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Today I drove mine, for the first time ever. Just down the driveway and back, but im pretty excited.

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A little paint and a few new body parts came in the mail.

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Thought about taking her out of the garage so I could park my DD in there. It's been around -18 degrees at night the last couple of nights and the little commuter car doesn't like it. I decided to leave her there, snug in the garage. In her rightful place.

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Test fit some H3 mirrors... will need to build a base to fit the contour of the door. The clear the wing window no problem...

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i just found out my 700r4 is ready and im gonna be bolting it up to my 250 inline soon:)

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wow the fender looks great eric it looks definatley good enough for my truck:D

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haha its still not done lol, but looks way better. also opened up my porterbuilt panhard bar the man in brown dropped off yesterday. all i got to say is beautiful welds and excellent quality products.

edit: and also cutting out the plate to box in my lower a arms

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those welds are so sexy and beast

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haha yup lol.

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i drove my 72 gmc to work when it was -41 below with no heater!!! damn i need to fix that!!!

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finished grinding down the plate that i cut out to box my lower arms in with, and picked this up for $10 to replace the one in my burb, and yes i know it is for a 67-68 gmc and it is in better shape than mine minus the part where the hood pin thing goes in the center but i will remove that from mine and install it on that one, will probably also cut the handle and move it over or use part of the one from the one it is replacing so that it is not offset
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Haven't done anything yet today, but I picked up some stuff from the powdercoater yesterday...

Of course, I had to see what my intake looked like on top of the 468...

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got my redone seat installed today after I painted the brackets
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what do you guys think?

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Got my block side mounts in the mail yesterday, and got my poly cab bushings today
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Started the Fiberglassing of my Center Console last Night, Sanded a bit to form Shape where needed for another Layer of Mesh and Resin
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Weather's been so crappy here that FedEx wasn't even delivering, but they did today. Off for powder (brackets) and paint (water pump and ps pump) next week with a bunch of other stuff. Hope to wrap up the chasis by next weekend.

Sorry for the bad pic, I think my camera is finally giving up.

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Picked these up a couple of weeks ago too. Seats have been recovered at some point and the original foam is in great shape. I'll recover them in leather if I put them in the 72 but I couldn't pass up the deal. $455 plus trip to Tulsa ($100 with lunch for 3) for seats and console that's in ok shape.

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Well today I changed out the cap and rotor for my HEI distrib, by the way I had know idea it was that involving, cleaned out my carb and adjusted the idle. I took her for a nice drive around Puyallup, got a few looks from people, either my truck is cool or the belt on it was screaming and sounding like it was going to blow up...I am going to go with "my truck is cool" next week changing belts, hopfully that will get rid of my screeching sound when I gas it. Also installed a tach, I figured that will help with tuning up the truck. I eventually would like to get the original tach gauge for my truck, but I have been unable to find one yet in my price range.
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i would say "its a COOL truck "

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Modified an 85 iroc tpi intake to fit on my 305 that will be going in my 72 while i get the 89 z28 tpi 350 put back together(gotta get the heads back from the shop and add a cam).
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started the install of my porterbuilt panhard bar, almost done, just need to paint and install the bar

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Thanks rondog4416, I agree, all these trucks are cool regardless of condition :metal:
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Pulled mine away from her room mate and drove it down the road. Then used my cell phone to take pictures before tucking her back into bed

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Went to pick a part.Got p/s pump with brackets for a 68. Also picked brackets and pump for a Pontiac. Bought another 800 cfm qjet.

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I finally got the power steering pump mounted. Couldn't find the backet that mounted to the head and exhaust, so I ended up making one. I think it looks better than a stock one, other than the paint on it that I wrecked. I'll have to touch that up :lol: :gmc2:

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Nice work! It does look good, looks factory but better. Sometimes I wonder why the factory made some stuff so ugly when they could have made it look and work better at the same price.
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Thanks Airspeed..
I spent two hours driving around to our local wrecking yards looking to see if they had anything, only to find out that I was lucky to find any wrecks that were older than 1988,, getting harder and hard here to find any old stuff, I figured I wasted more time looking for the part than it actually took me to make it.....I know for next time at least.

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I finally figured out why the truck is smoking and where my break fluid was going. Ya not cool. My master cylinder is leaking into the power booster. I will be getting the new master cylinder tomorrow.

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Well I started my new suspension work this weekend. Got all of the front and rear dismantled and started installing the new CPP stuff. Got the Center crossmember installed and was hoping to get the new trailing arms and air bags installed but CPP forgot to send the bushings for the trailing arms :(! So I started to install the front stuff and got as far as installing the new upper control arms and realized the the lower control arms are on back order! Oh well, I had a blast working on my truck all weekend and got quite a bit done all things considered!http://http://s275.photobucket.com/a...20C10%20Truck/

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Well lets see, I did a few things today...

1. Pulled the 83 LWB parts truck into the shop and pulled the front clip and interior pieces...

2. Got side-tracked, drove my 70 into the shop, changed the oil, 5 Qts. Delo 400 with a Fram extra guard filter, and cut the bumpstops off the lower A- arms thet were causing it to bottom out...

3. Tore the worn out and broken bench seat out of the 86 K10 farm truck, replaced with a nice one from the parts truck...

4. Got side tracked again, and took the 70 for a spin, only to get up to 65 mph and remember that my cylinders were completely out in the rear brakes, So after some pedal pumping I got it slowed down and returned to the shop...

5. Jumped in the 2010 to run up to town and pick up the rear brake cylinders, only to find out the parts store closed at 7:00, and it was 7:15. Ugh. owell, its been a long day.

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Nice truck! I disassembled, cleaned, primed and painted my control arms.
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finished installing the pb panhard bar:metal:, just need to adjust it. also removed the rear lower bag mount and cut out the cross bar that i had put in it that wasnt strong enough and was bent. will be replacing that with some dom tubing.
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Went and picked up the cab/chassis and the spare cab (mounted on a dolly). Took the chassis to the youngest sons' house and put it in the garage. Put the cab-on-dolly behind the camper in my driveway. These pix are taken where we picked 'em up.

On Sunday, son and I removed the rear bumper, the 2-inch hitch receiver, both doors and then gutted the doors. Still gotta pull the brake booster and MC off of the firewall. Then, we gotta ditch the old cab and start cleaning the chassis for paint.

All in all, a good weekend. Time with son (he's 27) and time spent productively on the '69. We got more done in 3 hours than the guy I paid has done in the past 3 years.

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Gave my driver's-side header a little more clearance, primered the passenger's door, switched the fronrt tires to the correct sides ;),
chased some more wires under the dash. "Finished" the tilt install, connected the front brake line cross-over. But most fun was mocking
up the 1" (5 x 5 to 5 x 5) spacer on the rear behind the Boss 338 20's and 275/55's. The rear wheels just needed to come out a touch from
where they were for my taste. I don't know the back spacing on these, because I assumed that the Boss 20's were only made in one back-spacing.
Whatever they were, now they're an inch "wider" per side.

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Installed my new blackmax bed cover. looks good and very easy to install.

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Replaced a dead battery, dead starter, and passenger caliper. Heads up to any one running 6 lugs, stock 15" steelies, and using an Early Classic disc swap. It don't jibe. After much clearancing of the caliper and wheel, trying spacers. I ended up killing the calipers and using GM 16" spare rims. EC knows this but doesn't say so in there literature. Lesson learned.