Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:55 pm

Been busy with a few things yesterday, after returning from the Gathering.

Got given some dark fabric seats by a MX5nutz-er in Scotland for Nicola's car as the leather ones added to the blandness of the interior and were scuffed etc. They were driven down by Bill in his yellow Escort 1600 Sport.

So then traveled part of the trip back in the rear of the Chevy, and at Buckingham where I collected a pillar drill, they were moved into the Grizz-Pod trailer.

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Cleaned and serviced.....

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£80.00 well spent on the garage.

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Back home I cleaned them up, though they were clean already.

Also needed to re-assemble them.

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Before the show I had managed to buy some spares from Mystery Machine who had brought them along, saving the postage. Thanks Bruce.

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Needs resto.

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I had also bought a stainless "radiator protector" from MX5nutz last week, another completely pointless bit of shiny add on for the car.

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New tonneau cover tested..... Old seats in place.

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Then Post Man Pat arrived and I had a dressed up wife come down the garden, wearing this....

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As I was busy prepping the car for its retest for the MOT, I told her to unpack the item, soon she was back.

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10 minutes was all it took to fit the new seats, which may be a bit of a "Marmite" option for some.....lucky they do not have to live with it.

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One of the failures at MOT test was a snapped drop link.
On inspection, it seemed the other was fractured as well, so I replaced both while I was at it.

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I had also replaced the indicators as both on the care had cracks, one of the replacements was not perfect, but still is better than the original.

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Then the fun started.

I had to split the tie rod ends etc, my tools were not up to it and rust had had a good time over the last 21 years.

Fortunately the local garage had the right tool, making splitting them, to replace the rubber dust caps a lot easier.

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I eventually finished the job at 20.45 last night.

Today after work I fitted a load of bits to the car, including the lather gaiters, and a new gearbox rubber tunnel cover\gaiter.

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Chrome style bar fitted tonight as well.

Tomorrow afternoon is retest time and also two new tyres to get fitted.

Then tax and hopefully Nicola can start using the car.
Greetings from England.

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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Tue Aug 20, 2013 4:26 pm

Short report.


Took the Truck and Grizz-Pod to the Retro Rides Gathering '13 the past weekend.

Left by 09.00 on Friday morning, got there by 14.00 which included about an hours stpping along the way for coffee and relaxing.

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At the show, Tim my mate who also drives a '74 Chevy camper truck gave me this rev counter for the truck.

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Friday night after BBQ this was the view in the camping field.

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On Saturday Tim was off to do some shopping, on his return he did some maintenance, almost disappearing into the engine bay.

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I left the show before 2pm on Sunday as I had to detour to pick up a pillar drill I had bought a couple of weeks ago in Buckingham.
I had collected some spare seats for Nicola's MX5 which moved into the teardrop once I collected the drill.

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Who said this truck should not work ?

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Assembled, cleaned and serviced. Good value at £80.00

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I will do a more complete write up with pics when I get time.

In the mean time the truck still pleases me.

Thanks for checking in.
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby pchast » Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:23 pm

Nice find in that drill press.
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Sat Aug 24, 2013 3:46 am

pchast wrote:Nice find in that drill press.
:)


Thanks, I was very pleased to find it.

It will be working hard this weekend making smokers and drilling vent holes etc.
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Sat Aug 24, 2013 3:47 am

Not much to report back other than the smiles per mile continue to add up to more than the smiles per cost per liter to run this beast.

Weather forecast is rubbish with intermittent rain and possibly storms, not that it should stop me really, there is always something that needs doing.

Have I mentioned that I really do like (that's better than love) my wife Nicola??

This week they started doing some remodeling at her work, clearing out a lot of old equipment and stuff that is no longer fit for purpose.

They had an 8 meter deep skip that was filled with chairs, furniture and much much more.

At some point she went outside and got a bollocking from the judges of the County Court who they share a car park with for firstly having a large skip on site and secondly....... the local jobless alcoholics had removed all the chairs from the skip and taken them down to the "beach" on the River Medway to have a party..... OOOOPPPss?

Well, in pursuit of the chairs some steel cabinets had been dragged out of the skip and set down next to it..... when the chairs were returned and the skip collected, the steel cabinets had not been returned to the skip.

Nicola saw them, and immediately took a couple of pics she texted to me with just one word : "WANT??" Of course I said yes as I still have some old wooden bedroom wardrobes in the garage to replace with steel cabinets. She then got some of the funeral directors and bearers to drag them back indoors for me to collect later.

Did I mention I liked my wife ??

Went to fetch them the next evening at about 7pm with Mickey riding shotgun to help me load them.....

Today I will unload them and empty one more wardrobe and replace it with a steel cabinet.

Garage is getting there.

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Last night after work I popped over to my mate Martin who had bought a 1965 LWB Fleetside C10 truck about the same time as we got ours. He works in the "Disability motor vehicle conversion business" Interestingly, he and his wife have two Mazda MX5's as well, so we seem to have a fair amount in common. He had managed to get some brand new loose car mats for my truck and Nicola's MX5 from dealers who remove them prior to conversion to hand control etc. So I popped over to look at what his cars looked like etc.

While chatting about various things including the last weekend towing the Grizz-Pod with the truck I mentioned I was going to remove the small but ineffective round mirrors and replace them with the slightly larger (unattractive to me) rectangular ones. He offered to pick me up a pair of heads when he is in the USA later in the year (so I get to keep my stalks and mountings) as they are only $10.00 each. He also showed me the mirrors that had been on his truck when he got it, I suspect they are moderns, ugly but functional.
Later in our discussions it turned out that his glove box was missing its "liner" so I offered him some 1.2mm ally plate to make one, in the end he suggested that if I made him a new liner, he would trade me for the mirrors if I was interested...... Typically I agreed. He also offered to fit Rivnuts to my door once I have done the paint and repairs as part of the deal.

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I will make a mounting plate for the large mirrors, which has a 4 hole mounting plate that will fit the standard 3 screw/nut fitting, and with the Rivnuts in place I will be able to remove the standard mirror when I want to to the Teardrop long distance. The Rivnuts will just mean that I can remove the mirrors without losing the thread in the door.

Martin had these mirrors on his truck when he bought them..... Soon to be mine.

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This weekend I want to make two if these smoker cookers from old gas bottles.

My mate Woodsie works in demolition and a lot of the stuff they remove from sites have to go into skips and be "recycled" (read: exported to China and turned into cars)so when I showed him the pics I took at a car show a while ago, he was game for me making us each one as well. Fair trade.
He is off to fetch a new used motorbike for his wife this morning, but my drop in later to drop of the bottles he rescued.

This is what I will be aiming at.

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This was just after the smoker/cooker was loaded.


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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:30 am

Well, luck does favour the brave.... or am I missing something here?

Popped around to Mickey's this morning for a chat and he was cleaning up a huge pot and reviving the plant inside it, from a job he did yesterday.
His sons work rebuilding, decorating and gutting office space.
Yesterday they had to take down a load of offices, and one of the casualties ended up being a load of White Oak skirting boards.
They are 90mm wide and I am not sure how thick...... Hope you are getting my drift here.

Anyway, a load had been claimed by one of the guys on the job, buut there were still some in the back of his van he mentioned, if I was interested in them before he went to the skip.

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So I cleared the lot out and brought them home in the hope I could salvage some bits for the garden furniture we have, that has seen a lot of seasons outside and are now starting to show their age.

I previously rebuilt a garden bench using offcuts of White Oak as well, which is still in use.

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Once I had sorted the pile out, this is what I was left with.....

The pile to the right is all under 1.8 meters long, so only good for rebuilding the furniture.

The pile to the left though, has about 19 strips, and at 90mm wide, I need 18 strips to remake the floor of the truck which is currently plywood.


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After sorting it out, stashed under the bike trailer for now.
The cleaning up of the wood to get all the glue etc off it will take some time.
Unfortunately the side I need to use is the side with the glue, the other side it grooved.


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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Wed Aug 28, 2013 2:48 pm

Just in from the garage.

Tonight it was me, the cordless drill, some pressure and then the pedal covers were fitted.

After which the new floor mats Nicola had sneakily ordered for the car went in.

The black seats and mats have now come together for me.

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New leather gaiters on gear stick and hand brake also add to the picture.

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Last item I need to fit will be the fly screen behind the seats.

In the mean time I will keep looking for a stupidly cheap hard top and a Wooden Nardi wheel to restore......
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby rebapuck » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:50 pm

You just love tools, don't you? I do too. But you use them. I just collect them.
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Fri Aug 30, 2013 1:31 am

rebapuck wrote:You just love tools, don't you? I do too. But you use them. I just collect them.


Collecting is good.........

As long as you use them when you need them.

I have a gorgeous old Spoke Shave thats a bit of art and history all in one and it has worked really well in the recent past.
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby rebapuck » Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:17 pm

My neighbors know that if they need something, I've probably got it.
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:25 pm

:wine: :wine: :wine: :wine: INDEED

rebapuck wrote:My neighbors know that if they need something, I've probably got it.
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:26 pm

Not much done today, but still a result that had me chuckling, as I did something new again, making it up as I went.

Which is something I always like to do.

My mate Martin who is doing up a 1965 C10 needed a glove box inner, as his original had long since rotted away, being made from paper mache, or something similar.

I had volunteered to make him a new one from ally plate or thin sheet metal in exchange for the side mirrors he had removed from his truck a few months ago.

Started by rummaging around the garage till I found a good base to work with. The back of an old steel filing cabinet (I think that's what it was) that was probably around 1mm thick.

Next up, empty out my glove box to see what I am working with.

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Removed it by unscrewing 5 screws.

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Laid out the steel plate, carefully copied all the reference points on the made glove box, then connected the dots with a red marker and also shaded in the areas that needed cutting away.

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One Angle grinder, a 2mm blade and three minutes later we have this, still needed working back with a hand file to smooth off the edges.

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At this point I went up to the house to make a coffee, and then walked back to behind the garage where we grow our vegetables, and where I planted a Conference pear and Star King apple tree two years ago.

Last year each tree presented me with two fruits, this year the pear has retained about 15 pears and the apple tree has about 25 apples which range in size from what you see in my hand, to some a bit bigger still. These apples are pleasantly sweet from the smallest to the largest, which pleases me immensely. So I ate a few apples, feeling very smug, then came back in to carry on with the box.

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Back in the garage the next session of rummaging started, to find the right bits of wood to use to bend the plate to shape.

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Once all the sides were folded, it stayed in shape without any encouragement. I WAS SURPRISED.

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I then quickly clamped, and tack welded the tabs rather than rivet them as mine has been done.

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Ground back, the last job was to give it a coat of primer, mostly as rust preventative. Martin can paint the outside if he wants. I know he wants to carpet the inside with thin automotive carpet.

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I then hoped onto the bike and rode the 15 miles to Martins to deliver and collect......

Got there, and he had removed the heavy agricultural bumper from the truck and had just finished welding in a new rear roll pan, which looks great.

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After a chat and him sparaying some red oxide primer over the new roll pan, we lifted and refitted the tailgate, which I have to say fits nicely. Still needs some fine tuning.

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Last thing once we had stood back, enjoyed it, and gotten the approval of his wife, Amanda, was for me to grab my well earned mirrors and come home, as I still had some jobs to do at home as well.

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And that is where today with the truck ended.
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Sat Aug 31, 2013 1:17 pm

I seem to have missed out on an update a few weeks ago....

Came home from work and there were two parcels, one with some plates for the collection.

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And a second one from Markeb01.

He had noted a while back that my front bumper had holes covered by skull nuts. And had then sent me a PM asking about the holes, offering me the fog lights off his truck to cover the holes....... Would I be interested? Hell, Yeahhhh!! So I replied that I most certainly would be interested if he let me pay the postage.
In the end Mark refused the postage, but we agreed that I would send him something special from my collection in return, which went out last week, it is a surprise, so I hope he likes it.

Mark had made up a complete fire retardent wiring harness for me, with toggle switch, relay and instructions. In the same parcel there were replacement wiper arms for the truck and and some of his old number plates. And lastly, and interior light cover as these often do not survive.

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Look at the quality and condition.

These babies will only get fitted once the truck is repainted.

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Thanks Mark.
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:48 am

Just spent a couple of hours scrubbing roof, sealing it with Auto Glym roof stuff.
Then washed the car and dried it, as roof stuff is diabolical on paint and glass.
Got to give it 24 hrs to dry propperly now.
Still need to dismantle drivers door to figure why window went doen and now refuses to return, I suspect a micro switch.
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Re: Grizz-Pod Teardrop Trailer - New tow truck - 66 Chevy

Postby grizz » Sat Sep 07, 2013 12:24 pm

Stolen Gathering pic

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