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Nice job, ole.

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Thanks a bunch....hope it stays this way. please no more storms....

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Got the bumper guards! Looks good!!....and yeah all the sanding when painting takes forever!! But the finished product is worth it! Looks great!

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New tires, wiper blades, and air filter!

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Installed my new steering wheel.

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Actually did this last weekend, just getting around to updating the thread. got the drivers side welded up and primed. Still have to do some trimming on the bed to get the wider tub to fit over the corregation of the bed. Working on the passenger side today.. kinda.

http://i544.photobucket.com/albums/h...109_191626.jpg

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and the test fit...

http://i544.photobucket.com/albums/h...116_130139.jpg

I have also decided that if I ever have to depend on my welding skills to survive, I will starve.

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picked up a pair of rear drop springs and a gas pedal from the junk yard.
I had seen the springs about 6 months ago but though someone else had got them, they just hid them in the truck of a car for their next trip. the gas pedal was already removed and mixed in with a bunch of junk in the floorboard, I must have overlooked it the last 4 or 5 times I was there

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Installed my Boyd tank and finished my tubs..

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Wow Jeff nice wheel! Your truck is amazing man, we need to hang out soon.

Eric (Evaded)

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Stenciled "RAT"on that $200 cover. Weather's gonna hit. Not much chance, but I don't want to see this cover on someone else's truck.

Did a short-term change-out of the glove box door (metallic "black" hammered finish paint...not really black, huh?). Just until I can find a
used one with no dents and a good chrome edge.

As you can see, I dressed it up with a pre-67 badge. Just to see who could possibly care enough to be pissed about it.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::devil:

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Thanks Eric. Yeah I'll try to get by next week to check out your truck!

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Installed a new GM 350 in my Dads 70. Not a bad little weekend project. Would have been nice to clean and paint the bay but we still got a bunch of little things done on this old truck. :metal:

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Thanks to CaptainFab, Mister-B and a dozen or so of you guys, finally finished my brake booster upgrade and all I have say is ..Daaamnnnn! Thanks all. Works great.

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Looks great.

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Thanks!

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Discovered a MASSIVE vacuum leak in my engine , it's stalling out constantly , I hope can find it before Sunday but I'll drive it there anyways :metal: .

Power brakes are fabulous ! 1/4 the pedal effort and uses NO HP ! .

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New door seals and door lock pins!

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Sent off payment for an original driver's side rear fender, with the spare tire cut out (step side truck).

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Still waiting to get Money for the Generator

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What's wrong with your generator ? . they're dead simple to routinely overhaul and NAPA has the parts .

Or cheap to buy rebuilt exchange .

Easy to upgrade to the far better Delcotron SI internally regulated alternator .

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Picked up a passenger bed side and made arrangments with salvage yard to get a new windshield (new to me anyway). Now if the weather would just cooperate I could do some actual work on it. Where the hell is this global warming people a complaining about!

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Yellow lights no longer make your butt pucker, right? Lol

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My right rear drum is locking up. Pretty dangerous, really.

New brake booster/prop valve (disc/drum), master cyl. New pads/rotors up front and new shoes with good drums in the back.
Multi-bleedings with no air in the system that I can see in the bleeder jar.

It's the pass rear brake that's locking up, and locked up first *before* I recently changed out a leaking wheel cyl) may be out
of adjustment ????? I don't know.

I *do* know that I've never been able to get a good enough adjustment on the parking brake to make it work properly.

Gotta play with this one. Possibly I have a bad P-valve? I'm not too happy with the overall brake performance compared to my '72.
So maybe it's a crappy booster/m/c/prop valve set up all together.

Or maybe I just need to play with the adjustment on the pass rear drum???

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Not sure why anyone would waste one penny on a used windshield when new ones are $211.00 installed , this includes a brandy new crappy Chinese made rubber grommet if you go to Safelite Glass Co. ~ they're on the Internet , just google " cheap windshields " and you'll get lots of professional glass shops that'll do it cheaply , while you wait .

New glass is one of those amazingly good dollar value things , once you look through a crystal clear glass instead of the old pitted ,scratched one , you'll be sold for life .

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Rebuilt the Right front brakes again, fixed the backing plate and got a new wheel cylinder in there. A bolt broke on the back of the Wheel cylinder, and it came loose. No brakes on the freeway sucks. Also got a set of mirrors in that I wanted. Going to pull the mirrors off the truck tomorrow, and install the new ones. Might then be able to see whats behind me.