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I have a hydraulic tube bender that would probably work if you wanna come over and use it:lol:

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Ill be down in the spring to take you up on the offer
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OUTSTANDING! Maybe mine will be done and we can go for a drive.

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You are one determined guy, We never see rust that bad out here. It looks like it coming together nice? How you digging those grinding boggers at the end of the day? HA HA (Been there on a 27 ford rodster I just finished)
Good luck and God speed

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It's not hard to be determined when your workshop is attached to your house and its 70 degrees in there at all times:mm:

Hope I entertained you after all the reading ya did. We use salt on our roads in the winter and it just eats the trucks up. Thank goodness for patch panels:lol:

I hate grinding!!!!

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pics for AJ...glad to see you're still moving forward

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Perfect! Thanks Jim!

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we need progress

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Ill see what I can round up, rite now its wiring up the engine compartment, plus putting my tilt back together and installing it in the truck...amazing how many parts are in it:smoke:

also ordered the new Accel corrected HEI distributer cap, end of this week for delivery

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Stop at my place on the way through. I'll ride with you.

Thought about you today while i was spending what seemed like an eternity in the Philly airport waiting on a connecting flight.

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I'm looking forward to riding in that thing when it's done!!

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Sounds like a plan Tim

Tynee, should of called me, we could've killed some time together
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AJ, to answer your PM, that step in the cupholder is 1/8" thick at the smallest demension

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trying to wire up my electric water pump, once I buy the GOOD Vortec intake manifold gaskets, I may be able to run some water thru my cooling system
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http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...hinTrip385.jpg

finally foumd a place to mount the solenoids for my winch, not to much modification to the mount
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picked up the new corrected dist. cap from Accel, now all my spark plug wires from the left bank and right bank will stay to each side of the engine. Also, scored a NOS interior light (it's for a pickup, but should fit the 1/2 top), and my brackets for mounting my AM radio...thanks board members

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wow great stuff! i love nos but dont have one nos thing on my truck!haha

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not everything on my truck is NOS, but where I find a good deal, I'll take it! Found a perfectly good used Unity spotlight for a 1/4 the price of NOS. I'm trying to make my truck look like it might have survived 40 years, so I can't have to much shiny stuff on it
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got a couple hours to play with solenoids, mounted them on the side of the battery tray

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I didn't know this product existed, but it's high-time. LONG overdue!!

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I saw it available years ago, but the product didn't sell well. I looked for some old stock, but couldn't find any. Then one Saturday morning while watching TRUCKS!, it came up on the advertising, ordered it rite away, and it still took two weeks to get it. Should clean up my wires always hated them running all over the place...yeah, I know, anal

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Looking forward to the pics :) I have some cut to fit plug wires that would look sweet with this!

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any more progress?

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no, went fishing! 6 degrees in the morning. Fish is about 14 lbs, first time I used a 14 ' spey rod

DELETE

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sorry Va., but I have to find and order the Vortec intake gaskets, maybe today! Thanks for looking...

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well that is a bummer......glad you caught somthin i am just 15 but i havent caught anything yet i only have been fishin about 3 times

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Another fishing pic?!?

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got the intake gaskets on...felpro 1255. Bolts sealed and torqued to 11 ft. lbs. Black RTV used top and bottom, 4 corners got an extra portion at the block

now, on to the cooling, see if the electric water pump works
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A month since your last update...what gives old man?

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Good to see you back here VT!

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you don't want to know, destroyed in seconds, and a thousand dollar mistake! Pics to follow...

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oh man....I hate to hear that!!!

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:jdp:

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I'm almost to ashamed to show the pics, the more I think about...
2 sets of Vortec intake gaskets....................100
brand new vortec intake..............................177
GMPP vortec intake, B/C I broke the edlebrock 300
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plus 500 of my money that I didn't get to spend
B/C I had to replace the broken parts
1,000

Wifey says to me this morning, thank goodness you don't screw up very often:lol:

SNAFU/ almost FUBAR...all because of galling
Spiral easy out
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hairline crack due to force on the intake from the easy out
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does that answer your guestion or do you need more pics:lol:

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Man, sorry to see that.

but I was picturing the truck rolling down a hill out of the garage or something so it's not as bad as my imagination :D

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:lol:NO, not that bad, but money is a hard thing to come by these days...and the fact that I did something stupid, I should have gone with plan 'B'

BTW, I have something very similiar to that happen to me, another story for another day, maybe around a campfire with a beer

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you can send the story to me in a pm if you want?;) i like cool truck storys

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Oh damn! Man that stinks Jim. I know all about setbacks... :devil:

Can the intake be tig welded to fix the crack?
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I'll see what I can do...

Someone should be able to tig it, just not me! I can't find a welder around this area for nothing, so to save time I will just buy the GMPP intake

Are you into your new budget yet?

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I have a guy out here that could TIG it for you, but that's still a 1.5 hour trip.... that sucks.

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Thanks Mike for the offer, I may take you up on it someday, right now I want to refocus on my build and not my foul up. It's worth a road trip to see ya any way, and a member may need this intake at a very reduced rate

plus I have in-laws out there...