Yahoo, I won
I decided to take a cruise to the south side of town for a show. I haven’t been this far with My 55 Chevy Bel Air before so I was a bit cautious. It was a nice sunny day and were…
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From One Chevy Tri-Five Enthusiast To Another!
I decided to take a cruise to the south side of town for a show. I haven’t been this far with My 55 Chevy Bel Air before so I was a bit cautious. It was a nice sunny day and were…
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Another trip to Craig’s for some more parts. I’m finally going to get two more armrests for the rear doors. While I was there, I picked up the original door latches for the inside. And while walking through the yard,…
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With the shifter conversion out of the way, I decided to tackle the next project. The transmission kick down cable installation. I actually had the car for a couple of weeks before I realized what the loose cable under the…
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Today I was going to take My ’55 Chevy Bel Air out for a drive. But before doing so, I wanted to replace the grinding High Torque starter that was turning the engine over. So, since I know the engine came…
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I must send a big thanks to John at Meineke Car Care Center. He finished the work as promised and even noted a couple other things that needed attention. One thing John did show me was where I had planned…
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With the headers finally installed, I needed to get the collectors welded on so I would not get pulled over for creating a disturbance. We all know we can’t drive around with open headers all the time creating noise pollution (as…
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Sometimes it takes me a while to get things done, but when I start, they really get done. Today it was the removal of the old gas pedal and linkage. As you can see from some of the pictures I…
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After finally getting all the parts together, I was down to the last nut on the fan. Then oops! Afan stud snapped. So it was back to the parts store to get a fan stud. I managed to find a fan…
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Since it was raining today, I decided to get the last of the parts I needed to get My ’55 Chevy Bel Air up and running. I already had my PCV valve, but the grommet from the old cover was…
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I didn’t stop with painting the engine block and headers. I continued to clean up the engine compartment. Again, instead of expensive chrome parts, I got some chrome spray paint and did some of the smaller parts after cleaning them…
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