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Went for a drive and had morning sun in my face. I quickly realized I could not see anything, My glass has lots of pits and wiper scratches as its a very old window with lots of road time. So I called a local glass guy who had the glass for $100. And get this, they brought it to me for free. That is good customer service.
Also noticed I get a engine miss when driving down the Hwy for excessive amounts of time and goes away once it cools down. May have a plug failing. Parked the truck until I have more time to diagnose.

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ive been in Tennessee building a motor for my brothers 67 mustang for a week. got back last night. today I had the truck out for about 40 miles of around town driving. I noticed that the new fan had some wobble. turned out one of the bolt holes on the water pump was stripped. it caused the other three bolts to loosen up even though they had locktite on them. went and got a nylock nut and used that to secure the messed up hole and tighten everything back. drove across town to get my hood out of storage and brought that home. its sitting on there but its not bolted down. I never installed the passenger headlight after having the fender fixed. when I got my parts truck it had a couple sets of headlights and one of the sets had a different style bezel. its more eye shaped than round. I put iit on the passenger light and let shakes decide which she liked better. she liked the eye better. I sent them to my brother who also liked the eye. truck runs great.

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I got out to the garage after the Red Sox kicked butt for my five minutes, I thought five minutes max, I was really tired. Ended up getting 45 minutes in on that one fender, stripping rust and paint off the complicated areas to shinny metal.

Brian

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Got the fender sand blasted on the inside and treated with Ospho (a metal treatment to protect it) WHOOO HOOOO!, I can move onto the next one.

Brian

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Even when it's done, your never done.

I replaced my windshield today in the name of safety. Took it for a drive in the direction of the sub and all was clear.

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Those are a bugger! Little story LOL

I had just opened my shop in 1982 and I got this truck to chop, a 1956 Chevy. Ok, someone had started and screwed it up so I gave him a price (FIRST MISTAKE) and ended up making about $300 on the job, being it took me AT LEAST 300 hours, I didn't make a whole lot. LOL
Ok, I chopped the top totally finishing it to primer. THEN I went to have the glass cut, BIG MISTAKE! The glass guy called me after he broke the second NEW windshield! I found someone locally who has chopped a few and he walked me through how to correct the problem. I did so changing the shape of the corners on the roof (the trick being you cut the glass THEN you modify the top to fit the glass! Or make a pattern out of fiberglass of the windshield like I did) and I had the glass cut for it.

This piece of the door that I cut off during the top chop hung in my office at the shop. When someone had something like that for me to do I could look up at that piece and say "NO" without missing heart beat. LOL

Brian

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That's HILARIOUS !! I was going to chop mine and my friend, who owns a body shop, said NOOOOOO !!!!! Don't do it !!

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Yeah, no kidding, I got something like $1500 for the job, I bought all the glass, THREE windshields and bought TWO tops to replace the hacked up one.

Yep, I learned a lot though. LOL

Brian

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Haha, good story. Funny, I was thinking to myself during install "I bet Brian would have some story to with this". You have some good knowledge.

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Ok, waited and waited for this game to end and gave up going out to the garage at 9:45! I was out there getting something done when Melanie came out to tell me she could here the tool I was using in our house! That is not good, I don't want to do that to the neighbors! She said it sounded like a motorcycle was spinning donuts in the back yard! Well, I at least I got something done! The underseal that was sprayed in that fender did save it from rust, but took me a bunch of time to scrape out. That's the original green paint in there that was sprayed at the factory 70 years ago by a man feeding his family. The mind blower is I came back in, took a show and am now watching the bottom of the 14th inning! It's the longest game in World Series history by time right now. It's the longest by innings at 15.

Brian

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Before I even went out there my "five minutes" were spent on the phone and at the computer with my brother who was picking up my parts I got from Jay up in Grass Valley. Got my stainless window frames, fender aprons and parking brake parts coming, WHOO HOOOOO! :D

Brian

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Cleaning up the truck while waiting for the roads to dry...

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Black_Sheep, you're not allowed to get your truck any cleaner. Like it or not, life is a competition, and your cleaning gives the rest of us an unfair disadvantage...

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How about parked in that spotlessly clean garage, I want to punch him! :devil:

Brian :sumo:

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A buddy from Michigan is coming to Minnesota to pick up a car, he’ll be stopping over later to see the truck as long as he’s in town. I want to make sure it’s standing tall when Jim sees it finished for the first time. It was in a thousand pieces when he was here last spring.

It looks like I need to change the valve cover gaskets, the right side is leaking pretty good. This time I’m going to use cork...

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I hadn't posted progress for a while because my rechargeable batteries in the camera went south (and I hate transferring pics from the phone to the computer). Anyway, with new batteries, here's a pic of the cab back on the chassis, HOPEFULLY PERMANENTLY! The cab has been completely scuffed and buffed as well.

