Day 19 - 28 Chev Ute Restoration (28th June 2015)

Ok, the plan is slowly falling into place. I wanted to learn from my mistakes when I did the Red Chev restoration back in 1973, being, picking the best of the limited parts I had and putting them back together, without the experience to know if they were in a good serviceable condition. It took me nearly 25 years to rectify this problem.

With the ute project, and based on the above, I decided to take the time to "do it once and do it right".

This became a bit more involved, when I discovered the ute was in a poorer condition than I first thought.

The damaged chassis has been replaced, and over the last 2 weeks I have swapped for and acquired a very good rear axle housing, half axle shafts, torque tube, drive shaft and torque tube bell.

The differential crown wheel and pinion is not a problem as I have a few spares. I will use the one in the ute that is in good serviceable condition, and will be better still when I throw in a set of bearings.

This week will see as big step forward when I pick up a rotisserie to mount the chassis on to de-rust and clean up.

Todays pictures are below.

Good use for the garden tool rack in the garage

This torque tube is perfect and will be used

A very good spare

The one that was on the ute could be used, but would require a fair bit of work.

A very good set of axle half shafts (excellent key ways) from a 29 Chev will be used.