No apology needed. We all have busy lives and you are gracious enough to allow us a small window to see what you're doing in your shop. Take care and be safe.
Thank you and Elizabeth for sharing your time with all of us in RUclips land. Keep taking pleasure in the little wins you have and I'm sure the big stuff, with your positive attitude, will work out.
Steve, the truck that you and Elizabeth rebuilt looks great accept for one thing, that is the spikes on the front wheel lugs. They are gaudy looking and makes the whole truck an eye sore. If it had the smaller spikes, like 1 to 1 1/2” it would look much more civil. {constructive criticism}
I have missed your videos, BUT I think spending time with family, especially the older ones, is so much more important than videos or the money they bring in. Just wanted to say thank you for the videos you have posted.
Family is the most important thing to take care of! Very nice parts for the grinder and so great that someone would share them with you even after their loss. The linkage build shows your skill and versatility really simple stuff that most people just won't do. Some hints that you might be borderline to and addiction for Delrin. Just kidding!
I really feel for Keith. The same thing happened to me bringing home my first milling machine. It ripped the head right off the dove tails. It was a Nichols horizontal mill. After sulking for a couple of days I came up with a plan to salvage it. Actually increased the head height. Plus it tore up the trailer that I was borrowing a nd I had to buy it from my friend.
Steve, I've watched you for years and have enjoyed the shop improvements, both the building and new equipment........ BUT I think Cora the shop dog was one of the best improvements yet!!!!
Steve I wish I would have none that you was looking for the shift linkage for a square body truck!!! I have all that stuff sitting in my parts shed!!! Well at least you was able to make the linkage with the tools that you have in your shop!!! I really love working on tools that are capable of making just about anything that you might need!!! That is definitely amazing!!!
I would have taken you up on a linkage set😄. They are not that easy to find unless you have a parts truck setting around. No one sells new or reproduction factory style shifter linkage that I could find. Luckily the one I made works good. Thanks for watching buddy
Steve, your viewers are the epitome of FIRST CLASS. Like minds attract. The authentic enthusiasm and kindness you share with us is returned 10 fold. 👍👍😎👍👍
I must say, being mostly a woodworker all my life and just now getting into a little machine work in my 60s, I learn something every time I watch you work. sometimes just basic things that you probably just do out of habit. Keep up the good work!
Be careful, I too started late at 66 (only 4 yrs ago) this a SB 9 c lathe. The more machining creators you watch, the more the " I need that Bug" hits ! I know, and my humble channel is profit 😁 Bear in Tx
I just wish I had my meager metalworking equipment, a Logan 820 and an Atlas B7 shaper, back when I was fixing up old woodworking machines in the 1970s and since. could have been much easier. Kids these days don't realize how easy they have it with the internet. We used to have to rely on paper publications like the "Bargain Hunter's Guide". at least that's what we had in New England. It wasn't easy to find parts. oh, I need to add "get off my lawn" just for being an old curmudgeon.@@bearsrodshop7067
RE: Parting off. I got tired of brushing and squirting oil into the cut so I rigged up a bracket on the tool post to hold a chain oiler to drop cutting oil into the cut.
That truck is a beauty!! I love that both of you worked on it. Truly a labor of love, which never dies. (fingers crossed!) Sorry to hear of the unfortunate stuff, hope it resolves well and soon.
To prevent springs from taking a set, stress relieve after forming. For 300-series stainless steels, that temperature range is pretty broad. A half hour in a kitchen oven at 450F is fine (400F for carbon steel music wire). Cooling rate is unimportant but if dimensions are critical, restrain the spring.
Gappy Saturday Steve, Elizabeth, Cora, and Grits! Good basic entertaining and inspiring video. Thanks for sharing the simple stuff as well as the complex. God Bless
Hi Steve from here in the UK. My ears pricked up when you said 454. I used to race stock cars F1. We used the 454 Ls6 with lots of tuning. 750 double pumper. They were the bee's knee's. Thanks for a great video. Steve.
AS an apprentice I was grinding valve rocker profiles. On the big Landis Surface grinder next to me a lathe tool was being reduced in height dy the Development team. There was an hell of a bang and spray of coolant as the tool took off the mag base and hit the end guard, a bigger version of the yellow one you just fitted. The deep dent was in line with my head! Big cold sweat!
Glad the guard was there and I hope that was considered enough of a close call to consider a small reconfigure in how those machines are positioned so that any kickout by the grinder isn't in line with where others may be working, as you were. Grinders belong on the periphery and kickout side pointed toward a wall as much as possible. That could have been like a gunshot, glad it worked out ok....this time. ✌️
You shouldnt have been worried Steve - AFAICR the 6.0 will have more HP and almost as much torque as the 454. Those old sloppy 454s were a bit dim stock. Of course, modded a 454 will bury an LS, but bone stock they werent much chop at all.
Always love your videos, love the truck! Lokar makes a cable conversion for the square bodies makes adapting to a 4l80 a little easier with the change in index positions on the trans, and its more rust resistant. All the other kits that are available are pretty low quality.
We didn't get the shift linkage with this crew cab. It was long gone, and I had no luck finding a new or even a used set. I looked at the cable conversion sets, but they were a little expensive for me at the moment. 👍
Another great job. We'll done. Now have just what you need and the satisfaction of being made yourself. New parts for your grinder, made new parts for Johnny Cash, couldn't ask for a better day Grandpa to be. Thanks for having us along. Till next time, stay safe.
Gonna do any painting on that truck? All the work you've done on it is fantastic, but that hood... No matter how beautiful everything else is, that hood is going to be the first thing anyone notices.
That was awesome that Kevin thought of you and sent jis parts. Sad to hear his didn't make it, but sure was a great gife. Yes, not gaving to roll around in the cold rain snd mud to pull parts that may are may be useable 🤔. Now nearly 4 months not working in my shop, but my regular creators in there shops keeps me hopeful! Bear
Thinking about the order of operations on that little clamp...seems like if you drilled the side hole first, you could finish everything else on the lathe: face, shoulder, tapped hole, part off. And you wouldn't have had to center with an extra piece.
Hi Steve. The interior came out phenomenal on Johnny Cash! One nice thing about the LS series engines is that if you need more power, it is easy to add a turbo to them. Even with the smaller displacement the LS is rated at around 100HP more than the old 86, smog laden, 454. Thanks for the video!
What a great score old friend. Good to see you post. We have missed you bud. I haven't made a spring since machinists bschoolmany, many moons ago. This takes me back to when I was young and finessing my new trade. Sure nice to spend the best part of an hour with you today my friend. Take care eh.
@@SteveSummers I am retired now but when I worked as a machinist, fabricator, HD mechanic etc in the logging buis. up here in BC Canada I had the best job in the outfit. New truck builds and repairs/fabricating for 5 logging shows and a big cattle and feed ranch I never knew what I would be doing tomorrow or 10 min from now, LOL. I hope that when you retire just keep on keeping on doing something, achieving something every day. That is how/why I started pouring silver. It has helped me retain my sanity and keeping the numbers rolling along. Take care Steve and a big hello hug for you and yours my friend.
That’s an awesome opportunity to get the factory shielding. I worked for many years running many different Warner and Swasey machines and a big percentage of them had shop made shielding and a lot of times the shop made shielding didn’t work as well as the factory shielding.
Ive gotta say a 94-98 cummins would have been perfect for the truck, but I think the 6.0 was a better choice than the original 454. The 6.0 has more hp and almost the same torque just at a higher rpm. Gotta have better gas mileage too. It turned out real nice regardless.
Nice truck guys. I have a 86 GMC I am rebuilding. LMC has lot of pars fir the truck. I have another source for parts your truck. Gayland Grant Eldorado, Illinois.
Steve: What breed of dog is Cora. She's just the right size of dog for our small home Watching you showing Johnny one thing that jumped out at me is the absence of head rests. They so protect a occupant if you get real ended. Given that year it seems like there may be frame work in the back rest for head rests to fit into. Sure beats a horrific whiplash.
Hey Steve, it's good to hear that things are settling down for you, and not just because you might be able to post more regularly ... 🙂 However, a question for you on this video: do you know the history of the number / letter series drill sizes? For someone who lives outside of the US the system does seem a little ... odd ... 😉
This was a treat! I'm not a machinist, but I have a question out of sheer curiosity. I know that you were rushed for time, but would the spring have been improved any by annealing and/or hardening? I'm thinking of heating with a propane torch until it changes color, then either putting some glass cloth over it for annealing or dumping it in a can of water for hardening. The truck looks great!
Nice truck but those spiked wheel studs on the front would do serious harm to a pedestrian that got in their way. The USA may be the only 1st world country on the planet where such a safety hazard could be legal.
I know you weren’t asking me but I graduated in 1970 and was drafted in August. I was sent to Fort Campbell for my basic training, home of the 101st Airborne! I was sent to Vietnam in January and was stationed with the 101st while I was there, it was a great unit to serve with!
I wish johnny was lowered a little bit. It just needs it so bad with those wheels and tires. Not saying it has to lay frame but it needs to be lowered.
No apology needed. We all have busy lives and you are gracious enough to allow us a small window to see what you're doing in your shop. Take care and be safe.
Thanks for sharing your time with us. Solid truck, better every time you show it. Unattainuim
Thank you and Elizabeth for sharing your time with all of us in RUclips land. Keep taking pleasure in the little wins you have and I'm sure the big stuff, with your positive attitude, will work out.
No apologies at all, thanks for sharing everything. always love to watch
Steve, the truck that you and Elizabeth rebuilt looks great accept for one thing, that is the spikes on the front wheel lugs. They are gaudy looking and makes the whole truck an eye sore. If it had the smaller spikes, like 1 to 1 1/2” it would look much more civil. {constructive criticism}
Sounds like the scary spikes are doing their job. Obviously you did not watch his previous video that he talked about them.
Those lug nut covers on Johnny Cash are hideous.
I have missed your videos, BUT I think spending time with family, especially the older ones, is so much more important than videos or the money they bring in. Just wanted to say thank you for the videos you have posted.
Thanks for giving us at least a quick view of Cora, the wonder dog. From a retired old fart Arizona boy in Thailand.
Family is the most important thing to take care of! Very nice parts for the grinder and so great that someone would share them with you even after their loss. The linkage build shows your skill and versatility really simple stuff that most people just won't do. Some hints that you might be borderline to and addiction for Delrin. Just kidding!
Glad you were back today. Good stuff.
You have to respect a man that has his priorities straight in life. Can't say we haven't missed you, but you get the picture.
Your brothers craftsmanship just elevates your beautiful transformation.
Nice truck loose the horns on the wheels
tried to get it to you in one piece. Glad they all made it safe.
Family always comes first!!
nice pieces well done
I really feel for Keith. The same thing happened to me bringing home my first milling machine. It ripped the head right off the dove tails. It was a Nichols horizontal mill. After sulking for a couple of days I came up with a plan to salvage it. Actually increased the head height. Plus it tore up the trailer that I was borrowing a nd I had to buy it from my friend.
Very entertaining…thank you
Steve, I've watched you for years and have enjoyed the shop improvements, both the building and new equipment........ BUT I think Cora the shop dog was one of the best improvements yet!!!!
Cora is definitely a great addition to the shop and the family. She keeps everyone smiling
Good to see you Steve! Hope you and Elizabeth are doing well! Take care!
Some machines die so others may continue to live. It’s the circle of life!
