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Last of the parts came in for the disc brake conversion for my 68

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Installed Dynamat Dynaliner over the kilmat. Next is Acc carpet with mass backing

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more pics

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One more before

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I had my tailgate done by the nephew of the guy that lettered all my Tow Trucks some 40 years ago they showed up to local car show today ...I had lost contact with him years ago a real free hand artist

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Wow! Nice! What color is your truck?

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Nice! My dad did lettering and hand pinstriping on vehicles. I don't have that dexterity. I'm more of a 2# hammer kind of guy.

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Just about ready for the C10 fall revival next weekend

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The slotted mags were such a great idea for your truck!

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Thanks I think they fit the truck well

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72c20customcamper -- Looks like you've cut down to a skeleton crew.

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Fred’s all ready to go he packs real light too

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Is he your Shotgun Rider in the HOV Lane?

[*On the I-10 in PHX, to use the fast lane [High Occupancy Vehicle] you have to have at least one passenger. Drivers with big St Bernards, Stuffed Pandas, and Mannequins, etc. have been cited.]

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We don’t have HOV lanes around here . Some of the lower counties do but I don’t take this on the highway . It’s getting trailered behind the motorhome I’m roughing it smoothly . Last years trip

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well I WOKE this motor today been years sitting waiting to fire up

https://youtube.com/shorts/QQH4x6e0i...7eDYgVTn42Rq1f

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Nice tone

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Nice truck..

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Thanks

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Thanks. Wasn’t looking for another truck but when I saw it I just had to buy it . Came from New Mexico and has zero rust .

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Adjusted the TV cable to the new 700R4.
Made three adjustments and found a comfortable setting @ 20 MPH.
Shifts and downshifts smoother, eliminating the slightly hard shift between 1st and 2nd.
I feel confident to now put some extended miles on the truck. :metal:

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Your truck is beautiful. I hope to see it in person one day. Let me know if you ever take it to a show I’ll try to make it down.

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Thanks Mark,
Time has indeed flown by since we met.
I think everyone can agree that it’s been a pain and a pleasure putting these trucks together. ;)
I’m retired now so my list is getting shorter.
Are our trucks ever really done?:lol:
Thanks to your generosity and involvement with this great forum/web site, I checked off one upgrade item of the restoration.
A visit at the next swap meet up North is in order?
Thanks again

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That's a cool little tool! And very well priced too. :metal:
Haha, your upside down pic had me wondering what I was seeing until I flipped it over. :mm:
I've built hundreds of turbos since the late '70s, and every shift shaft has a sharp raised edge where the flats for the shift lever are milled. I KNOW you didn't pull the shaft out to do this, but they should be dressed before the shaft is pulled through the case during rebuild to keep from cutting up the shaft bore. Why GM didn't spec that to be beveled is a mystery to me. I deburred all of the ones I did(before they came through the case), but every now and then I would get one in that had been driven through the case that hadn't been deburred. It leaves a nasty gouge in the bore, and usually ruins the seal if it goes back in without being dressed. Hopefully that shaft was deburred properly in the past.
I do have to ask, why all the blue silicone on the pan? Was that a problem with those pans, leaking? We never used silicone on pan gaskets, went together dry, usually cork. Looks clean under there! ;)

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The blue seal I added because I couldn’t get the cork or thin rubber ones to seal properly. I found this one on Amazon and it seals beautifully. I think the aftermarket pan wasn’t perfectly flat . I most likely didn’t need the Right Stuff sealant too , I dressed the shaft with some emery paper before pulling the old seal

New Blue Print motor helped a lot keeping the underside clean . The picture was taken after a 2000 mile trip to TN

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Oh, I see it now that I took a closer look, that blue is the gasket with a sealer on it too. Looked like some of the bright blue silicone we used to see long time ago. I've seen pans full of that mess before, clogs up all sorts of stuff, haha. The pans we had the worst problems sealing was the ones that had been jacked up on or the transmission dropped on :lol: It was hard to keep enough spare pans around, so we had to straighten them as much as we could to get it going. I never used a sealer for trans pans. If it didn't seal they would have to buy a good used or new pan.
It's been a while since I've done a 350, and I don't think that blue silicone gasket was made back then. But I have used one similar to this one pictured when we couldn't get a standard cork, or black neoprene gasket to seal. That's not a terrible price on that blue gasket if that's what it takes!
Hah, I gotta say, I don't miss all the headache, haha.
I like that truck! :metal: