12 August 2016 - engine is out.

This is a quick post, yesterday Farmer and I decided to remove the engine, tranny, drivelines and differential. We need an engine hoist. George has one but he worked last night and is resting. My neighbor has one, so I go over to borrow it. Dave (neighbor) had mentioned if I wanted to use his I could, so I went to get it. Dave and I were talking and he said he was trying to sell the engine hoist, if I knew anyone interested. I asked what he was looking at getting, he said how about $60, Farmer said he'll buy it ( meaning me) so I did. Now we have a hoist to do the work. We hauled it back to the house, hooked it up and presto the engine is out and in the back of the Toyota. We took it to George's, he plans to use it for a racing mustang. It's a 360 bored out to a 390, and I'm sure he will add a few extras. I am now removing all the little extra stuff such as the brake lines some wiring and basically getting it ready to clean up. I'll degrease it also, it's mighty greasy. Stripping it down will be (I'm sure) faster and easier than building it back. But I'm excited to do it. Anyway here are a couple of pictures, basically it's down to the frame and wheels.   By the way, Happy Birthday Kenneth William Slade (RIP)

 Engine and tranny comes out

 Farmer doing the detail work

 Not much left, who'd even know the pick up?

Hauling' it away, until next time keep the faith,

10 August 2016 - Cab's gone

Well, today Farmer came over and we started in on the project. I had already been working on it earlier and yesterday. It seems I can hardly walk past the pick up without doing something to it. We are having a great time. I had already started removing the dash, instrument panel, heater, shifter, and released the clutch, brake and gas pedal. I also disconnected some of the wiring clusters. Now we need to remove the cab. 4 bolts, we just have to get to them. Farmer unbolted the cab, cut away the brake cable and we made sure everything was clear. Now we need some bodies to help lift it. Jeremy is in Yuma, that would have been 2 bodies. So we called Skip and the boys, Skip came with Michael, Chris was sleeping, and Daniel came. Sara also came to take pictures. She got a little carried away and took 58 pictures. I will not use them all of course. Anyway between the 5 of us we managed to get the cab off and set it aside. Next we wanted to move the pick up again so we had to roll it out, without steering because I removed the steering column and Farmer removed the wheel. I went and got the Toyota again and we hitched it up with a tow cable to maneuver it. It was a chore, but we got it in the garage, To Holly's dismay I'm sure. She's a good sport though. We needed it in the garage to have some concrete to set the engine hoist on to remove the engine. That's next, that and the tranny and front and rear differential. More on that on the next post. Happy birthday Tyleigh girl, anyway here're the pictures: 

 Farmer getting the cab ready

 Looking bare

 We thought we could get a head start

 Farmer holding on till help arrives

 Skip assessing the situation

 Let's move it out

 Michael did do quite a bit 

 Patty, as usual cleaning up after us.

                              I asked her to get something for me, 

so she said I'll just take the broom

 Ok this is precision work

 Safe in the garage

Sara trying to help out.

By the way, all this metal (hopefully) will be a 20x40 metal garage and the new home of the project, any many more! In due time anyway. See you when the motor comes out,