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Tired of seeing the truck sitting in the garage and not being driven. Snapped a couple wheel studs a month or so ago so tonight I'm fixing that. 5 new wheel studs and an exhaust patch where I ripped a hole in it backing it off the trailer.

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New shocks, springs and tank relocated.... ran into a few glitches but parts are on the way.

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Took her out to the weekly cruise, usually I hide in back but this time I found this big beauty to hide behind! don't know who's it is but it is one really nice truck! now if Daman would have been there he could blocked me from the other side! there was also I really nice 67/68 patina truck but he took off before I got a pic.
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Yesterday I popped out 2 lower ball joints and one upper ball joint. Today Im finishing the other one and then to get the A arms prepped for sandblasting!

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Worked on the inner & outer roof.

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Wow! 3.59 a gallon?

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Wow... glad I don't live there... gas here is 3.19

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Cleaned, primed, painted and bolted on my flexplate. Cleaning, painting and mounting the starter tomorrow am..

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My first try on this

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Got my block back from the machine shop. Started prepping for clearancing. Also got some porting done.

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Today I gave up on my cab on the '71 Cheyenne, I went to pull it off to replace the floor supports and discovered the entire top of the A-pillar was rusted out and gooped/filled. Bondo can hide a lot of evil work.

With the entire floor gone, inner and outer rockers and all four supports shot, the cowl rusted and now a big chunk of a-pillar/window frame/drip rail trashed I am moving to plan B. I have a '70 Cab we patched up I was saving for a future project. :(

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Sounds like a good plan~

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Sounds like my truck. I had to replace pretty much everything.:waah:

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First work I've done on the new 66 since I got it last week, changed the oil, oil filter - it was dirty! Then just popped in a new air filter to replace the one that was crushed, was going to do a differential fluid change but luckily I realized they gave me the wrong gasket before I unbolted everything. Cleaned up the engine area a bit, then just spent a few hours under the truck trying to learn more about it.

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Finished up this little gem...

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I almost finished the disassembly of my TH350. But got to the low-reverse spring retainer and didn't succeed in getting it out without the proper tool.

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Really nice work on the column! Need to get mine done...jealous.

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Fabricated and test fit my new gauge mount setup. Should be straight and mounted tomorrow.also got my temporary stereo deck mounted.

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Pulled the extra tanks out ...for now! They need some work as you can see. The bolts are rusted to the tanks and would not budge! A busted elbow and some grinding took care of that though, and out they came!

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Don't hide it! Be proud and show it off!

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Had the rims powdercoated and put new rubber on.

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I took my tranny to a local trans shop to have them take the low-reverse piston out. On a promise I'd take it back to get bushings put in when my rebuild kit comes, he didn't charge me a dime.

Went home and started cleaning... 3.5 hrs later.... :-)

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Took it out for lunch and ran into some other's as well.:chevy:

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Changed/cleaned out my fuel filter last night. This is after maybe 100 miles. Good thing I put a filter between the tank and pump. Just trying to limp this thing along (rarely driven) until I get everything for my motor swap.

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Holy S#!T That's crazy!!!

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I stole your pic. At least, a part" of it!!!!:lol::lol::lol:

Very tasty.

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Dont bother cleaning just get a new tank !

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I'm not fooling with this tank, which is why I put the filter in. Its quick and easy to clean out with its replacement filters. Didn't think it get that dirty this quick though.

I already have this

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to go with this

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That's cool!:chevy:

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Well, since you don't object, I went in for a little more P-Shop. You can probably tell why. :lol::lol::lol

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I came back from saying good bye to Pops , went by the paint jail where they've actually begun taking my truck apart , boy howdy is that rust bad ! . they said they'll begin bead blasting my new cab Thursday 8/28 .

Looking at those fresh cylinder heads , looks good .

Mostly what the DIY'er can do best without ruining the heads by over porting is : unshroud the valve bosses as this is the # 1 pinch point in flow both intake and exhaust .

Never polish the intake ports ! they need to be rough to maintain the fuel mix ~ polishing the intake tracts allows fuel mist to separate and cling to the tract walls .

Polishing the exhaust ports and matching them to the exhaust manifold/header size gives HUGE gains in flow .

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Just got these back from getting PC'ed...... :metal:

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It's a good news, bad news thing.
Good news.
Brought something home from vacation. It's a 6.0L and a 4L80E.
It's amazing how cheep things are once you get out of California.
Bad news.
When I got back, my Suburban was supposed to be out of the paint shop. He has not touched it any further. Then I'm told, "I need $9400.00 more or I won't finish it". I am already into it for over $5000.00 and supposed to pay $2500.00 more. So, it came home. The outside looks close to done, inside needs work.
Anybody know a good reasonable painter in the San Bernardino area?

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I have the motor cover about done. I also have a new pan for the electric fans to install also.
Cover will go back to shop on Monday to have the front piece weld on it. Drove the truck this morning and it ran fine didn't notice any heat build up at all and temp gauge read just fine.:chevy:

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Painter and reasonable... those two words never go together...

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Hung my cleaned up driver's side fender today.

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Took it out to the car show Saturday night!!

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Looks good.