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That's one way to get bucket seats, I can't wait to see the results .........

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looking really nice man. thats going to be a pretty truck.

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i removed my steering wheel in order to change out the turn signal switch. i took the opportunity to clean and polish the steering wheel. plan to really polish up the column as well before i put it back together. i did find out that my steering wheel is worth $500 bucks which is neat. i bought it about 15 years ago for about $200. i was thinking about removing it for an original wheel. nice to know if i decide to do that i will be able to sell it for a little $$. i also pulled the bed off for better access. i prepping for undercoating. im probably going to have to use a combo of roll on and aerosol. anyone have good luck with specific brands?

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Pictures of the steering wheel would be nice :metal:

I started to put the wood back in today . Amazing how dirty a frame gets just sitting the little black dots are worm holes I filled with epoxy prior to the polyurethane.

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The leather must have set you back a little . I buy vegetable tanned leather for knife sheaths stuff has gone way up last two years .

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Spent the day redoing all the battery and chassis/body grounds on the truck. Tomorrow is under dash wiring cleanup and install new ignition switch.

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Drivers side fender is on as well as the paint divider molding on back of cab

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Got her back from body and paint work. She’s perfect now!

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That truck reminds me of an almost identicle truck a guy named Joe Mines from your area owned in the 1970's he owned Joe Mines Blasting and it had a set of aluminum slots on it . One of the best looking trucks on the road in North Jersey at the time . Very Nice ! :chevy:

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I very interested to see how those turn out

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very,very nice.love the white and black.

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looking very nice,great work.lots of attention to detail here and it show.beautiful.

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[QUOTE=72c20customcamper;9150819]Pictures of the steering wheel would be nice :metal:

Its just a Grant Mahogony banjo wheel like this one. i bought it new with my ididt it column in about 98.

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[quote=evilokc;9151097]Nice looking wheel . Looks similar to the one that was in my Avanti II not my picture but the same wheel

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Got board :lol: so to speak . Cut and buffed one of the bed boards 2500 then some med cut compound. Worked best by hand then three coats of wax . Guess I won’t be putting firewood in this truck

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That wood is gunna look real nice. Definitely not haulin anything in there now.

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That truck is looking good!!!!!

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Promised her that she would get out the next dry weekend.

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Snowed again . Tried something different on the bed wood used a buffer attachment for doing headlamps . Worked out real well ,I have two more to do but don’t feel like crawling under the truck to loosen the bolts . And it’s like 95 degrees in the basement love sweating in shorts .

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Took the ole guy out for some driving today. Nice winter (50s for us) weather here. Took in some of the local coast attractions. Sure is nice to have it mobile again.

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Finally finished my internally regulated alternator swap! I put a bus bar on the core support and ran an 8ga cable to the other junction, cleaned out a bunch of old bad wiring, then redid a bunch of grounds and added a better thicker ground cable from the block to the frame. Now even though the battery is in the bed, it has 14.4 volts with lights and wipers on and the battery ammeter still works. Maybe not a big deal for many folks, but this was a victory for me! So stoked!

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Well in August I bought my wife a truck 72 short bed going to be a stepside! sooo i have been slowly working on it. So i replaced the center part of the dash since someone cut it and put in a double din set up we wanted it factory. I started to lay out the wiring harness so i can have it really clean under the dash. The green truck was my grandfathers I did a frame off on a few years back with information from all of you here on this site.

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Finally finished my red interior conversion…

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That’s a hard combo to beat

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Wow!!

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I just wish the body was nice enough to match it :lol: :waah:

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Sharp! Good work.

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inner rocker panel replaced, kick panel replaced, A post repaired , cab corner cut out, new one fitted and ready to weld, inner door bottom replaced, outer lower door skin replaced...still need to fit the outer rocker, replace door to align rocker and cab corner before final welding. Gap the door, then ready for body work. Hopefully will get some of that finished this week

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I've been working on improving the u-joint angles on my two-piece driveshaft. I discovered that the center support was quite loose, despite the fact that it is only about a year old and has just a couple thousand miles on it. A local driveline shop rebuilt the driveshaft and installed a new center support. I'm not sure what the brand is of that one, but I ended up replacing it with a Federal Mogul/Bower/BCA unit that was made in the USA. Here's a video that compares the two center supports.

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removed the matching numbers 44k original mile 350 from the 72, full tear down and inspected the entire engine...bearings good and resuable, new oil pump, timing chain, Comp Cam 268, Lunati cam saver lifters, all new gaskets, seals, 1 piece oil pan gasket.
cleaned and sprayed epoxy primer on the engine, followed by single stage hugger orange color...think it turned out good....engine is back in the truck and running well now. Cant wait to put some miles on the ol girl.

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I pulled the remaining wires. Cut the new firewall bulkhead hole, and mounted the bulkhead. Today, I'll start running new wires. :)

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I love it! :metal:

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That's way, way too purdy to sit in, let alone spill beer on!:lol::lol::lol:

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Got some color on the roof, and installed new glass. Still a lot to do

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New delco for old delco plug wires.
Amazing the difference.
Always thought that old blue just hated the rain, turns out just the wires didn't.
New truck

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Took out the 72 to get some diesel for the Kubota. Nice day and we had rain last few days so whatever salt was in the road was washed away . But because we’re in the NYC reservoir watershed they can’t use much salt on the road .

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Did some wet sanding and polishing today

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Sweet!

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Added some bling (bumper guards) to my front bumper🤙

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Forgot to add the pic☺️