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New seat belts and old seat. She is now ready to drive on the street after over a year.
Also worked on the timing.
Included a couple of new photos. I am still trying to decide if I want to keep the headlight visors.

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So here is the frustrating update. I started working on the timing last weekend and got it to where I thought was good. While doing that I realized that my battery cable was not secured to the terminal vary well. So I bought a new 4 gauge battery cable with a battery cut off switch and installed that this morning before even trying to start the truck up. I pored a little fuel in the carburetor and it fired right up on the first crank. Thought grate and proceeded to fine tune my timing a little bit. I was running vary good and I was able to turn it off and start it back up with no problem. While I was tightening the distributor back down I bumped the distributor. So my timing got all messed up. I turned the distributor back to where I thought it was and tried to start it back up. But it would barely turn over as thought the battery was almost dead. I tried to adjust the distributor to see if that was the problem but that did not help. So I tried to jump start it and that did not work either when it had worked in the past. My volt gauge in my truck is showing 12 volts and drops significantly when I try to turn it over. I tried bypassing the battery cut off switch by bolting the two ends that were connected to the switch together and that did not help.

Here are my thoughts.

1) I need a new battery or need it to be put on a slow charge. (I do not think this is it sense I tried to jump it and that did not work) I will probably take the battery to a mechanic next Saturday if I can't come up with anything else.

2) The starter motor is going out. It is a minnie starter that I have not had that long. (I don't think this is the problem sense it will turn the engine over but just a little bit.)

3) The electrical is grounding out somewhere. I don't see any thing arking but that is the only logical logical solution I can come up with. That would explain why the battery seams like it is almost dead but will not jump start and why it seemed like it happened all of a sudden.

The electrical has recently been redone. There are a lot of extra wires that are not connected to anything. They do not have any kind of connectors on the ends and the wires are not showing. They are all for the things that came with the harness that my truck does not need. Like back up lights, wires for electrical seats and a radio, just to name a few. I would call the guy that did the wiring on Monday. But if I can't stat the truck I can not take it to him without getting towed.

I am vary frustrated.:waah:

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If during cranking the batter drops below 9V, normally means you need a new battery.

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So I tried jump starting my truck again today. This time I left the cables attached for 5 minutes in order to charge the battery a little. It started right up. My next step is to take the battery to a mechanic so that they can do a slow charge on the battery before I go buy another. I talked to the guy that did the wiring and he said the way to check to see if it is grounding out is to hold the connector close to the termina and if it arks or sparks it is grounding out somewhere or something is turned on. I tried that and I got no parking or sparking so I will proceed as if that is not the problem.

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I took the truck out for it's maiden voyage (sense it was painted). I have not driven it for over a year and a half. The doors rattled like crazy but I think that is because the whether stripping is falling off. The inside door handle also fell of but that is not a big deal. I also heard another loud noise just like the door handle made when it fell off but I can not find anything on the cab floor the only thin I can think of was that it was the jumper cables bouncing against the cab floor. Man it feels good to have her running again.

Sorry no pictures.

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I installed door seals from Painless and they are awesome. They clip on and have an adhesive that is already applied in the groove. I am currently waiting for the first coat of varnish to dry on my bed wood. I got a new set of belt line window fuzzies from brothers and they are horrible. The truck is fully drivable and I am enjoying it.

There are so many little thing I want to do and so little time (in my head).

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Got my tail gait and grill letters on this weekend. Here are some photos of my engine bay.

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Your keeping me motivated - looks great!

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thanks

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Looks good. Which radiator did you use? I like the more rounded top tank compared to others that I have looked at.

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I got it from Us Radiator. I have not driven it a hole lot but I am happy with it so far.

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found this in my trans pan a couple of weeks ago. I guess I will be on the hunt for a new one.

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Looking Stupendous!

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It has been about 8 years sense my truck has had a solid floor. It sure feels good to get it back in.

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Yay got new tail light brackets installed. Boo the tail light don't work. The blinker and the break light do but the not the tail lights. I think it is not getting a good ground but am not sure.

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Forgot to mention that my transmission stopped shifting into 3rd gear on Saturday but I saw it coming. I already had a 700r4 built and had an appointment to have it installed today. Perfect timing. I can't wait to get the new one in.

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I created a new license plate bracket. I have never liked the original location. It is all mock up parts. Have not put it on the truck yet.

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Beautiful truck you have. It makes me want to go buy a short stepper!!:lol::lol::lol:

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Looking great! Bed wood looks amazing. Was that a kit?

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thanks

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Yes it was from mar-k. I added the gas filler door my self.

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The build is looking GREAT, I like the white inside the bed, its a nice contrast!

