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Washed my wives Terverse, my Tahoe and my 71. I waxed the truck and added a USB port to the base box behind the seats for easy charging of phones. Truck will be heading down to Myrtle beach Thursday morning for the Run to the Sun car show!:chevy:

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Hung the core support with new install kit. Loosely hung both front fenders, hung both doors and got them halfway adjusted. Gotta take off both fenders again to get at the hinge bolts to finish adjusting them. Got the new center pins and u-bolts installed and locked the 14 bolt full floater in place. Drug my tired butt in and called it a day. :waah:

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Painted now I have to cut and polish .

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Not something done today, but over the weekend. Removed the wheels to have the tires replaced, discovered how bad the front breaks where. After removing the dust caps, found out that a nail is a suitable sub for a cotter pin. Also, no torque on either nut. Hand tight would have been more than what torque was on the nuts. All said and done, both front brakes, calipers, pads, rotors, and bearings changed. Good-to-go!

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looks real sharp... did you do the paint?

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Found out I was lied to about how old the build was on my motor so now guess what Im adding to my list... :cuss:

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Actually let the wife drive her 67 home from dinner and she broke it. Pulled in to drive way and the driver side rear wheel was smoking. Jacked rear up and tried to turn the wheel. Could not move it. Let truck down and now it won't move at all. Sounds like the wheel cylinder locked up and...... She can't drive the truck ever again

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McGoo26, hope you didn't torque the wheel bearing nut. It's not suppose to be torqued. Just tight enough to put preload on the bearings. You probably knew this already I am probably reading more into your post than what you wrote.

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Adjusted the wiper arms to the optimum off position all in the comfort of my trucks new home in the garage

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Ball joints, front shocks, cleaned and greased front end. Man what a difference in the ride. Now if my new tires would just get here... (this was yesterday)

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Dreaming of the day!

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New tires, rear brake hose and master cylinder...:smoke:

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welcome to the forum from a fellow Texan...good luck on your build.

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Thanks! Its coming along very nice, block and heads are in East Texas getting makeover for .409, Im getting excited.

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After reading my post again I can see how it may have implied that it needed huge amount of torque. Another part to the task that I didn't mention was before anything was undone, the rotors had about an inch or so, if not more, of play side to side (passenger to driver side) on the hub. As I said, finger tight would have been an improvement. Torqued while spinning the hub to seat or preload everything, backed off then cotter pinned. Thanks for your insight.

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I was looking at your truck a few days ago, Ned. It has the most perfect shade of blue I've ever seen on one of these trucks! You wouldn't happen to know the color, by chance?

Welcome from another Texan. Just down the road from you, in San Angelo.

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Fixed some small dents in my front quarter panels on the 72 k2500 and shot the first coat of primer on them. Small things like that get me excited to see the finished product. Long road of body work ahead before I get to any fun stuff though.

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Welcome from another Texan. Just down the road from you, in San Angelo.[/QUOTE]

Thanks..... I just ordered the painless wiring kit,, puts me one step closer to rolling.

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Installed a column mounted tach in the ol 68. I like it.

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New wheels and tires. 20's 8's&10's

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What a beauty, my favorite rims too, just icing on the truck cake..

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Painless wiring harness and new carpets from LMC.

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Worked more on the 348 the last few days. Still have a lot to do, seems never ending...

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Never get tired of the w motor, neverending cool.:cool:

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