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Thanks! I've had several people ask about jerky, so I'm definitely going to try it. Hopefully I won't screw it up :lol:

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Even though it's started to get colder out, that electric choke makes cold starts a breeze. So many people hate on the Quadrajet, but I love mine

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The hot-air choke on my Q-jet starts fine every day even in winter, way up here in Canada. Eh.

I love the Q-jets, but I can tune them.

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Having it tuned up properly is the key part about working in all climates. Thankfully, mine has been real good to me since I put it on

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For all the people that complain about a Q-jet I think they must have had 1 bad one or knew someone who did. I have had them on multiple trucks and cars with 0 issues but I'll admit my uncle knew how to tune them so thats a big help. I had a square body 4x4 that came with a holley 750 double pumper on it and the 780 q-jet picked up 4mpg in my overall normal drive.

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I picked up about 4 mpg or so compared to the old 2 barrel and that's even with my lead foot :lol: I like to hear the sound of the engine all the time :metal:

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Last time it rained a fair amount, I found the main spot where water was getting into the cab. It was coming in from the passenger side drip rail area, flowing down the front A pillar, then exiting onto the passenger floorboard at the bottom of the windshield pillar where it meets the dash.

I won't be able to really dig into the rust repair on the cab until next summer, so I decided on Saturday morning to "fix" the leak.

My dad had a tube of clear silicone that he used to glue the garage door seal back on to the floor. There was just enough left in that tube to go all the way around the drip rail.

Before I did, I used a wire wheel to knock the scale off and clean it up a little pit. While doing that, I found several pinholes contributing to the leak on the passenger side. After wiping it down, I put a little paint around the drip rail to slow down the rust. Once that dried, on went the silicone.

I am happy to say that my cheap, redneck "fix" worked. After last night's rain, I don't have a soaked floorboard! That should get me by until I can fix the rust the right way and then use a proper seam sealer :lol:

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Just a FYI, silicone is a painters worst enemy.

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My painter wont even allow it in his shop

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Whoops! The roof panel needs to come off for rust repair, so I'll most likely do some blasting to clean everything up, especially around those areas. It'll be my enemy since I'm most likely going to teach myself how to paint on this truck

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Today has been a great day. To celebrate the end of my last semester of undergraduate school, I drove up to Winder for a toy driver/car show. Got up before the sun did, then was able to watch a little bit of the sunrise over Lake Sinclair on my drive out. I met up with some of my friends from the C10 Club Georgia and got to go to one of my favorite BBQ restaurants (Smokin' Po Boys).

Frankentruck did great on the way up and back. In the past 2 weeks I've driven somewhere between 6 to 700 miles or so (indicated by the odometer) in Frankentruck with no problems. I'd say that's a fairly reliable truck!

Anyways, on to the pics! The blue 67 is my buddy Chaz's truck. He heads up the GA chapter of the C10 Club. His truck is super nice. The green one makes me want to throw a blower on Frankentruck really bad now that I know it will fit without cutting the hood up at all, not that I can afford one right know though :lol:

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I absolutely love that Shelby Dakota. I believe this was the first one that I've seen in person. The square was neat too. He put the air management stuff in the toolboxes.

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The last few that sparked my interest enough to take a picture. I sent the pics of the Firebirds to my dad, and he said that one of them would be a great Christmas present :lol:

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Looks like you had a Great Time:chevy:

Thanks for sharing.










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Love it Christian....Awesome about your last day of undergrad.....Seems like you just started.

Frankentruck is doing his thang!!!!

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Nice weather for a get together. I'd like to know more about the gold paint on the top have of that fleetside '64-'66 with the cowl hood. I want to do a graphic in silver (on my '75 stepside project) with a metal flake like you see on a boat, that gold looks to be about the right amount of flake!

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It was a great time. I hope I'll be able to go to more shows in the spring when they start back up.


Karl, I'm not sure exactly what was done to create the bass boat look on that truck, but I was told there was several pounds of metal flake (I don't remember the exact number, maybe around 6 or so?) and 8 coats of clear

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Damn, i miss car shows, hell i miss just walking around and being able to see peoples facial looks... some not all .... lol...
We need to get back to some for of normalcy.

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I've got two degrees now :metal:

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Congrats! Were the exams for both equally difficult? :lol:

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Congratulations! That's awesome!

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Congrats Christian , I knew you could do it .

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Congrats Christian....AWESOME!!!!

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That's great to hear. Congrats. :)

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Thanks guys! One set of exams was definitely harder than the other :lol:

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Congratulations on the degrees! That's quite an accomplishment after a lot of years of hard work; you must be feeling pretty great about it.

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Congrats!! That is just awesome!!!

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Thanks! I have the holder sitting on the coffee table, and I keep finding myself opening it and staring at it :lol:

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Merry Christmas y'all!!

We got Santa on the deck, the Charlie Brown tree, and Frankentruck all lit up

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Today has been a vent window party. Removed all the door glass, cleaned and painted the part that connects the door glass to the regulator (I don't remember what it is called lol), removed the vent window glass from the frames, and cleaned out the old setting tape.

I'm using two sets of vent windows to make one good set. Hopefully I'll get it all done before the rain shows up later this week

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Looks great Christian...I need to do the same to my windows!

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Your are going to enjoy this Improvement:metal:

I have some Plano tackle boxes that look just like yours:ito:

I used them for bolt organization also:chevy:









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Thanks Andy. I hope it will remove the majority of the rattling that I have left in the cab. I've had the new seals for it since Christmas of 2019, but was undecided about actually installing them until this weekend. That's just how it goes sometimes :lol:

Those tackle boxes are my dad's. He spent some time cleaning out the boat a couple days ago, and that's where they landed. I have to find any available work space where I can. As y'all can see, while I was gone at school, my welding table was a nice, flat surface that quickly became another storage area :lol:

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Flat surfaces are the worst.

You asked about the mirror mount from my donor door. I also have the vent window parts if they'd be useful to you. Otherwise, maybe Andy could use them.

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Thanks, but I'm all set on the vent windows. One set gave up good vent glass frames while the other set gave up the frame that the seal goes in

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I'm late, but congratulations on your education achievements. I'm real interested in your side glass work. That is something I haven't done yet so I'll be paying attention.

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Thanks!
So far, the hardest part has been removing the vent window glass from the frames so that I could clean them up and paint the frames. I also took the opportunity to weld the broken vent window handle post back on to the driver's side. The passenger side one was ok. I'm about to run up to my local glass shop to have the door and vent windows set back in the frames. I figured it was easier for him to do that than me since I don't have the tools or setting tape necessary

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Good things come in green packages. So far, all the new seals are fitting nicely. I got these seals last Christmas and am just now getting around to installing them :lol:

I should have gotten the correct rivets though. The cheapie ones I used were a pain, but they are functional.

I should get my glass back from the glass shop tomorrow, and will hopefully be able to get it all back together tomorrow as well

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Looking good!!

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Well this was totally worth it. I haven't driven the truck yet, but there's a significant decrease in the amount of rattles when closing the door.

Everything went back together fairly easily, but the passenger side door window is hard to roll up and down. The window regulator looked pretty rusty, so I'm probably going to get a new one some time before summer when I'll need to roll the window up and down