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Thanks bud.my wife( Patsy) and his wife Shelia text back and forth every day so we keep up.Their cousins.Plus I stop in about every 2 or 3 days.

Sorry to hear about your stepmother were ya'll close?

Went to a cruise in and swap meet today.Drove the wifes Camry, not expecting to buy anything, and run across a set of tires for the truck.Just about new tires and wheels for $400.00.Couldn't get them because of the car and no body lived close enough to me.

Need my butt kicked for not driving the 72.

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day dreamed about having some free time to get it wrapped up and to the alignment shop.
and started drawing a wiring diagram for a future project.

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I primed up my door panels and washed my truck. Tomorrow I am gonna paint the panels and then eventually recover them with new vinyl skins.
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I replaced the old junkyard HEI cap , rotor and plug wires with N.O.S. Delco parts .... the coil wire was missing from the sealed wire kit :mad: . I decided to bump the ignition timing up 2.5 degrees , it seems to hot idle smoother now .

I also removed & laboriously hand scraped clean all the spark plugs again , this time # 6 was incredibly oil fouled ~ once again it runs smooth as silk :chevy: .

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Are you gapping the spark plugs at .045, just wondering why the 1 cyl only fouling.

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Actually ;

I opened them up to .065" before it'd go further than 150 miles before fouling several at one time , this after I'd up graded to '77 HEI system .

The valve guides are looser than madonna's knees ~ it uses oil (but doesn't smoke much) at a prodigious rate , I'm sure opec will be sending me Christmas Cards this year .

I really need to get the rebuilt head on it but I'm still chasing parts...

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I was wondering, too.

The sun came out today, so I finished up the head/parking light switch and the "dummy" choke button set up. Replaced the hand-brake and the hand brake cover.

Put the steering wheel on loosely for a "final" test fit. You might notice the little button on the dash next to the ashtray. I got sick of screwing around with the horn.
And, the hole was already there...Some P.O. got drill-happy, I guess. Now, it's a teeny horn button.

Oops! Can't see it in these pics....

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Nice wheel mag, really nice and VW I see now with the guides that worn out but may be defeating yourself with a gap that wide, may not jump the gap as easily and foul the plugs especially without an ignition upgrade, maybe drop the gap to .055 or even .050 and try that may help. I have used the .065 gap like Olds or Buicks did back in the day of first HEI's and found it was a bit wide and dropped it back and the plugs cleared up, worth a shot anyway or as i have done before miled engines just switched up to a platinium tip plug with the small pos. electrode and it doesn't foul nearly as easily, I use the same for running an engine a bit fat on stuff we 1/4 mile.

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Thanx ~

I actually began @ .035" and kept increasing the gaps until they stopped fouling so quickly .

I'd really rather fix it correctly :lol: .

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Started the motor mounts for the LQ9 ...

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i9...ps14998e24.jpg

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That looks sweet...wish my welds were half as nice.

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Got my LED lightbar installed today, just have to wire up the reverse light
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Light bar should definitely get you noticed.

I don't know, though. Aren't you afraid somebody is going to mistake it for a Ford? You might need more Chevy logos on the back lol. :chevy::chevy::chevy:
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Haha, don't want anyone thinking I'm a Ford. I smoked my tailights back in the spring and even though they still produce a good amount of light, I figure a little more wouldn't hurt. I bought the lightbar back in August but finally got around to putting it on today. Those bowties on my bumper are reflective too.

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I traded my 71 GMC 2wd for an 85 Chevy K20... Sorry guys! I've really enjoyed this board and the 71 drove like a dream but I really wanted a 4x4 and this was too good of a trade to pass on. Maybe I'll be back someday.
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Restored my back bumper for next to nothing. Here's the thread with pictures

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=551823
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I drove it, again. My lady friend and I took rode some back roads and did some hiking to enjoy the fall colors. Happy my truck is in a place where it runs & drives like new, and doesn't need anything. :D

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Just climbed out from underneath. Adjusted the hand-brake and put a new
do-whackie three-sided fork thing on the trans shifting linkage (TH350).
There was some slop in the shifter. And I had that nice new chunk of linkage in my stash.

Now there's no slop in the shifter. Of course, I forgot that I adjusted the column WITH the slop. Which means that now
I have to adjust it, or the linkage up top, to get the pointer just perfect.

Yeah. That's for another day.

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Nice photo.

Took your lady friend on the back roads hiking and enjoying fall colors, eh? Sounds like a Cinemax soft porn plot... Hopefully you made the most of it! Lol
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No need to leave....we do square bodies too.

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Rebuilt my front end on my 72. Wow lots of work!
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I attempted to get my lights working, that suddenly decided to go south with my stereo. Got my dash, running and dome light back. Radio too. Still no brake lights though.

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Beautiful!

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Thanks! Was able to use just about all ac delco parts as well.
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