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Who's the seat cover from? It would look good in a 64-66.

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Very nice, the black houndstooth and the ochre. Get some floor mats for that truck so you don't get your new carpet all dirty!!

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Finally got around to doing a compression test on my 283. I started on the passenger side, # 2- 130 pounds, #4- barely moved the needle, I didn't bother doing the rest. It's new engine time.

Now both my rides need engine replacements. What fun.

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Pulled the 327/powerglide out of the 65 1 ton camper. Getting it ready for the 454/turbo 400 combo.

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hipper what are you doing about your driveline.?....sp

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I will have it shortened and balanced once I get every thing in and get a measurement.

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It is friday.

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It is only Friday in some parts of the world..:lol:

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I ordered my 700r4 and a new trans crossmember :metal::metal:

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I used it to pick up a 292 from the junkyard for my friends '63 GMC

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Sweet....Comfort shift....
I sure was pleased with my decision to go with an automatic.
I'm getting ready to go from the TH400 to a TH200...beefed up a little.
I need some OD.
I thought the TH200 was a little girl tranny fer ever, but my buddy that does trannys got with me and convinced me it was the right thing.
It sure worked as far as my budget was concerned.
Any comments are welcome, as I haven't done it yet.

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I was going to go with the 200 but my trans guy talked my out of it. They can both be built up well and some like the gear ratio a little better and it is lighter, but he said I could get a better trans with the 700 and there's more readily available options for strengthening it.

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Found a truck at u pull it and yanked the whole front off so I can replace my sheetmetal. Getting started on the sanding this Sunday...

Just a reminder of what happened
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...FCE6C57836.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...psc84785a7.jpg
I'm not using the hood, going to wait and find a GMC hood

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps0c70b6bc.jpg

I'm ready to get started!!

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I finished up my '66 factory? bucket seats.

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Not today but I have installed my gauge unit. Yesterday I bolted up the tail gate and hooked up the Cig Lighter.. Not really a cig lighter but a power outlet to charge my phone or run my GPS... :thumbs:

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Went to dino's git down saw awesome trucks

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Well I broke the tachometer wire yesterday and am going to fix it today!:lol:

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Not quite my truck. but work toward the resto of a '65 this weekend

Bought an older 210 liter compressor from a friend last week, collecting this week. Happy at £100 for it.

Plan is to clean it and service it, then use it to paint the Chevy truck.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps45c5bf60.jpg

Years ago I restored a 1963 VW Beetle from this.....

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...pse4e26b8e.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psd5c16931.jpg


In other news, I went over to help mate Martin to put up a car port frame yesterday, started at 0,5'C at 08.00 and turned into a good day.

We ended up working till about 19.00 which was about 2 plus hours after dark and then I went back today to help him get the roof on as well.

Bunch of pics of the process.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psc6687758.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps81737979.jpg

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Front corner post was actually correct.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps1a9b6860.jpg


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After dark we carried on with the neighbours spotlight

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http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps59afb9fd.jpg

Today we got half the roof on when rain stopped safe play.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps704c5b3e.jpg

Of course the whole motivation for this roof build is so that Martin can work under some cover over winter prepping his truck.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps2243b540.jpg

And that pretty much brought another weekend to an end.

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Last week I went to bleed the brakes to my newest addition and while doing so the left hose burst. I bought new hoses but of course they were rusted on. so for a week penetration oil soaked in. The right hose broke loose with some channel locks but the left side was being a beast, I took care of it though with some heat from the propane torch. A little heat and it busted loose.
After that is was brake bleeding time and of course while doing that I smelled gas.. Oh boy.. The rubber line that goes from the tank to the frame was dripping. Off to the store to get some new fuel line. After all that I took it out for a drive.. Oh yeah forgot to mention that the column shifter would not even budge so last week I sprayed penetrating oil and it freed up also.

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I changed the coil,cap,rotor,sparkplugs,plugwires. Just have to find how come I don't have any power anywhere.

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Installed a wrecking yard sway bar $20 and some new bushings $22 tonight after work. What a TOTALLY different truck! I can't believe how easy and cheap this swap is and the amount of bang for your buck you get.
http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps6b0c600f.jpg

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Can you tell us what vehicle the bar is from? There are several that will fit, just looking for the one you used.

...ned.

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Ned, Mine came off of an 86 Suburban but 73-87 fits perfect and are the same bar from what I have been told. There are 3 bars, this one is the 1 1/8 which is the most common. There was a 1 3/16 and a rare 1 1/4 from the c/k 20 3/4 and 1ton stuff. Here's a good thread that I used
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...ad.php?t=72338

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I insured and registerd the new addition today. Now I can drive it. I am surprized on how good the drum brakes stop..

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Pulled the driver's side stepside fender off today; waiting for the cut out fender to arrive. Can't wait!:chevy: