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Summer is a very poor time to try to sell anything. Good time to get super bargains tho. Sales go up in fall winter and early spring.

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good googly moogly.

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Well Tuesday I got some bad news about my ticker, so on the 14th I'm scheduled for exploratory of my heart... start by going in from a vein in my arm to see what is needed and then fix whatever they find... so I'm in a hurry to get some stuff taken care of like the window relay and one piece up and down relays, not a lot of people that understand this heavy use of relays just in case things don't go well. If they do go well I'll take the time to clean it up afterwards...

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Hope all goes well. Usually a simple procedure and can save you.

I understand and use relays for about anything that draws amps.

Thought about power windows for mine but old fashioned.

Said this before but recently gave neighbor a ride in mine and watched as they moved crank back and forth to try to lower window. Astounded look on their face when they realized they needed to turn it all the way around to make it work. (never saw a crank window before)

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I put power windows in my truck back in 1979. When I think of stuff like this I can't believe I understood it. I was 19 and I had a 63 Buick Wildcat that I was parting out. It had power windows, I took the two regulators and I took the truck regulators and cut the arm off them. I then welded the truck arm onto the Buick regulator measuring out the exact same distance from the center of the pivot points. I then installed the regulator with the pivot point in the exact location as the original one in the truck door and wham, power windows! No alignment issues nothing, bolted them in and done.

Brian

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Good luck on the 14th, idbeast. We'll need you back to figure out this wiring stuff! (Your relay panel looks a lot like mine!)

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I send my best, hopefully that wiring is the only mess you have to deal with.

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Thanks everyone for the kind words! I'm sure I'll be fine, it's just a lot to absorb!!!

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Not a one day job but renewed the wood bed floor and strips.

https://i13.servimg.com/u/f13/19/19/52/56/benne_10.jpg

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Cool!

Brian

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I got my firewall stripped today WHOOO HOOOOO! :metal:

I have to tell you, these abrasive wheels I get from our vender at work are friggin awesome! I will get the brand and part number, couldn't find it on the net. But I did the whole firewall with ONE. I stripped the large flat areas with a hog and 36 grit, then went over all of it and getting all the edges of body lines and all that with one of these wheels. It started out as big as the large one in the photo and the little one is what I had left, it did a hell of a job. And what's neat is as it gets smaller it does things it wouldn't do when it was big so it's a win win with it even wearing out.

Brian

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That looks terrific! Get us the name and number of that paint stripper please.

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Great Michel. Nice to see you constantly improving your truck. I live in the area where you bought it.

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I made a bracket to mount my brake light switch onto the pedal assembly. Waiting for the paint to dry, then will install it tomorrow.

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That looks like one of these: The Beast Bear Tex Rapid Strip Disc
https://www.autobodytoolmart.com/nor...SABEgIF0fD_BwE

I used them to strip all the paint from all the large panels on my truck. They work great, last a long time and don't fling plastic shrapnel at you like many of these type products do.

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They look the same but different, could very well be identical with just a different mandrel but they are different. And not only that but I have available to me many different sizes. See how one of the large ones has no center on it, you can wear that down to almost nothing and even have a round thing at the end to go into small recessed areas, it's pretty neat. And the thin one, that's only about a quarter inch.

Brian

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X2, MARTINSR... Thanks !!

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I'll get the info next week at work.

On my lunch break, wow that beat me up, but I got the cab all cleaned up. A few welds here and there and a little sand blasting hopefully tonight, but tomorrow at the latest, and it's gunna get primed.

Brian

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Wow, that looks good Brian! I have some of those discs and I don’t remember where they came from. Blue ones too...maybe for aluminum, just don’t remember.

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Looks awesome. Clear it like it is! :lol:

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Installed my brake light switch today, then wired my headlights and front turn signals.

I was also really excited to get a voice mail from the guy nearby who has several panel trucks; he's says I can come get a rear bumper, brackets and valance tomorrow. I thought I'd never find one!

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Nice, clean job. I used a '71 Super Beetle hydraulic switch that I remembered from my younger days, but I've had so many problems with my stainless brake lines leaking that I wish I'd seen this first.

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Um, no.

Brian:devil:

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Installed the steering wheel, shift indicator bezel and bowtie indicator I made.

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That is looking great.

I started making my brake lines today.