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Thanks for the update.
Really felt for you guys but also pleased you broke the cycle. Sometimes that really helps. Pity about the short cut slope action, but even that can go in as part of the healing. I will phone you some time. Still trying to find the items I want to call about, but they are a bit evasive. |
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I'm glad you and the Missus got a chance for a getaway. I'm sorry to hear she got hurt.
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Always nice to take a few steps back or go on a road trip and have a breather.
A buddy of mine once told me, "you ain't havin fun if you ain't broke nuthin'" Sorry to hear about your wifeys bad sprain. Overall sounds like you two had a fun time. Wish you had more on that snow rig..... Im all curious and stuff. Definitely getting way close to the finish line. |
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tell her to rest up and heal quickly ..it is always good to step away and take some time
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Awww Maaaaannnn... sounded like a good party up till then! Thanks for the reminder, need to schedule something like that for me and Momma. Hope she heals soon.
We finally broke freezing this week and I've been getting stuff done. Momma actually said she could see a difference in me just getting back in the shop a little. Winter sux. Hijack over, everybody back to work! |
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welcome home from the ski trip, hope the misses is feeling better.
i think one of the best things we all do on this forum is share our lives. lets us connect with more than just the truck obsession. you, my friend, have a very interesting and rich life... you've done stuff that i will never get to experience but maybe just a little because you share your stories with us. thanks murph... now fire up the heat in the frozen garage and get some fenders going. |
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Hope the wife recovers quickly, and glad ya'll got some away time
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**************************************************************************************** Ok, so I got some new stuff in... Good, Bad, and indifferent I guess... Thanks for everyone that pointed me towards the spread clips, they came in as well...That and the hood bumpers (can anyone show me where the round ones go?) in this first photo are the indifferent: Attachment 1218658 Good - Sunvisors, the vinyl ones from LMC are great !! Well made and easy to work with. Here are my old ones, one disassembled, the other lying in state, as it were. These visors just slide off the rods, there is no retainer to worry about just load into a vise, pull and twist, they come right off. The original paint on them was chipped and looked bad so I threw the first one on the bench grinder wire wheel and it polished up so nice I decided to leave it that way instead of laying new paint on it. Attachment 1218671 Second one off the rod. Attachment 1218672 To get the new ones on, I shot the rod with some spray on graphite lube, and reversed the process of getting them off. Just loaded into the vise again, push and twist. And Installed (please dont mind the dusty finger prints, I hate my garage). Attachment 1218673 This how they shined up, and with some clear coat on them to keep them shiney looking, or so I hope..... LOL Attachment 1218674 I am very happy with these !! The bad.... that plastic "chrome" Glove box emblem. That thing is so cheap made that just touching it scratched the snot out of it. Just a gentle swipe with a cloth other than a micro fiber will scratch it too I found out. This is the first product I have to say gets my very disgruntled thumbs down !! |
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Im with ya on that piece on the glove box door.
I've seen other builders use Chevrolet script in its place and it looks great. This is what Im using or something real similar. Mines chrome not gold. sorry for the ginormous pic http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/...ps89205ff0.jpg |
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I used lube on my first set of visors. After an hour trip with the cab heater on, they started to fall. Had to pull them back apart, clean them and used a spray contact cement to slide the rod back in. After the contact cement set up it gave just enough tension to hold them wherever I place them. Ruined the first set cleaning them in the vise when I went to shove the rod into wet carboard:(
Same experience on the chrome glove box trim. I cut the nibs off the back and used 3m tape to stick it to the door. After a light scratch, I peeled it off and sprayed adhesion promoter onto the face then cleared it. |
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Nice to hear the LMC padded visors are good quality. I may add those to my truck some day. Currently I have the stock cardboard type. I think I got them from ChevyDuty about 10-15 years ago. They fit well and work okay, but sure look cheesy compared to the upholstered versions.
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I thought about just refurbishing my cardboard ones, but for the money, the vinyl ones were by far the right choice!! Thanks for looking guys !! *************************************************************************************** I also got my fender splash panels done this weekend: These are my originals. It is hard to tell on the bottom one, but the bottom 4" of these were rusted through or gone. I looked for replacements, but no luck. Attachment 1218695 So I decided I would just repair mine, though I did consider making some: Attachment 1218697 All done, with the fender seals attached with those greening clips, and ready to mount: Attachment 1218698 Soooooooooo anyone know how to mount these fender seals? The catalog (pictured) shows them as longer than the rear fender seals that I attached to my splash panels, but in reality these are longer. I have looked on the cab and the fender, but for the life of me I cannot figure it out: Attachment 1218699 I got more stuff done this weekend, but it is too late for me to post about it tonight, apologies. Thanks for reading, and good night !!! |
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You are jamming out!!!! Sorry to hear about your other half hope she has a speedy recovery. Progress on all your mods look great!
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I'm not sure if this shot is of any value, but it's the only picture I can find showing the rubber flaps installed. Apparently I secured mine with pop rivets:
http://imageshack.us/a/img156/8540/082wv.jpg I also went through the 1960 Chevy Truck Shop Manual looking for a picture. The only shot I found doesn't seem to have the flaps/brackets installed. |
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I also welded in some crud plugs, and had thought that the original idea had come from you, but had not looked it up to confirm !! Here is mine; I made these little plugs to keep debris from getting down into my inner fender support, because the drain there is so small and obviously easy to obstruct resulting in the classic rust rot. A couple shots of the corner ones: Attachment 1219181 Attachment 1219183 The end one: Attachment 1219187 And the top one (before and after): Attachment 1219190 Attachment 1219192 I have since added a self clipping rubber moulding to the space between the end cap and the corner one, and have Herculinered the piss out of that entire area. I wish I had thought of the seam sealer first though.....But this was not a planed on mod. The more I thought about the logic behind why Markb did it, the more it just made sense to me. I believe he said it best, as a correction to a design flaw, and to mitigate the waste of the eventual ruination of brand new fenders. Thanks Mark !!! I will be sure to post some after shots in a couple days after the Herculiner fully dries, in these temps up here it takes 2-3 days to set up. |
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Another Mod to Steal!!!:metal::metal::metal::metal:
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Dude that front end work is crazy......can't wait to see it finished
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I will hang onto them in the case that I get a 60-63 to build, unless someone needs them. Shoot me a PM and I will mail them off to you !! They were too cheap to quibble about.... |
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I guess I missed that Mod on Mark's build due to the amount of AWESOMENESS located therein...:metal::metal::metal:
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I wish I had thought about the fender mods. Looking good ;)
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You just dont have to spend too much time on this board to realize that you are in the company of some very talented, ingenious, and generous guys !! The other day I made a quip to Markb about a shifter knob he had ordered, and decided he did not like too much. I got it and a "care package" in the mail today. An odd fact about my wife and I (which I guess is why we relate so well to our Pontiacs) we both lost our parents pretty early in life. As a side result of that, we never got many care packages from home, this box today is probably one of the classiest things I have opened in a long time. (My door checks were pretty awesome too, thanks Chad !!) So a deepest and ernest Thank you to Mark and his lovely wife. The soft peanut brittle and the cookies are AWESOME !! Attachment 1226070 This is the old one I had from the junk yard: Attachment 1226090 This is the one Mark just tossed me: Attachment 1226092 I LIKE IT !! Thanks Mark, it is the correct shift pattern and everything !! |
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That knob looks very cool on the classic C handle bench seat stick. Glad you enjoyed the goodies. Those are a direct benefit of me fixing my wife's stove which has been offline longer than I can remember. She's been creating like mad, both to check the accuracy of the stove, and because now she can!
Oh and now you're one step closer to passing the NSRA 23 point safety check. Somewhere in the vehicle there has to be an accurate representation of the shift pattern! |
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your welcome for the door checks, and thank you! I appreciate the compliment, I have yet to install my set! the fender mod that you have done is something I will have to do to mine as well! but before I can do anything to my truck I will have to get it up there first, the wife wanted new stuff for the new house and my truck is safe where its at, and will be up here after I start my new job!
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