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Today I finished up a major rewiring job. Underdash harness, front harness and engine harness. This also allowed me to switch from lights to gauges. It was at the scary point when I took the picture. Never done any wiring before but it all worked out good!

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Installed gauges into my stock bezel. Temp/Oil/Voltshttp://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=551256

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Casted a new shifter knob at work. Still have to drill and tap it for the threads.

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Been doing more work on the electrical rewire. My buddy Vince put on all new rear drum hardware, shoes, drums, wheel cylinder kits and springs. Here's a pic of him workin on it.

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Tap and Drill it!.............:lol: her personality she's SOOOOO transparent

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Nice curvy lady... I agree better tap it and get it on you gear shift as fast as possible. It will look cool..

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Finally, we got some paint on a few things tonight. Hopefully will get the bed done in the next few days.

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Holy cow! That's SHINY!

Steven

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THANKS! That's 3 coats of primer, blocked and sanded. Then another coat of primer wet sanded with 600. Then 3 coats of base, that also had to be wet sanded with 600 to get some debris out. What you see is 4 coats of clear. We are real happy with it, very little debris in it and as deep as can be. We will also wet sand and buff that.

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Oh man that is amazing!! Nice work!

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I wish I had the patients to do body work.

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today called the machine shop to find out why it takes 7 weeks to install a brand new balanced rotating kit...............

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picked up or ordered all the parts for the front end rebuild today except for the shocks.

The control arms and blasters will be at the blasters this week.

The rest of the frame gets painted tomorrow.

Should have the frame completed sans shocks in the next two weeks! My sons and I are getting stoked!

Steven

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got some 4th gen wheels yesterday to replace my splits I slapped some pain on one of them, Im going to powder them red or black I cant decided yet. Did a photochop 4 inch drop for the springs Ill be ordering tomorrowhttp://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...e/66render.jpg

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man that black paint is nice!!

put a new radiator in the 66 yesterday then drove her to raleigh. ran like a top. painted the master cylinder today with POR 15..bare metal is the color.

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Finished cleaning up the ends to the control arm shafts and installed new zerk fittings.

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I think they turned out great!

Now, it's just a waiting game on getting back parts from the blasters and new parts coming in.

Steven

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I replaced the leaking flex hose and thermostat cover with new chrome ones. Replaced the thermostat while I was at it. That turned out looking pretty nice! See the old vs. new pic.

I also installed door jam switches and plan on putting in some under the dash "courtesy" lights next weekend.

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Man! That did make a difference in the engine bay.

Nice job!

Steven

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Nice Paint Porky!!! Can't wait to see it finished!

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I had to take some waste oil to a drop off spot where the trash trucks go. There is also a scale there. I wanted to know the weight of my truck so I was able to see as I went over the scale..

It was 3940# with me in it. I figured with out me and the waste oil the weight is around 3700#.

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Got the lower ball joints out with a loaner ball joint kit from A.Z. and an impact.

Found a different media blasting place much cheaper and BBB rated so I am going to have him do the backing plates, coils and a few other small parts as well.

Dropping off Wed and picking up Sat. Way ahead of schedule for once!

Also picked up part of the material for the door panels today on sale. Gotta find some lighter suede to get started on them. It's way too early for them but, it's getting dark quicker and I can work on these in the back room of the house.

Steven

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It was saturday and Sunday I got this up and going. Got the 283 put back together air in tire and bled the clutch. Still have som slipping in the clutch and some wire issues. Will tackle those this coming weekend.

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What do you think about the 283? I started to buy one.
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I like the 283. Its a strong motor and it gives me the power I want. Never had a problem with them

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New Rocket Booster Hyper Silver wheels for my truck.


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Those look fantastic on your truck!

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Yes I agree , very nice, truck looks great.

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Ball joints and tie rod ends came in yesterday. Dropped off even more parts to be blasted. They will be done Tuesday... a couple days behind but I can make up the time by going to the shop in the evenings to get them painted. Still plan to assemble the suspension next weekend.

Steven

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Thanks !!!!!!!

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I have to agree also, they look great. Truck looks really great also, nice work. CONGRATS!

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Well decided to run down the electrical problems. With all the previous posts on electrical it was easy to find the biggest problem. On the backside of the fuse block I found the power wire into the block corroded and completely apart. That was a easy fix. It was not long I had to unwrap the wires under the dash. There I found wires cut and spliced where they didn't do any good. Two days into the electrical and I think I can wrap it up. Finally got turn sigs, tail lights and all.

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wow, good for you on the electrical. Wiring, I do a lot of and still is no fun, slow time consuming isn't it. Cool your getting close to done.

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oh yea very time consuming and not fun. However I do get a chuckle when I find things that make no sense. But thanks to everyone that posts on here it was an easy job.

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Just cleaning up parts.

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Man! Those look sweet!

Steven

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Started metal work on my hood. Would like to buy the replacement pieces but unfortunately my finances won't allow it so I am making the pieces I need and doing the best I can. It's a slow process but I will get there eventually.
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drove about 90 miles home...

-W

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Washed, polished, and hung out at the Woodland Hills, CA car show hang out....Jay Leno came by with an amazing "Tank" car.....had a 12 cylinder Patton tank engine diesel in it....very cool. Came home and took out an intake manifold bolt that had been leaking some oil and re-sealed the bolt and is currently setting over night....hope that seals that nasty oil leaker....just enough oil to smell when you are cruising....don't you hate that? Now she's resting nicely under the cover:)

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Got a big pile of parts back from the blaster tonight:

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I didn't want to unwrap them all but had to peek:

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My buddy did an incredible job!

He did all 4 control arms, front coils, front backing plates and crossmember.

Total cost: FREE!

Tomorrow night is a marathon painting session so they don't flash rust.

Steven

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Depending on your humidity in your region, get some coating on them quickly. In the gulf south, you can sit down and actually watch them start to rust.