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Have a Safe and Awsome Holiday! :ennyd:

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Merry Christmas from the Great White North. Have a great hoilday season.:two:

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Swapped in my new SBC "pumpkin". After fighting with the torque converter we finally got her in there. Now if I can get it timed after Christmas I can break her in (and hope to the big guy upstairs that it doesn't blow up).

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Yesterday I was buzzin' down the highway, hit a bump on the other end of a bridge, where it drops back into the road.

Hit so hard it knocked my water bottle loose! This water bottle was put on by a PO, so it was held on with sheet metal screws... for a good 10 years, if not longer.

Well, today I bolted it back to the inner fender with some bolts and lock washers. :D

The wire frame may break, but the bolts are not coming loose. :D

-W

p.s.

The story behind it breaking... and figuring out it was broke, is more interesting than the actual fix.

:D


12/24/2012 : water bottle securing

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Swapped passenger doors and started rebuilding the vent windows. Those rivet kits suck so I used short stainless pop rivets. Worked like a champ. Also added the jeep Cherokee door stops.Gonna have to get used to the doors not opening as far but a nice upgrade with steps to stop the door in two places

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Had my brother over for Christmas so before everyone woke up we bled the the new brake lines!!! Now I can drive around the block and stop! ...and run out of gas half way around the block the second time... Haha
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Got my wood removed.

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Just took a couple of Snow Pics...:hot:

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N a s t y, yep.

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Picked up my upgraded ubolts for the lower control arms. Also bought some clearance switches that will work on the future door shave project.

Steven

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The design your messing around on your hood looks like my old truck deisn also

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I was just lookin through your rebuild,man that was a job,I just recently purchased a 64 4x4 3/4 350 4spd short-wide,I want to do a full resto,anywho I see your from the Floyd-Salem area,I'm in Radford now,I used to cruise to Fast Freddies a few yrs back.Maybe I will see you around somewhere.enjoyed the Pixs.

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Replaced my 7 year old battery.

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I pulled the front of my truck apart, in the snow. It sucked but I feel like if I do not do a little some thing every day nothing will get done. before and after

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You can see snow on the cowl

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OK, I have seen the past few "snow" pics so I will stop crying about working in the Arizona cold on my trucks.....

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I like it, looks like a clean original truck.

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Why? :lol: That one owes you no more service, that's for sure. Really, what brand was it? IIRC, you drive your truck every day, right?
Thanks for info,
Sam

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Yep my truck is a daily driver most of the time. It was my daily commuter about 90% of the time up until retirement, 72 miles round trip daily for 9 years. It doesn’t run up as many miles any more but with the mild winter it is still getting used regularly. Both the old and the new batteries were/are EverStart brand from Walmart. I certainly got my money’s worth on the last one.

It’s been a long road bringing me to Walmart of all places for a car battery. Back in the early 70’s I did my first 54 Chevy/283 swap which was the first time I ever had an excuse to buy a new 12 volt battery. Sears Die Hard batteries were new on the market and I was so proud having my first new white plastic battery:

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Man that thing was powerful. If I remember correctly it had 1000 CCA. I swapped the electrical system over to 12 volts before the V8 went in, and that old 235 would spin over like it was rocket powered. Same performance after the V8 went in.

Sadly the Die Hard developed a dead cell at about 6 months old. And every 6 months after that the replacement battery ended up with another dead cell and another replacement. After 2 years the warranty had diminished to where I was basically paying the cost of a new battery that only lasted 6 months, and I’d had enough.

About this time J.C. Penney released their new “Forever” battery. Instead of tin and lead they were engineered around antimony and lead and really did seem to last forever. I bought two at the same time, one for my car and one for the wife’s car. As those cars were sold the batteries were swapped from car to car. After ten years both batteries went away in cars I sold, and they were as strong as ever. By that time Penney’s didn’t offer them anymore, so I had to start searching all over again.

I bounced around after that with batteries until I needed a new one in 2005. It had been so long since the early Die Hard failures, I thought I might try them again. I went to Sears on my lunch hour to buy the Die Hard model most highly recommended by Consumer Reports. After being ignored for 45 minutes I left the store, drove over to Walmart and grabbed the #2 recommendation. Picked it up, plopped it in the cart and was out of there in 5 minutes. I’m pretty sure that was the last time I was ever in a Sears store. The Walmart do-it-yourself complete lack of service was vastly superior to the terrible treatment at Sears, and since their battery ratings remain high I’ll probably keep buying them until something else changes.

At one point I wanted to go with an Ultima but their recent reputation killed that idea.

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Bought a shark steam cleaner for $5 at a thrift store. Works perfect!

It gets into all the nooks and crannies on the engine to get it rest of the way clean.

I wish I had found this thing months ago.

As soon as the gloom and cold lets up, I will get it painted.

Steven

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I wound up adding a floor to the bed of my 66

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I have since added a few more bed strips since this picture was taken

shameless shot of my beater

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Put it up on jacks in the garage today trying to chase down a tranny leak.

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Installed my drop spindles, new springs, tie rod, upper control arm shaft kit and 6 lug rotors. Looks sweet! Nothing like new parts.

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Been working on a driving light front cowling. The trick is I am starting with a "paintable front bumper".
I had seen something like this done on a burb that I crawled under at a swap meet. My wife thought I was crazy crawling all under this guys burb! LOL
Any how I just took his main idea and blindly went at it.
I have taken a few picks so I will show what I did. But basically I cut the original bumper in half. Then sectioned 3inches out of the bumper (from both ends using the mounting holes as my start point) for a total of 6 inches being removed. I used the bolt holes as my start point because I wanted to keep the stock mounted look. Thus I left the holes for carriage bolts.
I have gotten the whole thing dry hung and ever thing looks good, I did have to take a few bits off the other half and fix the ends so they looked more factory!
Here are a few pics to give you the idea!

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We finally got our steering columns switched and the electrical issues sorted out. Had to fab up the connecting rod from the column to the power steering box from two different rods. Need to order the shift linkage and move the shifter off the floor back to the column. New seat cover is in and looks great, stereo is next. Hoping to fab up the fan shroud before the end of the weekend as well. No rain for the next three days but it is cold! Jr goes back to school on Wednesday and we want as much done as possible.

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Welded the holes drilled in my homemade brackets for my rear LED lights so I can drill different holes. Sprayed primer on them, sanded the cups with 1000 paper.

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I really like what you've done. I thought about doing something similar to my truck at one time, except the holes were going to be round with small blended shrouds above the lights. Nice work, looking forward to seeing the finished result.

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So this part will be mounted under the bumper? I was thinking about flipping my bumper and adding round driving lights to it. I look forward to how yours comes out.

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Finally tore out the fuel lines, tank and fuel pump. Cleaned the tank out (hose at the end of the sending line in the tank was deteriorated), then sanded the surface rust off to paint. Cleaned up the sending unit and buffed the metal a little. Fuel lines were rusted out so I replaced them with rubber hoses for now from under to cab to the pump. And fixed the leak on the fuel pump were someone slipped a wrench on a brass fitting and it wasn't sealing properly. (didn't know about that until i pulled it off, looked like the gasket went bad on the side and was leaking) Should prolly clean the rest of the back cab while I'm at it...

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Yes, it goes under the bumper, and actually falls behind the fenders as well (by removing the 3inches from each side) I have it "dry mounted" currently. I took a few pics...
It is still really crapy outside, (snowing and now raining) and Sally (wife's name for my 65') doesn't go out in that kind of weather, so I had to take them in the garage.. I want to get her outside and get a good front shot with them powered up, for you guys!

Kind of this shot with out, then get one with..
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Right now the pics are still on my Ipod, I'll have to add them to my photobucket and attach them here when I get near some wi-fi! Sorry... I will post later this afternoon so you guys can see the Finished product..

Oh and thanks for the instrest!

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Okay here are some pics after I got it mounted
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I will get the wiring done and get her outside, if the flippen weather will let up!
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Well I have made it back to Junction City OR for a couple of weeks and got a chance to work on my 64. I changed the hood from the original that was way to rotted around the front edge to a nicer one that has a few more dents. I can work with dents before rust. I also made some new battery cables that are routed a little different than factory. Most of the new cables is hidden. I think it really cleans up the look under the hood. It is a little chilly to paint here but I am getting some prep work done on the firewall and engine so it is ready.

I also donated the ugly 1964 canopy to scrap. It looks so much better without it.

I have to really plan my time well because I am only here for a short
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Nice. I love spending time with the kids in the garage. It does not happen much with my twelve year old daughter but every time I work on the truck my ten year old son is there helping.
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great pic Greg!

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Installed my new steering wheel :D
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wow that's sweet! I like the look of the classic wheels in our trucks..

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Yea they ok, not quite as cool as a small block with three deuces tho ;)
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LOL, maybe so Mack, but I tell you what, if you run across another steering wheel, let me know and if I run across another 3x2 setup, i'll let you know. ;)