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Looks like fun. When I was 16 I actually did fall off a barrel while hanging donuts in my 47 Chevy coupe in the street right in front of the house. Thankfully I was nimble and scrambled to the brake pedal and stopped the car with my hands, stalling the engine! The car stopped inches from the neighbors 49 Buick. I didn’t get caught, but it was the last time I did anything that stupid!

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In preparation for a conversion to a cable throttle next weekend, I paid for a 71-72 pedal mechanism, and ordered an NOS cable assembly today. I located a ball stud for the carburetor, then spent 4 hours looking for two missing bracket pieces I didn’t use years ago when I set up the engine. I finally found one the parts (the one I didn’t need). After all that, it looks like I’ll need to do some different anyway!

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markeb01,
I'll definately be watching for your new cable throttle installation. That's the next thing on my agenda. Now that my 73 brake pedal is done I want to install a suspended throttle cable gas pedal. I picked up a pedal assembly from the 73 doner truck but the throttle cable was cut. I'm waiting to collect all the parts before I get started too.

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Well, I did it twice, so I didn't learn the first time...

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The Trailblazer's the one who should be jealous! LOL

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The 65 just wants the LS2. Mybe being parked close to the TBSS something will rub off on the 65 (it is my favorite)

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I can't believe a gorgeous 65 would be jealous of a plastic late model anything.
Seriously, no comparison in classappeal...:metal:

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I hope your 65 has a forgiving soul. My 1960 GMC is very generous towards stable mates, but my previous 46 Ford was a green eyed monster. If any other car got any attention at all in the same garage, the 46 would crap all over me the next time out!

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66 C10 LB Headway thanks to some good friends!

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.. nice mini. LOL

(and obviously, good work on the truck..;) )

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Thanks. It's starting to come along much better. Bed sides are final primed. Couldn't grab a pic of them, but they came out real nice and straight.. Onward and upward!

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I got my carb back after it had a leak. It ran fine for a bit, then started leaking again. I sat down with Dr. Google and, in 20 minutes, had it fixed!

:)

Steven

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Opened the door, looked in, shut the door.
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Opened the hood, groaned in pain looking at the broken motor, shut the hood, walked away.
:ito:

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Nice that it only took 20 minutes and not 20 hours or 20 days!

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I bought a new neutral safety switch and wired it in (splices in the purple wire from switch) and it works like it should. It will only start in park and neutral. My back-up lights also work great now with new switch. Old one was defective, a lot of the guts fell out of it when I removed it.

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Finally got to work on my Suburban again. Re worked the front air bag mounts, removed all of the old drum brake stuff(front and rear) Mocked up the rotors and cut the cardboard templates for the caliper brackets. Also mocked up the brake booster/master cyl mount under the floor. overall pretty productive day!

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Raining out side so i fired up my 90 amp piece of junk harbor freight flux core welder and sat in side my aluminum shed and started working on my rear grill for the truck still got to do a little more grinding, Thursday rains supposed to stop so maybe get it installed on the truck when it stops:
http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/a...nnz/002-37.jpg

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Painted the top,grill and trim around the grill white. Just have to cut and buff and Ill be done with the paint.

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This rust is right above the windshield. Anybody know how to fix this?
Thanks

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I didn't do anything today, but Fri. I'll (with any luck) be wet sanding the Cab and roof with a 500 grit final for paint..... It's all in the prep.... Right!?

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65zac...... Don't wait! Get your windshield out quick. If the rust's not too terrible you "may" be able to sand (or grind) it off. Kinda hard from the pic to tell depth. But if you can get the rust stopped, you should be able to fill/bondo it up good a new......
IF the rust hasn't gone too far..... Fingers crossed for you!

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ChuckW I will get it out tomorrow and see what i can do to fix it. Really appreciate the help!!!!!

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Rust on the inside above the windshield means the rain gutter on the top of the cab in front is leaking.

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Th for the help you guys! This website is really making my project a lot easier!
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Drove it to work!!!! Taking it this afternoon to get rearend gears swapped for 3:38s.....

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well i started this sunday and i'm about done with it! i shortened my steering column by three inches the same way shrunken66stroker did, and anyways heres some pictures i'll finish it this weekend and grind down the welds, paint it, and put it back together!! the last pic is of shrunken66stroker's column and what mine will look like!!

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I fixed the horn.

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Cut up a good set of inner fenders and then bolted on the front end to see if it fits...

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I found the right master cylinder, with the shallow rod dimple, for power drum/drum and got it mounted up using CaptainFab's bracket. I ended up cutting and welding the original brake push rod and the booster rod; too cheap to buy the adjustable rod from Speedway. Now I just need to wait for my brake line kit to arrive. I'll eventually go disc up front, but I'm not ready for the drop spindles and wanted to go power now.

Thanks to CaptainFab, Jocko, Chief Rocka and everyone that's done this before me and given me the insight to take it on myself.

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started working on this mess!

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More progress on the 71-72 C10 cable gas pedal project. Details in my build thread.

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First test run with new hood opening setup. Works as hoped,balance is good. New hinges are being made from aluminum for final, but for now,I am happy. Also got the Master cyl/booster mount DONE on the frame,waiting for rod ands to make the pushrod, then that is off the list. Ordered rotors for disc conversion, and having my brackets cut at the welding shop tomorrow. Hopefully will get the body off this weekend and start finishing the chassis,

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MisterC, what MC/booster application did you end up going with? Looks like my 68' Vette unit.

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I grabbed a booster from a 91 Suburban from the local Pick n Pull. Master is for a 70 Buick Estate Wagon
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Ha ha, I learned to drive on a Buick Estate wagon...felt like Clark Griswold in Vacation with the queen sized family truckster. We even had the fake wood panels!

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Haha. Nice. I'm sure it fits other models, but I needed a power drum/drum master cylinder with the shallow rod dimple and that's the model that kept coming up. You should have heard my conversation with the young gentleman at O'Reilly when I kept telling him it didn't matter what vehicle it was going on. I told him, "Please just give me what I'm asking for." To which he replied, "Ok, but you're not allowed to bring back special orders."

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I bought a front and rear end off of a '76 truck to switch to 5 lug. Probably going to get them put on this weekend.
Who sells the best/cost friendly dropped spindles? would like to get 2 1/2" dropped to put on.

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i got some cpp spindles thru summit racing it was cheaper shipped to my house than cpp directly. no taxes :sexy:

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Awesome! Thanks for the help cb1965 I appreciate it!

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no problem man, we are all here to help eachother out. :metal: just make sure to compare prices, summit does charge sales taxes in some states.