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More pics-

Cleaned up-
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Another view-
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Back in bidness-
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I noticed, the width of the top bed rail on a 67-72 is EXACTLY the width of a beer bottle! Coincidence? I think not!
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What kind of hammered paint is that? Special engine stuff or the Krylon?

Looks pretty darn good.

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Rustoleum hammered paint. By the quart or in bombs. Lays out good with a cheap brush and real tough when dry. Easy peasy. Thanks!
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I've seen it around, but have never used it.

As long as it can stand the heat, it should be fine!

Still out at Lake City?

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You can get it at the HD or Lowes. Yep, still at the Lake.

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Good! I was worried about the recent cutbacks. I'll print you out a shipping label so you can stick it on a box for me!

Hell, I'll come pick it up! ;)

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Well, we went to a bass tournament and Boppa had to bring the boat to my place so we could tow with Big Blue. So see, he really uses it!

Hooked up!
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Hidden hitch-
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A little gift- anyone get it?
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Oh yeah, there's a video!

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Or puke green! American Graffiti?!
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Nope, close!
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It's Tony Nancy yellow - Hollywood Knights

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Nice sounding exhaust notes.
Good backing skills too.

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Winnah! I tried like hell to get him to go with dark blue, but he would not be dissuaded. I told him if I had to paint it yellow, I was gonna put that on it.

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Thanks! He says it has a lot of drone, I don't notice it. He got rid of the flowmasters for the same reason. I call it the "ski boat sound".

Boppa used to work construction. He gots mad skillz.

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My advice is to get a set of resonators from Allen's they have an ebay store here's a link.
http://stores.ebay.com/Allens-Stainl...=p4634.c0.m322
Instal them under the cab and that will take care of the drone entirely and a happy Boppa is a good thing.

http://i.imgur.com/vCpsikal.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4ow110fl.jpg

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Thanks for the tip, I'll run it by him. It's about ready for a new system anyway.
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You don't have to touch the rest of the system, you just add them to the current one, the idea is they take the violent harmonic resonance out of the sound waves before it reaches the mufflers.

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I'm hip, the current system is 14 years old and growing some substantial crust. Some other threads on here are inspiring me to buy some ubends and have a whack at it. Thanks!
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I almost forgot, you can also remove some of the "drone" noise by using good hangers with rubber bushings so there is no metal on metal action.

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Love to see updates here on Yeller! Looks good, sounds good and works good. I wish I was going fishing!

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Thanks John! Preparing now to do new plug wires, valve covers and exh. manifolds. And hopefully get the damn radio to work! I gots a plan!

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http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001...25_xlarge.jpeg

Looking good. Thought you were finished with it :metal: :lol:

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Ah, they're never really done. Thanks!
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Small update- Boppa had resonators put under the cab- $75 installed. He's thrilled, said they made a HUGE difference. He's been a busy little beaver, he pulled the exh. manifolds to replace a cracked one and blasted both of them and used POR Manifold gray on them. They look good! He's just glad his drone is gone. He also fixed the plug wire boots ( had 2 bad ones) and put the protector sleeves on them. Runs a lot better. Now to get it out here and drape it in exposed ground straps and try to get the damn radio to quiet down. We're actually planning on taking it to the Hartman Center cruise Sat. night. You know, what we built it for! Holler if you see it!

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That's great, I knew those resonators would take the sass out of the old girl.
I'm just glad I could help Boppa out because there is nothing worse than that droning sound it single handedly takes the joy out of driving the truck.

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Yep, thanks, they seem to help!

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That video was awesome! Bass boat is on my bucket list, if I can ever get my web businesses back to what they were before the google doomsday of April 24th, 2012 (a day that will live in internet infamy).

Family, an old truck and a bass boat...life doesn't get much better than that!

Hope you are doing well. Been working a lot of overtime on a friend's website, to fund our grandson's (we're raising him) tuition for private school (1st grade) this fall.

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Glad to see ya, Wade! Props to you for taking the little guy on. I'm happy to see you're still kickin'. What the hell happened on that date? I'm a machinist, noone of that stuff makes sense to me. Glad you liked the vid!

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Just a PS- Hartman Center Cruise on Sat night- come on out, if you see Yeller, Holler! I-70 at Little blue Parkway, Indep, MO. Go north on the Parkway over the highway and follow the hotrods!

