I'm glad the video helped. Thanks for watching. There is much more coming on this one but we are a small channel and I'm currently overloaded with projects. We have had all the parts to install the front and rear end for a while but no time to sit down and do it. Make sure to subscribe we will be putting out more on the 53.
Man thank you. my stepdad bought me a 53 3100 5 window nut for nut, bolt for bolt when i was 16. i went into the army at 17 so i never really got to do anything with the truck. im 23 now and just had a daughter a year ago. my dad turns 80 this month and for the past 2 years ive been paintng the body and frame. im going to throw a 350 small block in it but thank god whoever owned it before me did a convo with it so its saving me alot of time. but i dont know too much about mechanics so im trying to teach myself as i go and your videos are honestly the most informative ive seen so far. i cant wait to see your future progress man and how your truck turns out.
i am glad the videos are helping you. we did slow down a bit because i have been working on other vehicles. i am in the middle of plating the frame. that will be a video. i should have one or 2 more for front end assembly and rear end assembly. it will go out to powder coating after that. when it comes back probably a video for getting the frame to roller. our videos do slow down as summer comes it gets too hot to work outdoors. thank you for watching.
I've watched your videos today on the 3100. I"m building a 37 Chev PU. I started 35 years ago with the intent of restoration. My dad and I were working on it together. We had gotten it to the bare frame and had stripped and rebuilt the spring mounts and shackles, painted the frame as well as the springs and axles. New king pins and brakes. This was a few years since I'd started as I had moved and built a house in between. Dad passed suddenly and my interest went to zero. Other life events occurred and the truck sat in my mom's garage until a couple of years ago. I finally drug it out and moved it to my new home in South Dakota. So the direction has changed, I'm going for more of a restomod. I've already done a FATMAN MII front end and an Explorer rear end. I've boxed most of the frame and installed a center section from WELDERSERIES in Canada. My engine is from a 2014 Silverado with a 6L80 transmission. So watching you with rivets and springs brings back memories that date back over 30 years. The shackle pins are also threaded as were the fixed pivot bolts. the ends of the pins are tapered and the pressure of the shackle bolts clamps them in. Like you my springs were in great neglect and ready to fall apart. When cutting rivets I found that cross cutting the heads with a cutoff wheel and then cutting the heads off with an air chisel. Once cut off, I drove the rivets out with a punch on the air chisel. For over 20 years the design of suspension and drivetrain was virtually unchanged. What your's looks like, is exactly what mine looked like. I haven't gone through the effort of painting the insides of my boxing plates as I knew when they're welded the paint will burn off. My intention is to fill the frame rails with Cavity wax when I'm done welding on it. The box mounts are different on the 37. They bolt through the bed and wood blocks and then through the frame. I"m going to build brackets welded to the frame and put 1/4" urethane cushions on top. The cab mount is different as well, There are a total of 8 bolts through the cab into the frame. The front 4 are bolted with a rubber like cushion but the back 4 are longer bolts with springs to accommodate the flex of the frame. As the frame will not be flexing much now, I'm going to bolt with urethane mounts that are about 1 1/2" thick. I"m welding threaded rod couplers into the frame for the cab bolts.
It sounds like you have a great plan. I blew all the rivets off because I'm setting it up with a mustang 2 front end and a coil rear end. I painted the inside to give to some protection because I'm not planning on doing any with the inside. The frame is getting powder coated they will cover what they can inside and depending on their process may end up stripping the paint inside. I should have had the frame plating video done but my father in-law critized all my weld, which are good just ugly, and it made me slow down. I'm about half done plating and installing the engine cross member. The cab on these doesn't have many bolts through it. If i remember right there are only 2. The others bolt attached to a plate on the bottom. My plan was to do the hydraulic fluid on my tractor this weekend but we have 40 mph winds right now and the 53 is taking up my gargage space. It will probably get postponed until the winds die down. Plus i have other non-youtube projects that require my attention. I hope you are enjoying the channel, please make sure to subscribe and share it if you know people who might be interested. We need more subscribers. I will keep putting up videos for this truck as the project goes along.
