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Fabbed up the rear bumper brackets and a hidden reciever hitch today, I did not have room for a class 3 hitch between the bumper and bed. I used the smaller one should be fine as I do not plan to tow anything over the 4k rating the reciever has, I could have bought the brackets from LMC for 98$ plus their bend you over shipping but...I wanted the bumper tucked in and higher than the factory mounts them

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Excellent Idea!

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Started fabricating the exhaust system. 2 1/4" OD out of the manifold to a Stainless Dynomax muffler the sales rep left behind.

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YES!!! Love those air cleaners! The valve covers look pretty sic too. :metal:

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installed the fast ez efi kit

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Installed my p/s adapter and prepped it for welding.

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Hey Legend nice build on #72 you put allot of work in to it thanx for sharing the pic's if you have pic's of your daughters 60 GMC when it's done I would like to see those also.....Vernski:uhmk:

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painted the remaining two center caps and got one coat on the wheels before it was too windy. got the bumper scuffed and primed for paint on tuesday. Located the two tires i'll run on the front, i'll get those mounted tuesday. taped the roof off for painting, maybe sand and prep tomorrow.

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nothing major...chrome trim on wheels. but boy did it make a difference in appearance!
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Pulled out all the bed wood, was Pine that was faded out. Was going to replace it with Oak that I have that is rough sawn, after I cut to size and plane, stain and coat with lots of varnish, but also have a nice supply of Eastern Red Cedar that has been drying for a year.......so trying to decide if the cedar would look good in it. Tomorrows plan is to clean all the exposed frame and rear end, prime and paint.

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I vote cedar.

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busy today, put in a new choke cable, think I might have run all summer with the choke partially closed, because it was all jammed up.

fixed a broken lever on the heater, and put in a working heater switch.
(this was easier said than done!)

pulled the kickpanel vents, and vaccumed out the air box, a critter had taken up residence there years ago I guess, full of pine cones and pine needles.

replaced the pionts, cap , rotor, and condenser. the cap and rotor were so corroded I am not sure how it even ran.

this was all on my 65 dd

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nothing major, new peep mirrors.

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Got a call from the powdercoater telling me my rallye wheels are ready. I am glad that I'm getting closer to taking off the current ones. Now I can start working on new tire sizes. The manager at the local Tire Max says to bring my truck in and he will mount tires and put them on the truck until I find the size that gives me the stance I want. That is sweet. come to find out he has a 63 shortbed and a bagged and body dropped 46.

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i got my horn working after 3 years and i think my altenator working as well , I was told the guy that helped me redo my truck wired it wrong, the guy owns 4-5-6 chevy truck

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Finally got the frame and all the suspension pieces to the sandblaster. Will pick everything up tomorrow.

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Got my firewall filled and ready for body filler, next is the drip rail. Previous body work left much to be desired, a portion of rail on pass side back corner is all bondo.

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just found where the same 4-5-6 chevy truck put my wiper linkage together wrong, i might get wipers now after 3 years of not having them

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I took the day off to work on my truck. I ended up building a table with wheels so I can place the cab a little higher. Without a lift it was tough when your by yourself. But I did it and now Im home again with 2 torn discs I should have known better.

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Got the cig lighter working today. I know its not a big deal, but sometimes its the little things..

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Now that the bed is off, I cleaned, scraped the exposed frame, pulled the rear tires off and repainted the frame area. Going to start cutting the wood for the bed floor tomorrow and dry fitting it before drilling all the required holes. Then stain followed by multiple coats of marine varnish.

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I started setting in my air shocks with the new brackets that I made myself.

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Originally Posted by chevy_mike
Monday evening I put my valve covers and air cleaner on.



YES!!! Love those air cleaners! The valve covers look pretty sic too.
__________________X2!!!

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Finished up installing the treated plywood in the bed. More details in my build thread....

