Fixing Finnegan's '67 Chevy C-10 Before Racing the '74 Chevy! | Roadkill

So this is my 1967 Chevrolet C10 truck, it's a factory small window short bed truck. I bought it from a farmer in St. Helena, California, back in 2007, when he was editor of Sport Truck magazine. I spent about a year with my friends building it and finally ran out of money and ended up having to sell it to a friend of mine. 10 years later, I ran into that same friend at a car show. He tells me that he has the truck, he hasn't driven it, it has been under a car. We covered the whole thing and I was able to buy it back without any transmission parts, then I spent about a week and a half with all my friends putting this truck together complete along with a Chevy LT4 crate motor and a 6xD sequential gearbox that we pulled out. all airbags changed it to hydraulic shocks, we blew the clutch like the next day burning six gears and it's never been on a proper road trip so right now Fryberg and I are going to take this thing around the block to find out .

All the last minute stuff that's still wrong is not right, we're going to drive it to Las Vegas for lsfest, where we're going to do burnouts, we're going to run, we're going to have so much fun. what we can to find out if it works and if it's going to catch fire, so these are up and down suspensions, so it's slower than the airbags, but there's only one battery, the battery that starts the truck, it's the battery. that makes the suspension work. This is going to run like a mini truck no, it runs very well it's a triple disc clutch no, it's a twin but I blew it up a few weeks ago I put a new one on it we didn't have a flywheel for it so we just made it a flywheel and I put it on the new one, it's fine, so I'm trying to be nice because I mean, you know what happens, yeah, the brakes are horrible, that's all there is to check and I think it's because we have the bad, master cylinder wrong you have to use the clutch to shift you shouldn't have to do it right they make a box for this this shifter has a built in tension gauge yes and there is a box hi there is a box that goes on the half. the coils and the ECU interrupt the ignition when you pull the shifter yes I don't have it installed so I'm grabbing it but you can just twist the throttle and grab it and it will do it without the clutch it's kind of like the transmission and profanity, but it's much easier to drive around town, okay, first brake, it breaks, the first thing we have to do is remove the seat from the truck.

I know it sounds weird however the front brake master cylinder brakes the rear brakes and The clutch pedal is behind the dash so it will be a lot easier to get the seats out and then once they are out I'll talk to Dave to help me get them down. Well, it's not that bad, yeah, it barely squeaked. Now, unfortunately, I'm going to take the group out when I put the pedal setup in there, the dash wasn't in the truck. It has a Willwood under-dash pedal setup. These are inches and 1/8 in diameter. Master cylinders, one for the front brakes. for the rear one for the clutch pedal everything is too big for the system I have by reducing the size of these when you step on the brakes it will increase the amount of pressure that goes to the brakes and therefore it will stop better but this is going to be a headache beyond the fact that you're feeling the deposits behind the dash so we have all this fluid here that we need to take out and replace everything and yeah that's why he pulled the seat out of the truck why the dash has to separating is going to be fun well it's doing it let me show you how the master cylinder setup works on this thing there are two masters, one front and one rear, and you have it has a push rod that comes out of both like it would on a master cylinder normal and then you have here what's called a balance bar and then your pedal presses on a bearing in the middle of that balance bar so this is what it looks like when it's at rest because we have the brake push rod longer than the rear brake push rod.

When you step on the pedal, the balance bar will level out like this, therefore the push rod will go deeper into the front master. cylinder than in the rear and what that does is start pressure earlier in the front, it will also displace more volume in the front and basically what that does is balance the front and rear brakes, you want the front to activate a little bit before the rear, think about your conventional car about how you could use an adjustable proportional valve and you want the front to hit a little before the rear, this is the coolest way to do that for

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oh. here we go, well, there's part of our problem, okay, look, there's a very, very small piston in there, our new caliper, really very large pistons, so it's going to have a lot more clamping force for the same pressure.

These are actually rear brake calipers and how. They ended up in the front of my truck. I have no idea. I'm going to blame myself. I own the truck. It's clearly my fault, but this is going to help a lot now that we have all four brake hoses loose and we're going to try to pump all the fluid through the system so we don't have to spill brake fluid everywhere under Mike's dash. When we took the master cylinder off, we were thinking about just cutting off one end at a time, but here's the deal, let's just say that if you disconnect the front end, you have this balance bar situation and you pump out all this fluid and there's nothing here, but the rear still has fluid in it and so it's still doing pressure which means there's no pressure on this push rod and there's pressure here for the balance bar to get mean and not push all the fluid out of the another master cylinder, so what we're hoping to do is take all four out at the same time, okay?

