What did you get done? Mothers day edition
 

I worked this weekend so I didn't do anything truck related. Ok, the usual stuff like detailing the daily drivers, but that's it.

I gave my wife a flower arrangement that my daughter and I made, and some perfume. She asked how I picked it out since I have no sense of smell. I told her I bought the one that didn't make me sneeze. I laughed, but wasn't kidding....:)



What did you get done?

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Replaced the power valves in the double-pumper Holley, went from 6.5 front and 8.5 rear to 4.5 front and 6.5 rear, seemed to help gas mileage a little, but I'll keep an eye on it this week. Also replaced one rear tire due to a huge bubble in the sidewall, truck needs to travel over 200 miles next weekend so last thing I want is a flat tire in the middle of nowhere.

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to the truck nothing. but i did crank it and let my brother here that big block rumble. nothing like a 454

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Went over to see Hart Rob, sold him some rally wheels. His burb is coming along nicely.
Did some yard work.
Took my wife out for breakfast and dinner sunday.

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I got a little more done on the Blazer tank conversion for my 68. I figured out the actual method on securing the tank within the frame only to find it would interfere w/my ECE hidden hitch receiver. I had to modify the receiver slightly but they are now both installed.

When you stand behind the truck, you can't tell it has a Blazer tank since the lowest part of the rear frame is the bumper & hidden receiver. Mission accomplished. This week, I'll pull it back apart to standardize the hardware used & then give the rear 'clip' a coat of rattle can black to match the front rails.

Next up..... final installation of the rear bags & opening up the trailing arm crossmember for some 'tucked' dual exhaust.

For Mothers day, I got the GF some new plants for the front drive so I spent this morning re-potting them in the 'correct' pots vs. the one's they came in @ the store. We went to her parents & did the family cook-out/gift exchange stuff so it was a good day.

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i got a body man cameing this wesday. to price painting the bed and back of cab so i can drive it this summer

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I called my mommy in Oklahoma, she started crying...the flowers I had ordered for her had arrived just as I called (that was friggin luck right there). then I screwed around with a lil project Im workin on for my truck...I'll toss up a teaser pic prolly tomorrow or tues.

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Tried changing out the fuel filter on the 84 friday after it ran even worse. Didn't work, so I tried changing the fuel pump on sat., still nothing. Had to take the quadrajet off, get to the mixture screws and adjust them.

Ran great afterwards.

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Today was my first day off in 48 days. All I did was cleaned the wifes ride today.

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Installed my prothane cab bushing setup along with the por15'd bushing cups. Made for a nice install.

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Well I took the day off Friday from work to get caught up on some other stuff, so that's kinda the start of my weekend. I successfully dropped the Bed and chassis off at the body shop so that they can start on the bed. The rest of the day I did decals for customers. Come night time I went out to the track and watched some racing, as well as making a few passes in my buddy's 02 SS camaro.

Saturday I did a 200 decal job for a local shop, took up a good part of the afternoon, evening time we went out to dinner with my parents for mothers day and helped them move some stuff in preparation for selling their home.

Sunday we went out to my wife's parent's house and spent the afternoon tooling around. I took some pictures of our escapades!

Brother in law's truck, nice, even for a F**D
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The wifey popping off a few rounds with the .22
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The boat I'm working on getting from my parents-in-law, great vintage boat restoration project!
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I really didn't intend on mudding... we were going to check out the creek, didn't know the field was that bad... Ended up getting one more truck stuck trying to get us out and needed a 3rd truck in the end. I owed a few good country boys a 30 pack when all was said and done...lol
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Had new s.5 duals ran on my 78 with a pair of original 40's Flowmasters

SOUNDS AWSOME!!! I now have to install an H pipe as the exaust guy wouldnt do it as he thinks they are a waste ,
INstalled new manifold gaskets and plugs and wires. runs awsome and pulls alot harder.



sunday I went over and cleaned the house and BBQ'd for my mom.

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Brought dad home form the hostpital.

Painted the ceiling upstairs.

Worked on the stereo in the truck a little.

Wrote down what I did in a "quick reply" box.

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Watched the NASCAR race, Gordon Sucks :rolleyes: BBQ'd 2 racks of Pork Ribs for Momma :) and the Flower routine. Ribs came out perfect :metal: , threw some dry rub on them and set them on a medium flame and let them simmer for a while and them just smothered the heck out of them with some Bullseye :metal: Tri Tip and Pork Ribs are my favs :cool: :cool: :cool:
John

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Did yard work and in between tried to diagnose fuel guage stuck at 1/2, snipped tan/white wire and ooops that was the fuel pump wire. Snipped pink/black wire and fuel guage went to full. Took son and wife out to dinner (his 19th birthday). Picked up mother-in-law....she stayed over. Got back home, and swept pine needles from drive-way. Watched the tube for a while. Sunday morning...Happy Mother's day and all that stuff, back outside, drop the fuel tank and sure enough...sender hooped. Sweep more pine needles, go in for brunch, rip apart portion of deck where hot tub was, sweep more pine needles, move cars around in driveway, go get cleaned up, and off to momma's house for a while. Come back home and check out e-mails and posts...now real tired....sure glad I have Monday off as well :)

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friday i sold some parts i had sitting around, made $70. then i worked in crappy 3 digit heat all day saturday. sunday was a relax day, my whole family got together at my uncles for a mothers day brunch, then afterwards i hung out with my ex

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My wife, two cats, and I moved back home on Sunday...and spent the entire day cleaning our house. We lived at my inlaws from Wed-Sun while the work was being done. We had our hardwood floors sanded and refinished...I love how they turned out. We have all new four panel solid core oak doors on order, they should come in this week. Once in, they too will be stained, poly'd, and installed...new oak trim will follow the door installs.

No truck progress, other than wiring up the engine compartment...no pics to share at the moment for that.

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I didn't do anything to the truck except drive it. It was sitting up for several weeks, and I just got it back on the road last weekend, so I was enjoying riding around with the windows down listening to the V8.

My FIL's birthday was Saturday, so we spent most of the day at the inlaws having a catfish fry for him. Saturday evening I helped a friend do a rear quarterpanel patch panel on his Duster. Neither of us know what we are doing, but it seemed to come out okay. I told him that I would help, and learn from his mistakes. :)

Sunday was the usual Mother's Day stuff with our moms, with some exciting garage cleaning up the middle.

Slonaker

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Got four link installed now working on new brake lines.

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You need to give us more updates more often man! :whine:

Looks nice!!

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Mowed the yard for 3hrs... have another 2hrs of mowing to do..

Tried to install a stereo in the Jeep, only to realize the wires arent the same color combination as GMs or something, because only 3 wires matched up. Will have to do a little research. Will most likely have to rewire some speakers too... but I need tunes!!

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All radios have the same wires, they may just be different colors. The most important ones are: (DIN radios)

12V+ On all the time
12V+ Accessory Switched
12V+ From dash lights, to dim display at night
12V- Ground
After that it's just the speaker wires and the antenna lead.

As for me, I got something very big done this weekend. Pictures and a thread will follow today once I can snap some pictures.

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got back from maine, bought a door for the truck,mowed,prayed, enjoyed some quiet time with the Lord, played with the boxers, swept garage out-2 weeks shut up, how did it get dirty? what a drive through the mountains of WV on the way home, man God does some good work!

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Spent the whole week outta town at the farm fencing -- Basically the whole day doing exactly what happened to 1987 Shortwide, cept on purpose while trying to follow a fence line, lol

Then got home and found out that both my 6.0L, and my NV4500 have fallen through, which really, really sucks, cause I sold both the 5.3L, and the TPI 350 / SM465 / 205 to pay for the two of em, so I am stuck with only a NP241 for a drivetrain :(

Oh well, I'm hoping my bodywork gets done this summer, but she definitely won't be touching the hardtop this summer!

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Had a big party for my son's 1st birthday Saturday, had plenty of booze...haha...it was alot of fun.

Picked this up Sunday.........and cleaned it up, as it's been sitting for a few months...

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WOW , that thing looks sweet what drop and tire sizes Please...

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Nice looking truck!! Do you know the history of it? What year is it? Looks like a 79-80 front end with an early 70's bed...wonder which is correct for the truck? ;)

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Thanks guys.....it's all '78. '78 was 1st yr. of turn signals intergrated w/HL bezels........ @ 5-6" drop with 245/60-15 & 275/60-15's.
Also, I had a plain, jane 1980 SWB (round HL's) that had the same bed, with the exposed filler neck....FWIW.
This was my step-dads truck.......he was killed last Dec. during the windstorms here in Wa.....he has had this truck for a long time, was always changing things on it, motors, etc, he loved this truck. Originally was grey with blue interior, now Tangerine with gold pearl and black int.....
Currently has a 350HP 396, but I'll be swapping in my LS-6 spec 454 in a week or two from my old truck......:)

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fri night noticed my 96 had a weird vibration at hwy speeds so i parked it and thought the rear end went out

sat checked the slack in the pinion and the pinion bearing went out so i ended up buyin a rear end out from under the same truck my bed came off of

sun installed the rear end and drove better bought my mom some flowers

tues on the way to work slung the drive shaft out due to bad u joint so there was my vibrations, took a 81 elcamino drive shaft and mine to the drive shaft shop had a custom one made thats an inch shorter due to my drop, was made in less than and hr

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No, 78 had separate headlight bezels and turn signals. 79 was the first year... If that truck is a 78 then somehow the 79 front found its way onto the cab.

Sorry to hear about your step-dad, but it is cool that he lives on in your truck! Keep it awesome! Truck already looks great.

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I stand corrected....:) (Always thought '77 was last year:o )
Although I know FOR A FACT that this front clip is original......I'm sure my step-dad just changed the bezels.......:D

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looks like a very nice 79 josh..........it's real easy to tell 79's............their the best looking one's ;)

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can't remember, but if my memory serves me correct, i went to a swap meet saturday, and hung out there most of the day, a friend traded his 47 chevy coupe for a 67 Buick GS340 which i got to drive,looks, sounds, and runs pretty good, then i installed a billet grille on my brothers 06 crew cab GMC, grille4you's instructions suck for that model, if he were to buy another one for that body style i would get a different brand, just for the better instructions, the grille is good quality though