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It's not working. Photobucket linked works but the attachments aren't right now.

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Bumping this for an update . I Imagine you've been busy . Just checkin on you man .

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Nothing lately... Here's the pictures I've been wanting to post of the seat and valve cover my wife bought me.

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The truck will really be slowing now.... Last Thursday, October 22 , at 6:19 PM we have a new addition to the family. Our new daughter, Madison Lynn, joined us very healthy, weighing 7 pounds and 12 ounces. She was 19 inches long.

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Congratulations on your new daughter. I really like the seats and valve covers!!!

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Looking at the valve covers; what provision do they have for breather/pcv/oil fill

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They're machined on the top of each side above the "C" area. It's a flush fitting breather plug, PCV has the hole and grommet, I just haven't finished the rest.

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Congrats on the babygirl. My son was also born on Oct 22. Just turned 13. Time sure does fly.

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I knew you had been busy .

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Congrats on ur lil girl , ur truck is coming out real good and clean cant wait till this badboy is done

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Congratulations on your baby girl. My wife really wants a daughter and after 3 tries we have 3 boys. I love it. Your truck is one of my favorites. Keep us posted on any progress.

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Congrats Nick! She's an angel!

Truck is looking good...... Want to trade for a Mini-Van ? :lol: j/k!

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AWESOME MAN!!!! Glad to hear it!! She is absolutely beautiful! Now I'm gonna have to drive down there to see that girl (and the truck of course)!!!!!
Shawn

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You should have named her Michael

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Hahaha, like the HIPPY I buy parts from? Where's all my window parts? Did they come in yet? I need to make progress before I spend all my money on diapers. HAHAHAHA

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I finally have some "good times" in the truck. I installed the radio tonight. I need to put the knobs on and check over everything but it sounds decent. It's the retrosound radio with a chrome face and I only put the double 4 1/2 speaker setup under the dash which is good enough for me and my wife to hear. If you're in a car next to me.... get your own radio, haha. I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow.

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progress is progress Nick... got any pics on how you ran the Ron Francis wiring etc.

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I'm assuming the previous owner had put a long tail automatic tranny in my truck before I bought it. Since it was such a wreck with no motor or trans I'm not sure. I put a short tail TH400 and the drive shaft I had was a little short. I had a new one made thats a weee bit larger, haha. I'll probably put the other on in the classifieds for anyone wanting to convert to a one piece and running a long tail trans. Here's a few pictures, notice a difference in size?

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any progress?

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Not lately... this weather, work, and school has been keeping out of the garage.

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Ok, I know this is going to shock everyone.... I actually did a little work on it tonight. It's probably at lease 3-4 months since I touched it. Tonight I was working on the trottle linkage. I used a 6cyl rod, cut it down, and threaded it. Then using a universal cable kit, I robbed a few connection pieces from it. I'll have to check it out better in daylight and make sure everything is good on it. Here's a few pictures, not the best but they'll do.

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looking good Nick....
I would like to see how you ran the Ron Francis wiring harness through the firewall etc.

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I'll take some close up pics. Inside the air vent on the driverside kickpanel i drilled 2 holes and put some rubber gromets. All the wires that go the to grille/core support (lights, elec fan, horn, etc.) went through one of them. All the wires running to the rear of the truck went through the other and into 3/8 hard line, which I ran down the frame of the truck to the rear. I drilled 2 holes in the lower part of my firewall, where I placed to bulkheads. I used stainless lines I had made to connect to each one. One of the lines goes to the top of the intake for all of the motor wires. The other is going to go to the passengerside of the bellhousing with the starter wires. Probably not the best way to do it all but I just kind of went with it. I'm considering eventually putting one of the old school huge cadillac style air cleaners so it'll hide the intake, I hope.

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Look at the engine pictures on page 9 and you'll see the bulkheads directly below whre the gas pedal linkage mounts to the firewall.

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Thanks Nick, looking forward to the pics, we will be ordering a harness from Mike and will need all the ideas i can get for the wiring part..