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http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ehicle/004.jpg
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I picked this truck up a few weeks back, it had a few wiring issues that I managed to get solved with help from a few others on here. Installed a better fuse panel then what I had, thanks too Gulffishin!

The white pic is what it looked like when I picked it up but I had to paint it black. I plan on a candy apple red over a gold base with silver flake and a white pinstripe to seperate the black from red like my motorcycle.

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Oh, and the black pics were taken today. First pics!

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not a darn thing........day off.but wife had me take care of her growing honey-do list....ohh well.one has to do what one has to do for the honey

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It turned out great. The bodywork looks really straight. What type paint did you use?

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Last night I test fitted the new Mar-K TG. Very nice product!!

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[QUOTE=markeb01;4231165]It turned out great. The bodywork looks really straight. What type paint did you use?[/QUOTE


the cab and front clip were in pretty good shape to begin with no rust on the truck anywhere. The box was the worst part of it and had very minimal mud in it. All I did was scuff it up and paint it.


this was my second time using tractor implement paint but learned from the last time to thin it down more then the actual recommended rate. I sprayed the 65 with 1 gallon paint/32 oz thinner and did 3 coats and used a base coat style spray tip. The rate they recommended was 1 gallon paint/16 oz of thinner and i sprayed it with a primer style gun. It looked decent in pictures but dried sorta grainy i guess. Here is a pic of the 61 I first used implement paint on.

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I actually got to see my truck the other day! :metal: :metal: First time in ten months or so, now I'm back to 6000 miles away from it.... :smoke:

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Welcome Home GW
Today I sandblasted primed and painted my rear axle
Tomorrow, bolt it in and its a roller......finally!
T

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same here, painted, painted and painted some more.

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Installed a cable type gas pedal out of a 90 in my 60. Was relatively easy, and a big improvement. works great, easy to adjust. Just had to bend the pivot rod to match the 60 and drill a few holes. A good improvement and well worth the time.

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Yesterday I pulled my (knocking) engine and trans from the 65 and pulled an engine from a 78 doner truck. Today I got the needed parts swapped over along with adding a T5 and dropped in and bolted up. Tomorrow night should be able to get it all wired up and running. I will have to wait to drive since I have to measure for my new drive shaft.

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Spent yesterday and today after work cutting and fitting the Ash boards for the bed, ordered the bed bolt kit, so decided while waiting for them to arrive made a template of the bow tie to route out the wood on the 3 rd board in from each side and going to insert a piece of black walnut into each center betwween the stainless strips and the rear two bolts.

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Well, ended up adjusting the door striker... because I had to, not wanted to...

So here's the story. I put some Dodge Dakota door seals on the driver side, as many had said they work well. Picked them up this weekend at the junk yard. After installing them, I almost could not get the door to close they were so tight. Let the sit in the heat the last couple days but no better. Can't even get the door to close all the way from inside the cab.

Today I decided to remove them. Now there are no seals. Well that's where my problem started. I closed the door and could not get it to open, no matter how hard I pulled. Crawled thru the window to open the other side (no outside lock) and proceeded to remove the door panel. Worked on trying to get the latch to rotate and release the door. No luck. With the wife pulling on the door, I used a prybar to carefully push the door up, thinking it was hanging on the striker. Sure enough the door opened. Verified this was the issue by repeating it again.

Adjusted the striker down and it works as it should. Put a piece of cut off Dakota seal near the striker and now it latch with a solid feel and sit flush with the body. That works until I buy new seals. Man, some times it just doesn't pay to fix something that's not broken... ;)

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Found out why none of my rear lights worked finally.....I had grounded the lights to the bed....well, I remembered around lunch today that HEY! The bed sits on rubber pads..so I moved the ground to the frame rail, and voila'....lights!!!!!!

Also finished installing my new Rebel Wire Harness......

She's ready to drive to work tomorrow!

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I gassed mine up and then hauled a whole bunch of junk to the dump. Just nice to be out driving.