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Sounds like progress is positive on your end. Thanks, the "good" news is the docs say he will die "with" the cancer, not "from" it, it a slow moving lymphatic type. In his condition and age pheunomia, the gentleman's friend, will be his likely demise. Right now we are keeping hims safe, warm and pain free in an assisted living center.

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Good to hear from you Charley.

I realized after looking at that pic, the spindle was on the wrong side. I have the crossmember tacked in. I am pretty sure it is not where it needs to be. I will have to check the measurements again. I did find out my jack leaks down real bad. So, I figured tacking it will keep it in place.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_HLeOfaLeb9s/TM...2018.03.41.jpg

I found out that the dr told my dad back when this started that he had 3 months. Well, I found out that this week and he has already done that. I have had to explain to him that he does not have an expiration on the bottom of his foot like a package of meat.

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Nice progress Billy!

I may be on my own here, but I don't put a lot of stock in what doctors have to say.
No one can fore-tell the future
A positive attitude will do wonders!!
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I have been trying to keep everyone up beat the best I can.

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I'll be praying for you and your family.

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Thank you.

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I was sure hoping the nice weather will hold out. But it seems to be making that cooler turn now. I picked up some spindle nuts and cotter pins while I was out.

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Thought I gave you those with the bearings and seals?
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Everything but the spindles nuts. Heck for everything you gave me I had to eventually buy something lol.

They were cheap though. 10 bucks or so for washer, nuts, cotter pins etc.

If I wasnt home sick today trying to get cold under control I would be out there messing with it right now lol.

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:lol: dont blame ya i would too.

Hope you get to feeling better, the sickness is making its rounds already.. ive been lucky so far.

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I am back in today. Not 100% but here and my boss is out today. Last week it was another guy. So, it is definitely making its rounds.

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Think I jinxed myself... Not feeling so hot at the moment..
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Go eat some taco bell, that will flush it out.

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:haha::ito:

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:lol:
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I need to open the garage and make sure the truck is still there lol.

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No real update, just more thinking. I cut the tacks on the crossmember. I had it lined up front to back but it was off side to side. I saw a 53 5 window last weekend in Lawton on a c10 frame. It just did not look right. The rearend was way too wide. It made it look like a 4wd. So, now I am wondering if my 4x4 s10 rearend has enough material to be drilled to 5 on 5. If not, then I will get 5 on 4/3 rotors and go back that route.

One future plan is closing in the 20x20 awning I have in the backyard. It sets on a concrete pad. It would make a much larger area to work in. I could get a the truck back there as long as I was not in and out of there alot with vehicles. I have to straddle the neighbors yard to get in there.

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Cool so thats at your house, right?

That will be a nice area to work in :metal:

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Yeah. It would free up my garage to say.. lock up my lawn mower. So, I do not have another one stolen.

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Ah so you have mower stealers up there also i see huh.. :cuss: :lol:

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That sounds like a good work area.

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Things worked out where I could come home this afternoon and mess in the garage a bit, since I have to work later tonight. I took advantage of decent weather and got the crossmember tacked back in and clamped the drivers side spring hat on. I need to double check one of my diagrams, which I lost, and make sure everything is in the right place. Then I can put my spindle and the rotor I have right now, and see how a wheel looks in the fender. I did not put up anymore pics, because it does not look really any different than the last few pics.

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Cool man, headway!! :metal: :metal:

Any progress is progress! :lol:

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That is how I am looking at it. You said that motor is a tbi motor? Does it have a place for the mechanical fuel pump?

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Yeah it has one

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sweet man!

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Looks like I need to make some room out in the shed and bring a motor stand home.

I looked out in the garage, and I did not dream. I did tack the crossmember on lol.

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http://lh3.ggpht.com/_HLeOfaLeb9s/TR...2013.33.19.jpg

I bolted a fender and the core support on to get an idea where the suspension would set in the fender. The lower arm is sorta on, as well as he spindle. I just set the rotor on to look at it. I would get a pic from farther back but that require tearing down a wall of my garage. lol

With this crossmember the front will set a bit higher. One neat thing about that, is I will not have to cut the inner fender. At most I would just need to fill the hole where the stock steering box would have been.

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I have a small parts update. Scott's Hotrods had bags on sale, so I ordered some ss6's after talking to Jon. Slowly but surely... lol.

Next on the buy list are 5 on 4 3/4 pattern rotors from Parr, since it is about 10 minutes away, and I need the cross shaft bolts for the upper control arms.

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Sweet!

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I really need to post an update with some meat to it.

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Hey man progress is progress!

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http://lh4.ggpht.com/_HLeOfaLeb9s/TS...2017.57.15.jpg

A few more pieces to the puzzle.

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I have been thinking this afternoon and I think I will just use the 5on5 rotors for mock up purposes and so I can hopefully make the front end mobile in the next few months.

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AHH nothing like a late Christmas.. :metal:

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I could not pass up the price. Maybe I can trade a kidney for a 4 link?

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Sweet! :metal:

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Hey,
I have some 5X5 rotors for you if you want them. Still have the 305 heads/block if you want them too. Let me know.

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I have some 5on5 rotors already. I tried to find a rearend narrow enough to do 5on5 on the back without redrilling but no luck.

Ive got a motor to get from Scott too. I just have no way of unloading it after I get home.

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I have some portable a-frames you could use. It would be a little drive for you to return them. Let me know.