Steve I wish I would have none that you was looking for the shift linkage for a square body truck!!! I have all that stuff sitting in my parts shed!!! Well at least you was able to make the linkage with the tools that you have in your shop!!! I really love working on tools that are capable of making just about anything that you might need!!! That is definitely amazing!!!
I would have taken you up on a linkage set😄. They are not that easy to find unless you have a parts truck setting around. No one sells new or reproduction factory style shifter linkage that I could find. Luckily the one I made works good.
Thanks for watching buddy
Elizabeth, that is one nice truck!! Steve, your brother does some very nice work!
Steve, your viewers are the epitome of FIRST CLASS. Like minds attract. The authentic enthusiasm and kindness you share with us is returned 10 fold. 👍👍😎👍👍
Dang, sweet truck, very fancy interior
I must say, being mostly a woodworker all my life and just now getting into a little machine work in my 60s, I learn something every time I watch you work. sometimes just basic things that you probably just do out of habit. Keep up the good work!
Be careful, I too started late at 66 (only 4 yrs ago) this a SB 9 c lathe. The more machining creators you watch, the more the " I need that Bug" hits ! I know, and my humble channel is profit 😁 Bear in Tx
I just wish I had my meager metalworking equipment, a Logan 820 and an Atlas B7 shaper, back when I was fixing up old woodworking machines in the 1970s and since. could have been much easier. Kids these days don't realize how easy they have it with the internet. We used to have to rely on paper publications like the "Bargain Hunter's Guide". at least that's what we had in New England. It wasn't easy to find parts.
oh, I need to add "get off my lawn" just for being an old curmudgeon.@@bearsrodshop7067
Steve Summers and
D Quinn both using hemidritie calipers on the same weekend, glad I picked up a set.
I am really looking forward to see Cora in the seasons first snow. We got a few flakes the other day so beware, It's on the way my friend.
Prayers for you and your family, Steve❤️
Great score on the factory shielding for your surface grinder.
RE: Parting off. I got tired of brushing and squirting oil into the cut so I rigged up a bracket on the tool post to hold a chain oiler to drop cutting oil into the cut.
Good to see you and the wife again. I hope everything gets better soon for you. Have a good weekend and God Bless.
Great video
☹️🏴🇬🇧
That truck is a beauty!! I love that both of you worked on it. Truly a labor of love, which never dies. (fingers crossed!) Sorry to hear of the unfortunate stuff, hope it resolves well and soon.
To prevent springs from taking a set, stress relieve after forming. For 300-series stainless steels, that temperature range is pretty broad. A half hour in a kitchen oven at 450F is fine (400F for carbon steel music wire). Cooling rate is unimportant but if dimensions are critical, restrain the spring.
Gappy Saturday Steve, Elizabeth, Cora, and Grits! Good basic entertaining and inspiring video. Thanks for sharing the simple stuff as well as the complex. God Bless
Thank you Steve and Elizabeth for sharing! Another great Saturday morning with Team Summers.
Fantastic always enjoy your videos thanks for sharing hope everything's okay
Great video this week. Good to see you back. Hope things are calming down for you.
Thanks Steve for what you do.
Thanks for spending time sharing your shop.
We’re not barbarians. Those nut covers……
Way to go on that shifter linkage. Sweet. 👌
Hi Steve from here in the UK. My ears pricked up when you said 454. I used to race stock cars F1. We used the 454 Ls6 with lots of tuning. 750 double pumper. They were the bee's knee's. Thanks for a great video.
Steve.
Thank you for sharing.👍
AS an apprentice I was grinding valve rocker profiles. On the big Landis Surface grinder next to me a lathe tool was being reduced in height dy the Development team. There was an hell of a bang and spray of coolant as the tool took off the mag base and hit the end guard, a bigger version of the yellow one you just fitted. The deep dent was in line with my head! Big cold sweat!
