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I clear coated my inner grill today. It's not perfect, but considering what I had to paint it with (spray paint) and how bad it looked "before," I am happy.

I had a few runs.....I think once I get the NOS emblem on and polished outer grill, also the grill guard, no one will notice.

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This weekend I installed the following items on my truck: flex plate, powerglide transmission, tubular crossmember, driveshaft, rear shocks, lokar floor shifter, starter, trans cooler lines, lots of other small things associated with my automatic swap. Got it to the point where I could fire it up and get it topped off with ATF. What's left? New exhaust to be put on, longer speedo cable, remove clutch pedal, put new shift boot on when it comes.

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I rebuilt the carb, changed spark plug wires and spark plugs, new vacuum advance, adjusted the timing a little bit and then drove it around the neighborhood a couple of times to make sure she is running properly. Still not 100% perfect, but enough to drive without any worries.

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Today I removed more interior parts, radio, climate control etc. unbolted the bed and got rid of extra wiring... Need a few extra hands to pull it off

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I started on the install of a used gear set. I think my pinion might be in to deep but not real certain. Got to dark to mess around with it. This is my first differential setup. Backlash was easy enough to set, I have it at .007 and pinion preload at 16 in/lbs

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It seemed like a good idea at the time

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Pulled mine outside and listened too the exhaust and let it warm up a lil'. Sounds great. It's a lil' loud for my likeing. But it's ok.
I still need to make the exshaut tips.

The kid an I both have dual snorkel z28 air cleaners.
His was a $5.jy find that I gave him,
and mine was a $25.swap meet find. Except I didn't get a lid. So I reused my other lid.
I plan on removing the useless stuff on mine and blasting and paint but it's ok for now.
The kid is good with his the way it is only he wants to get rid of the 5.0.
I so I took both and swapped snorkels.
His now has two straight snorkels.
And mine has two angled snorkels.
Looks much better.
Here's some b4 and after pics.

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I forgot to include a few "outside" pics.
We all like pics.

And one at the end of the nite changing oil on the kids truck.
I thought this pic was pretty cool looking with 2 67's in the garage.

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I finally figured out how to attach pics again, I'm not much of a computer guy.

So after 4 months at the paint shop it is finally getting close. This is the first tinted bed liner this shop has done and I love the way it turned out! The under bed gas tank was installed Friday and it is finally moving on its own again. The paint shop hopes to reassemble the rest and do some touch up this week and then I can bring it home and install all the goodies the UPS driver has been dropping off at the house!

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Pretty cool? Are you kidding? Incredibly cool.

Hope you don't mind my taking a few (tiny) liberties with your beautiful shot.

And then using it for my computer wallpaper.

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I check off one more task in this long project..... Replaced a shot distributor!

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lets see, made a custom alt. bracket since i have tall custom aluminum valve covers. Then i started the fill in the fan hole and wire junction box on the firewall, and start work on the rebuilding of the gauge cluster to white faced gauges with red leds for standard background along with amber, green and blue for standard color replacement.

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Where did you get the hood to cowl seal. I cant seem to get mine to lay down and it keep keeps the hood lines out of place.

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Buff (Wizard products) and wax; over and over and over. Took the cowl off and buffed/waxed all of that area, including the windshield wiper arms on Sat. Was kind of cool and damp here (OK) on Sunday, so started a fire in the barn and sat there and worked the actual cowl in a nice warm and dry place. Paint is awfully thin in some spots, but where there's paint, it looks great. Straightened out a couple of the lower bedside trim pieces and attached new woodgrain tape. Took off Sierra Grande emblem and used Barkeeper's Friend and a toothbrush and got 45 years of crud off of it; looks brand new. Lots and lots of time and detail work, but much cheaper than hiring a painter and/or buying new chrome and emblems. And put on my new whitewalls, factory steelies and PO1 hubcaps (not the full wheel cover)...Sweet. Yeah, I know, everyone wants a pic....... These are the before.......

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Installed stereo and a ground strap
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Got a small load of firewood cut. Had to climb a hill with terraces on gravel, she did great.

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Put mine in storage for the winter :(

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Ditched bed cover and took out lifting blocks in rear. Back to stock height all the way around. Next week it'll be in paint jail to repaint inside of bed and bedcaps.

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Properly wired up the HEI and removed a bunch of wires that started somewhere and ended nowhere. Fortunately none of them had power. It used to be my FIL's truck, and he did all kinds of strange stuff to it. It's getting new shoes tomorrow.

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Rebuilt my column...a couple weeks ago:)

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Got the 3rd billet knob in the mail today.. May sound cheesy but I had my 3 kids names put on them so they know they are also apart of the truck

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Ned, Nice look, I did the same thing after trying to polish the original emblems just don't look good with fresh paint. I did the same with the hood emblems after spending many hours trying to polish the originals, I guess the 49 years of exposure to the elements did a number on them.

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From classic industries, lays down perfect and has the correct holes and ridges.

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Been playin with the kids truck.
Did some tidy ing up under his hood lengthend his alt harness and cleaned up a bunch of the other wires.
Next I'm replacing the under dash harness his is pretty hacked up.
I allreay have a uncut oe one to go in.
Here's a shot of the engine bay right before I replaced the flex rad hose with a gm peice(almost forgot to do that).
Before and after pics don't show much but it's all the small things the pic don't show.
I gotta get him to paint that ugly chrome water neck:lol:

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painted the fire wall and rebuild the stock gauges to white faced

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Started on painting the black around the headlights on the outer grill.

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Moved the trash can so I could admire Cheyennes beauty while frying a turkey!! :metal:

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Agree w/doo142. As sad as this may sound to some, many of the most peaceful moments in my life are when I sit w/a cold beer and a good cigar and look at my "toys".

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I got something done for a change and even better, it didn't involve crashing into a bear.

I taped off around my outer grill's headlights, hit it with a scrotchbrite pad, and put on 3 coats of primer.

I also drilled holes in my male piece for the "D ring" tow hitch.

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Master Coated the under cab. Tomorrow I hope to find enough strong backs to set it on frame...

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Scored on a junk yard find, a Offenhouser intake and a rebuildable 2g core for 100$ and dropped the carb off with a great carb man for a rebuild.

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Finally got this exhaust wrapped up. I needed to mount some hangers and I cut and polished the ss tips. Then welded everything up.
After that was done I relocated my ece relocators outwards and remounted my shocks.
Glad that is done it's getting too cold too lay on concrete.

But we did have a nice day today.

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Started the truck and just sat in it for about 5 mins dreaming about the new heads that are sitting on the shelf and torque converter thats on the way.....mmmmm, can't wait

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Replaced ballpoints and springs.

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Just need to add grease

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Top coated (satin black) the areas of my outer grill around the headlights. (1972).

Drilled the holes for my hitch and hitch plug.

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Picked this up after work!

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