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Waiting for those pics...:lol:
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Put her back on stands, removed the rear tires - getting ready for another brake bleeding session >.<
Also spent a lotta time moving rubber around a front fender trying to determine exactly how the 'anti-rattle' kit is supposed to go in. Received a box from LMC truck - polished sill plates, new door handles, and a 'dual-cone' in dash replacement speaker. I now have every peice required to fully reassemble my truck minus the radiator (ordered) and the new headlights - going with the really annoying blue headlights :D |
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Got a chance to rebuild my carb tonight at work on lunch ! let me know if anything looks out of place...
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I picked up my truck from the body shop, they FINALLY!! Finished it after 18 months. I am just pushing it outside into the sun everyday until I can fit the cab onto the frame. :)
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New gas tank was supposed to include the sending unit gasket, a 2 buck part, not there, vendor says will reimburse me. Small town, parts shop sells me make your own. Spend an hour travel, cutting, fitting, all done. Go to get box from Autometer sending unit that I have looked in at least a dozen times and the gasket falls out, its been in there nearly 20 years. Now I have a spare.
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put my windshield wiper motor in after greasing and cleaning and now it working , i have vacuum wipers once again at a slow speed ,,lol maybe they will go faster in the rain , now trying to figure out the heater someone looks like they put a delux car heater unit in it all fits up had diffrent holes for heater core tho and the drefrost heat switch cable is diffrent location
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Nothing, worked on Ms. Joan's greenhouse foundation.
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Unfortunately I can only work on this during the weekends. Commuting 5 hours each way until it is drive-able.
Took out the seat to clean underneath it. It had to have at least 6 inches of acorns, leaves and oh...a possum and 2 birds. Once I cleaned that out, I am was happy to see pretty solid floors and corner cabs. There is a small patch I will do (not now) in the passenger toe board, but other than that she looks solid. |
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hey focusedontheprise, i found the same! removed my gas tank cleaned all the fuel lines ,sand blasted them, reinstalled and cranked the motor over..
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Finished up the tailgate cables, took two different tries to get it the way I wanted.
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I worked on converting my OEM dome light for my 48 over to LED..It will look stock until you turn on the light. I will do a write up once I'm finished. I stole the idea from someone that did that same thing for a 58-59. It is a little different for AD trucks. Inexpensive as well.
So far it coming together nicely. Marc |
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do you happen to have a link for the 58-59 dome light idea? i am a guessin it would be the same for us 55-57 guys |
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Got come seat from the junk yard set them in place looks good think these just might work.
My build http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=468622 |
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whoa --- dem is some very nice seats !
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Ok, I had to do some diggin....It was OKGMC4 that I barrowed the idea from and it was for his 56 (not 58 as I stated previously..ooops). http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=368649&page=7 The LED circuit board I bought was a smaller size beacuse the light housing for a 47-53 is different. Marc |
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Stopped by the shop, bed is painted, yippee!
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Lookin good. If it were mine I'd be REAL excited. Is it dark gray or black but hard to see in the photo?
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Nasty cold outside, snow on the ground so I'm grounded to the garage.
I have been doing a lotta 'walk out to the garage and stare at the truck' the last few days. I still need to prep/prime and paint my front fenders and hood and that ain't happening till spring. So I'm tinkering with interior stuff off and on. Right now the 'rear cab cover' area (where the fuel tank used to be has me staring at the truck more than working on it. Mentally trying to envision what I want to do with the area. I have the base in that my seats will sit on, and the rear cab area is a blank canvas begging for some fabrication genius. Problem is my fabricating skills are far short of 'genius level' so I'm mapping out how I am going to make useful and nice looking use of that space. The battery is back there (in a box of course) - with that I see a sub woofer box, two 6x9's, and maybe a storage area for a 'roadside emergency kit'. When I quit staring and get busy I will set the seats on the cab to make sure I'll have the space for what I ultimatley decide to do...then back out with the seats and on with the 'fabricatin' Won't be long before I quit thinking about it and start doing it....I suppose :D |
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thank you very much youngrodder - gonna try it out on my 57
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I lost the bid on some reallllly nice windshield stainless trim. OEM not repro... so if any of you out there have a nice set please let me know.... I was way looking forward to getting it. I am trying to round up all the small stuff so that when the wife and I decide to go forward with a paint job we don't have a whole slew of unplanned expenses.
I guess my 3g phone doesn't have a chance with last min buidding wars. Too bad I can't touch ebay while at work or I would have used my PC and won. Posted via Mobile Device |
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Finished up my brake lines on the frame. :chevy:
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Beautifully done sir.
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what year truck do you have ? i might have what you need |
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also x2 on the brake line work for rollinrooster
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How'd you do it? Please explain. I've heard of using coat hangers as templates and making subtle radii like over your rear end by rolling tubing over round objects. What did you do? I will need new lines on my truck but had wondered if I wouldn't just EFF it up? Have you pressurized them? Much in the way of leaks and please tell us what equipment you had? |
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cool
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Thanks for the info, man. i REALLY like how you followed all the little turns and curves so carefully. I think thats what makes it professional.
I've seen one of those hydraulic flaring kits for about... $275, I want to say(?) While I'm annoying you with questions, can you tell us if the frame is painted or powder coated? If painted, did you do it yourself and what prep and paint? Is that hydraulic tee on your rearend somehow bolted to it? Is that available from a catalog or something? |
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took a picture of it thru the paint booth window. at that point it had one more coat to go, 12 noon, he had been shooting since 11:30 last night.
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Out of the booth, now the hard part, remembering where everything goes.
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Hauled off a dead coyote with it.
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Worked on repolishing some finned corvette valve covers to go with the corvette theme I will put on my engine. I found a cool air cleaner that was corvette inspired.
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I tried posting pics but it won't work on the iPad.
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We built a heat shield out of 1/8th aluminum for one of the mufflers.
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Started installing the Ez21 wiring harness.
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