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Found this today. It is a wire that got squished by a bolt. It is a wire that goes to my tail lights. I fixed it but didn't get a chance to see if it salved the problem. I am hopeful but I am thinking it will not fix it sense it was only one wire and both tail lights don't work.

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This is how I feel most days I work on the truck.

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What brand are your front wheels?

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Wheel vintiques. They are 17x8. They powder coated them black for me but now they only sell them pre coated in silver. I think you can speshal order them in bare steel. There website says they are out of stock but if you call them they have them.

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I'm sorry, I meant the front tires.
btw... I nominated you for the TOTM.

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Nitro tires
Thank you for nominating me.

I have to worn you that if you get the 275/55r17's in the rear and lower it 5 in or more you might have to roll the lip and even then you might have some rubbing issue on the inside the rear fender. That's on a step side. If you want to know the problem's I'm having I will post the link. But the fronts work fine with a 4 inch drop with no rubbing issues
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Finally got my tail light fully installed and working correctly after the squished wire problem. While trying to figuring all that out I found that the guy that installed the wiring got the tail light wire and the dash lights wire switched on the headlight switch. I also had a lot of trouble figuring that one out because the bulbs were not sitting properly in the tail light sockets so the tail lights were not going on.

I also had to make a new trans mount cross member because I had a 700r4 installed and it was causing my old bracket to sag and the drive shaft was hitting my emergency brake.

I also had to widen my rear fenders a little. I thought I was going to either get new tires or try to roll the fender but I saw that the tab that the fender bracket attaches to has a slot rather than just a hole. So I was able to pull on the fender and retighten it so that the fender stayed pushed out a little which should give me the clearance I need. I also got new rear shocks because the old ones were shot. I think that will help a little with keeping the rear from swaying around and rubbing.

I also had to trim some mettle off the bottom and top of my fan shroud so that it fit properly against my radiator. I think that help with a lot of the sound that my electric fan was making due to vibration.

I know these all seem like simple things but some of them were keeping me from taking the truck back to the transmission shop so that he can fix the leek coming from the seal between the tail shaft and the drive shaft. He also needs to install the speedometer cable which he could not install at the time because it was on back order. After the transmission is finished I can try to start saving for the interior again.

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I tried installing the plate in it's new location. What do you all think?

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I ran into a mistake I made before I had the mettle work done. I drilled holes for the air conditioning before the work was done. I guess I accidentally marked the wrong holes to be filled. So the old heater holes were left open and the new ones I drilled were filled in so I had to redrill them yesterday. Fortunately the vintage air kit comes with plugs to fill the original holes but it will not look nearly as nice as the holes being welded shut and painted��

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In other news I am working on getting the truck ready to have the interior done. And I am saving up my pennies, nickels and $100 bills.

I replace my wiper blaids with a set of 12" Champion blades. I hade to buy a hole assembly and take it apart to use only the rubber. I hade to do a little cutting to make them slide in but they look like they will work well.

I also used a d-ring to lock my column shirt linkage in park (as a society measure). With the hood locked you can't take the truck out of park. I am also trying to figure out a way to lock my steering column inside the engine compartment.
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Just a FYI, these trucks are supposed to have 13" wiper blades.

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That's funny. A while back ago I bought the mettle parts that hold the blade to the arm and they are around 12.5" in length so I was just going off what they sent me. Maybe they sent be parts for a different year. O well they fit perfect.

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Test fit bench seat from a 90's burb. I want head rests so this is what I will be going with. I am pleased the front 2 bolts fit fine. I will have to drill new ones for the rear bolts. Now I have to figure out what color I want it.

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Looks great! Love the color.

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I was getting my cab floor ready for installing some heat insulation and found a small pin hole and after some poking around with a screwdriver I found this. I think if I do a little more poking I will find that the area below is rusted also. I know I had a rust hole in a similar spot that was supposed to be fixed but it might have been in the other side. I will have to go through my old photos to see.

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Headrest was important to me too.
If somebody rear ends me, I don't want whiplash.

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I got the hole in the cab floor welded up and had my hood rebodyworked and repainted. Now it is time to start laying down sound deadener and heat insulation. I am a little trigger shy because I don't want to install the wrong thing.

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I have been spending the last few month taking the truck back and forth from the painter. I thought i had it all ironed out until I washed my truck last weekend. While washing all looked fine. About 2 hours later a lot of the cracks that he was supposed to have fixed returned. I think he thought he could just buff them out but it turns out they went deeper. I am vary tired and discouraged right now. I was about to start work on the interior. Now that will have to be put on hold. Here is a photo of the roof.:waah: