23:32]Um, I got to get my shift kit out. Go to reading what all I got to do cuz I don't remember. I'm not going to show y'all saw me do do this what 3 months ago maybe on the 65 C10. I ain't going to bore you with this again cuz it is boring to watch. Uh if you want to see how to do it, well, go watch that one.

[01:23:53]Uh I am going to pull this off cuz I don't need it. It's uh tells it what gear it's in for I'm assuming the the gear selector on the dash. Plus, it may tell the computer what gear it is, too. I don't know. I don't need it.

[01:24:08]So, that's coming off. But anyway, let me get the stuff out, get busy with this, and I'll see y'all. I'll check check in with you every once in a while and I'll see y'all in a little while.

[01:24:19]Here's your little progress update of what all I've got done.

[01:24:24]First thing you have to do is drill that hole sideways. Remember I chewed it up last time? Well, I chewed it up this time, too. Yep, sure did.

[01:24:32]Then you have to pull this valve out using a different spring and a different plug end that's got a O-ring on it. Then you got to flip this fell over. Where is it at? right here.

[01:24:46]Uh, where's the plate? Here it is. That little spring. It's some kind of little pressure relief.

[01:24:53]But it goes on like this right here.

[01:24:56]And you have to drill that hole down in there. Got that done. And the next step was discarding your old separator plate that goes between the valve body and the transmission case.

[01:25:09]Well, I have installed, this will be my third one of these in the last few years.

[01:25:15]I've always had to reuse my plate and you drill two or three holes. Well, this one here says discard your old one and use the new one. I was like, okay, that's, you know, nothing major, but it's three plates squished together.

[01:25:32]And it's like, well, that ain't no count. You know, why even have a gasket if you got three plates? Seemed like it would leak.

[01:25:39]So, I got on the interwebs, did a little digging, a little studying, and sure enough, this is a different kit. I guess a revised kit.

[01:25:48]There's the number right there. HD2, but on the paperwork, it's an HD2 D right there. I guess if it's got that D, it's this the revised version.

[01:26:03]And it's got this triple separator plate laminated.

[01:26:08]something about so they can feed the third and direct drum without having to tear the transmission part. I don't know because I don't know transmissions. But that freaked me out. I was like, "No, that can't be right." They're riveted together right there, there, and there.

[01:26:22]Uh anyway, I just thought I'd update y'all. If you do, if you've done one of these older kits and then you get one of these, you're like, "Well, okay." Well, don't be alarmed.

[01:26:32]That's how it goes. Still got to drill three holes depending on how hard I want it to shift.

[01:26:39]Average is 86,000. Softer is 76.

[01:26:42]Firmer's 96. Guess which one we're going with. Well, I don't know. Um, we might go with 96 cuz I like firm. I'll decide that here in just a second. But anyways, uh, we got to do that. Drill the holes and our little whatever that is, boost valve, something or another. And there's a bolt you got to change out. And then I think we'll be done. Uh let me continue on. I'll be back in a little while.

[01:27:07]Well, it appears that we're ready to put the valve body back on. Just in case you want to know, you have to change this bolt out. The stronger bolt. Uh this check ball. Throw it away. You have to take this off. It's a one, two, and reverse band accumulator. Change the spring. There's the old one. Put the new orange one in. That's orange, too. I don't know. But here's the thing. When I pulled this off, on the bottom side, you know, this is flips over on the bottom side of this right here, there was quite a bit of clutch material and it made me think, um, what if, you know, that pan, it had nothing. I haven't cleaned it yet, and there's nothing in it. That's very odd.

[01:27:51]What if this thing was having transmission trouble, they pulled the pan, did a fluid filter change, and that's why there's nothing in there.

[01:28:00]and they put it back together and it didn't fix it and that's why it's in the junkyard. It's just a thought that's crossed my mind. Yep. Uh if that is true and this doesn't work, um we'll have to pull the one out of the 65 C10 and try it out. But hopefully that don't, you know, we ain't got to get that far. Uh let me get the valve body back on and we'll be done with this. They tell you to put bolt holes. They call them Z holes right here. It helps line that uh gasket up. I put um some Vaseline on it too to keep it from trying to move around. We got to get this fella here in there and can get things and stuff lined up by George, I think it is. Other than this here. There we go. That's in now.

[01:28:51]Well, let me get the rest of the bolts in then.

[01:28:57]These only get like 10 or 12 feetage pounds.

[01:29:03]So, I'm just running these down real real light.

[01:29:08]I already got them torqued. Um, I looked it up. It was 8 to 9 footage pounds.

[01:29:16]I I got it set on nine. I'm just going through make sure I got them all torque alerted. This little piece here, it's separate. It unbolts. It's pressure switches. See the wiring going to it?

[01:29:30]That tells a computer what gear it's in.

[01:29:32]It makes little pressure switches. Those six bolts are not even in the tightening sequence. Nope. So, I don't understand, you know, why is it that important if you got six bolts there that ain't even in the sequence? I don't know, fellas.

[01:29:48]The world is crazy. Anyway, let me uh run through these. Make sure I got them all tight and we will be done with this.

[01:29:57]Other than I got to get a filter and seals and I got to clean that pan out, but I forgot to get that today. So, we'll have to wait till tomorrow to do that. This is done. All the wires are hooked up. I forgot to take this off.

[01:30:10]I'll get it off in a little while. Uh cleaning the pan. And look here at the hole that they did. That ain't drilled.

[01:30:18]That's punched. Let me get down here where y'all can see it. Yeah, that has been punched. Probably with just a sharp punch. They hit it with a hummer. So, all the material is still there. So, I'm going to try to take a punch and fold it back over. That'll make a lot easier to weld it up. And there you go. Going to do a little surgery. I'm going to take the small one, go around and fold it over. And then I got a bigger one. We'll hit and mash her good and flat.

[01:30:42]Hopefully, that's the plan anyway.

[01:31:01]Oh yeah, that'll that'll weld up pretty easily. Matter of fact, let me clean it real good right here.

[01:31:09]We'll weld it from the outside.

[01:31:20]I got her a wee bit hot, but I want to make sure I penetrate.

[01:31:27]We hit it from the inside.

[01:31:43]Here's how we're going to test uh see if we got any holes in this. I used to work at Train Air Condition factory. We built humongous uh units. I can't remember now what the biggest one we was built. I know one of them was 134 ton, but we had some a lot bigger. Anyway, huge heat exchangers, you know, 2 in or so uh tubes on the heaters. And the only way to test those, you know, the gas heaters, you don't want to leak on that.

[01:32:12]The only way to test that was to spray it with some soap. Take your hose and spray on the other side. If you see bubbles, you got a leak.

[01:32:26]Yep, we got a leak.

[01:32:29]Pretty good size leak. I see where it's at, though. Let me Let me see if I can't take care of that.

[01:32:37]I shouldn't have put my welder up. A little too confident, I guess.

[01:32:49]All right, we got any leaks this time? Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed.

[01:33:00]Bye, George.

[01:33:03]I think we got it.

[01:33:08]Let me test it the other way just to be sure.

[01:33:21]No leaky leaks. Awesome.

[01:33:25]And that's how you fix a big old hole that the junkyard put in it. I had to peck on it with a hummer here, too. It was dented. I think that's when they come up under picked it up with the forks. They bent the drive shaft, too.

[01:33:37]That drive shaft was aluminum. That big around, man, it was huge. Anyways, that's done. This is done. Matter of fact, let's let's get this fella here.

[01:33:48]Put it over here. Keep trash out. And then once I get it put together, uh we'll clean that outside up a little bit. But for now, I'm going in the house. Uh tomorrow, we'll finish this up. I don't know what we're going to do next. Um, might start cleaning on motor parts and then we we might can check clearances on rod and main bearings and maybe ring gap. I don't know. We'll just have to wait and see. Got plenty to do. A lot of it is waiting on getting that motor put back together. Anyways, I'll see y'all tomorrow. We'll do something. Well, I seem to have dillydallied half the day away. Well, run around town doing things behind the scenes that y'all never see.

[01:34:29]Well, I am a oneman show. I got to do it all. I did uh get some seals in the filter, but we got an issue with the brakes. Let me get over here and show you. We seem to have some liquid right here in this area right below this here. You can see the drip about to drop off the fitting there. Don't know why.

[01:34:50]Pretty sure both front calipers are still leaking. I'm fixing to raise it up where I can get up under it and inspect it a little more. Matter of fact, let's just do that now. going up.

[01:35:04]Before we get under there and look at the calipers and see if they're leaking or not, here's your random squirrel moment. Remember the other day I put this door on and the bolts I didn't know where they went. I just found six random bolts that are all the same and you know, right threads. We put them on there. Well, the other day I was arguing with Alexa, it wouldn't act right. I was standing right here. I looked down. Lo and behold, there are my door bolts. The bolts holding the door on. What do they go to? Your guess is as good as mine. I ain't got a clue. Um, anyway, let's get under here and look at our calipers.

[01:35:41]Well, let me get a light. Driver side caliper. Is there any liquid? Yeah, it's wet. I see it running down here. Maybe a drip right here. Yep, sure is. Awesome.

[01:35:54]That's what I like to see.

[01:35:56]What about passenger side? I see a lot of liquid down here on the ground already. Oh yeah, there's a drip right there. Well, that's good. I don't know what you do about that, fellas, cuz I've done all I can do to get them as tight as I can. Only thing I know to do, try some different washers. Let me do that.

[01:36:14]I said f on the brakes. I'm a little aggravated about that. Uh went ahead and put seals filter in that transmission.

[01:36:21]We'll drag it outside and clean it up before we put it in the truck. But right now, I ain't got a whole lot of time left in the day. But I would like to at least start on this. Here's what I want to do this evening at least. Clean the cylinders up, hone them out. Then I got to knock the cam bearings out. Uh we'll drag it outside, clean the block up, and then what we do after that, well, it's just a bonus. But uh anyway, let me get y'all set up on the camera. We'll go to uh honing it. Reason I want to clean these out is, you know, I'm fixing to hone. I want I want to make sure there's no big old pieces of something or another in there to gouge the cylinder.

[01:36:58]That would not be good. Nope.

[01:37:04]Give her a little shot of WD and go to honing. Let me turn this on to slow speed.

[01:37:18]I'm going to do it for about 30 seconds and then we'll stop. See what we got.

[01:37:27]What do we look like?

[01:37:31]Oh, it looks beautous. Let me get a light so I can see what I'm doing firstly. Oh, yeah. It looks like it just left the machine shop. I mean, that's Yeah, that's probably one of my best home jobs I've ever done. You can still see the up and down lines here. We're not going to, you know, it's not going to be perfect fillers. It is a used motor. Let me hit it one more time, though, just to see if they'll disappear. If not, we ain't going to worry about it. We're going to move to the next cylinder.

[01:38:08]Oh, yeah. It's still just as beautous as it ever was. We might took a little more of those vertical lines, but I ain't going to worry about it. All we want is uh something for them rings to seat against. Uh let's do this one right here.

[01:38:30]Oh yeah, it's just as pretty as the other one. A lot fewer vertical marks, too. Yep. It's going to turn out pretty good, I hope. Uh, let me finish it. Uh, might come back when I knock the bearings out. Then we got to start cleaning. Would you look at it? Would you just look at it? I think it's a pretty good home job. Cylinders six and eight had a little rust in them. You probably can't see it. It's right down in there about the end of my finger.

[01:38:58]Just a wee bit of pitting. Uh, it ain't bad though. I ain't worried about it.

