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Just finished installing the 2.5" CPP drop spindles along with their 1" drop coil, new drop shocks and also upgraded the rotors and calipers. Handles like a slot car. Very happy with they way it drives and handles. Next weekend the rear shocks and sway bar.

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Thanks to some seatbelts from Trsmotrhed I can now take my son for rides :metal:
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It was getting dark though so we just posed, he's still in a rear facing seat
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You're welcome. Glad to see you getting good use out of them. I'll catch up with you on the microbrew someday.
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ok lets try this one more time, here is my 1964 c10

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SWEET! Nice job on your truck!

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Nice truck, glad you got help posting pics so we could see it.
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Continued working on the installation of the 73 Disc Brake front suspension for my 64. I got real lucky this weekend. The local self service wrecking yard had a 1/2 off sale and I happen to find a 74 C-10 with the motor removed leaving the engine bay wide open. I pulled ALL the brake lines & the proportioner valve. The proportioner valve, all the brackets & attaching bolts "fell" into my pockets, I walked out paying $20.95. I cleaned everything up with gasoline followed with Awesome Orange, rinsed with water & blown dry with compressed air. That took up about 1/2 my day on Saturday. I installed the brake lines today with a little tweeking they look like they were made for my 64. I just need to mount a piece of 3" x 1" box tubing between the frame rails so I can attach the proportioner valve and to protect & mount the front brake lines. As a bonus I was able to use the factory oblong holes in the frame to mount the flex brake hoses. I purchased two 5/8" -18 jamb nuts and locked down the flex hoses. I don't trust the stamped metal locking nuts with the amount of torque I'm going to use to hold the flex hoses in place.

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Not done much with my crew cab for quite some time. But last weekend I grabbed my parts from storage in SoCal and brought them back to the Bay Area: Long stepside bed, new rockers and a few other items. Truck goes to body shop in the next few weeks.

This weekend I did score on a 99+ 9.5" 14 bolt rear end with posi and disc brakes for a steal. Came off a 37000mi GMC 3/4 ton Sierra 4x4 that converted to Dana's F&R.

Also scored a stock bench from a 69. Having both front and rear benches recovered with classic tuck n roll. Not sure on the color yet... That's it for now....

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Took the rear end out so I can kinda clean things up while the new rear is being assembled. A leaking axle seal can make a mell of a hess.

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Nothing today per se, but in the last week or so I replaced the driver side window regulator, refurbished the instrument cluster, installed a factory radio (just the face really, threw the case away), and installed a choke cable finally after dealing with hard starts on the cold mornings. Also, after scoring a complete set of power steering pump brackets I found on the very first truck in the very first junk yard I tried (amazing, really) I finally started working on my power steering swap. Big thanks to captainfab for the awesome frame brackets...wish my welds looked half that nice!
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put new motor mounts on, finish blasting and painting the intake and installed it with polished button heads.

Going to drop the engine and trans in soon so I can fab up a trans crossmember.

I really need to find a decent set of valve covers. I don't want to go chrome but, all of the steel ones I find have dents in them.

It's coming along!

Steven

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I finally got the old engine painted and started to put it back together. Also got my seats done. Waiting for better weather to install them.

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Got me a nice 72 lwb donor chassis... PS, PB, front are disk and a 5 lug conversion!! WOOHOO!! Dottie will be getting some new kicks REAL SOON!!

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The engine looks nice all dressed up

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Got the wheel bearing fixed yesterday, after many trips to various parts stores. Today, took my daughter out for a little manual transmission driving lesson. I think she did better than I did when I was learning 30 years ago.

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seriously.. I wonder sometimes why prices at junk yards keep increasing.. could it be because people keep letting stuff "fell" into their pockets without paying??? :hc:

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Picked up a set of open box valve covers today. They aren't staying chrome though.

$10

I have to get exhaust manifolds, plug wires and plugs and the engine is done.

Steven

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Awesome moment!

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Yeah, CRGRS66, it was awesome. :metal:Especially since she is 19 and my last one at home and is moving to PA in May. She's been working and saving her butt off to save for the move and getting set up to start college. Really proud of her, and all my kids. They are doing well, but I am not sure I am ready for an empty nest. Big house is gonna be lonely. :(

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My Daughter last year with her first poke at driving a standard (my truck), she had just turned 17 at the time.

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Added a little bit of rust perventive paint on some bad spots until I can get the chance to start tearing it down.

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This last weekend I finally got my cherry picker and engine stand, so I pulled out the donor motor from where it was sitting in the back of the bed and mounted it on the engine stand. I Degreased more of the donor engine, now that it is on the stand.

This upcoming weekend I will start pulling off the hood and front clip. Then its time to start removing the heads, intake and carb, and everything else off the blown engine and transfer them to the donor engine. After that, time to paint the engine.

The engine paint that I bought ended up too greenish, so I am going to have to bite the bullet and buy some more engine paint that is the shade of blue I am looking for. I found some that will work out a lot better. I just don't want to get the engine installed and regret the color choice of the engine block and see that it clashes with all my blue accents (spark plug wires, distributor cap, radiator hose, etc.).

Also got in my mirrors, so I might get them installed this weekend.

After I took the engine out from the bed, the back rose up about 3 to 4 inches. Looked good with it down, so now I'm on the hunt for some TJ springs at a reasonable price. It looks super raked now.

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Be pulling the cluster after work. Truck went to turn over 75999 on the odometer and stuck last night. I have a spare speedometer, but hoping the original just needs lubed.

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Just working on my motor.

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Looks good.

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I been stripping and stripping is hard work with or without the stupid pole.

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started putting some of the metal back on.... Just a trial fit.. Took it all back off so that I could finish the welds and smooth everything out a little better.. Dash will go back on this week and hopefully I can have the whole driver's side done this weel.. (fingers x'd..)I'm pretty dang happy with how this all came out..

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got some paint on it finally

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engine is looking good, be careful of the teflon tape on that sending unit, if thats what i see

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few more pics, can't believe it's almost done

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weld up my new breathers and fill cap in my new valve covers.

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here it is.

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Lookin good !!!!!!

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I took the cab off the frame. All this was done by 2 people and no machines (except I used an SUV to pull the frame out of the way once the cab was off).

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shot some base and clear

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Rewired the dash cam to draw power from the old electric clock circuit coming from the hot side of the battery disconnect. Now I can electrically shut down the entire truck and with the flip of a switch still leave the camera running, for example when left unattended in a parking lot.

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63mouse,

What color and brand of paint did you use?

It'll look really good after a cut and buff. Nice job!

Steven

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Pulled the hood and front clip off. Had my two 11 year old non-mechanically inclined boys helping me. Used the cherry picker for all of it. I was scared that one of them was going to let go if something and some of the body or paint would get damaged. They did fine, it was me that I should have watched out for... I ended up tweaking the grill surround (the part of the body above the grill) because I had the straps around it and the good release. The front clip wasn't coming off the frame. Stupid me! I hope I can bend it back some from the inside.
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Worked on my inner fenders for the last two days. It's a ton of work to do something custom and then try to make it all look factory