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Got a visit from the Brown truck yesterday. New fuel tank and u-bolts and poly bushing for the trailing arms. Starting to fab up the fuel tank install. Hopefully I'll have pics tonight.

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Put my dual fan in, plus a trinary for the ac clutch and 2nd fan

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Went to the range. My son and i shot his new rifle in and i re-sighted my muzzleloader in with a new scope.

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Almost done painting it!!Gotta lower it soon!!

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I pulled the original 4-speed out of the truck and removed the crossmember in anticipation of the upcoming suspension swap. I also cut out the old exhaust and removed about 10lbs of dirt and grime off the chassis. I'll break out the steam cleaner next weekend and really make a mess.

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I started installing my new rear mount fuel tank. I'm not quite done yet but enough to post a couple of pix. What do you think?

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well yesterday the neighbor kid needed some money to go to the high school football game, so i had him chase tools and had him crawl under the truck with me and i showed him how to install the th350 i picked up.He seemed really interested and it helped me since im still on crutches...then today i rewired engine compartment and hooked up a set of headman headers, and put the edelbrock carb that came with the truck on,and got the motor to turn over and a couple backfires through the carb ,but carb needs to be rebuilt and was leaking all over the place, so i moved on to putting some 6x9's in the gapping door holes and installed a cd player .....i now have tunes!

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Good to here you making progress, Losthope. did you here the news in our area, some guy working on his `54 chevy pu with a drop light had a fuel leak, set his garage on fire, lost his truck, `54 belair and mini van...sad

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no i didnt hear that!!!!!:jdp: what a shame!!everybody worrys about gas tanks in the cabs then others worry about them behind the axle sometimes its the things you dont expect that go wrong....

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I added some length to my exhaust. The duals dumped right behind the cab and echoed on EVERYTHING under the bed. Now, nice and quiet in the cab with a little bit of rumble outside... the way it should be. Now, maybe I won't get headaches from the roaring in the cab with me!!

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How far back did you go with the exhaust.

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The end of the muffler is in the center of the cab, but the pipe runs all the way out to the step on each side. Considering putting a X or H-pipe in it to balance it out. I dunno yet though.

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Looks good pdxhall, Mustang...? how many gallons....? How much room for the tracking bar...?

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Here is a picture of the mufflers and the drivers side extension i put on yesterday. Makes a world of difference inside the cab.

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You might also add a balance tube in the after muffler tubing between both pipes, near where the exit the mufflers.

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In addition to or in place of an H-pipe before the mufflers? What does this do to the performance or sound? It is an all stock 350 with some headers, so I am not concerned with peeling the street back or anything. I just like a nice V8 sound out of these old trucks.

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I would have built an X pipe instead of a front balance tube, and then, add the rear balance tube to the after muffler/tail pipe setup.

This does help overall performance, and helps keep the system quieter, without making it sound like a Rolls Royce.

I am building this system for my 1964 Chevy C30 1 ton dually flatbed truck, with 305E V6. Have same on my 1972 all aluminum Rover V8 engined Vega.

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Hey Roberto you could PM Mark about the taillights or look in the search under taillights I know he had a write up on the forums about them...Vernski:mm:

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yes, it's an early mustang tank, 16 gal. It will not interfere with the track bar where I mounted it. The cross bars for the bed will have to be modified slightly but I really like the way in tucks into the frame with very little hanging down.

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Hi Roberto, I didn’t see you post until I spotted Vernski’s reply this afternoon. The tail lights are aftermarket 1959 Cadillac, and the brackets were custom made by my son who’s a machinist.

I’ll pull together the component photos, install pictures and original drawings and try to get them posted later tonight. Thanks for asking, Mark.

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Vernski and Mark,

Thanks for getting back to me LOL. By the way vernski love the stance on your GMC, did you use drop spindles too or just the springs?

Thanks for the info Mark, I look forward to seeing the write up about the caddy tail lights...

Well I worked and sweated all day disconnecting everything from my '61's 235 inline six, gonna remove it.....

On a seperate note I bought a c10 2wd SB rolling chassis for the axle/cross members and I am considering puttin my '61 cab and bed on it. Any thoughts?

Captainfab gave me some great insights, I'd just like more opinions.. Thanks guys for helping a guy out.

Roberto:chevy:

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Just the coil springs Roberto it still has stock spindles but because it's GMC it has leaf springs on the rear w/3 leafs taken out...Verski:metal:

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I went out in the backyard today, and took a real good long hard look at my truck. Then went to bed. But a couple of days back I cleaned out he back. and removed the seats did some fiddling with the tailgate. Im getting ready to move it around front and begin work on it.

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i found a six foot long batch of shed snake skin... today i sprayed my truck out with spectracide...hopefully any lurking snakes will bail out.

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It's not that I am afraid of snakes... It's a game that I play... When I see a snake, I scream like a little girl and RUN. The farther away I get, the more points I award myself. And I have NEVER lost!!!