Re: 1962 GMC 305V6 4WD Slow DD Build - Cecilia (Pic Heavy)
I yanked my bolts out of the dip 24 hours after putting them in. They were not as nice as I expected.
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As luck would have it as I was pulling out my bolts the Fedex guy drove up and delivered my new wire wheel for my drill.
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So I threw 'em in a vice and got to work polishing the rust off.
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They looked ok, but I thought why not go ahead and paint 'em? So I did.
I put them in a block of wood I had with holes already in it. They fit.
Primer:
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When they dried I hit them with this stuff. It's high heat black paint so the engine heat will be no problem.
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While they dried I went back to my radiator. Check out these suckers.
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So I grabbed this flux and 50/50 silver solder
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I put a bucket of water under my work area to catch any solder that fell, then I set to work applying flux.
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I turned on my torch to low (it blows harder when it's upside down so you gotta make sure it's low). Then I strung out my solder.
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Then I just got after it. You really have to make sure not to heat it too much though. And if were doing it again I would put wet rags on either side of my work area to keep from messing up the factory solder and making more holes.
I chased holes for two weeks.
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Once you think you're done you can put water in it and lean it over. Your solder only needs to hold about 7 lbs of pressure so there's not a lot of pressure there. If you did a good job it won't leak.
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Don't forget to put the cap on or you'll end up with wet shoes.
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I kept having weeping through the side in mine and almost never found it. Two weeks later it looked like this because there is a very small crack on the tank above the seam here that I almost never found. I soldered my butt off on that stupid thing.
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In between soldering sessions I thought, what about that radiator mount? It's awful ugly. So I took it outside and sprayed it down with oven cleaner, which is supposed to clean it down to bare metal.
It didn't.
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While I thought on that a bit I decided to pull that rebuilt alternator back out and polish it up. I should have done this to begin with.
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Oooo Purty stuff!
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I thought the alternator arm looked ugly too. Sanded and primed along with the mounting bolts.
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I forgot to mention that it is very important that you keep your sugar level up while working on your truck. These are awesome.
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