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More bed photos

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Some detail photos. Boy this truck is shaping up nicely

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Went to dads last Saturday to work out some kinks in the temp gauge. Helped him install the hood. We fired it up and let it warm up to operating temperature and the temp gauge is straight up dead center at 198 degees. I check the 2 speed electric fan for operation. The fan turns on at low speed at 198 and high speed At 201. As the engine cools down high speed turns off at 198 and low speed turns off at 194. It was 95! degrees in the shop and at idle the engine stayed between 194-198 without fail even with the hood closed.

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Cab forward is done. But we found an issue with the rear axle assembly. First it has 2.56 gear set in it and in 4th gear (overdrive) it will run 1,400 rpm at 70MPH. This is a 10 bolt 8.5 out of a 1984 Chevy Silverado so that should explain the gear set. Take off and acceleration will be sluggish. Second the spider gears are toast so either a rebuild is in order or find a donor. We decided on either 3.73 gears which is 70 MPH @ 2200RPM or 3.55 gears that will be 1,900 there abouts @70MPH. My dad said he wants to finish up the rear axle and replace the shocks before installing the bed

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Coming along very nicely. Personally I would go with 3.73's

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Nice job guys...truck is looking good!

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Damn fine job!! I like the build, great color combo too.

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Wow, awesome job....it's looking great

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Looking Great!

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Went up and helped my dad fix the gas gauge so we could put the bed on. He had already relocated the gas tank under the bed of the truck so the gauge needed to be fixed first. So other than a radio the truck is ready. My dad decided he wants to go with steel wheels painted yellow with factory white hubcaps. It will look bone stock And will be such a sleeper

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The truck looks fantastic! Your Dad did a first rate job on her!

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Beautiful truck... Love the yellow!

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Talked with dad and he said the front end of ol yellow was leaning towards the right so he installed a new set of coils in the front. It em did up lifting the truck up an inch but the front end is level now

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A few more photos. Tailpipes installed now that the bed is on. The radio is being installed now with a nos Blaupunk knobby radio. Bed wood is kinda dusty from the polishing glaze.

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Wood bed

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Front end alignment is done and on the way home my dad hit his first show. Didn’t even wash it off because he didn’t plan on showing it off. Looks good with the whitewalls. Working on getting some white hubcaps to finish it off.

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This is the plan. Hope it looks good

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Truck looks great y'all did a fine job on it.

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Awesome job! Love the gas tank and rearend!! LOL

Hubcaps cleaned up and painted. Got em off of this site. Truck looks nice out in the sun.
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Looks great! Do the hubcaps install just like rally wheel derby caps?

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From the pictures above, those are just regular caps that use the 3 or 4 bumps on the wheel center to hold them in, different that rally wheel caps.

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Thanks Karl...rally caps it is for mine then. :D

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yea they just pop onto the nubs

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Here are some better shots of my dads truck looks so good:chevy::chevy::chevy::chevy::metal::metal::metal:

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more eye candy

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That is a top shelf build! very well done! I hope and pray mine will turn out half that nice. I found it funny how after he put the wheels and tires on it he decided to go back to stock. I have been slowly, and I mean slowly building my truck. The older I get the more I am changing back to stock. Something about the original look that gets me excited.

Love the truck, tell your dad well done!

First place 55 up truck a couple weeks ago
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Congratulations, fully deserved.

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Truck looks great! Congrats to your dad and also you for helping to get it together. I have the same type of seat and have seen them installed in few trucks now, seems to be a great fit and easy way to get the 3pt belts.

Problem is they original steering wheel is to big for us fat guys.
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I'm with you there for sure. Power steering with smaller wheel and maybe tilt will be in my plans lol. Also going to remove tank from cab to get as much room as possible.

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Cool shot of my dads 66 at a show.