Glad the guard was there and I hope that was considered enough of a close call to consider a small reconfigure in how those machines are positioned so that any kickout by the grinder isn't in line with where others may be working, as you were. Grinders belong on the periphery and kickout side pointed toward a wall as much as possible. That could have been like a gunshot, glad it worked out ok....this time. ✌️
The view looks like a painting 👍
Just wow...
I like it.
You shouldnt have been worried Steve - AFAICR the 6.0 will have more HP and almost as much torque as the 454. Those old sloppy 454s were a bit dim stock. Of course, modded a 454 will bury an LS, but bone stock they werent much chop at all.
Always love your videos, love the truck! Lokar makes a cable conversion for the square bodies makes adapting to a 4l80 a little easier with the change in index positions on the trans, and its more rust resistant. All the other kits that are available are pretty low quality.
We didn't get the shift linkage with this crew cab. It was long gone, and I had no luck finding a new or even a used set. I looked at the cable conversion sets, but they were a little expensive for me at the moment. 👍
Another great job. We'll done. Now have just what you need and the satisfaction of being made yourself. New parts for your grinder, made new parts for Johnny Cash, couldn't ask for a better day Grandpa to be. Thanks for having us along. Till next time, stay safe.
Excellent video, Steve. Good to see you again.
When i make stainless springs i use thick stainless fishing leader wire. Its the correct alloy and Works great
Gonna do any painting on that truck? All the work you've done on it is fantastic, but that hood... No matter how beautiful everything else is, that hood is going to be the first thing anyone notices.
Thanks Steve, really love the machining time. Stay positive, it will only get better.
wow
Great video Steve and you just post when you have time mate, we’ll still be here. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
That was awesome that Kevin thought of you and sent jis parts. Sad to hear his didn't make it, but sure was a great gife. Yes, not gaving to roll around in the cold rain snd mud to pull parts that may are may be useable 🤔. Now nearly 4 months not working in my shop, but my regular creators in there shops keeps me hopeful! Bear
Steve, great job building ur Wife's gear shifter linkage for her Truck.
Thinking about the order of operations on that little clamp...seems like if you drilled the side hole first, you could finish everything else on the lathe: face, shoulder, tapped hole, part off. And you wouldn't have had to center with an extra piece.
Nice to see all is going well. The truck looks great. How nice was it that the grinder parts were offered by Keith.
Hi Steve. The interior came out phenomenal on Johnny Cash! One nice thing about the LS series engines is that if you need more power, it is easy to add a turbo to them. Even with the smaller displacement the LS is rated at around 100HP more than the old 86, smog laden, 454. Thanks for the video!
Score! 👍
What a great score old friend. Good to see you post. We have missed you bud. I haven't made a spring since machinists bschoolmany, many moons ago. This takes me back to when I was young and finessing my new trade. Sure nice to spend the best part of an hour with you today my friend. Take care eh.
Thanks for watching buddy, it's good to see you as well 👍
@@SteveSummers I am retired now but when I worked as a machinist, fabricator, HD mechanic etc in the logging buis. up here in BC Canada I had the best job in the outfit. New truck builds and repairs/fabricating for 5 logging shows and a big cattle and feed ranch I never knew what I would be doing tomorrow or 10 min from now, LOL. I hope that when you retire just keep on keeping on doing something, achieving something every day. That is how/why I started pouring silver. It has helped me retain my sanity and keeping the numbers rolling along. Take care Steve and a big hello hug for you and yours my friend.
That’s an awesome opportunity to get the factory shielding. I worked for many years running many different Warner and Swasey machines and a big percentage of them had shop made shielding and a lot of times the shop made shielding didn’t work as well as the factory shielding.
come on man! should have made a new pivot for your brothers linkage, his looks all wallered out.
You really need to get rid of those spikes on your rims.
Family is supposed to come first, then we get to play in the shop :)
for my money the ridiculous lug nut covers on the front need to go..... your milage may vary....;)
WE are hoping you get back to regular scheduling too!! Great job as usual - when you do it....
First comment! Get lucky every once in a while! Thanks for the video Steve!
Looks good Steve!
Ive gotta say a 94-98 cummins would have been perfect for the truck, but I think the 6.0 was a better choice than the original 454. The 6.0 has more hp and almost the same torque just at a higher rpm. Gotta have better gas mileage too. It turned out real nice regardless.
cool
Nice truck guys. I have a 86 GMC I am rebuilding.
LMC has lot of pars fir the truck. I have another source for parts your truck.
Gayland Grant Eldorado, Illinois.
Family is important
Steve: What breed of dog is Cora. She's just the right size of dog for our small home
Watching you showing Johnny one thing that jumped out at me is the absence of head rests. They so protect a occupant if you get real ended. Given that year it seems like there may be frame work in the back rest for head rests to fit into. Sure beats a horrific whiplash.
Hi from Dorset, UK!
now see that's what I am saying the ability to make your own best video every
Put a dog door in for Cora so she may come and go as she pleases.
Like the Johnny Cash truck, except for the wheels and tires. I'm sorry, I'd find them embarrassing, but that's me. You do you.
Hey Steve, it's good to hear that things are settling down for you, and not just because you might be able to post more regularly ... 🙂
However, a question for you on this video: do you know the history of the number / letter series drill sizes?
For someone who lives outside of the US the system does seem a little ... odd ... 😉
This was a treat! I'm not a machinist, but I have a question out of sheer curiosity. I know that you were rushed for time, but would the spring have been improved any by annealing and/or hardening? I'm thinking of heating with a propane torch until it changes color, then either putting some glass cloth over it for annealing or dumping it in a can of water for hardening. The truck looks great!
That particular stainless alloy won’t harden with heat…only really by work hardening…..if he had used music wire that might have worked, though.
"I'll run that in with a handle." *Grabs all sixteenths wrench*
How is the fuel mileage on the crew cab going?
I am thinking it's around 13 mpg . I don't have a speedometer in it yet, just a kinda rough estimate so far.
Good to see you buddy 👍
35:18 Yatzee, as Quinn would say ; )
Yeah, Monarch is still around but I guarantee They wouldn't make a New spindle and bearings For my 1906 monarch 😬
Seriously Steve take the spikes off
Nice truck but those spiked wheel studs on the front would do serious harm to a pedestrian that got in their way. The USA may be the only 1st world country on the planet where such a safety hazard could be legal.
What are those calipers called that Steve used to mark on the Dykem? Thanks
Sometimes called "oddlegs" calipers, or "jenny" calipers, or "hermaphrodite" calipers. Seems to depend on where you're from!
Orioles and even robins have orange feathers on them. Wonder what she hit. 🤔
What was wrong with the old shift linkage? It looked ok to me other than a bit of rust.
That linkage was borrowed from another truck to copy for Elizabeth's truck. It wasn't on the truck when we got it.
@@SteveSummers OH! Duh 🤦🏻♂️
Will that stainless steel wire take a temper so it doesnt lose its springiness?
Dad said “boy, you could break a steel brick”. My boss on said “you could bend a crowbar stuck in the sand”.
Johnnie seems al little low on coolant , am I right?
have you ever been in the army and if so were you station at fort Campbell
I know you weren’t asking me but I graduated in 1970 and was drafted in August. I was sent to Fort Campbell for my basic training, home of the 101st Airborne! I was sent to Vietnam in January and was stationed with the 101st while I was there, it was a great unit to serve with!
We gotta get Steve to shave the beard and go “baby face summers” let’s start a cash pot to entice him to do it!!
I love the Chevy dually ,the spikes not for me . Thankyou 😊
lab and pit dog
Indeed.
I wish johnny was lowered a little bit. It just needs it so bad with those wheels and tires. Not saying it has to lay frame but it needs to be lowered.