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Nice tone

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Nice truck..

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Thanks

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Thanks. Wasn’t looking for another truck but when I saw it I just had to buy it . Came from New Mexico and has zero rust .

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Adjusted the TV cable to the new 700R4.
Made three adjustments and found a comfortable setting @ 20 MPH.
Shifts and downshifts smoother, eliminating the slightly hard shift between 1st and 2nd.
I feel confident to now put some extended miles on the truck. :metal:

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Your truck is beautiful. I hope to see it in person one day. Let me know if you ever take it to a show I’ll try to make it down.

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Thanks Mark,
Time has indeed flown by since we met.
I think everyone can agree that it’s been a pain and a pleasure putting these trucks together. ;)
I’m retired now so my list is getting shorter.
Are our trucks ever really done?:lol:
Thanks to your generosity and involvement with this great forum/web site, I checked off one upgrade item of the restoration.
A visit at the next swap meet up North is in order?
Thanks again

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That's a cool little tool! And very well priced too. :metal:
Haha, your upside down pic had me wondering what I was seeing until I flipped it over. :mm:
I've built hundreds of turbos since the late '70s, and every shift shaft has a sharp raised edge where the flats for the shift lever are milled. I KNOW you didn't pull the shaft out to do this, but they should be dressed before the shaft is pulled through the case during rebuild to keep from cutting up the shaft bore. Why GM didn't spec that to be beveled is a mystery to me. I deburred all of the ones I did(before they came through the case), but every now and then I would get one in that had been driven through the case that hadn't been deburred. It leaves a nasty gouge in the bore, and usually ruins the seal if it goes back in without being dressed. Hopefully that shaft was deburred properly in the past.
I do have to ask, why all the blue silicone on the pan? Was that a problem with those pans, leaking? We never used silicone on pan gaskets, went together dry, usually cork. Looks clean under there! ;)

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The blue seal I added because I couldn’t get the cork or thin rubber ones to seal properly. I found this one on Amazon and it seals beautifully. I think the aftermarket pan wasn’t perfectly flat . I most likely didn’t need the Right Stuff sealant too , I dressed the shaft with some emery paper before pulling the old seal

New Blue Print motor helped a lot keeping the underside clean . The picture was taken after a 2000 mile trip to TN

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Oh, I see it now that I took a closer look, that blue is the gasket with a sealer on it too. Looked like some of the bright blue silicone we used to see long time ago. I've seen pans full of that mess before, clogs up all sorts of stuff, haha. The pans we had the worst problems sealing was the ones that had been jacked up on or the transmission dropped on :lol: It was hard to keep enough spare pans around, so we had to straighten them as much as we could to get it going. I never used a sealer for trans pans. If it didn't seal they would have to buy a good used or new pan.
It's been a while since I've done a 350, and I don't think that blue silicone gasket was made back then. But I have used one similar to this one pictured when we couldn't get a standard cork, or black neoprene gasket to seal. That's not a terrible price on that blue gasket if that's what it takes!
Hah, I gotta say, I don't miss all the headache, haha.
I like that truck! :metal:

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Got the 68 loaded up for the C10 Fall Revival

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Thanks

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Was gonna wait a week or 10 days more but maybe white stuff here next week. So took ole Greenie and filled with premium and added some Stabil then loaded up the patio funiture in the box and off to the garage to hook up the Battery Tender for her indoor 6 month sleep.

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Left this morning around 9.30 with the hope of getting to the campground in Winchester VA mid point of the trip about 6 hours . Right out of the gate it went south stuck in traffic for about 30 minutes seems someone thought it would be a good idea and go off roading . Then after that hit four different construction areas on 81 in PA . So I finally made it to the campground at 7pm . Hopefully tomorrow will go smoother.

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Already Gone,
That blanket is the bomb! :metal:
Can you offer an avenue for one to purchase such a cool blanket?
Me want. :lol:

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Cleaned up and hit a couple cars and coffee and cruise ins, while Fall and winter is when half of you put your trucks away its the best time to get out here in NC.

I do have a couple projects ready to start in the garage, new cowl hood I need to paint with billet hinges and a freshly built stage 2 2004R 4 speed trans to replace my TH350. Before next summer I need to order and install a Vintage Air, having no AC this summer and no heat for this winter is getting old.

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Nice weather today for the show . I didn’t walk around much so no pictures other than my truck . Tomorrow will be just as nice so it should be a great turnout . Trucks keep rolling into the camping area tonight .

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Is that an extra driving light behind the grille on the passenger side?

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Finished getting my disk brake D44 axle ready for paint, which will be applied tomorrow based on the weather forecast. My goal is to have all the painted parts finished before the snow comes and start assembly over the winter.

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No its the overflow for the radiator, that's how the previous owner had it and I wasn't sure if it was suppose to be like that or not.
Now its grown on me so I don't even notice it.

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OK, thanks. I wondered why it was only on one side. Auxiliary lights are usually symetrical.

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Bought a USA-1 seat cover . I’m going to recover the 72 seat it has white and black houndstooth now. Little boring if you ask me . This should make it pop , I couldn’t pass it up for $75 .

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^ Wow! No kidding! Maybe flip it for big bux instead?

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That seat will turn out sweet!! Good choice and price!!

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Such a deal.

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Then I still have a boring cover.

With the Ochre and white exterior it should look sweet

The USA-1 booth had all kinds of stuff for cheap I bought left and right blue armrests for my 85 made by dash direct for 5 bucks each . They had a lot of square body dash pads for 100-150 . That’s where I picket up the square body slider for $10 bucks . They had a lot of seat skins too

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Yeah that's a big discount, when I did my red houndstooth I think on sale mine was still in the $400 range.

Looking back I wish I would have updated the seat cushion/padding while it was apart but I had too many other projects to finish on the truck at the time.

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Very good price. I think we paid around $450.00 I added a 1/2" of padding to the bottom and was very happy with the results.

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Not so much did but my 68 is in a calendar . It’s miss March :lol:

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Do they open the Tailgate for the Gatefold?

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Bolted the head back on my son's Jeep, and now I'm going to do it again...
This time with lifters installed ;-)

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Congrats, that is really cool.

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Very cool. Congrats.

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Thanks

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New headlamps and front side markers . The side markers are Woodall’s guess they are discontinued paid 10 bucks for the pair . The headlamps are United Pacific brand . Much brighter than the Sylvania halogens that were in it

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Close up

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Thanks

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played with the throttle cable and kick down/detent bracket I like the way it turned out all aftermarket stuff except the accelerator cable so much easier with no fenders to lean over.....with my abused and old back :waah:

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I like..... looking good

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Finally finished rebuilding this with a kit from Cliff's High Performance. Waiting on a replacement spring for one of the air/fuel mixture screws. One of the springs disappeared. Hopefully it will be okay. Thought about getting another carb like this, a 7042210. My 1970 Chevy C10 Custom has a 350 as it always has, but this 350 came out of a 1973 Bel Air and the Quadrajet is a 1972 model with divorced choke. Still unsure if I should convert to HEI or not. She has a brand new American Autowire Harness in with more to install.