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got alot done this weekend with the help of my dad. the wife has the camera on a road trip but dad got some good pics of my new wheels and tires. also new bumpers and 66 NC truck plate. more pics thursday when the OL gets home.
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Started reassembly of the 230 all like new again out 0.030
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Fabricated some caster support brackets for my stepside bed. This allows positioning the bed without using my engine hoist.
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Several years ago I upgraded from a Hurst Competition Plus shifter to a Street Super Shifter. The higher mounting and straight rods make the shifter work much nicer, but it also moves the shifter head back several inches which I haven’t been all that happy with. It finally occurred to me a simple adapter could be fabricated to move the shifter handle and also angle it forward at the same time. I worked up a template and transferred the dimensions to a chunk of scrap steel plate. The bottom of the stick moved forward 1 ¼”, while the knob moved forward about 2”, putting it in a much more comfortable position.
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/5937/plate01.jpg http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8718/plate02.jpg http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2011/plate03.jpg http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4538/plate04.jpg Update - After driving it for a day I realized the knob was a tad too far forward in 3rd gear. Since the adapter raised the stick almost an inch, I went back to the shorter stick and reset the angle about ½” to the rear. While I had the adapter apart, I also cut the upper rear corner off. Although nobody else will ever see it, I thought it looked crappy so a cosmetic improvement was in order. Now all 4 gears are within perfect reach: http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/9840/platez1.jpg http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/5198/platez2.jpg |
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Amazing how you can wake up one day with an obvious solution to a what was a very complicated situation. Looks good Mark!
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Lookin' good Mark, and you didn't even have to crawl under the truck! :metal: Those types of projects are great, come up with an idea, make the part and install it in a short time frame. Congrat's.
I spent the day starting to remove old paint and bondo from the bed rails and rear fenders of my truck. The top of the bed rails had over an 1/8" thick coat of bondo... removed that with a 4" electric grinder and a wire wheel. Using a paint stripping disc to remove the paint. Works pretty well, noisey and dirty though. Soooo, some people actually like body work? :lol: This is my first real try at it in the last 30 years.... I am assuming it will be more "fun" once I can start finishing, instead of striping. |
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Have your box blasted, start fresh. Let someone else dirty their shop.
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got my new roll pan in the mail today so I cut out the old bumper and started to fit it on my burb I'll weld it in and take some pic's.
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well my flywheel busted and pulled my torq out its socket and busted my 700r4
i drop so many f bomb my back yard looks like japan lmao i took it to the shop so they can redo the clutches. i cant shft out of 1st maybe another 300 sent down the hole |
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Replace my old vacuum advance and fuel line with stainless lines. Also got my new mig in today. Gotta go get some gas tomorrow and weld my cherry bomb in!!
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Got my newly repaired hood on and test fitted and got the interior almost prepped for paint...lots of sanding and sanding....should spray it on monday if I can get the repaired doors hung and aligned
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Friday 15th finished up back of cab with the bodywork, now on to the top of the cab, theres several hail dent mark some are hard to see cause I stripped the can down to bare metal so its all by feel. Im wondering if I can giude coat with a aresol primer? or should I just spray my epoxy primer and then look for low spots? Im hoping to get primer on the can before winter kicks in, any thoughts of what I should do if I cant get primer on it?:waah:
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In my experience there's nothing better than epoxy primer for protecting bare metal. And it sticks so tight you can do body work over the epoxy. If the metal is going to be indoors protected from moisture, you can just spray it with Picklex 20. It will keep bare steel rust free indefinitely, but only if it remains dry.
http://autobodystore.com/picklex20.shtml Standard aerosol primer is generally lacquer, is not waterproof, and makes a poor substrate for anything put on top. It is commonly used as a guide coat, but the best results will be achieved if all of it is sanded off. Then there is no risk of incompatible materials under the finish. |
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sand blasted the ash tray and painted it, made a trim piece to cover up the hack job around the radio face and mounted my speakers in the vent openings in the kick panels.
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Started to paint the rear half of the frame today in preparation of the bed install. I did all I could with the big brush. A smaller brush next week should just about wrap up this phase. It should take at least a week for the Por-15 to wear off of my hands.
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didnt get much done I got hit with the why isnt this done yet why do you statr something and never finish it yikes Pms, here in Indy you have do what you can do when the weather is good in October, I hope Sundays good, oh yeah Im off Monday and tuesday. has for my last question on Priming, my truck sits inside the garage during winter, and stays dry, should I still prime it ?
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Set the 402 in and started mocking up the engine mounts.I am using the captured style 73-87 mounts.I also made sure the headers will clear.I will definitely be using an electric cooling fan.
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We pushed sams60gmc down the road...
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Mounts are mocked up!Will remove engine tomorrow and finish welding them up.
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Got the old rockers off and geeeezzzz what a rusty mess that was.
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Cut the top off today to clean up the rust, add some sound deadener, knock a couple dents out and weld top back on minus drip rail. This is the last of my rust repair! :four:
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Well I finally got back to playin with OLE BLUE this weekend. My new to me toy, '93 Blazer, has had my full attention for the last month. Anyway, I took the rearend cover off, cleaned everything up, checked my gears & put in new 85W140 gear oil. I also sanded, primed, painted & put my swaybar on the front. I bought it from one of our members a while back as my truck didn't come factory with that option. After cutting out one of the crossmember rivets it bolted right up. Man I Love my '69!
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Daydreaming about my day at the shop tomorrow....Stuck here at work for my Friday. :waah:
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Well like my good buddy Frenchblue72 said. We got a good idea and pushed my frame over to his house, about 3 blocks away with one pretty busy intersection in between, when it got there we put the cab on the frame had to do some minor trimming to clear where the frame goes down for the body drop. Then we pushed it back to its home. Lays rocker no problem. :metal::metal:
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Disassembled my throttle linkage looking for a problem, and discovered a fractured nylon spacer. Replaced it with a steel version, which restored the normally smooth operation.
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Do it again!
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heres some pics from my cell phone that he wife took as she helped push once in awhile...
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If I had a portable air tank we would have drug it a little bit on camera hahahahah. |
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lets see! I sanded the crap out of my truck cab for the past 3 weeks stripping it down to bare metal. I finally got some epoxy primer on it today. And it revealed alot more then I thought I had to do. Lots of rough spots, and placed where I need to continue to sand, when does it all end? well at least I have primer on it before the first snow here in beautiful Indiana which will be soon. I guess I will spend the winter on the cab yeah
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got my taillights working, had two different shorts and a bad ground between normal tail lights and other lights I have on the bumper that the PO fabricated. Also put in new window felts and trouble shooted my speedometer. Disconnected it from transfer case and gauge and cable spun so cable is good, reconnected it to t-case and drove and felt gauge end and nothing, so gotta be the sending unit, now just gotta find a sending unit, has anyone done one with a 4x4?? or is the unit the same on a 2 vs 4 wheel?? got
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got my taillights working, had two different shorts and a bad ground between normal tail lights and other lights I have on the bumper that the PO fabricated. Also put in new window felts and trouble shooted my speedometer. Disconnected it from transfer case and gauge and spun the cable from t-case end, the cable spun on gauge end so cable is good, right?, reconnected it to t-case and drove and felt gauge end and nothing, so gotta be the sending unit, now just gotta find a sending unit, has anyone done one with a 4x4?? or is the unit the same on a 2 vs 4 wheel??
I also used my new mig to weld up our boat trailer(where leaf attaches to frame on left side), me n pop are taking the boat out next weekend, nice first project with the new welder. me n pop also finished up our new duck blind been building over the last few weekends. got a lot of little stuff done. all in all a successful day. and anyone know bout the sending unit like i said earlier let me know |
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Didn't do much to the truck other than getting to rear ready to pull. Took off the springs, e-brakes, brakes and loosened up the crossmember bolts to drop the trailing arms.
But I did add a sub-panel in my garage just so I can put a welder outlet in. I have a few other things to get done, but slow progress is still progress. http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p...z/DSC06154.jpg |
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Aluminum 63 grille on the wall, nice truck porn!
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LOL,I wondered why I couldn't find the sub panel he was talking about!
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Oh yeah, look at that, a sub panel!
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