@@SKPcars I used a Total Cost Involved spring kit for the rear of my 37. So far it looks like the rake I was shooting for is good, but I won't know until I get the box on and see how the rear settles. MY fatman Mustang II is their stage 3 which has coliovers. The 8.8 Exlplorer rear end is an open differential. I see that now as being a problem with 355 HP. I'm thinking Eaton Trutrak.
I got everything to make it a roller from speedway motors. I am not sure what my rake is gonna look like until it is built. I may have to change springs once it is built. It was all the 47-55 front and rear kits for the 3100, with a 350 gear. So far the plan is 350 all the way across. 350 4bolt, with a 350 trans and a 350 rear gear on a ford 9". We haven't ordered the engine or trans yet. I want it rolling first.
I am starting my build same time as yours, you remove the emergency brake bracket to to put a rear 4 link same as my build, how are you going to attach the ebrake? My frame is very mess up and getting a long bed frame and I am going to cut it, I think I have a good idea how to do it at home, my brother jesse is a machinist and he is good with al the dimensions, but I am concerned with the ebrake bracket, I can’t wait for your next video !! 2 Thumbs up 👍
I removed the bar but the plan right now is to put it back in later. there is an aftermarket relocation set up. i don't remember at the moment who sells it. The original set up is kind of janky. that bar is just used to give the cables a center point to be pulled from the mechanism in the cab. It can easily be moved to a plate that is much smaller. at the point i am at right now it is a kind of a low concern because there are options. Right now i have to finish plating the frame and get the video up for that. install the front suspension, put that video out, install the rear suspension put out the video for that. send it out for powder coating and reinstall everything and roll it out of the garage, put a video out fore that. i will hopefully get to there late fall or in winter. Thanks for watching, please make sure to subscribe to see everything we get done.
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Very detailed video and straight to the point. Thanks man, gave me a lot of insight to start restoring my truck.
I'm glad the video helped. Thanks for watching. There is much more coming on this one but we are a small channel and I'm currently overloaded with projects. We have had all the parts to install the front and rear end for a while but no time to sit down and do it. Make sure to subscribe we will be putting out more on the 53.
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Man thank you. my stepdad bought me a 53 3100 5 window nut for nut, bolt for bolt when i was 16. i went into the army at 17 so i never really got to do anything with the truck. im 23 now and just had a daughter a year ago. my dad turns 80 this month and for the past 2 years ive been paintng the body and frame. im going to throw a 350 small block in it but thank god whoever owned it before me did a convo with it so its saving me alot of time. but i dont know too much about mechanics so im trying to teach myself as i go and your videos are honestly the most informative ive seen so far. i cant wait to see your future progress man and how your truck turns out.
i am glad the videos are helping you. we did slow down a bit because i have been working on other vehicles. i am in the middle of plating the frame. that will be a video. i should have one or 2 more for front end assembly and rear end assembly. it will go out to powder coating after that. when it comes back probably a video for getting the frame to roller. our videos do slow down as summer comes it gets too hot to work outdoors. thank you for watching.
@@SKPcars you got a new subscriber
I've watched your videos today on the 3100. I"m building a 37 Chev PU. I started 35 years ago with the intent of restoration. My dad and I were working on it together. We had gotten it to the bare frame and had stripped and rebuilt the spring mounts and shackles, painted the frame as well as the springs and axles. New king pins and brakes. This was a few years since I'd started as I had moved and built a house in between. Dad passed suddenly and my interest went to zero. Other life events occurred and the truck sat in my mom's garage until a couple of years ago. I finally drug it out and moved it to my new home in South Dakota. So the direction has changed, I'm going for more of a restomod. I've already done a FATMAN MII front end and an Explorer rear end. I've boxed most of the frame and installed a center section from WELDERSERIES in Canada. My engine is from a 2014 Silverado with a 6L80 transmission.
So watching you with rivets and springs brings back memories that date back over 30 years. The shackle pins are also threaded as were the fixed pivot bolts. the ends of the pins are tapered and the pressure of the shackle bolts clamps them in. Like you my springs were in great neglect and ready to fall apart. When cutting rivets I found that cross cutting the heads with a cutoff wheel and then cutting the heads off with an air chisel. Once cut off, I drove the rivets out with a punch on the air chisel. For over 20 years the design of suspension and drivetrain was virtually unchanged. What your's looks like, is exactly what mine looked like. I haven't gone through the effort of painting the insides of my boxing plates as I knew when they're welded the paint will burn off. My intention is to fill the frame rails with Cavity wax when I'm done welding on it. The box mounts are different on the 37. They bolt through the bed and wood blocks and then through the frame. I"m going to build brackets welded to the frame and put 1/4" urethane cushions on top. The cab mount is different as well, There are a total of 8 bolts through the cab into the frame. The front 4 are bolted with a rubber like cushion but the back 4 are longer bolts with springs to accommodate the flex of the frame. As the frame will not be flexing much now, I'm going to bolt with urethane mounts that are about 1 1/2" thick. I"m welding threaded rod couplers into the frame for the cab bolts.
It sounds like you have a great plan. I blew all the rivets off because I'm setting it up with a mustang 2 front end and a coil rear end. I painted the inside to give to some protection because I'm not planning on doing any with the inside. The frame is getting powder coated they will cover what they can inside and depending on their process may end up stripping the paint inside. I should have had the frame plating video done but my father in-law critized all my weld, which are good just ugly, and it made me slow down. I'm about half done plating and installing the engine cross member. The cab on these doesn't have many bolts through it. If i remember right there are only 2. The others bolt attached to a plate on the bottom.
My plan was to do the hydraulic fluid on my tractor this weekend but we have 40 mph winds right now and the 53 is taking up my gargage space. It will probably get postponed until the winds die down. Plus i have other non-youtube projects that require my attention.
I hope you are enjoying the channel, please make sure to subscribe and share it if you know people who might be interested. We need more subscribers. I will keep putting up videos for this truck as the project goes along.
@@SKPcars I used a Total Cost Involved spring kit for the rear of my 37. So far it looks like the rake I was shooting for is good, but I won't know until I get the box on and see how the rear settles. MY fatman Mustang II is their stage 3 which has coliovers. The 8.8 Exlplorer rear end is an open differential. I see that now as being a problem with 355 HP. I'm thinking Eaton Trutrak.
I got everything to make it a roller from speedway motors. I am not sure what my rake is gonna look like until it is built. I may have to change springs once it is built. It was all the 47-55 front and rear kits for the 3100, with a 350 gear. So far the plan is 350 all the way across. 350 4bolt, with a 350 trans and a 350 rear gear on a ford 9". We haven't ordered the engine or trans yet. I want it rolling first.
I am starting my build same time as yours, you remove the emergency brake bracket to to put a rear 4 link same as my build, how are you going to attach the ebrake? My frame is very mess up and getting a long bed frame and I am going to cut it, I think I have a good idea how to do it at home, my brother jesse is a machinist and he is good with al the dimensions, but I am concerned with the ebrake bracket, I can’t wait for your next video !! 2 Thumbs up 👍
I removed the bar but the plan right now is to put it back in later. there is an aftermarket relocation set up. i don't remember at the moment who sells it. The original set up is kind of janky. that bar is just used to give the cables a center point to be pulled from the mechanism in the cab. It can easily be moved to a plate that is much smaller. at the point i am at right now it is a kind of a low concern because there are options.
Right now i have to finish plating the frame and get the video up for that. install the front suspension, put that video out, install the rear suspension put out the video for that. send it out for powder coating and reinstall everything and roll it out of the garage, put a video out fore that. i will hopefully get to there late fall or in winter.
Thanks for watching, please make sure to subscribe to see everything we get done.