I'm going to start pushing the liquid. Are you doing that? It's not dripping well. No wonder you don't have brakes. That's weird. Alright? I'm going to start pushing the liquid. It's sucking air. I need to spray it and leave it there for a while. Secondly, our goal is to remove the master cylinders and that means we have to remove the steering column to get to them. Those little white deposits are coming out. Ah, it came out remarkably clean. There's no fluid everywhere now all this chalini should come out of here, let's see it wasn't that bad, we just had to take the gauges off the steering column, you know, no big deal, look at the drip, that could have been worse.

It's been a lot better, so for the last 10 minutes we've been telling you all about this magic pedal assembly that has three master cylinders and this is it, here we finally get it off the truck, we have the brake ones. but no, the clutch should be here tomorrow. Ideally you would bench bleed them which is essentially bleeding the air out of each one by filling it with fluid and then slowly depressing the pedal across the entire chamber because once it's in the car the pedal won. It doesn't go all the way and it won't get all the air out of here.

The problem is that if you put these tanks on top of here, this will not come back to the display truck. We need to figure out a way to purge it at the bank. Here remove the tanks, put them back in there without spilling any liquid or we will lose the workshop. Good news. I have everything I need to bleed the master cylinders and the key is these radiator bypass caps. I'm going to use them to cover the reservoir right here I'm going to fill this here bleed it here on the bench then I'm going to remove this cap and I think if I cover it I can keep the fluid level above the top of the piston area keep air take it out , put everything in the car, remove my rubber cap, put the tank back on, fill the tank, connect the line without essentially breaking the seal, put air in the system, all good, one down, now lift it up trying to bend it . because it's going to move this way and it shouldn't have any air in it oh no oh no Dave oh no oh no the cap came off uhhuh but we didn't lose the fluid how about a zip tie around the thing? at the top it won't slide or bind around the circumference, we're going to bleed the brakes now and it's a little different with the dual master cylinder than it is when you normally see a brake bleed, we'll usually bleed the rear brakes and then move to the front, in this case we have to do it side to side, so you will see Mike in the front and Mason in the rear, they both need to work the bleed screws at the same time, Willwood calls it Three Man Bleeding , okay, okay, down, okay, one, two, three and down, a lot of air, closing a lot of bubbles, so the brakes bleed completely.

I'm excited about the steering column again. I'm so glad the brakes didn't work because when I took the spine out the first time I noticed there were no screws holding it together, now we can live and have brakes, okay here we go, pretend, I should cream myself here, Tru muscle It used to be fast, had like a loose converter and 513 gears and a bunch of stuff and nitrous, but now it's just a stock three-gear road inverter. I'll be very happy if it goes down to 13. I'm going to do something I've always wanted to do, which is flatten my mini truck. on the track from the race track to do a burnout oh come on oh you said no he just ruined my fun he can't do a burnout with that trans he was going to do a burnout he said no well , okay, here we go.

My goal here is not to spin. I don't even know what RPM to leave at. I just don't want to spin. Yeah, I think I might have stopped him off the line or something. Well, not many things went right in that race. I felt like I went through the clutch a little bit and then well it didn't work on the second GE furer kicked my butt once again with less horsepower okay let's see we can move on give Mike a better chance at this, let's do a burnout. This time I got burned out for the show, so this time I got burned out, that's good news, yeah, look, I spun the tires that time, that big old burnout burned me out, yeah, a lot of wheel hops, but I beat him to that one time, yeah that's what I get for doing the TV Show Burnout, if I just cleaned the tires and left it would have been good, but I greased them, sucked less, so on the new shift it came loose and the wheel popped off , the jump was pretty bad, I had to pedal and come back. on it and then the wheel jumped a little on the 2 three, but not too bad, it's definitely not drag race suspension, all I really care about is a low 13 on that first pass, they'll let us go again, OK?

I'm making the best two out of three. I just hit 1261 and beat Fryberger. Now we are tied one on one. I guess I got the best two out of three, but you know, his truck has a lot more power than mine, it's just a question. from a slower truck it's much easier to get out of line on a street Tire in turn one and two the truck went sideways I had to get out he made me It's a rare occasion that I beat that guy, so, that I have to do? I focus on that part, the second round kicks this ass.

I don't even think we've made it to round three, right? I didn't see it, right?