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heat shield looks good!!

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Agree. Is the heat shield painted (with what?) or is it powder coated!
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Started cleaning an old set of valve covers that came with my truck. I believe i will powder coat them black to match the look im going after. :metal:

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My son was over and we checked out the MII front crossmember, figured out the ride height and bolted one of the forged caliper brackets (11inch rotor) on to see what it looked like. A nice afternoon.

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Today I cut out the passenger side floor pans to fit up a new one.

Joe

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ordered engine gasket kit and all the s10 front bushings and ball joints. Got all the parts lined up and ready to go. Been doing some rust removal on the 53 parts. mostly the grill. I took it apart and doing a little at a time.

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Cleaned out the last of my office stuff from the second bay so I have some room to work...

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Bought it a replacement engine.

Truck has a 250 Chev 6 and Toyota 5 speed and goes okay, but not so good for towing a racecar around. As I drag race a street legal blown BBC T bucket, getting home can be an issue if we break stuff.

So will upgrade the truck to a 350 and then the hills wont be a challenge for us anymore. Have to use the 48 truck now as I sold off the old diesel suburban when the engine died.

Being down here in NZ, prices and availability arent what they are in the USA.

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cut a temp bed floor out of plywood. Pulled running boards out of the corner and pulled the hardware out so I can find the replacements.

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Got the new trans and engine crossmembers in. Next weekend its off to the exhaust shop. Unless it snows again...:waah:
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Rebuilt my instrument cluster

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Test Fit
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USMC-Butler, Nicely done. I did mine too and used a medium green but I gotta ask, how'd you do the dots in the gauges with white faces? My gauges are black with white dots.
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THANK YOU :bling: ! This is how I did it, I pulled the 2 gauge pieces out of the housing (temp and amps in one, oil and gas in the other) taped and painted them almond white then used a fine tip black paint marker and dotted the factory dots back in the same place, very simple to do, you could see the factory spots where they go if you looked closely. For the needles I just used a fine brush with the same orange paint as the overlay and put a couple coats on them. I do not have steady hands and this was a breeze. Hope this helps:smoke:

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Dug threw all my parts an found:
1. tail gate hinges
2. driver door hardware!

Gotta order metal tomorrow :)

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Went by the shop, found out they put the door seals on backwards, gonna see how it works, they may have to redo them, and buy new ones as those little plastic rivets break off if you try to take them out.

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gettin ready to stick in a msd6al box and billet distributor i traded an old air compressor for stuff was new int he box laying around at a friends house ,, see if it makes a diffrence and getting ready to pull out my 71 c10 ,,

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Over the last few days I have been working on my interior -

Basically I sat the battery in the box in the cab - decided against a firewall mount... Then I covered up my seat pan, built two speaker boxes for the rear corners of the cab, then installed a 10-inch sub, 400 watt amp, and two 6x9's in the back. A newdeck with IPOD connectivity went into the frenched-in box in the dash.

I bought the kick panels that have speakers built into them through LMC a while back... Got those trimmed and installed them with velcro tape for easy out reasons. Havent worried about upholstering them yet.

I still have a dual cone in dash speaker (also through LMC) that I need to get installed.

Stereo sounds awful nice though =) Will be a 400 watt, 6-speaker/10" sub in that little 49 cab :metal:

Then I re-installed my seats.

My truck now has seats in it for the first time in over 7 years! Stay the course :D

Pictures when I can get around to it.

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Here is the sub/amp/6x9 rear speaker setup

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I've got the seats back in now. Working on wiring up the three front speakers.

My battery was dead today - since there are only two hot wires I don't think it's a drain problem - more than likely a 7 year old battery thats giving up the ghost after sitting in the garage for 7/10th's of a decade :D

I have the extra battery cable there as I intend to put a cutoff switch in when i am ready to make a console...

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Getting close to laying down some paint.

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Not today but yesterday I put the finishing touches on my engine.

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started working on my front shock set up.

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Bed is on, side trim, used to be black is now red, third brake lights in rail ends, bed liner, and new radiator. Windows next.

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Nice color choices...

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After a couple of MONTHS (Doh!) of not having touched it, I finished painting the lower dash today. This is just rattle can stuff so it'll be tolerable while I do the mechanical stuff I want to get done. Rustoleum Sage Green is the darker color. Krylon Celery Green is the lighter color. Apologies for the crappy cell phone pictures.

I'm trying to get it running again and needed to put the instrument cluster back in so I can drive it tomorrow night to a family gathering. I may not make it, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow.

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Oh, and I did a quicky "Refurbish" on the spare. The tire is kinda checked and definitely old. Sprayed Sage Green and Clear on it.
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Nice work Dan!

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Thanks JJ! It's "small potatoes", but at least I'm on it again. Can't wait to driver her again.

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Mate has remounted the Jag rear an inch higher to lower the rear, and I bought a set of blockhuggers for the SBC swap that will commence in a bit over a weeks time.

Truck has Jag front end too, and calipers are off being repaired, and the guages are out and getting made workable too.

And I did some work on my T Coupes electrics today so I can make it street legal again (We have a warrant of fitness regime here) as I have a buyer who wants it, but wants me to have it all legal.

The truck is still drivable but some extra cash from the Coupe sale will get the project accelerating along.

We will use it next weekend to get to a friends daughters wedding in the North Island, and then the engine swap can start. Im hoping that it may be all done by early April, then I can bring it home (a 600 mile drive).

Am looking forward to it, big time :metal:

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Looks Great Dan!
Byron

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Front trim on, still waiting for windows, warmer weather for the rubber will help.

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lowered my 56 today went got some u bolts made up and took three leafs out of the back and two out of the front lowered back 2 1/2 inches and the front 1 1/2 inches ,, got rid of the big gap in the rear and some from the front http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...lowered006.jpg[/IMG]

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http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...lowered015.jpg[/IMG] after

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Are my eyes deceiving me or are those pictures of a five lug spare and another picture of a six lug wheel? I'd hate to get a flat if so. -Doug :chevy:

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Your eyes aren't deceiving you. It's a five lug wheel but it goes on a different truck.

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mine is 5 lug front and 6 lug rear but that is not my wheel ,,, http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...56today009.jpg[/IMG]

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:metal:

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worked some more on my front shock mounts :mm: and ordered a new set of slam specialties RE8 bags for the rear.

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So how amny leafs did that leave you with up front and in the back, and which ones did you remove? I have no idea how many the 3100's came with originally.

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Spent last weekend at the Big Three parts Exchange and Swap Meet. Spent about 600 bucks on parts for the truck.
Air Bags and Bracketry
Coil Overs
Steering Wheel
Weiand 4 bbl Intake
Porta Power
Center Console
Air Cleaner
Vintage adjustable Craftsman motor and pully set up for my leather working tools.
Stereo Amp
3rd row seat to use as a Bench Seat
NEW in the BOX Carpet Kit for the 59 Apache!!!!
Various other items not for the truck but could not walk away from

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big brown truck dropped off my rear air bags, so i put them on. :metal: