What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
 

Ok, the 60-66, 67-72, 73-87, and 88-98 guys have a thread called "What Did You Do To Your Truck Today". Well I say it is time the 47-59 forum has a similar thread, so I decided to start one. Anybody want to join in ?

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I started sanding down the rusted beat up front bumper it came with, too muggy to paint today though.

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today i installed my accelerator pedal assembly (aftermarket), finished installing my windsheild with the deluxe trim, and started installing my doors (after getting the first one hung I realized I cant effectively adjust the door alone, will put that one off until i can get help.

Windshield looks good though!
Still havent got my back glass in all the way... pounded and pounded and I cant get it in far enough to install the bead lock... grr....

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Well I guess since I started this thread I should post what I did to my truck. Went out and looked at the frame work me and my buddy got done yesterday. We got the Malibu clip spot welded in. Did some more measuring/ re-checking to see if we got it right , and to make plans for next move on it next weekend. It was great to finally get the frame rolling again.

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sand blasted my inner fenders

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Absoultely nothing today see my build what I did friday and saturday!
Made rear bumper brackets and brake handle cable set up plus cut down original handle and helped my neighbor dissamble his recently acquired project.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=436442

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I rolled the cab onto its back and finished welding the new floor, cab mounts and interior cowl panes and undercoated the complete bottom.

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Finished boxing in and painted new the C-notch I started last week, built and painted a cradle for the new gas tank, installed new rear bumper, then I painted it.
Dont get too excited, when I say "painted" I mean I pointed a spry can and it and held down the button 'till it was all the same color of black...

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Got my wheels and Tires done today. on my 52

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I have removed all old wiring and just starting installing an EZ-wire harness in my 57.

Lazypineapple: wheels and tires look great. I can't wait to get my whitewalls.

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I like.

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Well I just looked at it and thought to myself "Man you need to get to work on it".

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Oh do I know that feeling. Found the cure for it, but my wife looks at my posts from time to time, oh well, does shopping with her ring a bell LOl ? Oh no I didn't just open that can of worms did I JK. ?

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I walked passed it.

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Continued to install some of the one million bolts in my wood bed kit. Looks great but removing the old 50 year+ wood and bolts and installing new stuff is not a fun job. Glad I did it though as it looks great.

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Friday I took the fenders back off and removed the engine and trans.
Today Installed the flywheel, pilot bearing and clutch and bellhousing on the new engine.
Turns out that the original 57 throw out fork installs perfectly on the 89 corvette bellhousing pivot ball. Too bad the spring broke trying to install it. Now I have to find one of those.
still cleaning the firewall today in prep to sand it and repaint.

About 30 years ago, I sprayed some rubberized coating on the firewall, and it didn't really stick. All it did was to preserve the paint underneath. Too bad the firewall was scratched up. i bet I coulda polished out the firewall and had it in original paint.

It looks like right next to where the voltage regulator was originally installed, there is a cursive capitol letter G in the original black paint. I wonder if the guy who painted the cab put his initial in the fresh paint?

Also, on the firewall right above the seam line right in front of the driver, the original color of the truck is marked in raised hand written letters under the paint. Anybody else have their color marked on the original primer prior to painting?

New tires arrived today, now I have to figure out a way to get the tires and wheels to the tire shop. my other car is very small......But it has a 383 TPI...........I can put a tire in the front seat if I remove the seat bottom. But do I want to put a tire with a wheel there? Probably not. I might have to drive it with the hatch open. Gotta be careful, I just replaced the cargo area carpet in light gray and installed new speaker grilles.

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Added a shop logo to the doors. Still need to do some sanding to weather it in a little more.

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9/26/11
I took my trash off, then on the way back home got on it one good time to impress my wife.....which it did. Then replaced the front lug nuts with the chrome acorns I picked up at the Rod Run. I planned on doing more but some storms came up and I decided to vacuum the house.

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Drank a beer and looked at it...then another...then one more.
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Walked by it, wiped some dust off of the cab and wished I had time to work on it..;) Been under my son's VW bus for the last week trying to get it going for an upcoming show this weekend........ and MISSED the Super Chevy Show at Bristol this past weekend working on it. :cuss: And will miss the Mopar Nationals this weekend for the VW show. Have to follow him on it's maiden trip and make sure it gets there. But it's father and son time and these days are getting fewer with each passing day. 18 and just started Jr College, at least he still like to hang out with the old man.

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been workin on fuel line and routing lower radiator hose - dealing with hose configuations - and not trying to cramp one thing into another .
also installed a ''sidewinder '' fan - have you guys ever tried one of these? - its the type with the motor offset and can be ''clocked '' around if you have a close or tight fit on radiator to water pump issues .
got mine set up and this fan pulls in a tremendous amount of air !
after all that ? uncle jack d- cooled me down

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last night: hung doors
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Wish I could say took out for a drive. Doing a little more wiring. My plan is to drive it around the yard by the end of October.

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oops

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Try this again,
Did a ton of sheet metal work to the fender to repair a bunch of really bad backyard repairs by one of the POs the passenger side was the better of the two when I started

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I finished mounting the new gas tank between the frame rails. Just need to plumb it and decide if I'm going to a electric fuel pump.

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Drove it 15 miles to work this morning. Drove it yesterday too.

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nice work on the repatching

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Just got my frame back from the sand blaster, after blowing off the excess sand & a quick prepsol wipe down my work colleague hit it with LIC industrial low gloss 2K.

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Bought one of these http://www.summitracing.com/parts/PRF-60122/
So that it will run :) :) :)

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DUWAM, you win, that's what it is it all about, driving your car.
I miss my '37 chev sedan, that was a daily. Oh well, got to get the '48 pickup finished.
Bryan

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Red Foreman,Your frame is looking great!!! Are you going to start a build thread?

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I painted my steering column parts.

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I fabricated all but one of my hydroboost lines. The left frame rail is getting really busy. I finally found adapters to install the proportioning valve, and installed clamps for the brake lines.
Now if I can just find a rebuild kit for the master cyl. I can finish assembling that.
Bought the firewall paint and talked to the painter about fenders and inner fenders.
Looks like I need to get a few parts stripped.

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Red Forman: lookin good:metal:

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Thanks Indian113, I've been holding off on doing a build thread untill I have progressed a little but now that you asked I feel its time!!!

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Did not do anything with my truck today, but I worked on my car hauler so I can take the frame to my buddies shop to put on his rotisserie to finish welding in Malibu clip.

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I sourced the cross sill material for the flatbed build. Feeling pretty sure about major progress this weekend.

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I painted the rest of my steering column parts and measured and measured and oh yeah measured again for rear suspension placement.

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Got my cluster, new ignition switch, light switch, and electric wipers installed, got most of my under-dash wiring done. I'm not using a late GM steering column like the EZ-Wire harness is designed for so it's going a little slower than I wanted.

What does the "lock" position on the ignition bezel do? New ignition switch, key turns backward to what I thought was accessory position, but bezel says "lock". and no power to accessories in that position.