What did you get done 3/20/11 edition
 

Ive not been able to do anything chevy related in months. We did get the body work done on the ranger that we just bought ( scratch dent on the rear quarter) and put our plastics on both trucks but other than that weve been doing mostly work with our real estate company

How about you all>

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Got the old tank out and the "new" one in but the neck on the new tank is smaller. Just another snag to try and deal with.

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Got me a new project!
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Got the 82 stepside sanded for paint..and fijishin the clip up on the 94;)
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On my old dually, I got all the 87 fuel injected donor wiring in the dash, all ducts in place, column, cluster and all that. I've got about 20 hours just in getting all the dash stuff just so. It's better than GM put it together.

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Not truck related really, but my buddy came over to the shop and we powdercoated his minibike. He's about to dive into the powdercoating gig so I'm teaching him what I can and letting him get his feet wet before he commits to buying his own rig.

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Changed the drag link (wow what a difference) and also swapped from a 77 grill to a 73

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Put pads and rotors on wifes car all the way around and bought a new steering box cause mine leaks and has tons of slack in steering.

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I didnt do anything truck related. Just finished D-Now weekend at church with the youth group. had a blast

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I took a weekend off from working all together. Kind of nice to just sit in the house and play with the kids. Tonight we all ventured out for dinner and stopped at the parts store to get the engine paint. I will start cleaning and painting the engine this week.

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Did some exhaust work on my my friends dads new 2011 SS. Removed the huge mufflers and replaced them with DynoMax Bullets... sounds good and clean. Also printed out my templates I made for my 2.5 Y tip... worked out perfectly.

went from 3d:
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7500/ytip.th.png

to flat pattern (just one 3 templates:
http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/9...plitter.th.png

Wasnt sure how it would turn out but everything matched up perfectly...ran out of daylight so I didnt get a chance to weld all the pieces together nor redo my exhuast. My plan is to run it out the passenger side before the tire, similar to a factory Lightning
clint

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Got a good bit of wiring done on my truck. Its almost ready for the raod finally!!!!

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I also stayed in this weekend. Tomorrow though I start to pull out the motor outta the 82. Cant wait to tear into it.

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Tx Firefighter- I used to have one of those mini bikes with a 3HP when I was still small enough to ride one... Thing was fun.

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Got my motor painted on Saturday.

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Nice, 6.2? I have a 6.5NA that is going on the stand after my 350 is done. Planning to strengthen the bottom end up, studding the heads, and making custom headers for twin turbos.

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Thanks it's a 6.2 I have Banks side winder turbo with it as well.

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Finally got our taxes done!:metal:
With some warmer weather took time to work in the shop giving the daily 'get to work' car a spring clean-up and detailing. Definitely needed it after this winter. Actually looks new. GM was right about the Saturns and plastic body panels, too bad they dropped them from production.

Added some time working on the C-30 and finally pulled the old cracked oem dash.
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Still working on the replacement.
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A good week-end with the weather. Spring is here in the midwest!;)

Mark:chevy:

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Saturday I worked on my '50 a little, mounted the fuel cell and began mocking up the front fenders. Pretty soon I'll be taking everything back apart so I can finish welding chassis/cab/bed brackets Spent a couple hours on the computer chasing down parts.



Took a cruise over to a friends house early Sunday morning and worked on his "square" a few hours, gauges, tach and a new carb.

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Everything I touched Saturday morning went bad. So I took the weekend off.

And now it's raining.

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I took the weekend off and headed down to Myrtle Beach SC to my dads' house. We spent Friday and Saturday looking at some awesome cars adn trucks at the Run to the Sun show. They announced they had 2600 plus particpants and I think I walked them all. I got alot of pics that I will post later.

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Finally have a shiny truck again.

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I finished installing door poppers and building up the doors. Also installed small mirrors.

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Been redoing my brakes, and its been one of those weekends where NOTHING goes right. So in 3 days I'm just to the bleeding part.

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Put new headlights, taillight lenses, grill, & front bumper on my buddy’s 68 - And I installed a new headliner in his boys 90 x-cab Chevy. Started putting my front end back together after complete rebuild & paint in my 75, dropped the gas tank, driveshaft, exhaust & bed to get ready for cutting it down to a shortbed. Also went to the local yard & scored a mint 73 grill, turn signals & all brackets for the sweet price of $0.00

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Actually got alot accomplished this week. Found my oem dash buried under a fiberglass cover. And the dash wasn't even in that bad of shape! Filled the whole in my gauge bezel where the radio goes. Picked up a set of rallye's for 150 and put some 295-50's on the back. Been working on trying to make a center console for my truck as well.

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Keep us updated on the functionality of the elec door openers...

I had some on mine, and they were very intermittent. if i would shut the door to hard it would put the solenoid just enough out of adjustment so they would not work... this was years ago, maybe the newer ones are better now??

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Same here, I was so aggravated with them I considered swapping in new doors. A friend recommended I look at what AVS had to offer. One word, awesome! My doors now work flawlessly. AVS is also a board vendor. I can't brag about AVS enough, awesome product!

http://www.avsontheweb.com/home.php

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I agree 100%!!!!
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Got the seat I bought installed.

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My wife picked up a 2004 6.0l LQ4 for me. It is complete from oil pan to intake, fan to flexplate with the wiring harness for $975. Only thing that ddn't cme with it was the ac compressor and computer.

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I used connectors that allow for adjustment. Don't use the squeeze on type connectors, they are permanent. You get a little stretch on the braided cables, you can always tweak them. I will wait and install the door panels once I finish up the rest of the interior. I don't have any problems at this time, everything is working as it should! I used electrical screw type connectors that are for ground wires. They will tighten up and hold the braided wires.