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Spent 2 hours on Jegs looking at new motors. Time for a new heartbeat!

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Pulled the bezel and dash out, along with all the under-dash wiring that's been there since 1968. With how many ever P.O.'s adds (and a few "subtracts").

In a couple of days (after I get un-pretzeled from spending the day under the dash), ill be installing my new M&H under-dash harness. Other than the Vintage Air,
cigarette lighter, and glove compartment light, it's the only wiring in the whole truck that isn't brand new. So, I bit the bullet and shelled out the four bone$.

Now I need a new bezel. I lost a great (and I guess rare) GM Throttle block- off that I'd worked on for a week restoring one previous winter. Tip: Forget Loctite on that one...
Even the "Blue". I tried for an hour before I got out the Dremel tool.

Okay, off to find a new bezel. The spares I have in the garage have some small cracks at the screw-holes. Anyone know if they make a bezel with wiper and light holes
on the left and no hole on the upper right?

If not, what do you all use to block the hole? I want to leave the lights and wipers on the stock (67-68) side of the bezel.

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to hpcbmw ==> to Lolo33 - LMC has speakers in the kickpanels, look at page 102. ==> sorry, but don't see anything at this page and 100 to 104...

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Painted the firewall

About ready to put it all back together....Hopefully before the snow flies.

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To magwakeenercew2jh,
I actually have a dummy knob on mine that I am going to use to activate either a line lock or nitrous activation switch. Just an idea.

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:chevy: I drove it :chevy:

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Good idea. Think I'll copy you. I'm always looking for a "spot" to put *something* that looks kind of stock. A dummy for now......Thanks!

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fixed my guide plate and gave my tires a beating

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Replaced my battery, as well as the cables and terminals. Put in a new air filter and top.

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I pulled mine out of the garage so a guy could take pictures of it. He is building our mantel in the living room for us and want to show his dad my truck.;):chevy:

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went to the pick-a-part yard... they only had one 71 LWB that was beat up and stripped... I did go by the S10s and pull some 175 amp main fuse blocks to eliminate the old fusbale link... I stole this idea from Whitels1 who did an LS swap on his square body K5 blazer ...

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Drove it. Enjoying the fall weather before it goes into winter hibernation.
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That truck is very clean looking, very nice ride you have.
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Thanks 69GWC!

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My son installed the Holley carb (1850) on the 454 in my '67 swb stepper and hooked up the linkage and fuel line. While I filled the radiator with anti-freeze.

We pushed the truck out of the garage and started the engine for the first time after putting it in the truck using a temporary gas tank.

The mini starter I got from DB electric worked great without any shimming.

The truck fired up after the fuel pump built up pressure.

We ran the truck for a while until the thermostat opened and topped off the radiator.

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I finally got both of my brake lights working with the lights on, replaced the one rocker arm that kept popping off the push rod, and over the weekend ended up getting the power steering put in and it drives like a charm now, finished painting it, and put side mirrors on that I picked up from o'reillys.

Edit: ill have to upload the pictures tomorrow, they're too big to upload from my phone.

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Just to prove to myself that I'll never be *done*, I decided to put in the new
M & H under dash wiring harness. So, in the course of doing that (and still trying to figure out why ALL of my gas gages don'e seem to want to play fair with the new sending unit), I broke the bezel.

So, I bought a new one from a Seller on the Forum and filled it up again. Gotta go out and crawl around under the dash tomorrow, I guess. But I feel lazy.

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What Tachometer is that ? .

So far no joy finding a 6 cylinder factory tach , one like yours will do , I just need to know brand etc. so I can go dig one up .

TIA ,

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Got my cooling fan brackets made and got them mounted to the radiator

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It's an Autometer.
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THANX ! this means Kragen has it IIRC ......

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Drove mine 2 1/2 hrs one way to a car show in NC yesterday.;):lol::chevy:

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Yeah. O'Reiley's up here in the North....But you better call 'em first. They have a display
of the tachs. But, up here, the local store seems to have to order everything.

It's a 3 3/8" face. I think a model 5795, 6809, or 6811...but not sure.
I just checked....There are 240 tachs on E-Slay just in case a Forum Seller
doesn't one for ya.

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I sanded the dents and around them on my '67 cab and C10srule put bondo on dents that could not be popped out.

The repairs looks great.

Next weekend we will finish sanding the cab and front clip.

It is nice to have the truck running again so we don't have to push it in and out of the garage.

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Finished painting it and put the side mirrors on, the headlights are out because we have to replace them.

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We had to notch out a small piece of the fender well to have the lines clear for the power steering gearbox.

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We got the power steering pump mounted in with a few of our custom brackets that we had to make, but it definitely works extremely well. We might have to get another radiator hose because it looks like it's slightly touching the belt. And, I put a chrome oil breather on, a new air filter, and fuel filter.

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This is the ground wire that kept giving me my brake light problems and all I had to do was clean it and replace the screw and every light works now.