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Thanks

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hey what mufflers are those
that sounds sorta like my truck

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They are some old Flowmaster 40 series I had laying around, I think they are two chamber.

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Question........ Did these trucks come with under coating on bottom of cab or where they painted the same color as the body ?????

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Yes and yes on the paint and undercoating. Per the factory assembly manual, undercoating was applied up to 21" from the outside body lines toward the centerline and the backside of the sheet metal was painted the body color.

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Thanks Tony......Don't guess you would have any factory pics ?????

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As most of you have probably guessed already, I'm no longer doing any work on this restoration. Don't worry there is no bad blood. The cost was getting to be more than he wanted to spend. Ronnie is shopping around for cheaper rates. We still talk from time to time. I asked him if there was anything I could do to improve the way I did things. He seems to be happy with the way I treated him. He was screwed by 2 others shops, I just wanted to restore the trust.

Good luck Ronnie on your remainder of your build.

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Alan's absolutely right, he done me a great job !!!!!!!!!!!! Like he said it all boiled down to cost, not that he charged to much his rates where very reasonable at 40 an hour especially for someone of his knowledge and workmanship as y'all all know. I had to slow down on project because of money.Alan kept me updated every day with pics and documented the hours he worked every day on a spreadsheet to my e-mail.
My opinion of Alan......he's a (Class act) :thumbs:

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IMO, if Alan was only charging you $40/hour. Put the truck on hold till you can pay him to finish. I would be very suspect of anyone charging less then that and still providing the quality work. Unless you find some guy that just doesn't need the money and is doing it for fun.

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I probably drove him crazy anyway...........

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Need some help..........Trying to get the bed on my truck mocked up before paint, what is the correct distance between back of cab and front bed panel.

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I charge only $40/hour also. But not really. Depending what I'm doing. It's more of what I think it's worth. I'm also doing it for extra cash. Being semi retired my only complaint is I don't have much time to work on my own. That's the fun part. :lol:

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In my defense I didn't charge for every hour I worked on it. I tried to show my appreciation of him letting me work on his truck. ;). Overall there was 10-15 hours not charged for the work done on the stepside and fleetside bed. ;)

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Probably more than that Alan !!!!!!!!!!

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You charge like me. If we went in business together we would go out of business. :haha:

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I like that part. So you say you charge by the hour and then just charge what you think it worth. Nice:lol::lol: And thats the fun part. I guess I was thinking about wrong you could be charging less then you worked. What would be fun about that?

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I could charge only $10/hr for labor, but charge 4 times the hours it took. The Honda Dealers used to pay there Techs $12 to $15 per flat rate hour. But they charged double the time it should take. At BMW we got between $20 to $28/hr and our flat rate time was closer to how long it would take to do the job. This was in 1990 the last time I worked as a tech. At the time that Dealer charged $100/hr. Even though we got a small percentage of that I still made almost $60k a year. :metal:

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I knew I should have been a dealer.:uhmk: I tried it in high school but it never worked out.:lol:

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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: Your hilarious

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Sold my Torq-Thrust II Wheels Today, could have sold 10 sets of them.... Pics of new wheels and tires tomorrow.

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Congrats on the sale I hope. As far as charging If I'm doing mechanic work I'm $55 hr about 20 below shops here and any fab jobs I get I give a bid to start and then cost of material on top so If I need to I can make up some cost if necessary.

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Okay Dennis - it's 90.8 miles from my house to your place.

Do you have a trailer? :lol:

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YES :metal: I don't think your that far. Long Beach is about 70 miles from my house. It takes me from 1 hr to 1 1/2 to get to my sons house in LB.

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New wheels and tires .........Should look better when I drop it.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...1/DSC_0305.jpg

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Ronnie:

Your truck looks awesome with the new rims, tires & caps.

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That is a very STRAIGHT looking truck!:thumbs:

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Thanks Tony............;)

Thanks Bob ...........;)

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Wheels look great!! Where did you find them at??

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Thanks, Alan..........A guy out in Douglasville had just bought these wheels and tires for his truck and wanted my wheels so we done a little trade.........Thanks Craigslist ;)

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Truck is looking great.

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:agree: :agree:

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Thanks...........

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Got bored this evening and bolted the front end on my truck.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...1/DSC_0554.jpg

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Man I can't say it enough. That's a straight truck. :metal::metal:

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Very Clean truck!!

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Thanks, Just can't wait till paint.

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I'm thinking about going to this.......Real rat rod look :cool:


http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../crossram1.jpg

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Wow looking really good!

I like that intake, its different!

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that would be awesome
its almost like a z28 cross ram intake
http://69isfine.com/images/cross-ram.gif

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I wish I had a DZ Cross ram :lol: