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It was great to hang out with you guys last weekend. I could have sat there all weekend, if not for the girl folk that was with me.

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Really nice work, looks great!

Glad to hear that everybody is getting healthier!

Les

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JB- anytime, really enjoyed it.

Les- thanks, he's moving slowly, but he's good.

In truck news, I put in a different drive shaft from a 98 silverado this weekend, and new u joints. Lots better. Was running 80+ down the interstate nicely. I think it's just tires now. Now to chase down some rattles In the door.

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Congrats Chip on the new hardware :)

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More info about the drive shaft? I have a little vibration in mine at 85-up. I was this 98 a direct swap? When I had mine built it was suppose to be balanced but not too sure about how well they got the job done.
Dang I hate the door rattles....

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Mike, it came from a '98 scsb v6/auto. Yoke and all, $25. Kicker is, someone pulled the rearend, it was literally hanging there. Reached down and pulled it out. Took a hybrid u-joint that was in stock.

I have an update, but gotta do pics tonight after dinner.

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Thanks Scott!

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So, I've been needing to update. We did the World of wheels, so here we go.

Aaron got his Permit to drive. He drove home from the DMV in Big Black. 48 hours later, he drove me to Bartle to load in in Yeller. That was kinda neat.

We saw Eric and Vic and the lovely Miss Kathy, and our friend Jimmy, who had some cars in as well.

We get situated on Sat. and having a nice time and a guy comes by holding an award. "where'd you get that?" "They handed them out a while ago. You should go check, this is a nice truck." So we traipse off to see, and wait in a big line. They look us up, and damn if we didn't win first in class. We were shocked.

Then we had to leave, and it was snowing. So, we hit the road, and drove 'er home in the snow.

Just been working since, the weather's gone to crap.

Hope I can post some pics, we'll see.

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Here we go-
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Congrats on the victory! :metal:
Very cool :chevy:

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I heard thru the grapevine you'd won your class but didn't want to post till you did. Congrats... Yeller looked great and you all deserved the award. Lotta hard work went into it.

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Thanks guys. I've literally never won anything, so it was kinda neat. I think Boppa was in shock. Now it goes back to bein' a Lab Hauler!

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Here's us heading home-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lvgkpVinAY

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Congrats on the award boys!!! Well deserved and Yeller is looking great!

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Thanks Johnny!

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Turn the phone sideways next time so we don't have to look at those black bars on both sides of the screen!!!!!!! :lol: Oh, yeah, Congrats on the win too! :metal:

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Thanks! I was right off the square, hoping I wouldn't get run over!

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Congrats. World of Wheels was a great show. lots of sweet trucks there. didn't know there were so many awesome truck in this area.

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Thanks! We run a board sticker in the back window, next time you see us, stop and say hi!

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Checkin in here. Read all of both of these threads. Great truck and I had a good time reading along. Is LBT getting a little attention now?

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Ha, I havent' checked in here in a minute! Lbt sits other than me driving it to work occasionally. It is hugely on my mind, though. If there's any interest, I may do a big update tonight. Thanks for the props!

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Yep, we need updates...with pictures of cousre..,

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I'm down man!! I should be waking my thread up a little here soon with an update. Knuckles has been turning and burning too. We've got a sweet row of bikes going this year. And a GoPro!!!

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Congrats guys! Well deserved!

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Oooohh - GoPro!!! Should we look forward to seeing Knuckles on WTF? :lol:

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Ok, after a not insignificant period of violent profanity, related to computers, we're gonna try to update this thing. We'll pick up where we were-see if the pic thing goes.

Holy Crap, it worked!

The gang at the Starbird/Devlin show in Jan. of 2015.
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Decided to have a bit more striping done on the rad cover.
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Loaded up to head down.
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After the show, great weather for Jan., had the whole crew in the bed of the truck riding through downtown Wichita.
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So, in late Feb, I got the word that my job situation was going to be changing, so I found another one. Back to industrial machine design/fab/maintenance. Best thing I ever did.The jokes about corporate America ain't jokes! Here's the first big project, all the stuff in the foreground is mine.
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Right on! Congrats on the cruise and new job.

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I have a lot more-now that the thing works, I can't get stuff off my phone. @$@#^$&#$%%@#$! I'll try again tommorrow.

Thanks Greg!

Oh ho ho, watch my smoke! If it works, I love this shot my kid got off the upper deck. So 60's.
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Enough for tonight. Tomorrow, umma beat this thing like it owes me money!
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Glad to see you guys are still enjoying old yeller. She looks Great!
Bummer about the job change but I guess it worked out good for you.
Keep the pictures coming Chip.

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Great update!

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Great to see some Yeller! Looking sharp guys. Congrats on the new gig too Chip! What kind of gear are you building there?

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Thanks guys! This pic bidness got me sideways! Hope I can contribute a little again.

I've had the "new" gig for almost a year, thats how behind I am. That's a Roll Processing Line I built for our Reno facility. It takes a "log" of finished goods out of the back of the machine, breaks it up, stands the pieces up, pounds the ends flat, and delivers them to the packing station. We have locations in KC, Reno and Richmond, Va. We make big rolls of paper into reciept rolls for customers like Kmart, Subway, Jcrew, PostXchange, etc. I fix all the mechanical stuff the guys on the floor can't, help install new machinery, and make all of our material handling stuff custom. Mostly I hang out in the machine/fab shop and make stuff with the Offspring blasting in my headphones.

I'll try to get more on tonight, I found a bunch more in the process of doing this update.

Mike, are you messing with Power Tour?

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Thanks for the update...Jim

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Truck looks amazing, great job on the engine swap. Did I see you had 99-04 40/20/40 seats in it? Do you have a couple pics of the interior?

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Thanks! Hope this works for ya.

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Works for me! I'd sure like to sit my azz in there.

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Looks great. That's what I would like to do with my truck.
Did you have to modify any of the mounts?

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Dangit, I gotta pay attention! Nope, bolted right in, had to drill a couple holes. They're a little tall, but great.