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Gauge pod and tires look good Nik!

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Thanks John, means a lot coming from someone with your skill level :)

Thanks rusty!

Thanks bill!


Today was quite the busy day! I don't have any pictures to share at the moment but I got up early and spent some time sanding the other inner fender and got it prepared for paint and spayed the first coat of black on it and pulled out the other inner fender and put the second coat on it. I then spent the rest of the day replacing the timing belt on the family minivan, it all went smoothly. Tomorrow I'm hoping to get the the gauge pod mounted under the dash.

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Temperatures dropped back down today and it started snowing unfortunately, but I still got some work done. I drilled a hole and installed a neat looking Chrome toggle switch into the gauge pod. Not entirely sure what I'll use it for yet, but I'm sure I'll find some use for it.

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Mocked it up on the dash for the first time and started to make some brackets to mount it, that's as far as I got today. So far I'm really liking the way it flows with the humps in the dash :chevy:

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Looks good man, we got some snow to. Was hoping to get some truck time in, but I ended up having to do some work on the GMC instead and then spent the rest of the weekend with my girl. haha

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*****in...
That really does flow well with the dash Nik, well done buddy.

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Your gauge pod and my A/C vent pod and brothers!!! :metal:

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Thanks TJ, isn't that the way it always goes? Lol
Thanks Ron!
Thanks! And you're right!

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I got the one inner fender polished out and installed on the truck, the drivers side one still needs a second coat.

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Since I switched to power brakes I had to make some space on the firewall, I did this by removing the windshield washer reservoir. So I needed to relocate it somewhere else in the engine bay. Here is what the stock bracket that mounts to the firewall looks like.

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So I bent the tabs a bit different so I could mount it on the passengers side inner fender.

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This is how it'll mount

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Makin progress! :metal:

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The other stock location for the washer reservoir is on the drivers side of the radiator support above the horn relay.....just sayin'

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Good problem solving.

Inner fender looks good, in fact, you should be very proud of your build.

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Oh yeah!

Thanks for the info John, it just make more sense to me to put it on the passengers inner fender rather than routing the hose all the way to the front of the engine bay. Doesn't really matter to me if it's factory correct or not.
Thank you very much rian, and yes I am!



Been busy lately with school work and spending all my free time fishing and working on other peoples cars but I spent some time today and got a second coat of paint of the drivers side inner fender, turned out great! Once it's dried I'll get it mounted on the truck. Seemed kinda strange to me how the metal near the bottom came from the factory so wrinkled, but since it's just an inner fender I figured there's no sense in wasting time perfecting it.

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This winter just seems to be never ending, here we are into March and it's still snowing:thud:. After I took this picture on Monday it snowed another 6 inches, but luckily it's melting fast.

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Luckily the sun came out and melted almost all of the snow, so Yesterday I finished polishing up the drivers inner fender and got it bolted up, also messed around a bit with some wiring.

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I also cleaned up and painted the heater core valve, and cleaned the hoses and clamps.

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Got it all installed and hooked up, I'll have more progress posted tomorrow.

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Nik, you really are an example to most of us.

Just chipping away at it bit by bit.

Fenders look great.

If you had a pic of that and one of the same space when you started, next to each other,you would be shocked at just how much progress you have made.

Well done.

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:agree:

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Hey Nik, did I get that black paint for you ? I recently painted my inner pieces using that CP paint & they turned out really nice too

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Yesterday I went on a parts hunt again and came back with a few neat items I got from a 61 one ton cab, one of them was a choke cable assembly, here it is.[/QUOTE]

I thought I gave you a choke cable a few months ago...

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Thanks so much guys, that's a great idea, the difference is indeed huge. here is some before pics

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And semi-after

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Truck is looking good Nik. Your focus is really starting to pay off now

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No I bought this paint in the states
That one was seized up solid, I could not get it to move, plus the inner cable was cut too short. I still have it if you have any need for it.
Thanks Dale, it sure is. I'm trying really hard to have it driving before summer


Yesterday I brought the hood hindges and springs into the school shop to paint, I got them mounted on the inner fenders and bolted the hood on so I don't need to tarp the truck off anymore.

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I just put the 62 hood on for now as the 60 hood still needs some rust repair, but it will go on later down the road.

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Whoooooooo-Hooooo...Almost burnout time!! :D

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Good work Nik. Real good. What are your career plans?

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X2 with Palf! Almost time for a big smokey! :devil:

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Looking awesome there Nik! I'm feeling the scourge of winter up island too man, can't shake it this year. Cold snowy winter here, Looking forward to spring :lol:

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Haha! I can't wait!
Thanks Doug, my high school offers a program called "dual credit", with this program I would finish all of my mandatory courses during the first half of my grade 12 year so that I would go to the college for the second semester. As far as what college program I'll take I'm not entirely sure yet, I'm strongly leaning towards aircraft maintenance engineering, but welding or heavy duty mechanics is a possibility as well.
It will be doing donuts before you know it! :lol::lol:

Thanks Anthony, I can't wait for spring and I can finally get out there dirtbiking and fishing! I never imagined this year it would still be snowing in March! Just ridiculous!

Got a little time today to paint up and install the master cylinder, made the cover the same colour as the engine block, looks way better than plain old bare metal and it shouldn't rust now. Also cleaned up the wiring by putting it into a braided loom and securing it to the inner fender.

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Got some time to cut the inner fender and bend the ps low pressure line so it fits. I'll be getting new hoses as these are old and leaky but this was more of just a test to see if bending the stock ones will work

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Another pic

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Also managed to use the brake lines from the 78 with some slight bending, I'll be bolting the proportioning block on to the crossmember or frame. I also installed the trumpet horn, really looks good in there!

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Air horn! :metal:

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Get out of the way, a Chevy Truck is coming horn!!! :D
:metal: