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Or do the cup holders get real hot after driving awhile.?
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I installed an new radio with Bluetooth to stream Pandora, stainless steel sill plates and checked my timing. Today was a good day.
Oh yeah, lady in a car looking at her phone destroys the car next to me just one lane over. Of she was in my lane it would have been me an my truck she destroyed. Posted via Mobile Device |
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Spent the weekend with friends who helped do a overhaul on my truck. I brought in the parts (and few runs to the store) and a very good friend from VA drove in with tools and 8 cases of craft beer unavailable in Nashville.
Top end rebuild, new intake, new carb, waterpump, fuel pump, tuneup, new radiator, fan/fan clutch/shroud and distributor rebuild. Font suspension overhaul of brakes, all bushings and ball joints tire rods, ubolts, springs and shocks and rear shocks (the rear springs will have to wait as bolts broke trying to get to them and we ran short on time) We had some issues here and there including some broken head bolts. Don't trust Felpro head bolts everyone. Also LMC Ubolt sizes are wrong. Before http://i.imgur.com/CQKXM.jpg During http://i.imgur.com/1Yo7M.jpg Almost Done http://i.imgur.com/P9aCd.jpg Still have a few things to do but its pretty much done. Just needs a power steering belt and some hose NTP fittings for the heater. |
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Those are *some* friends.
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Not today, but Saturday and Sunday. Replaced the exhaust manifolds on Reveille. Had to grind off one of the exhaust studs on the drivers side and two block bolts on the passenger side. Apparently the PO got over zealous and rounded them off. Picked up some replacements from HD but they were too long. Be stopping by there this week to get some new ones.
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I have begun serious planning to get our '70 C10 swb restore going. Today I aired up the tires (that weren't rotten) so I can pull it out of the weeds and start working on the frame. This truck was my wife's in HS, so it was never considered to be put up for sale, so it's been sitting for almost 24 years. She is anxious for this project as well.
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Short day on the truck today. Couldn't face chasing the trans leak today, so I almost finished up the new carb install.
I've changed out umpteen carbs over the last....well, lots of years. But today I learned two new things. First, unrelated to the carb: Anything you leave on the battery ...like, using the top of the battery for a parts or tool holder...will get lost. Second, if you have an addled old man's mind, always lift the hood when you are in the middle of a project before you start the truck, car, whatever. Case in point...I was really happy the Street Demon carb change over yesterday went well. A few bumps. Nothing big. I have to clearance the air cleaner with a spacer and make sure it doesn't slide around while I'm tightening it and "interrupt" the choke's movement. That meant a dab of epoxy after some clearancing with the Dremel. Time to dry, etc. So, I just covered the "bare" carb with a nice T-shirt rag for the night. I decided to do the air cleaner this morning. The garage was empty, so I jumped into the truck to move it inside and out of the pending hot sun. Fired up immediately. Until it started "popping" when I sucked 10% of the t-shirt into the secondaries. Spent the best part of 1/2 hour bent over the carb like a monkey with a football (;) ), pulling every thread out with screwdriver, needle nose pliers and a hemostat. Got it. Dialed in the carb. Still checking the choke circuit 'cause it's weird to me. A choke that works by itself...Hummmm! Waiting for the spacer/air cleaner plate epoxy to set up so I can finish measuring the 1/4-20 rod from the carb to the top of the air cleaner. Think I'll leave it a tad long and find a little rat statue to attach to it...If I remember! :devil: |
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That's a cool looking carb, kinda looks like an Eddy ;)
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Still chasing down leaks. While I was working on the trans leaks, taking some of your suggestions, etc., I got up off of the ground and looked back at the front of the truck....Trans fluid dripping from the pass side frame horn. What?
Long story short, it is a completely separate leak from the one at the trans. The trans cooler circuit in the new Champion aluminum radiator has a bad seam. It was murder to find it...But that's where that one is. So, instead of finger pointing with the mfg., and instead of pulling the radiator, overflow can, wiring for the pass side of the engine, electric fans, dumping coolant all over (the part that didn't get into the 5 gal container... There always is a ton of it, no?), I decided to make sure of the source of the leak, bypass the on-board radiator trans cooler, and add a remote cooler. For now, part of the testing process was to run sans-trans cooler, up to pressure and up to operating temperature, by simply connecting the two trans cooler hoses together. Done. No leaks. The rest of the cooling system, including heater circuit, engine cooling, is tight, and incredibly efficient. Truck stays nice and cool at an idle...The electric fans don't even turn on until placed on the lowest setting. I don't trust temp gauges, but the one in the dash doesn't read over 1/2 hot after a drive and a long idle. Okay, now for a trans cooler. Any suggestions? Ahhhh...I'll do it next week. I'm tired. And I have a life other than this truck!!!!;) |
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I went by the powdercoater to see if he had my last two stock rims and hub caps ready , he says 'to - morrow ' .
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drove it to work ...
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Was that wheel I gave you usable? Dano |
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This was Sunday: Changed out my door lock tumblers only to find out the pawls were so worn/loose that they don't move the latch enough to lock it. So have those on order now.
Installed the new armrests I ordered to replace the "ohio-special-leather-strap-handles" the PO had "fabricated". Looked longingly at my new Skip White distributor and coil and wondered when I might do that project. |
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Painted and installed my new to me step bumper
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I was missing this bracket of the emergency brake cable, When I pushed the pedal,it was going al the way
http://imageshack.us/a/img401/9686/p9260126.jpg Now the emergency brake is working http://imageshack.us/a/img854/4584/p9260129.jpg Also look the funny way I had to fix the door opener.It works!!!!! http://imageshack.us/a/img705/4930/p9260135g.jpg of course while I order a bew one |
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It's for the spare so if it turns up bent it'll still work and I'll kick myself for once again neglecting to test a used wheel before inve$ting $45 in powder coating it.... |
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Guess what came in the mail today?
MY TAGS!!!!!!! Whopeee! As Pinocchio said, "Now I'm a REAL BOY!!!!" |
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Clean ride! Are your wheels 20's? I'm having 18's installed as I type this message.
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Where's the C/10 bash going to be? And when? Can anyone attend?
I'm in Campbell, CA and have one other buddy with a C/10. (Trying to recruit more) |
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