[Andy]

Moving on to the engine, it was evident that it was filthy, 50+ years of grime, grease and makeshift repairs, it was leaking from every conceivable orifice, but it ran very well, so I decided to put a new Cloyes timing set in it, new rear main, front timing cover seal. and all of the gaskets. I went through the wiring replaced what was necessary. Need to rewrap the harness still but at least the issues are fixed.
While I was at it, I had an old LD4B Edelbrock intake and 390 cfm Holley 4 barrel collecting dust from an old project so I cleaned them up and put them on the truck. The truck is no speed demon, about 60 mph tops with the 4.88s, so I knew this would be more than adequate for putting around town or hauling when necessary. I had to make a piece of throttle linkage to connect the Holley and used some spacers and hardware from the local Ace to get everything aligned correctly.