bigragu

Nice looking work, Mark. It's as if you USED to be a machinist or something, with all the details covered on parts making, LOL!

mknittle

Thanks Augie, Me a machinist numbers are too hard for me to grasp

firstgenW250

Well it took me days (literally) to make it to this point of the thread, but a very good read with lots of great info. I'm jealous of your fab skills... I really want to do hydroboost but I'm not sure if my fab has evolved enough to that point

Keep up the good work

mknittle

Thanks I am glad you like it. I was a big fan of your blue truck and am following on the new one. I like the your attention to detail.

The hydroboost is reall easier than it looks. You wouldn't have any problem doing it (at least nothing you can't figure out.
IIRC yours is crossover with the stock type of steering gear.
In that case the only fab would be shortening the pushrod or a puller and changing the stock pushrod out. The GM firewall mount is a direct fit and one brake line( the front most one on the master cylinder) is a different thread. that gets it all mounted up.

thrashingcows

Yeah Mark sure has over complicated his HB system with that "inferior" reverse rotation steering system......

Would have been much easier if he had just left it alone with that AWESOME stock steering system.

mknittle

Yeah I have a problem with that Everything I touch ends up over complicatedyou should see how much crapola I drag into taking a simple picture like these

patdaly

So THAT'S why you aren't getting much done on the truck.............. Sorry, couldn't resist.

We need that thing on the road.

BTW, beautiful lighting and perspective on those pictures..........

thrashingcows

"G" those are some nice spools of string.....

mknittle

Thanks Pat. I a workin on the truck off and on Mainly waiting for my Jeep to sell so I can buy more parts.

the pictures are on rainy days. taken in a TV tray with a piece of glass no top with the bottom painted black. When we move I will get a room to do more in depth stuff.

mknittle

Those are 50year old bobbins of heavy upholstery thread. I don't know what the G stands for though They are too weak to even run in my sewing machine. I kept them to photograph

mknittle

The glass was the hardest as the light had to come from the back. the reflection is of a book case behind the camera. I made the watermark a couple weeks ago. I wanted it to be round and it too most of the day

thrashingcows

Yeah very nice photography....I do not have the patience to do that kind of set-up and work.

mknittle

Thanks Brian, It really is a lot of fun. I will be glad to get a place where I can leave my stuff set up though. sure enough when you tear it down a great idea pops up.

firstgenW250

I appreciate that! I'm definitely a detail dude... I've always said that it's the smallest details that make the biggest difference. Probably why I like your thread so much

When the time comes to do the swap over to hydroboost I'm sure I'll have a couple questions for ya Until then, I can't wait to see this thing back on the road!

Btw, awesome photos!!

mknittle

Thanks I really appreciate that.

Yeah I want to get this thing moving. For the last week there has been a tree trimming company parking in their choppers in my front yard. every morning and evening they come in and out towing the chippers with 4 second gens. Two sound really good. one guy really knows how to make that truck sound awesome. oh the torment