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i just ordered the same bags- i get them Wednesday

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Nice :metal:

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I wasn't able to get last weeks list 100% completed before today because I unexpectedly had to assist some friends w/their move (my GF volunteered our services) yesterday & I worked this morning. I went ahead & made next weeks list:

Weld the 'new' inlet nipple to the blazer gas tank (up-sized from 1.25" to 2"OD)
Mock-up the fuel fill piping to the bed floor
Finish weld the shock c.member
Start the rear bumper bracket 'tweaks'

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I messed around adjusting my doors tonight, after about two hours on one of them I think I have figured it out ;)............It's nothing to it, just rocket science............:lol:

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We made some progress on OLRED66 tonight. We are getting her ready for the World of Wheels show on 12-14 of February.

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I repaired my cab corner.

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Installed a floor mounted hand brake... more data in my build thread..

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A little more progress on the front clip.

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A few more of the finished product.

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Very clean looking truck Tony. I never payed attention to the black area behind the grille. Were all the tutone trucks done that way?

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Installed some cpp c-notches on mine.

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Per the Chevrolet Truck Encyclopedia, all the '60-'66 Chevy trucks were done this way, including the single-tone and two-truck paint schemes. There may be some exceptions, but that is the way they were originally done.

Two obvious tale-tell signs of a repaint, are this area not having the black backdrop with the off-white accent ring or the firewall being any color besides the body color.

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I rebuilt the receiver hitch. The one that was on it when I bought the truk was made of 2" square tubing (OD) and the hole was the same size as the hitch so it wouldn't work with "off the shelf" hitches.

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[QUOTE]Installed a floor mounted hand brake... more data in my build thread..

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The low line brake worked out real well John, mine is still sitting on the shelf....LOL does me a lot of good there..!

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prepped all my accessory brackets and steering pump, etc for paint Sunday and last night. Got motor mount perches cleaned, painted and installed (thanks Clyde!!) and got my captainfab power steering bracket installed that replaced the POs crackhead attempt - (thanks Capt Fab!)

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Another great piece of info to have - thanks LilRed!

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got the passenger side pillar fixed up, door mounted to check the fit of the pillar. pillar is cleko'd on and ready to be buttwelded. will post pics once dun. putting on a new outter roof, interior headliner panel, passenger pillar, panel above windshield, and panels with drip rials over doors on both sides.

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Looks great Tony...........Is that the grill I sold you ????

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Excellent, nice work!

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Man that white ring/black background makes all the difference. Really beautiful.

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Made a 3 gauge panel to replace the heater controls in the Camaro dash. I like to call it the rare "Heater Delete" option. :metal: Then shot a coat of rattle can primer on the dash and gauge panel just to lighten it up a bit. It needs soem filler but I plan to run the dash like this through the year and tear everything back down next winter for bondo and paint.

Also spent some time organizing all the under dash wiring with wire ties in preparation for hooking up gauges. It might look nightmarish but now I know what every wire is thanks to my trusty 1965 Shop Manual.

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I think so Ronnie. I have a few of these going right now and I can't remember for sure, but I did use the nicest one I had and I believe that was it. Thanks.

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Some of the books and manuals I have are quite informative and not readily available, so they offer a lot of great details about these trucks.

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Thanks mareb01. I appreciate it.

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Replaced a heater core in a customers Chevy Equinox. Job calls for 10hrs and the car only had 60k on the odo. I know it doesnt pertain to our trucks, but i thought you guys might be interested.
I did however get my front suspension out from under my truck tonight.



cant seem to be able to post the pics. i'll try again later

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That's why I drive a 50 year old truck, the heater along with most everything else can be fixed or changed in minutes instead of days.

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Spent 3 hours grinding and sanding rust/dirt off the the rear 1/3 of the frame. Tomorrow plan is to finish the rust removal with a wire brush , then paint it with POR-15.

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I worked on modifying my rear shock c.member....

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Started on some panel replacements..

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Hey Tony I was wondering does GMC do the same with there grills or is this a Chevy only thing? Thanks ---Vernski:uhmk:

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On the GMC trucks. only the back area (behind the barbell) was blacked out, no trim color was done.

Jake

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I am not sure Vernski, but the GMC guys have the answer. I do believe it was only on the Chevy trucks, as noted above, by jbgroby.

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Thanks guys for the answer on the GMC grills. Hey today I bought a 63 Chev swb knee knocker from a guy that was hurtin for sure. $500 and the title was mine. It needs bed wood and I will have to replace the rockers maybe just the drivers side. I'm a GMC guy but I wasn't passin' this up bbw an all. It has an I6 in it and it runs good. I'll start on it when I get my GMC done, it needs paint and some body work.---Vernski:lol:

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Congrats Vernski...I don't know if I jealous or envious or both. Keep us posted and nice score.

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Good score, looks pretty straight..

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I did some work yesterday and today on my rear backhalf. I made my top tri link tabs and today I squared up my frame and rearend, set the pinion angle and built the top links. I ran into a small problem with where my links were headed so I had to bend them so they would hit the middle adjustment. But I'm glad I did because it turned out sweet. I had to pie cut it because I don't have a tube bender and didn't want to wait. My bungs are tacked in and its tacked in the front and the tabs are tacked aswell. Anyways here are some pics and I did a walk around and video'd it and I'll have that up later.

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i did some measuring for a y pipe then set it back on the ground and tried a little :burnout: (with open headers)

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bench tested the dash and a/c from the 08 chevy. it works so ill be tryin to figure out how to get it in the 66

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Sam60 Do you know what your ride height is going to be set at on your truck?

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Should be about the same as or around about a 5'' drop on a shortbed.