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Long story, hope you don't mind.

Google, in their ever changing view of what they deem right vs wrong, rolled out a major search engine update that was christened the "Penguin" update. It affected search engine rankings for many honest/legitimate business that ranked "organically" (mean their sites ranked naturally for give keywords for their sites).

The update was geared at trying to remove web spam and penalize those google felt were "cheating" the system, but instead, took out a lot of legitimate businesses.

From a business perspective, if you are not ranking in the top five of google results for a keyword, your earnings are typically very low.

At position 1, and two, you can expect exponential earnings over position 3 - 5, especially if you have an attractive site, a good price, and provide the information buyers need to make an informed purchasing decision.

In my case, and many others, I had ranked position 1 on google, yahoo and bing for years, for many variations of my businesses keywords. When that update hit, I lost ranking for many (10+) variations of those keywords, and the main three keywords I ranked for, dropped dramatically, from position 1 to position 5 -10.

A succession of updates from google over the next eight months, saw continued ranking decreases. What was once acceptable, in terms of links to your site, was suddenly deemed unacceptable by google, and trying to undo years of hard work, especially in backlinks to your site, was a monumental undertaking.

Slowly, I've made headway and many of the terms that dropped off the radar have returned to page one. Still, my best ranking is position 4. From where I was, prior to the update and where I am, over a year later, is a 3/4 difference in income. Where before, I made $xx k per month from my businesses, I do 1/4 of that income now. In most cases, it's just enough to make ends meet (which I'm grateful for), after all those hard years of working to build my online businesses and rank naturally.

It was a rude awakening, to be sure. Many people who had worked so hard for so many years, to build a business and leave the workforce, were put out of business by google and in an economy that has seen persistent 8% unemployment for nearly five years, not counting those that dropped out of the workforce and gave up (that would put it closer to 16 - 20% unemployment), it devastated many families.

It's essentially what allowed me to take nearly a year off to build Pancho and afford all the parts for it. At that time, my businesses were on auto-pilot. I could spend an hour or two in the evening to take care of customers, and had plenty of time to work on the truck during the day. Those were the good ol' days and I'll gladly sacrifice a year or two of hard work to get back those days!

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WOW. I had no idea. Nice kick in the stones! Have you rebuilt to withstand further updates? Hope you're back on track at least somewhat. How much of this went to further Google's own interests?
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Well, here's an update- 50 lb of compression in Cyl. 3 and 5. Assumption is blown head gasket from the overheat. Going up to trailer it to my house tonight. I'll try, but I dunno about this new pic jazz.

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Hope all goes well with the head gasket ordealeo'.

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What 'overheat'? Did I miss something?

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I wish I was an expert on engines so I could help you out.
Fortunately you have an expert that lives close to your Dad, give Vic a call that's right in his wheel house.

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Aw, I'm no expert, but we've done more than 2 of these. I'd feel terrible botherin' Vic, though he'd be happy to help.

Flyin' Ryan and I got off work and grabbed his FIL's super killer tilt bed aluminum trailer, and ran and got Yeller, which Boppa had reassembled the ignition and gotten parts for. Then we returned the trailer and got Blue, popped the wheel on the S-box and ran it down to Neighbor Donnie's. Then we backed Yeller in and got after it. Time from ign shutoff to heads on the floor-1 hour. Yaaay air tools! Boppa's taking the heads to the machine shop first thing this morning to be pulled down, mag'd, surfaced, adn reassembled, should have them back tomorrow PM. Hoping to Pop it back together in the next couple days.

Overheat was back in May, hot enough to pull the neck out of the rad. Redid the cooling system on that one.

I appreciate the offer, Brian. You coming to the Nats?

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That must have been one hell of an overheat, I hope the damage isn't severe.
A little tip, the next time he thinks the truck is starting to overheat turn the heater on full blast that will help cool it down a lot faster than just shutting it off.
I would like to attend the Nats but my truck isn't done yet and I would enjoy it more If I had something to show and give rides so maybe next year.

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Update- after some shenanigans, we have heads. Spent the last 2 evenings reassembling everything with nice new fasteners and whatnot. Hoping to fire it tonight. FR came over and was a big help with setting valves. Been a while for all of us. Fighting light and gauge issues in the dash, fried a printed circuit last night. Hope to be further along tonight.
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Was there much damage to the heads from the overheat?