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Love the art on the door and fender!
This is going to be very nice when done. Good work. P. :D |
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Welcome, I just noticed this, nice run so far. By the way, nice to see a close by local truck! I'm just down the road a bit. I am working on a 1966 short bed. |
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Summer has been fun so not a whole lot of cool updates. Doing a lot of paint work. Was hoping to make it to a truck meet this weekend but that’s not happening lol. Will have some cool updates soon. She’s getting really close
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anyways, you know I have alot of older parts and some new ones that I am not in need of or will be selling.. if you are interested. I can take some pics and send to you. I have a new frame cross piece that the rear trailing arms attach to that I am not using. (the damn name of that piece is escaping me) |
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Exhaust is in. Not sure if I’m happy with how I laid it out. Will probably redo it. Bed is on. Trying to track some original tailgate latches, seems I don’t have them. Lots of work ahead still. Dad helped out big time with paint, matches up really well. On to the bed now
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Sweet! Good to see it back on the road
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How is this truck coming along?
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Well… still got it. She runs great still. Life has been crazy. New house and twins. Right now the bed has had a lot of work patching auxiliary tank holes. Awaiting clear coat. Summer got away from me this year. Have a disk swap from a 72 and looking for a 14 bolt with better gears than 4:10. She runs like a champ and don’t want to give up my original 283/420 combo yet but an ls swap is definitely taunting. Got a power steering kit. A lot of interior stuff ready. I need to upload pics and will do so. Hoping to have lots of updates this off season. Lots of stuff stored and ready to go in. I’m planning to put it in 1/2 ton springs and a very minor drop. I’m leaving it 8lug, she’s a beauty of a c20 and tossing back and forth the idea of putting on some Detroit smoothies and utilizing my original center caps.
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Ha ha, that looks fun! Thanks for the update-the lettering on that truck is great.
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Some updates!
While waiting for weather to improve so I can finish color matching the bed and clearing the truck I decide to basically redo all the chassis work I’ve already done… sigh. Super excited though Picked up a 79 squarebody front end, disassembled it and should be back from my powder coater in a week. Ordered captain fabs brake booster and power steering adapter. Gathered up 2 power steering boxes ones from a 72 and ones from a 76, they look identical. Still trying to hash out my parts for the booster and dual master upgrade, Picked up a 69 c10 12 bolt. Doing a full rebuild on that with 5 lug conversion axles from Yukon. Will post pics of the rebuild when finished. Currently all torn apart and awaiting a coating before new bearings go in. Going to order cpp modular 2.5 modular drop spindles, waiting on a good OT check to come in cuz them spindles are pricey. Scored on market place on bell tech 1” front springs and 2-3” rear springs with 2” blocks. Should put me at 3.5/5 drop. Waiting on a set of staggered 18” ridler 606 wheels i back ordered. Told I still have another 30 days at least. Going to assemble my front and rear end ahead of time and swap it all in at once in one big move. Lots of work ahead. Should have a flood of pictures coming in as we head into spring |
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Parts mountain lol
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Ridler 606
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Sad to see a fellow 8-lugger go to the dark side, but it's still going to be awesome! ;)
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Thinking about plating up the air vents and covering up the kick panels too. Going to lay down a layer jute padding before carpet kit goes in. My gas tank has been relocated and I picked a set of 6x9 cab corner speakers mounts from 73-87.com.
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Freshly powder coated squarebody suspension. Assembly required
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This will hopefully be on my list soon. Did you have to tape the treads on the bushings or did the place that powder coated it do it for you? Did they tape inside the A arms where the bushings are threaded? How about the tie rod ends.
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Steam cleaned, wire wheeled, steam cleaned again. Por-15 and top coated. This 12 bolt coil rear is ready for reassembly
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Tried out the solid pinion spacer for the first time on this rebuild. Was kind of a pain but think it will be worthwhile when I eventually pick up an Eaton trutrac.
My 2jet dumped about a half gallon of gas and into my block and flooded my plugs last weekend had to pull every one out and wire wheel them lol. Not really a big deal, was just a needle and seat issues, really like my 283 but am ready for some more HP, think an LS swap will be in the works. |
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Super excited how my custom high hump cover turned out
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