Classic Pickups

CTS-2304-231x300.jpg Whenever you take on a restoration/revitalization project, it is important to have good manuals and documentation.   When I did the IHC S100 restoration back in the late 90’s, I got my service manual and parts manual from Scott at  Binder Books .  Scott is no longer with us, bu...

Maybe some of you have seen this before, but I just found it searching the internet and found it interesting.   The Fifty Dollar Paint Job The guy has pictures of it three years out and I have to say, it doesn’t look bad in the pictures.  I can’t say for sure what it looks like up close, but for som...

Since we are going to have to rebuild the transmission in our Scout II project, I have been searching for information on the Torqueflite 727.  I found this video on Youtube of a group doing just that for a high performance build.  Thought I would share:

We have been burning the midnight oil so to speak hear at Classicpickups.com. We have done a couple of Frame Off restorations and some partial restorations in the past.  When I say we I mean I and Brad have done most of the cleanup work and mechanical work.  The body work was left to the body shop.I...

OK, it’s been way to long since we added anything to this blog.

So we finally go to a point that we can start working on this again.

Here is a video of where we are at this point.  Hopefully soon we will have an update on some additional progress.

It has been a long while since I did an update on the Scout II Project.  That is because until the last month there hasn’t been any work done on it.  Various work and family related projects took over.  But now we are back hard on it. First I decided to call her Heidi after Heidi Montag.  By the tim...

IMAG0160.JPG Here we go again.  I just can’t seem to help myself.A few months ago my son and I went past a local salvage yard, and there was a gold Scout II sitting in the yard waiting to be crushed.  Well you know that couldn’t happen, so my son Brad stopped in later to check on it.   It was a 197...

On to disassembly.  In the next couple of pictures we point out the speedometer adapter that needs to be removed. Then we move on to removing the tail housing.

I was going through archives trying to get some content on the board and I came across some photos I took of the rebuild process on an A-727 transmission. I am not sure I have pictures for everything, but I will post up what I have and try to fill in the rest as time allows. Anyway, in these picture...

Got the engine back from the machine shop today.  They had to bore it at .030, the crank was turned down .010 and they milled .007 off of the top.  All in all pretty good. 20170315_120042.jpg Now I need to wait a day for the temps to get out of the freezing range and for me to get over a cold and we...