The Gold Project

You can see the pinion where it spun inwards and rested on the spool. At first glance I didnt notice any chipped teeth but there may be on the backside, so if its all good hopefully I can just pop some new bearings on it and roll. If not guess I'll have to pony up for some more gears...

 

Updates man we need updates!!!!!
Donnie

 

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Well a couple late nights this week and shes good to go I "believe" I'll be loading up in a couple hours to go out for test run #2 Fixed a leaky steering box, added bump stops in the rear, trimmed the fan to get it away from the rad. outlet, dbl. checked all the bolts, reinstalled the rear driveshaft....

 

Still got to paint it...that may get done before the Uwharrie ride.

 

8) :driving:

 

Well Goldie did good this weekend, only a couple small issues but nothing that wastn fixable.

 

Looks good.

 

Sa Weet... so you think i can talk Cat into letting me do that with Turtle?

 

Already got a set of axles here ready to go in, just drop off turtle and your visa card and it will get done

 

So more pics of it in action from this past weekend. This is in the "Rat Hole" at River Rock..

 

love the Dice... looking good Jason.

 

Looks great! man you work quick. I was wondering if you had any pics of how you did the spring perch on the front 44 passenger side? Did you just grind it flat or did you make a perch to fit the housing radius? I picked up my 76 front end today and will start tearing it down for a regear, hi steer setup and mounts asap so I was curious how you did it.

 

I made a perch to fit the housing. By the time it was radiused out enough it ended up being basically just the flat part which made it the same height as the other perch that was on the tube.

 

Looking good Jason.

 

Wow... That's all I can say. Trust me - I know how much work you just went through in a very short period of time. It looks great!!!

 

its been a while but I finally got to do some more work to goldie... Redid the one of the heim joints on the steering shaft, it seemed like it was causing the shaft to "bind". Seems to work better now. Also redid the splined connector on the input shaft of the steering box. There wasnt enough room before to put a bolt through like it was orginally so I ground it down to clear the radiator and put in a dowel pin. It worked great but it was still too close to the rad. So I ground it completely round welded a nut in the original gap and put a set screw in it. It seems like it will work better than it did before. But here are a couple pics...





and a just for the heck of it picture