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Yesterday I picked up an older aluminum cap for my '72 for swap meets and camping. Today, after the rain I have been waiting for to wash the roads clean, I uncovered the truck. I keep it on jack stands with the tires barely touching all winter and now it's time to drive it. The routine is first rotate the tires and lube up the brake sliders. I noticed the chrome lug nuts had a little rust starting, so I used chrome cleaner polish, wiped, waxed, and polished off first. Got the wheels on, off jack stands, started up, and moved truck trailer spot, and trailer with new cap in truck's spot to unload the cap for painting. That's it and it took a while due to the lug nut situation. Next is mount the cap for Carlisle

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That isn’t a bad idea. My truck didn’t come with carpet originally. It just has a thin rubber flow mat that crosses the hump. That wouldn’t be hard to work around.

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A friend gave me a 1969 C20 Custom Camper. My 14yr old son and I cleaned it up, tinkered on the wiring and installed new/used wheels and tires on it yesterday. Planning for it to be his first car when he gets his license. Will be leveling it in the coming weeks. Trying to find lift ideas for a C20 lead me to the site. Thanks to all who post as I have found some great information. Having fun working on it with him!

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Same thing I did on Saturday with the same seat from a 99 Yukon. Put your tilt levers on the opposite sides and they'll be more level. Mine were swapped for some reason too

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got the wife's truck cleaned up & test driven now that the snow is almost gone

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Very nice.

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Very Very nice :metal: , Does She let You drive it? ;)

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i guss they did not bother me but i do it to see what you mean

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she will let me test drive it once i have done something to it, but as for a cruse, no. she figures i have my own junk to drive & i'm ok with that.

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:haha:

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Was done way before I owned it.
It's a blazer fill neck and a suburban tank as I'm told.

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If that's her ride, I'm curious to see what kind of "junk" you have.

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Hanger bearing crapped out so I removed the two-piece shaft and I will try to drop it off at a drive shaft shop tomorrow.

Bill

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Hanger bearing crapped out so I removed the two-piece shaft and I will try to drop it off at a drive shaft shop tomorrow.

Bill

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installed new u-joints and put my drive shaft in today. gonna adjust the the rear brakes tomorrow and change the oil and filters. put a new mechanical fuel pump on too.

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They're easier to operate if you do

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We always call our stuff junk not sure why but we have always said it that way.it might be a Canadian thing because when we go to car shows we hear a lot of people call there cars junk but they are not? I would never call anyone else's vehicle junk because really they are a work of art. we all put lots of time and effort into restoring our vehicles.My junk collection consist's of a 87 Buick GN,68 chev caprice & a 2013 CTSV wagon

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Yesterday I sanded just about all day and today I sprayed the cab in epoxy primer.

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People all over the world call their own stuff "junk". It's probably just the idea that no matter how good we think our vehicles are, we know somebody has gone to greater lengths to create theirs. Of course, it could just be the joke about opposites. Kind of like calling a big guy "Tiny". :lol: Also, your collection sounds pretty good.

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i think you are right on that.

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You mean like when they call me big guy , .... and .... I look behind me.

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Used an old school bead roller, hammer and some round bar bent to the radius. This finishes the cover plate for nv3500 swap. A bit of black paint and it will look store bought.

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Got rid of the stupid plastic air cleaner spacer that was on it when I got it, the air cleaner would even sit straight. Put on an Allstar aluminum spacer with an o-ring seal on the bottom. Took some convincing and a small cut in the baseplate of the air cleaner to get it to fit for some reason. But it’s on there good now.
And put a new Accell distributor cap and rotor on. The one that was on it said made in the USA with no brand so I’d say it’s pretty old haha
And lastly I made a pretty neat overflow for my radiator from a cool old bottle my uncle gave me.

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How do they come off? I looked at them but i dont not see how they come off
Edit never mind i figered it out. The driver side did not have a screw in it so i could tell.
Looked one the passager side and it had a screw. I fell dumb for asking such a question

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I sanded, sanded, are lunch and then sanded some more.