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Oh, and I built a hood picker out of scrap because I got tired of waiting for someone to come over and help me take hoods on and off. ...and, I didn't want to part with $100 to buy one. (It's the purple 4-legged spider thingy attached to the cherry picker.) I have covered the hooks on the bottom with tygon tubing, but still have to do the same on the edges of the four pieces of angle iron.

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I got out busting my butt and finished the inside of the passenger fender. I got it sand blasted and treated in Ospho. WHOOO HOOO! I then started stripping the paint off the outside of the drivers fender but that was put on hold when my brother arrived with his HHR that he spun into a guard rail with. All he wanted was to pull it out so he could skulp it with bondo. He lives hours from me so to repair the whole thing isn't possible. But I told him I would go back in time, I jumped into the time machine and went back to the late 80's and used my slide hammer with the most awesome screw puller ever made. If there was a catagory for Snap On precision top of the line highest priced screw puller this baby would be it! Check this out guys, you would put the tip of this thing against the metal and slide the weight on the slide hammer INTO the panel so the screw pokes through the metal! You then screw it it and slide the weight out to pull the dent! LOL OMG this was hilarious I yank and hammered and yanked and hammered to get it close enough to coat it in bondo, done deal.

The cool thing is I got my new aprons, parking brake parts and window mouldings, three problems that have been weighing on me solved! Thanks so much Jay!

Brian

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HOLY CRAP that thing looks nice, nicer than most of our truck parts! LOL Very nice:metal:

Brian

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My wife bought that wonderful color in a Krylon poof can to paint a wire frame goose for her garden about 10 years ago. Finally figured out a way to get rid of that one, AND I'll be able to find the picker when I need it because of the color! How many poof cans do we car nuts have, collectively? Here's about half of mine (Maybe I should start a picture thread. I can see the title now: "Pictures of Your Poof Can Collection".):
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...and I know - somebody will want a picture of the goose, but it's 2:00 AM and it's somewhere out in the barn.

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LOL, I like that, I have stored stuff like that for years only to find out it's bad and can't be used when I go to finally use it!

So, I have to say, I am having so much fun stripping my fenders....said no one ever while stripping fenders.

Brian

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Is that your Falcon also?

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My son's, yeah, our yard is full of old cars.

Brian

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Got my lift installed and working today. Put the truck in the air for the first time and ......I thinking I'm installing a mustang II front end. I notice the suspension was not straight up front. Also, the forward mount of the rear springs has me puzzled as to how you take out the spring. This and the huge play I found in the rear end makes me think I should go to a four link and new axle.

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I got the front fenders all stripped and ready for primer, WHOOOO HOOOOO!

With that and fixing the front of my brothers HHR today, pulling the bumper cover, repairing the fender mounting and installing a head light I am ready to go to work tomorrow so I can relax! :metal:

Brian

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Brian, front fenders look great...Jim

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Thanks, I am getting there, one step at a time! :metal:

Brian

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You won't be sorry if you do!

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You do some nice work on the sheet metal, Martin.

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The 5 minutes a day looks like it expanded somewhat. Those fenders look great.

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Which are you referring to mine or my brothers HHR quarter. LOLOL Thanks!

Brian

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5 minutes are the absolute minimum, today, I busted butt, honestly I came into the house BEAT.

Brian

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drove the truck all weekend. hauled some stuff to remind it what its for. stopped by a car show and had two guys as if I would sell it. it gathered a crowd. its an ugly thing. im glad everyone has low expectations. love my truck. on a bad note the lower door hinge pin came out. have to tap that back in.

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So cool to hear! On the expectations, it's an old truck, they are going to dig it! It's funny, my Rambler is NOT very nice, a "Maaco" like paint job, over dents even, rust hole in the bottom of the drivers door, the interior is CRAP all redone 20 years ago but HORRIBLY done with wrinkles and stuff, and people still think it's a perfect original or it was "restored."

Brian

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Brian,
How come we don't see any smoke coming from that weber in the back ground? :lol: Smoking chicken wings while zapping some sheet metal?, oh yeah!! :metal:

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Not a BBQ guy, I think I use it once a year max. LOL

Brian

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Bob, it's looking really good!

Jim

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My five minutes was five minutes today, just did a little metal shaping on the front fenders so they are ready for primer.

Brian

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Thanks, Jim.

No progress yesterday, or today. Tomorrow is my volunteer day, and the leaves are 2" deep, heading for a foot if I don't get out there. (Tell me again why I bought a wooded lot?)

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got my bed cover installed and set the bed wood in, just to see how it looks. Then got a new addition to the family....