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Nobody would ever guess all the work that went into it, looks just like new. Great job!

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Well, nothing yet...but I plan on blasting the drivers' side radiator support tonight. Hopefully I won't have to work this weekend and will have time to blast a lot more parts.

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started cutting out the old floor for my patch panels

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Leaned on the bed and looked at all the junk in the back. Thought, it's to damn hot outside to run to the dump with no AC in it. Went back inside and watched tv.

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Cleaned the stickers and goo off the new Gabriel gas shocks that just arrived, now shopping online for a toggle switch with an illuminated tip to use as a back up light indicator.

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Well...you would not think it would take 8 hours to prep 2 cowl corners but...I had 3 sets of these things, one set was rusted out on the top and were original to my truck, one set did not fit the truck right, the other had an 1 inch antenna drilled in with a 3/16 bit, so I ended up cutting the rust out on the original ones and repairing them, filled the emblem holes while I was at it, 8 hours later I have a set ready for final sanding and coating the inside with por 15, next step is repairing the hood !!

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Checked the progress on the rear half of my fenderside yesterday. It may be painted next week.

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Looks like you are well on your way to having it turn out as nice as your Henry J. It's nice to see one restored, since many of us make numerous modifications.

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Thanks Mark! I only have $300 left in my fenderside budget for 2010. The painter wants another $200 but the paint, reducer and hardener have all been purchased. As well as all of the hardware. I changed my mind on the color and will not go with the original light gray, but will instead do ivoery over light blue. I am surprised you remembered that I owned a Henry J. Here is another image of that car.

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The Painter wants $200.. I need to start painting for people. :lol:

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after 20 years of owning my panel it now has a system (music) and my buddy lance at creative car hook it up,two huge 12" subs and 4 6x9s and two tweets,two huge xtants amps and i didnt do a deck it runs of my ipod, and sounds killer, he has done all my stuff for years,

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Very productive today, added a chrome license frame to my rear plate.

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I decided to find different fenders enoughs enough!:sumo:

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i caught my truck on fire!!!

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yikes, you must have a Holley carburetor! Is the truck OK?

here's my effort over the past several days:

http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/u...f/100_0171.jpg

http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/u...f/100_0172.jpg

http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/u...f/100_0176.jpg

http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/u...f/100_0175.jpg

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So what happened? Any residual damage?

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disassembled my newly acquired SWB Fleetside bed. built an engine stand for my also newly acquired 283 to sit on. Otherwise, the 5 million degrees in the shade drove me back in the house. I am sure i won't be getting much done until around Oct when it begins to cool off some.

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the fuel line busted and was spraying fuel out at about 15 psi
i guess the starter sparked when i tried to start it and the passenger side of my engine bay was up in flames
i immediately killed the fuel pump and ran for the fire extinguisher
it took two of them
the only damage it did was burn the battery cables
and the whole engine bay is covered in dust from the fire extinguishers

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What are these lights from originally? I feel like I remember them from one of my Dad's cars but I can't remember which one.

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Ran the fuel & trans lines, bolted on the ramhorns, exhaust pipes, starter. Now to fix the main wire harness, bolt on kick-down bracket, carb n valve covers connect radiator. Should be ready to fire this up next weekend!

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They aren’t original to any specific car, they’re aftermarket Unity accessory lights. Long ago I had seen them installed on many cars from the 40’ & 50’s. I’ve always been a collector of Unity products, liked the quality and the way they looked, so I figured there must be some way to use them that looked nice (that and I wanted backup lights). Of course it took me about five years to figure a way that I thought would look good! Here are a few pics of the box flap and instructions, obviously designed for a 40’s car. The newest date shown is 1951. They still come up on eBay somewhat regularly in NOS condition. One just sold last week.

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/2870/unity0a.jpg

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8302/unity0b.jpg

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/4031/unity0c.jpg

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Thanks for the info on the B/U lights!! They look great on yer stepside!

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Good thing you had some fire extinguishers, better be carefull or you'll set yourself a couple years behind!!!!!! you need to get rid of all rubber fuel lines!!! 50- or 100 bucks is a good investment.

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put the new floorpan on the roof of the truck,...just for storage...til i can afford to put it in...

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worked on one door all day, got it stripped to bare metal worked the dents out and gave it a few shots with epoxy and blocked it down, ready for another coat and the guide coat, man these trucks have a lot of surface area !! one down one to go !!

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i have stainless from the rear axle to the motor mounts
then i have rubber connecting the fuel cell and carb

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Had an appointment for new windshield. The guy gets there and says- "we have the wrong rubber" :dohh:

Gonna take a couple days to get the new one in- sucks cause I wanted to get it to the alignment and muffler shop this week

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got the pass door stripped and did the metal work, got the filler on and shot it with some epoxy in and out, a whole day of final blocking and this will be in the done pile too !

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Finally got to see her again! It has been a few weeks since I was last at my shop, so I drove out there today and paid her a visit. Didn't have anytime to spend with her, but I have been collecting a few essential power tools I have been years without. Now I think I have what I am going to need to get the parts truck disassembled and ready for the scrap yard. Should be some more progress coming soon...

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Jealous of your doors bugeye, mine need a visit from the patch man. All in good time.:lol:

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Thanks man !

I started looking for doors, fenders and hood in 1997, just got these last year..even out here in Ca these things are rare, and these are far from perfect, they had some pin holes here and there along the bottom, I used Por15 and filled them, I scored these from the most rusty truck I ever saw, go figure...another member here has the cab and is using it for a crew cab build

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Picked up most of the painted bed panels this afternoon.

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I have been looking for almost a year. Everything around here for doors is worse than what I have. Good thing the inner and outer lowers are available!:lol:

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today after work i busted out the battery grease gun at the shop and greased all the front end fittings,something i never thank of doing:confused: took five minutes:lol:!!!

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I removed the bed end I messed up last weekend when I backed up and hooked it on my metal fence. I pounded on it for a while until I got bored with it. Nonhog & I swapped it over to HEI last weekend. I think I'll go out and broaden my plug gap from .035 to .045.

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i put a window regulator in my 65 c-10 daily driver, boy does the window work better.

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I finally got all of the rubber weather strip installed in the passenger side door today, so now both sides are finally done.

bleh.

However, the vent window does not want to seat just right at the top, so I have to fudge with it to make it close.

I'm not sure what the deal is there yet, I'll have to keep messing with it I guess.

-W

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Cleaned about two tons of pine needles from underneath the panel body - prepping for reassembly. :)

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its too darn hot! here in Indy, but I did work a bit on my fender and the bed, Im looking at a 93 fuel injected engine trans combo for 450 delievered. I hope it will fit

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What engine is it? If it's a TBI 305 or 350 it will fit with no problems. Are you staying with the EFI?