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(fingers crossed) Here's hopin'!

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Went by the engine shop Saturday, when they are closed, but he was there. I dropped the engine off with him and he was PISSED!!! Simply because when they opened the gate two other guys came in while we were unloading my engine. He actually had the nerve to chew my a$$ for it!!!! I told him that if I had not dropped off the engine it would have never gotten to his shop. All he could say is "That's not true" , yet I have waited for 2 months for him. I will give him 30 days to complete the fix, after 30 days I will pick up my engine and take him to court. What a turd.

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do what you gotta do...this has gotten ridiculous. you have way more patience than i do...

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Damn man Im sorry about all the trouble. I think I would have waited around while he fixed it.

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ahhh man, thats not right at all. I probably would have just picked up the engine and took him to court right then since he cant seem to be civil about it. You do have alot more patience.

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So sorry hear about all this BS you are going through. :banghead:

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Sorry to hear all the trouble is still going on, hang in there!

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Hang in there. You know by now Crap happens that's out of your control. The court will suck and take time. You may have no choice on that one. I'm interested to see how the weld turns out. If you get time take some pics of the repair. Magnaflux would have shown the crack for sure if he looked everywhere. I'm not sure I have ever heard of one cracking there. Good luck!

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Yeah, He's cool.

Good Luck Slick!

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Well you handled that well. What a BOZO! Are you going to stop by often and make sure he is working on it? Maybe you need to remind him how important a customer is to a business.

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I guess I have to. If I go nuts then he may just not want to fix it at all. He has me cornered.

It shouldn't take long once he starts, maybe a couple of hours if he doesn't have to tear the engine down. Wish I knew what he was gonna do to it.

Court is next. He has made me wait for almost 15 months total for the build and now repair.

THIS SUX!!!!!

Thanks Bro, I'm tryin.

I think it was in a wreck at one point and the water pump was pushed into the block. It's possible. But magnafluxing the block should have showed it......so he didn't magnaflux it.

Thanks Dude!

I can't babysit him anymore. He needs to handle his business and fix it. I am giving him 30 day of un-interupted time, after that I'll just go by, pick it up (with or without repair) and take him to court. Meanwhile I will have the block fixed by another shop.

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Sounds like a good plan. Hopefully it doesn't come to that and he gets it right in the next week or so...

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I hope so. It would be cool to make it out for this seasons shows. Just don't see it happening.

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Got some free 6 lug staggered rims and wanna hand em off to a needy person :lol:. Local pickup only.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=463240

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Yeah I dont blaim you but the sad part about court is it takes a while most the time. and I know you want your truck finished so I hope the best and this guy actually gets off his rear and fixes it correctly for you.

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Small claims court takes about a month. They set the date and both parties must show or a warrant is issued if I am not mistaken. No lawyers are needed as a mediator is assigned to the case. The only issue is getting restitution from the other party, sometimes that's a pain. But looking at this objectively it will all be over soon and I will have my truck back in running order.

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hey david, there is a 327 block on craigslist in spring. think they want 200 bucks for it. its out of a 69 camaro
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Thanks Kevin, I did see that one but it is a large journal because it is newer than a 66. Mine is a small journal. I have decided to have it repaired so my search for a block is over.

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Well, enough complaining. Gotta move on with this project. Found a really good deal on Craigslist. Got a 1969 sway bar and all the brackets, with new bushings and already powdercoated for $60. The larger brackets are custom made for lowered trucks. Thought that was a pretty good score.:metal: I will have something to do on Memorial Day!
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Nice score.

You might want to wait until the engine is back in the truck before you install it just in case the extra weight moves things out of alignment from where it will be now without the engine. Just a thought.

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Since I have bags on the truck and no alignment yet, will that still affect it?

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With the bags you can set it at your desired ride height and the engine not being in place won't matter.

I would install the bar with it aired up to be in the middle of your ride height range so the end of the sway bar has room to slide for both going up and down in ride height without it pulling out of the bushing.

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Excellent advice. Should I use baby powder to help the bushings from squeaking or does that help just to slide them into place? Maybe a light silicon?

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Are they rubber or poly bushings? Hard to tell in the pics.

Poly takes a special grease but rubber you can use a silicone spray or even WD40 to get them assembled. I've never tried baby powder.

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That was a good score, looks good in pc, and will help the handling!!!

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Truck looks nice!! Something a little different nice LWB. I live over on the eastside of town in the Baytown area. I have several friends that live out in the Tomball/Cypress area. I'm going to check out one of those niffty fiffty shows soon. I have a SWB GMC 70 model and plan on running the same basic suspension setup as you. My question is did you have to do any kind of modifications to your inner fender wells front or back? The fronts look untouched.

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They are rubber. WD-40 it is!!!! Baby powder does wonders on stuff like this, especially in humidity.

Absolutely!!! Can't wait to test it out.

Welcome to the board!!!! Hope to see ya at one of the shows, with your truck! I did no mods to front or back and it is a 20 22 combo with a c-notch. One peice of advice, don't go with the panhard bar in the back, do a two-link minimum with the stock arms and you will get the straight up and down travel with the bags.

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Awsome my first piece of advice. I will definately keep that in mind when I get to that point. I have actually already bought a set of wheels and tires from a friend. the wheels are 20X8.5 front and 20X10 rear. Hear is my wheels on my buddies truck.

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My little buddie at work that is helping my green ass out sugested a watts link. What do you think?

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That's a sweet truck! I would research it here on the board in the suspension area first then make a well educated decision. A long bed is gonna be a little different from the short of course. I have yet to decide on what to do with mine, but I don't wanna run the panhard bar for sure.

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my panhard bar is run from the driver side frame to passenger side trailing arm, its a lot less movement than the stock ones. the longer the bar, the less movement you have.

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I will have to check into mounting mine on the trailing arm then. My panhard bar is adjustable so maybe I can make it extend far enough or put another end on it to adjust it futher. Thanks Kev!

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np! the one i bought was extendable too but cpp makes 3 sizes i think, and i got the shortest one lol. i just cut it in half, welded a 1" thick bar in between in the length that i needed. works fine!

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Cool! Thanks Kev. Another little project I can do while waiting on my engine.

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cool, post some progress! just dont do what i have been doing while waiting on buying a compressor...i shaved the firewall (didnt plan on it), shaved up the mirror holes (didnt plan on it), and now about to move my bags on the axle (once again, didnt plan on it) lol.

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I know how that is. Mine was supposed to be a simple driver build. Dangit.
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not fair....i paid 150 for mine...and it cost me a 18 pack to have it blasted and then painted....i got 1 up on ya tho.. my motor is in..haha j/k

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Yeah, keep rubbin it in. One day mine will be there.......again.:lol:

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Talked with the engine shop today..........he actually did something. He sprayed the engine with brake cleaner where the crack is supposed to be and could not get anything to come through. He said the timing chain cover is coming off tomorrow so he can better see the suspect area and then weld as needed. I asked when I could get it and he said the end of this week or sometime next week. Yep, I can live with that. :metal:

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awesome to hear Slick. hope he comes through with it. although I think he could have done more work then just sprayed it with cleaner and looked at it in one day. IMO any how.