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He's a good helper.

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A little dash work.
Before and after......... still needing a little work.
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Put the ol 68 GMC up on the rack out at Tim's shop to look at the new 3" tail-pipes Bill fabbed and installed for me. :gmc2:

Plus . . . . Sept 11, 2001 NEVER FORGET :flagw:

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Your motor looks sick...cool contrast and the script valve covers:metal:

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WORD! :flagw:

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What color is that truck? Looks great!

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House of color 1125-1 shimmer 2 candy red with a bronze intensifier. Thanks.

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I didn't do much but I did a little. Moved my grill over to my parents' garage, where I'll have more room to work on it.

I NAPA Rust Treated the driver side grill bracket and primed and top coated the passenger side one.

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just drove it
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Today I used a spray in bed liner kit on the cab floor. I plan l to eventually put in the poly 1/8" thick deal from LMC, but until then I'll drive it like it is. Driver not show for me. Before/After And I can't figure out how to get these photos to appear upright on this phone sorry.

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Cafetony that truck is Beautiful!

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Shawben88- nice, should also help with sound...bonus!

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thanks
I'm now looking for a 1966 nothing better then working on the truck
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VERY NICE all ! ;) .

I like the floor coating , maybe I'll try that after you check in with how well it works .

To - day I walked past my truck with tools & parts for different jobs :waah: .

I'll get to it , I miss driving it a lot .

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Drove mine to lunch today with a freind and installed a headlight on warning buzzer. Neat simple functional device.
Vic

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Drove it to Hit Rods drag week stop in Union grove Wisconsin last Wednesday. Got up @ sunrise & shot this picture on the way http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/...6_070229-2.jpg

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raising a floor and making room for some meat.

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I added a radiator reservoir on mine....

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I wish my laptop would upload pics but with dad's help, I drilled out the 8 rivets holding my driver's side grill bracket and removed that side's hood bumper. I also painted one of the replacement grill brackets I'll go back with.

I settled on a NOS cowl I hope to pick up soon and found out from a forum member how the 1972 grill should look around the headlights.

I also cleaned out the ERR tank for a run on the old grill brackets tomorrow.

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Drove mine out for a relaxing trip, around 200 miles.


The technology still gets me around today.

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One thing led to another, took fenders off to adjust doors, new body and radiator support mounts, clean engine compartment and fix oil leaks. Powder coated a bunch of parts, will paint radiator support, frame and motor.

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Bolt on rear rollpan for my sportside bed, really cleans up the back nicely.

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Last two days:

Stripped down the front bumper brackets and hardware, and was happy to see everything is super. Thought there might be some rust on the outer brackets I scored off Ebay................. just a really bad paint job.

Removed the duct system. Taking notes, cleaning these pieces up and boxing them up nicely is a project in itself. I don't know how some can work so fast. But I'm new.

I never really have anything worth a picture. Someday, hopefully in bulk to some extent.

Off topic, what, dealerships and even Amazon running at half speed now? WTH, it takes forever to get my orders. Everything is back ordered and/or slow. Caswell and Eastwood couldn't be any slower. Had the week off and was "supposed" to actually finish something. Looking forward to testing out Caswell's cold oxide product. Planning to use it for small hardware parts you don't readily see (e.g, J-nuts, tiny screws). Ordered the sealer, which many folks say don't. You do have to seal it, and I figure it's their product line. $17 for a qt. will go a long way.

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I've noticed the slowdown also. Autobody toolmart is taking over a week before they even ship! Eastwood just recently had a major fire, and they've been trying to recover since. I called them when some stuff I ordered never showed up, and found out they are backlogged on a lot of stuff.

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Might seem like a dumb question but how did you go about putting your cab on its back without bending the cab corners ? I plan to undercoat my bottom, but worry that if I just roll it backwards I could bend the new cab corners.

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I lifted mine through the cab doors.

There is a type of beam you can buy to use a engine hoist.

I have a cheap gantry (Northern tool) and used two 2x4's bolted together through the door openings(rags wraped around the 2x4's to protect the paint, a strap around the ends and a friend to guide the process.

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how did you mount it? Sorry if it has already been asked. I'm new to the c10 truck scene.. I'm a youngn lol

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All I got done today (yesterday) was to prime and top coat my once very rusty passenger side grill bracket. I won't use it over but I'll hang onto it as a spare. I also top coated a heater box piece, albeit the wrong color! That's how tired I am after welding class....but it won't be seen so it's OK. I also got my hood bumper bolts apart....took their nuts off.

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Tore the core support out preparing to replace it and install my new aluminum radiator and electric fans. Also took out the old fan and clutch.

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There's a lot of info. on building jig for this. Be sure the doors are off.

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I fabricated a makeshift brackets that screwed to the bottom of the dash. It was a PIA. When I installed my Vintage Air removed it because I didn't want to mess with redoing one of the brackets. I pitched it out and went with an arm feast with cup holders.

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I spent most of the day cleaning the inside of my car and cleaning the battery terminals.

On the truck, the rain was so bad that I didn't paint the remaining grill bracket. I did however turn the hood bumpers on a wire wheel to clean up. Oddly enough one is shorter than the other and they are not the same design.

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Finished installing new TCI flexplate to get rid of 1800 RPM vibration.

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Mated these

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I ran electrolysis for what I think will be the last time for quite a while. This last part is the new (well, 1970 OEM) battery tray. The part is now soaking overnight in evaporust. I was able to load up the soaking container to the point that I got 80 percent of the tray in the fluid and tomorrow I'll flip it over and that will be that!

Gosh I hope to reassemble the front end soon.

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Painted the back side of my grill, and both rear wheel wells .

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Waiting to fund a new oil pickup, and a few other odds and ends. Top end is ready to put on, but I want to get the bottom stuff done first.

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Here's how it's sitting now.

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finally scored a sweet deal on a radiator from my local hoarder and now i'm finally all GM under my hood! on the down side I was doing a big narly burnout and my speedo exploded again 5th one this year......

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I got all the trucks out (but one) did a little maintenance on a perfect Florida day.