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Impressive !
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Nice repairs...Jim

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Nice addition to the house. I guess you can also use it as a pit to work on the truck if you need to.

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Looking good! I had a broken one of those pins also but I was lazy and just stuck a bolt in there. Does not look nearly as nice as yours! Something that I discovered was that if you cut the U bolts with a hack saw shorter (as my biggest pet peeve of all time is threads sticking out of a nut, weird I know) and then unscrew the nut to just a little below flush you can grind with a flap disc (I use 120 grit) the hack saw marks off and then magically you have a shorter bolt. Then you just unscrew the nut off the rest of the way and I very lightly sand with the disc the radius of the bolt and yuo would never know it from a factory shorter one. Obviously you have to paint it then but I do not trust that gold zinc coating anyways. Just a suggestion, do what you want though! I like how you welded around these stands also. Good idea and I wish I had done that.

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Where's the pictures? I know you've done something to this truck in the last month.

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Thanks! How you doing up there?

You got that right, a bunch of little things eating all my time!

Thanks Wade. Summer is over...:lol: Get on the crazy train again!

Thanks John, appreciate it!

Thanks Mike, Should have just bought a DM instead of fooling with fixing all these old suspension parts. :uhmk:

Thanks Jim!

Oh yeah, I like to call it the "oil change pit", I think it may be used for parts storage too :chevy:

Yeah seems everything I touch is damaged in one way or another. I hadn't really thought about shortening the Ubolts but now when I look at the pic they do look too long. I have used that method in the good ol mini truckin days when everyone had lowering blocks and universal U bolts.

Hey now don't be pickin on me :lol: Okay I will update with pics in just a minute. Cant wait to see your new seat.

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I stripped my trailing arms with a wire wheel on a 4 1/2 " grinder. still need to spot blast a few spots that I could not get to.

My daughter wants to help me so here she is:

ngmjdhuyejuuihkhblhkghkdjhuhkkhhkhjhk.:lol::waah::sumo::o:mel::flagw:

She wanted the purple one, the monkey and the flag

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I painted the front cross member but didn't get pics before I bagged it so I would not get all this crud on it. Today I was working on stripping the crud off of the rear end. I need to get some oven cleaner to dissolve the crud out of the little nooks and crannies then spot blast. I am going to pull the axles again to remove the backing plates for cleaning and put some new axle bearings in. That much closer to painting everything. Also managed to impregnate the wife.

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That's some nice clean up with a wire wheel....Jim

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The purple one the monkey and the flag are my favorites too! She did good. I think you and the little brother from project racing $$ should win some kind of award for best wire wheelers ever, I don't have that kind of patience. Oh and don't think I was going to let this slide

:lol::metal::smoke: I couldn't wait to get home from work to comment on that one. Oh by the way:lol::lol::lol:

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Meant to say, oh by the way congratulations!!

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LOL. Pretty subtle.

Congradulations!

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Hey Dan, congrats on impregnating the wife! :smoke:

Nice progress you are making. I have also been sidetracked by a home improvement project, as well as a lack of overall motivation which will hopefully only be temporary. Also have not gotten any notifications of updates to your thread in a while.

Hoping to get back at it in the next few weeks!

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Thanks Jim

I had to go check out racing $$, he is the wire wheel king. I just ran out of money and did it the hard way. Paint job looks familiar ;)

Thanks! We are excited.

Thanks Mustard, I am a little silly :smoke:

Thanks D, I have been meaning to call you and make sure Sandy didn't hurt you too bad. Hope all is well for you up there.



I have been busy preparing/organizing/cleaning blah for the new one as well as school etc blah blah so not much progress but I have been working on some rear end repair and prep. pics will follow in a couple days. waaaah

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Everything is looking good! I hate cleaning crud but there's no shortcuts.
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Awesome fab work
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You noticed that too huh? I had my paintjob figured out in my head when I was still looking for a 58/59 and then modified it when I switched to our style truck. I even was going to do a maroon stripe in the beginning, but I switched to blue before I saw racing $$'s. When I saw his I thought holy crap, this dudes in my head!

You might already be planning on this, but before you install your A arms look up the caster mod. I didn't stumble across that mod until after I had my frontend done but I plan on doing it when I redo my front, it's a freebie. My 3" springs bottom hard on even medium sized bumps so I plan on switching to drop spindles and 1" springs, and of course getting a proper alignment.

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Thanks Steve, got that right no shortcuts in prepping my cruddy truck parts ;)

Thanks man, Im nowhere near as quick as you. Love your truck!

I searched around on that caster mod, Maybe... I think it is a great idea but on the other hand I plan on changing most of the suspension out for PB $$$ if I get the $$$ part :lol: so I dont want to spend much more time, well see I might go ahead and do it. :smoke:


Here is my baby step update.

Apparently some time ago one of my axle u bolts was a little loose :banghead::banghead::banghead:
as you can imagine it wollared (sp) out the holes in the saddle. Yeah I know they sell new ones.

I made a copper slug to hold the ID of the holes, stick it in clamp it a weld away... check out them boogered up holes :smoke:

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Pics of me welding up the carnage. I ground it smooth and welded a few voids on the ID and cleaned it up with a die grinder.

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Booyah! all cleaned up better than new.:smoke:

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That looks great. it looks like it was easier than welding a new saddle.

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Going to look for more of these in the morning. I need them in a larger size. Then back to the truck.:smoke:

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Thanks Gdavis it was kind of a pain but yeah I didn't have to worry about aligning a new saddle properly, and it was my favorite price: free!

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Trying to load a pic from my new phone, testing
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