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Since I have to tear into it to do the clutch and a bunch of the wiring is garbage so I figured this was a good time to tear it all apart, and added some modern safety components. Plus I get the quality time with my daughter before she is a teenager and I am not cool at all.?

Its definitely been scary; I’ve been working from home and spending time out in the garage to keep my head in a good place. Missouri hasn’t been hit that hard but I feel for the states that have. It’s a good time to slow down, open God’s Word, and spend time in prayer for those who are suffering from this illness.

Remove the nuts and lock washers, then Remove the junk or silicone from the two Empty threaded holes (in between the studs) ? then run two 3/8” x 16thread bolts in the threaded holes..... careful not to twist the bolts off in the holes! Hopefully that helps

Put a meter on the leads with the motor installed and see what your voltage is then, bet you have some dirty connections.

Run another ground wire from the Electric motor mounts to the chassis.

Yes using the 32/36 . Most likely be a little while before embarking on this but will keep you informed. Supposed to be set up for individual car so I will see. As far as the alternator goes the shipping from Quality power is $40.00 from them to me, about 25% of the cost of the set up. So I am looking locally to see if anyone here has access to one. Local rebuilding shop is very good so I am going to talk to them. Generator charges ok and no issues but if I take a night trip might be a problem..

Hmmm, now that the heater might be figured out, let’s hear more about the parts you’re pulling for that Brent guy ?

In #7, Adam says to remove the rubber and re-install,

Drive it like a 4 speed and that trans comes to life...using the after market shifter downshift button. Then learning again how to shift it with the button....a good working item that's kinda hard to find.

Okay. I have changed the topic heading and this will be my build thread. Bear with me as it is my first build thread. Sorry I tend to be long winded but here is the story on it. 17 years ago, when I was a volunteer Big Brother, my girlfriend and I bought a lottery ticket for the Big Brothers Home Lottery and ended up winning the early bird prize of $10,000. Pretty excited, as it was a few days before Valentines Day, we decided to take a romantic weekend getaway with our new found fortune, and whatever was left at the end of the weekend, we would split evenly, we weren't married and no joint account after all. Since we were both cheap and pretty much broke, not much was spent that weekend as we celebrated in our cabin most of the weekend?, and we each ended up with $4000. I had been looking for a cheap project truck for a while so I decided to take another look with my cash. Keep in mind it is February in Alberta, Canada so it was cold and the classifieds didn't have much to offer in the way of summer toys. Lo and behold, this 1956 1/2 ton Job Rated pops up so I go have a look. Bought locally originally buy a farmer about 1/2 hour away, passed down to his son, truck had never left the province, in fact barely left the farming community it lived in. Son is moving off to Vancouver and can't take it with him, so it's up for sale. $3500 later and I'm driving it home on a nice balmy -30 degree day in February with summer tires and no heater, and a bad clutch, but hey I can drive it home so I'm excited. Truck seems pretty solid, worth what I paid anyway, so I decide to put some rims and tires on it, replace the king pins and put it on the road. April rolls around and my girlfriend and I are out for a nice picnic with the truck and it's proposal time. Year and a half later, the truck is our wedding limo. Married at a ranch with a bunch of straw bales in the back for seating. Great time. Three years later my daughter comes home from the hospital when she is born and yup this is her first drive in the real world. Almost 5 years later the clutch finally gives out(yup, same one that was bad when I bought it) so it was parked, as I had another project on the go, and a year after that we move across the country. Truck gets loaded up and sits since 2013 only being run a couple times, but never road driven again. Fast forward to now, my daughter is 12 and wants a truck for her first vehicle. She has her heart set on my 2012 Ram dually but she has been informed that isn't happening so she is slowly accepting the fact that it will be the 56. I'm betting she will grow to love it along the way. The plan is a low budget build with a few critical upgrades like brakes, steering and seat belts. I'm hoping we can do the majority of the work ourselves and am even seriously contemplating the paint and body myself as well. Having never done either, it will be a challenge but that looks like it would be the most costly to farm out, so I may attempt it. Anyway here are a few pics of the truck when I got it and where it is at now. I'm sure I will have lots of questions along the way, and appreciate the knowledge here. The cobra was the project that put the dodge on the backburner for a few years, then there was the move across country, starting a new business, etc etc. A you can see, my daughter has been a bit of a car fan for a while. The Firebird will be the next project and has a special meaning to me, and was a motivating factor for me to get at the dodge. It belonged to my best friend since high school. We dragged it out of a field back in 1986 and with tons of help from his dad(and his wallet), put it on the road. We spent countless hours cruising around in this thing in our teens and twenties, blowing up the motor in the process, and swapping in a worn out Buick motor about 25 years ago that is still in there. When he got sick, I went to see him as much as I could, being a 18 hour drive away made it tough but I went often. He didn't have much energy and couldn't get out much but had lots of hope, so when he was resting I would go out and work on his shop. getting it finished so that we could work on his car and bring it back to life. Things were looking a bit better for him, so I started working on his car once the shop was done, hoping he would get the chance to drive it again. He managed to get one last ride in it when we took it to get new springs put in. A white knuckled ride as it handled like crap, so it wasn't ideal. But he drove it so he was happy. Unfortunately he passed away a few months later and the car never got finished. We talked a lot in his last few days, mostly about cars and memories. He left me his Firebird with one condition, I had to get off my ass and finish the truck first and then the car, but both had to be done before my daughter gets her license. A weird request but it gave me a laugh and so here I am. Dodge rebuild has begun. Plan is to drive it this summer at some point.

We are locked down here as well, but being down under is a bit of a bonus in these troubled times, Our biggest issue has been with a number of cruise ships with sick passengers. One came into Sydney a couple of weeks ago and they let everyone off without any checks. That has now spread all the way to us in the west. We have had three ships come into Perth that have been handled a lot better but still have one with sick people coming off it daily and its probably not in a position to leave anytime soon. Meanwhile we are going nowhere. I'm making rapid progress on the 38 in the shed, the wife is busy quilting, and the 29 and 55 Plymouths are gathering cobwebs. Weather here is beautiful, autumn at its best, so different to you guys struggling out of winter. I spent 7 years in Northern Ontario above Lake Huron, and dont miss the cold one bit..

Just a comment from a bystander; in this forum some folks are from countries that the driver sits on the right side. Use careful terminology, for them the driver's side means their right, therefore right hand threads! BTW, along with Mopar, Studebaker use left-hand threads during similar years. I don't recall who else...... The logic of the right/left threads was that you tighten bolt on both sides by turning wrench toward the front of vehicle. To loosen bolts, turn wrench toward the rear.

3-31-20: Pic 1: same stop sign, different angle. Pic 2: at home, interior light on, dog blanket on the floor even though he didn't come with this time. ?

3-31-20: At a stop sign in the middle of nowhere. Started off in 3rd gear. ?

3-31-20: Stopped at the market (Sinclair) for gas. $1.84 for 93 octane. Pic: semis lined up to rest for the night.

this was the video that I found awhile back that might help with my to-do list...

I recently had to use plastic tooling to install a center glass with new rubber...had a helper push against the glass as I worked the rubber lip.

I am using this heater, a Mopar Deluxe Model 36

Give him some credit Pops.......most kids can't even change a u joint at his age and look what he has accomplished so far.

He didn't want me to post this when we started the tear down two years ago, but I'm going to embarrass now anyway. He's earned at least one vanity pose.

I like the Nascar explanation. I'm going with that ?

Okay, This video is from last night at about 11:00 pm. OMG!

Plumbing at the carbs is 5/16 CN inverted flares into a T for 5/16 inverted flares. We plan to use fuel hose from there to the mechanical pump which will have an elbowed 5/16 inverted flare nipple to take the hose. Nipples are long enough on each end to put two hose clips and also putting a little airplane sealant on the nipples to improve seal and grip. I may take that longer pipe on the front and shorten it to come in a bit closer to the carb. Before we seal everything in we also plan to try this with the pipes to the inboard side of the carbs, It fits both ways, and see which side looks cleaner. Need to work out the throttle linkage first. We got the material from O'Reilly's, but the mech at Diversified Creations (Brighton MI) bent the pipe for us at a reasonable fee. They bend a whole lot more pipe each week than I ever will, so It made all the difference in how this turned out. You don't want to see the bends that dad or I were able to make.

These are as bought pics. I'll post clean ones later. I'm not sure if I'm going to buy rims and tires or not.if I did what is the bolt pattern? Also is there an aftermarket interior kit?

Nick, you are on the road to being a mechanic, not just a parts assembler. Proud of you.

If your car is a Deluxe, that is the correct thermostat housing. According to the service manual only Special Deluxe had the the by-pass housing.

Good for you Don. I would rather give my tools to deserving people that respect them while I still have decision making capabilities rather than have them pilfered by unworthies [relatives that don't return things they borrow.] in my dotage. Or worse sold by my loving yet clueless wife to some schmuck at one of her garage sales.........hopefully after the funeral.....lol.