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I worked on our old towmotor fork lift. Not the truck but for it in aroung about way.

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nice beater

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Well I hosed about 1" of dust off warhoop, then I got after it with schotchbrite pads and simple green to cut the oxidation down. I'm kinda liking in it. I may get after it with some wet sanding. At the very least it looks red again and not pink.:lol:
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Cup holders.

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:metal: I like:metal:

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where did u get those cup holders? COOL

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as always - v v cool

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Hey, Orrie how do you keep the cup holders from turning when you dont want them to?
didyou use wave washers or?

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back to the forking lift for me.

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Take a look at my build thread, has more detail. Locking nut and plastic washers.

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Made them, build thread has details. Recent post on install, probably a year ago on makeing them. Kustombrads was the inspiration, bottom is a big washer, ring is a cinch ring from the horse shop, rest is scrap flat stock. I sized them to match my wifes favorite beverage bottle, she has a serious problem with the small size of the ones in her car.

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Just did some engine bay cleanup on the 402BBC. changed plugs, valve cover gaskets and freshen up the air cleaner and valve covers.
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Cleaned up the garage and helped Ms. Joan sell tomatos in exchange for car $. Here is what a real heirloom tomato looks like. No trick photography, thats a regular hamburger bun. And its one of the early small ones!

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LOL should have known:uhmk: looking good shifters came out nice too:lol:

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Did you have to do that?

Looks great! ours aren't doing so well this year.The veggie garden is my wife's thing I stick to bonsai as far as plants go:lol:

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Little secret I found out about the shifters is that if you want plain black knobs, round, oval or mushroom type, look on Ebay in the tractor section. I paid $7 plus $1.50 shipping for those two knobs. Hot rod and car resto places wanted a lot more. I got two different sizes so I can tell them apart without looking. I believe mine were the shifter and transfer case knobs for a older Massey Fergensen tractor, it has different sizes for the same reason.

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worked on frame mounted brake booster and brake pedal assembly -

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[QUOTE=OrrieG;5523413]Little secret I found out about the shifters is that if you want plain black knobs, round, oval or mushroom type, look on Ebay in the tractor section. I paid $7 plus $1.50 shipping for those two knobs. Hot rod and car resto places wanted a lot more. I got two different sizes so I can tell them apart without looking. I believe mine were the shifter and transfer case knobs for a older Massey Fergensen tractor, it has different sizes for the same reason.[/QUOT


That makes sence. I bet they are better than the repop ones. I bought a pair of the small repop knobs for my jeep. The sun did them in in no time.I used to have a pair of alumnum dice that I made with the year numbers up{42} but they evaporated. Now I have a pair of Reno plastic ones.

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Polished the machined column drop, color sanded and rubbed out the van steering column that I chopped, painted the firewall. Excuse the crappy pics had to use my phone only had one small run on firewall. I am happy with it cause it is only gonna be a driver.

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Upolstry, details in the build thread.

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Tacked my floor supports in and changed from .035 to.024 wire to weld the thin parts

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welded the parts of the frame for my floor and trimmed the drivers side sheet metal. got a little tuning to do. then the other side.

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Worked on the panels that are going behind the seat and in the inner cab corners. Also got some fabric samples ordered from my interior decorator friend.

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mounted inner fenders and cut hole for the steering shaft.

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Did some clean up and tuning on my floor panels. I punched and drilled the passenger side to plug weld to the frame work i built.then it got too hot to touch the metal so that was the end of that.

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I installed 72 batts of r19 and 3 rolls of r13 in my garage. Then followed up with 20 sheets of sheet rock yesterday. I still need to install 20 more sheets and do the taping. Then perhaps I can brave the Idaho winter working on my truck.
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I'm starting on the vintage air install. Just found out I need a double groove waterpump pulley. I did manage to install a new 2bbl carburetor yesterday along with a few other odds n ends. Too bad I go back to work tomorrow.
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Finally got my doors back on. When I replaced the bottoms of my doors last year I failed to drill the holes for the door seal. I also just ground the welds but never filled and smoothed them so I decided all of that would be easier to do with the doors laying horizontal. I had the interior and exterior paint matched so I could touch up where it needed it, and I painted all of the interior of the doors and up to the crease line on the outer doors and front fenders where I had put patch panels. It's not a perfect match but I'm not ready to get into an all-over paint job so it will stay like it is for now.

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Nice work Russell!

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I bought a speedometer face. Significant in that this was the first part purchase for the new project.

First rock of the pending landslide...

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Russell: Looks like you got a good tight fit on your door seal. Nice and straight too.

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"First rock of the pending landslide..."

Nicely said sir!

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Replaced the leaking float on the fuel sender, cut a new sending unit gasket out of 1/18" thick neoprene, fabricated and installed a baffle in the tank. Removed the 7747 ecm and engine wiring harness. Located the 7427 ecm I had stashed and a matching engine wiring harness form 94 Jimmy. Removed unneeded wiring from harness.

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Thanks, ChuckDriver and Chevette. Those plastic pins in the weather stripping seem to hold it in place really well. On the bottom corners and a couple of other places I used a hot glue gun and glued it down. I've always used that stringy weather strip adhesive before but I think the hot glue works better and is not as messy.
Some trash blew up and got in the dark blue paint on the door panel so I'll have to re-do that, but I am going to replace the latch in the drivers door so I will wait and re-paint while I have it off replacing the latch.

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just ordered 2 billet wheels from centerline wheels today, take about 3 weeks to ship. i hope i measured correct, theres no sending them back.

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Pulled all the replacement pcm wires out of the computer connectors to run them through the firewall grommet from the old harness then re-installed all the wires. Laid out the harness on it's new path and started connecting engine wiring. Actually had the Smoke Ram intake and 454 TBI setup on the bench considering swapping intakes but decided to stay with the Crossfire intake due to time constraints. But I am wiring the TPS, MAP, and IAC through separate plugs that I can disconnect when I replace the intake. It will make it easier to install the new connectors without modifying the harness again.

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I began the mockup of my new body mounts to mount the 55 cab on the 90 frame. it's been interesting to say the least!

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I welded up my cab floor {well most of it} i have to make a passenger side lower toe board and the lower kick panels.:lol: one of these days I will do somthing the easy way:lol:......

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I converted my foot starter mechanical - to a foot starter ( electrical ) so my late model 250/2004r combo still looks like it uses the factory starter button.OH yea the number is ST26 from echoline or NAPA. drill 2 small holes and it bolts where the old foot switch used to come up through the floor board. It looks very sweet. My napa people even honored and replaced the first switch which we found out was defected. 2 wires and you are done after that. Remeber the fuse - it saves wires if the switch is bad. Smile.
LMD

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I just been standing in the shade looking at my 54. I have the seat pulled but have yet to clean out the trash. Been thinking to either pull the tank or just replace the fuel line from the tank to the pump.

Will the weather ever cool down ?