[01:39:02]Just got done knocking out the cam bearings. Here they are. and they probably didn't need to be. Well, I saw that copper color and I was like, "Yeah, they are they're bad." But then I did a little reading on them and then not necessarily. Nope. Too much to explain.

[01:39:19]It's got to do with a line boring and honing and all that, but that's typical and it's not necessarily bad. But I figure we're going with a bigger cam, bigger lift, bigger duration. Uh let's go ahead and put them in. Uh, what I'm going to do now, if I can get a path to the door over there, take it out there, go to scraping on it and brush it on it, and get it cleaned up, we'll bring it back in here. And, um, we might go ahead and check uh, main bearings at least.

[01:40:17]I got the block cleaned up. It's right over yonder. Got a little carried away and I said, "Well, let's just go ahead and do the rods and pistons, too." And I got that one change that, you know, I had to have a rod for. That's it right there. Yep. Uh let's go on over here and check us some main bearings and see if we're going to be okay on that. Uh I'm using King bearings. First time I've ever used them, I think. Uh last few times I've used Cleite, they just ain't been, you know, they've been a half to a thousand. That ain't no count. So, we're going to try some King bearings. Let me tell you about this, though.

[01:40:53]Um, I didn't find this out yesterday, but in ' 04ish, uh, LS changed the cam bearings up just a little bit on the end ones. They're a little bit bigger from 04 on.

[01:41:08]I just assumed that this was the early block. I don't really know why I assumed that. Uh, but then I got to thinking last night or got to reading up on stuff and come across, you know, an article telling about how they changed this. So, I got to look for the date code, and it's right here on uh an LS. It's C1 95. I think that's C is um Jim, February, March, and then N. That's 19.

[01:41:37]March 19th, and the five is 05. So, I got my calipers out. Where they at? I don't know. They're somewhere. Measured this one, and sure enough, we got the bigger bigger board. So, I got to order um the right Well, I already have.

[01:41:50]They'll be here tomorrow. That's CH10.

[01:41:53]That's for the older ones. You want CH25.

[01:41:57]Uh, anyways, let's start. Let's start back here. Oh, numeral 50. Uh, I'll get the bearings put in. We'll see what kind of clearance we got. Well, here's one issue I don't understand with LS. It's got the bearing tang holder there. It's got one over here, too. Which one do you use? Does it matter? I don't know. For now, we're going to say it don't matter.

[01:42:18]But these bearings, Hang on. Let me show you.

[01:42:20]These bearings, they ain't got but one tang right there. Yep. This no here.

[01:42:25]Smooth as butter. Well, here's another oddity. Uh, see how these main caps got these little ears or wings? Well, they're also stamped. This is numeral five. You got one, two, three, four, five. We're on number five in the back.

[01:42:41]All I think all of these I have to, you know, double check, but all of these the ear turns that way. The number goes to the driver's side except for the back one. It'll go like this. The little ears to the front and the number to the passenger side. Yep. Whatever. GM.

[01:43:00]Whatever.

[01:43:03]The block only has one tang retainer tab thingamabob.

[01:43:08]I have found some things I like about LS and then some things I'm like, okay, whatever, GM. Uh anyway, let's get this little fella on down in here. I got to have a hummer peck down in there.

[01:43:26]Do a little tappy tapping.

[01:43:35]I got to go backwards, I think, a little bit.

[01:43:39]We got some bolts in it, man.

[01:43:43]were I I don't know which one goes where.

[01:43:48]I got to look that up cuz you got one that's studded and you got one that's not. I think it goes like that, but I'm not real sure. Let me look it up. I'll be right back.

[01:44:00]I am correct. Um the regular bolt headed ones go in the middle. The studded ones go on the outside. These are longer thread inside ones.

[01:44:11]The inner bolts get torqued to 15 feetish pounds. Well, the outer ones do too. Then the inner ones you go 80°. The outer ones you go 53°. I have no way to actually measure the degrees, so we're just going to guess. There's 15.

[01:44:32]There's 15.

[01:44:34]Of course, they're two different sizes.

