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Had spare fixed at Discount Tire - it went flat and they had put a short air stem on that did not come out of the Beauty Ring.

And.... a wash and detail so she is pretty tomorrow for the 1st visit to Wimberley Coffee & Cars!

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Caught it on fire.

Yep...went to remove the valve cover, it arced on something which quickly fused that hot wire to ground. Within a few seconds I had fire in two different spots under the hood! :devil:

My brain was quick to pickup on events as things started to slow down...the smell of electrical burn, smoke...I start to see images of my burnt out husk of a truck...

Before I could stop it, my hand reached out and firmly grabbed onto a red hot wire and tried to yank it free which resulted in a pretty scary looking burn across my fingers but nothing much else. Then I got the battery post disconnected and used the extinguisher.

Now I've got some work to do!

-klb

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Oh that sucks!! I'm glad you got it out before it burned up!

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Glad you were able to get the fire out rather quickly.

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Glad to hear you saved your truck and didn't get hurt to bad.

I did some wiring myself this weekend. Focused on the Intellitronic electric dash gauges. Pretty scaring wiring it up to a Painless wiring harness and trying to sort out what wire goes where. Guess I will fined out if I did it right when I power it up.

Also, did a little metal work and got some used Vision Wheels 141 Legend rims.

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Thanks guys...

About a year ago a video circulated of a guy having a small under hood fire with his square body on some street somewhere. He didn't have any way to put it out and so by the time a bystander brought an extinguisher, his truck was burning big time...far, far too late.

After that, I started carrying a small one in the cab and make certain to keep one around the house/shop.

My hand injury turned out to be a little more severe than I first thought. D@mn a red hot wire can do some damage! Don't know why I wasn't wearing my gloves.

-klb

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Started the cleanup.

Everything here found ground...


-klb

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Yep, you brought "well grounded" to a whole new level.:lol::lol:

I'm glad you saved yourself and the truck. I hope your hand heals well.

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I see they rolled the registrations for C10's in the park to 2021, and of course are sold out. Did you register?

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I'm nearly done refinishing truck parts off my project. Really I send most of it out. This is part of the last batch of cold processed Cerakote. Beyond this and thats, all hinges, the steering column under the hood & drive-line were done this way. The coater says Ceracote does real well with moving parts, time will tell.

Color or shade changes under light and that. They're black satin, but by this picture they appear more gray to me.

Missed it. You?

-klb
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Weg92f sorry for your misshap, Let this be a reminder to always disconnect the negative ground wire from the battery. We all have done this at one time or another and gotten away with it. Me too.

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Yes. I know two lefties who have melted their wedding bands onto their fingers while working on vehicles. I don't wear mine when working on anything mechanical.

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My kids ordered my kit from summit . Mar-k had a Christmas sale 20% to but it was still cheaper paying full price with $ 50 shipping . I think shipping was upwards of 300 with Mark- k . And the kicker is it was dropped shipped from Mar-k but under summits shipping agreement with UPS frieght .

Side note summit will honor the 20 off but you pay the full shipping

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Shipping from Mar K wasn’t much more than Summit and with the discount it was cheaper from Mar K. But I’m only about 5 hours from the factory.

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I'm a little further :lol:

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I'd say so, by a factor of 4 or 5! I spent a month north of you in the Utica/Illion area back in 2008. Beautiful country and great folks up there.

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Welded up some holes in the rear cross sill that a PO had drilled for the license plate and light. I will be installing a sport bumper. Ordered a Mar-K pine wood set today.

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New updates

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Well it didn't take long for you to start making improvements!

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Sure, the weather is beautiful now in my country and the work is very interesting

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It's looking good, keep them coming.

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A good detail and oil change on this chilly afternoon!

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Installed rear tow hooks

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That's a nifty floor mounted access hatch you got there!


-klb

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New updates

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Nice! Looking good....:metal:

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Went 22s. Was goin back and forth on 20s vs 22s , but had 20s on a truck before and regretted not goin 22s. Now just gonna lower her another inch and call it good. 30 series tires are rough thou...oh well no regrets

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All I did is download this picture. One finisher finished the cab, the other guy's water broke. His wife's anyway. "Phase 3" is just around the corner.

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That's pretty 71CHEVYSHORTBED402!!

I installed this today and I didn't even blow up my truck (though I only driven it a few miles). I am afraid it is going to ice/snow while I am out - stupid weather. Not suppose to be icy/snow in these here parts of Texas!

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Beautiful!

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Thanks guys. I usually don't use a cell phone but did today. Went like this, he's ecstatic with the progress & his end nearly done:devil:

Painter says "Looks amazing"
"Music to my ears"
"But thinking about going Blue";)
"I just threw up in my mouth" (already painted bed:smoke:)
"Same color as that truck?"
"Yeah, two tone"

:lol::lol::lol:

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I'm not a big short box fan but really like the look and stance of your truck.

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Looking good!

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Nice!!

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I made a list of the first 10 things, some easy and some well, lets say challenging for me, to do to my truck when the weather gets warmer and I get the truck out of Winter storage.

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My friend got the bed and tailgate painted Friday.

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That bed looks amazing. Tell him I am a seasoned auto body guy and I like it!

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It looks very nice! :metal: