Well heres the latest on the 55. It has been a pretty busy winter and spring for work on the 55. I converted the car from a generator system to a alternator system which was surprisingly inexpensive. Only cost me about 25 dollars for chrome brackets from summit. and the alternator I picked up at the local napafor 45 dollars. Yeah it is not chrome but I figured I would upgrade it later when I had a little more money to spend. the install was pretty strait forward the internet had several helpful how to articles. next thing I did was pick up a electric windshield wiper motor because when I changed to an edelbrock performer intake and carb I lost the vacume due to the engine running so much more efficiently. As everyone knows more efficient = more horse power! But I needed to have the wipers functional in order to pass NYS motor vehicle inspection. the wiper motor cost me 100 shipped thanks to a fellow 55 owner on
Welcome to TriFive.com Classic 1955 - 1956 - 1957 Chevy's Forum, Photo Gallery and Classifieds. Here you can Buy, Sell, or Trade. Get or Give Advice, or Just Talk Classic Cars. - Powered by vBulletin The father in law and I had to do a little work on it and fine tune it but it was well woth the price especially since new units cost around 300! My next undertaking was replacing the gas tank and sending unit. I had to do the sending unit as it did not work at all and I ran out of gas last summer due to that luckily I died right in front of a gas station. So since I had to change the sending unit I figured it was the perfect time to change the tank as well. The original tank had a huge dent in it I think someone must have backed into something in the cars past. the tank was made in canada ( I did not want the tiawan knockoff ) and cost me $155 shipped from an ebay seller and came with all needed gaskets and screws. The sending unit was $45 shippped I ended up going with a stainless steel one as it seemed to be made better. the install was easy removing the old tank and installing the new one only took me an hour and a half. However I ran into some bad luck on my first time driving the car this year. I found a fuel leak when filling the car at the fuel filter which was just pouring out gas and when gas is $3.65 a gallon that is not good. Also to make matters worse the starter decided to die on me . I barely made it home. So when I got home I started right in trying to fix the issues. the fuel filter issue was just a piece of rubber fuel line that was dry rotted and easily fixed. the starter was abit more interestiing. I started by trying to remove the starter about 2 and a half hours later the starter was all disconected but I could not get it out with the long tube headers. so after trying everywhich way I could I ended up having to remove the header to get the starter free. So the next day I called no less than 10 places trying to find a mini starter for the car which no one had even summit! well I came home from work a little disheartened after all of that. However I went to a swap meet a couple weeks ago where I traded a pair of chrome valve covers and and air cleaner for an almost new chevy high torque starter however upon getting it home I realized that the starter was the incorect style to bolt into my car. well it seems that during the day my father in law took the snout off of my dead starter and put it on the new starter I got at the swap meet as other than the snout they were identicle accept the new one was high torque. well I installed the starter that night and it worked great. the car starts better than ever. The 55 is back on the road and ready to cruise!
04-23-2008, 08:16 PM
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