[01:44:36]GM couldn't make them the same size. No.

[01:44:39]Be too easy.

[01:44:43]15 15 Now, what did I say? 80°.

[01:44:52]We're going to start here. 90 would be here. So, let's go about right here. The only thing I know to do about right in that area.

[01:45:02]Do the same with this one, except Yeah. Clicker one time.

[01:45:09]go approximately there.

[01:45:14]45 would be here. A little more than 45.

[01:45:17]So, probably right there. I don't seem real tight.

[01:45:22]But I know I do know it's got, you know, six bolts, but that just don't seem real tight to me. Tell you what I might do about right there.

[01:45:33]See what kind of apparatus you need to actually do this. If it ain't a lot of money, I'll just go ahead and buy it.

[01:45:39]Hopefully, I can get it by tomorrow. Uh, anyway, the side bolts, where are they at?

[01:45:45]Going to go to 18 ftage pounds.

[01:45:52]I I don't know why those bolts are there. 18 footbs. That ain't nothing, man.

[01:46:00]Now, we got to measure stuff with our dial bore gauge.

[01:46:06]We got approximately exactly three. Let me check the other half cuz that's a grooved bearing on the top. We got Yeah, right at three to go by. Usually it's 1,000th per inch of diameter. These are 2.559 from the factory.

[01:46:28]Um, but we got a half thousand wear on the uh main journal on the crank. So, I set this to the actual main journal size, which is 2.5584 8 some five somewhere in there. So, we got 3000 clearance.

[01:46:47]And on a supercharged motor, any well, any kind of hot rod motor, you want a little more clearance cuz you lot will build up a little more heat on the crank and the bearing. Everything's going to expand more. You want a little more 3000s. I'm good with it. Um, let me check the rest of these. I'll be right back and I'll write them down so I can tell you what we got. Hopefully, they're all going to be about 30,000. So, checking the last one here. And it ain't looking good, fellas. Nope. Sure ain't.

[01:47:15]It is approximately exactly dead on the same as the others. Yep. Let me check other side.

[01:47:22]Yep. Let me explain why it ain't good.

[01:47:25]Well, you know, we did this one right here, number five. And I said it was three by thousands clearance. No sir, I was incorrect. It's only two. I looked at the uh dial on my dboard gauge. I looked at it incorrectly. We got two two two.

[01:47:40]Um well, according to my knowledge of building motors on small block Chevrolets, like I said, you want a thousandth of clearance per inch of diameter. These are 2.559. let's say two and a half inches. So, you want at least two and a half thousand clearance. We don't even have that. Then you want a little extra with a hot rod motor. Um, but I'm new to LS. LS is a new fangled stuff. I know these motors, newer stuff runs a lot tighter clearances. So, I don't know what to do right here. I got to do a little studying on that. Yep.

[01:48:16]Yep. Yep. Not sure what I'm going to do.

[01:48:19]Well, I'm gonna go in the house here in just a minute and do some studying and see what the knowledgeable LS hot rodders are running for clearances. I bet you it's going to be more than 2,000. So, yep. Uh, but unfortunately, we got to cut the video off right here. So, you have to wait till next week to see what I've decided on bearing clearance. Yep. Fellas, we got a tremendous amount of work still to do. Well, all the parts laying in the floor here. I got to clean all this up.

[01:48:45]There's the heads. Still got to go through them. We're going to lap the valves. New valve seals, new springs.

[01:48:52]Got to clean them up. The blower, that fella right there, it needs a day or two of work. Got to modify stuff on it. Um, if we're going to take this truck with that blower and this motor on power tour in two weeks. Um, we got to get in the wind and get some stuff done. This motor is going to take me forever. Uh, because, you know, it's brand new to me.

[01:49:14]Uh, I will get it. Uh hopefully we'll be taking this combination of motor, blower, and truck on power tour. Uh you'll just have to wait and see. Empty ways, good lord willing, the creek don't rise. See y'all on the next one.

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