What did you get done?
 

Yeah it's still early on Sunday, but this is my only chance to post today. I will be at the dowtown at the Goerge R. Brown convention center all day today for the final round of the Lonestar Regional volleyball tournament.

My daughters team had an awesome day yesterday and won every match they played. That put them in the gold bracket today. If they can just hang in there and finish 3rd or better they qualify to play at the Junior Olympic nationals in Salt Lake City. :metal:

About the only thing truck related I have done is wash and detail both our drivers. Boring job, but it has to be done.

What did you get done?

I put gas in my truck...

Friday night, i came home from work and started cleaning up my 95 Grand Am back together, put a few finishing touches on it before i set it out for sale. set it out about 7pm. i woke up yesterday morning to hear the doorbell. i look out, and there's a minivan sitting at the end of the driveway next to the Grand Am. so i throw on some clothes, grab the keys, and head for the door. they look the car over real well, and ask to take it for a test drive. we go for a short drive (since the car has no plates or insurance) and then get down to business talking about a price. they offer $700, from my $1500 asking price i thought that was a little low. managed to talk them up to $900, and i let it go for that. considering i had just under $400 in the car, and i'm tired of looking at it, i dont think i did too bad. and since it sat out there just over 12 hours, i dont have to hear *****ing about the dead spots in the grass. :D

went to my buddy's house and helped him and his cousin strip out the new derby truck. a '66 Ford F250. its a little rough around the edges, but overall a solid truck. he scored it no motor/no trans for $150. we'll put a small block Chevy and a TH350 in it and call it good.

after stripping the truck, decided to go to the races. found out that there has been a rule change, and street stocks now allow pickups, where only mini stocks did before. got some wheels turning.... :rolleyes:

and im just sitting here watching the race now. i might go outside in a little bit and push the 86 out of the garage and start cleaning up.

pulled the cover on my front dana 44 and found all the spiders and ring gear destroyed.. no big deal, 30 year old parts held up well.. So now I got a project to work on, ill have to pull the front axle in the next few days and put it on a stand and start rebuilding.. just not sure what to replace the open carrier with, just yet... Ill post pics later :)

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I cleaned the 74 after leaving work yesterday & stopped by the Dust-Off.

Today, I went back out to Dust-Off w/my old buddy that couldn't go yesterday. Less there today than there was yesterday.

Now it's furniture assembly time (a desk for the young one). I hope to get some time to work on my 74's bucket seat frame (I'm making a frame similar to the 67-8 'buddy' buckets).

details.....
 

I painted the front end parts of the 76, came out real nice. :metal:

I helped my couisn move some more, hauled big loads saturday and sunday. partied saturday night. plannin' on cleanin' my interior up tonight or tomorrow.

i test drove an 01' mustang gt 5 speed.
its slower than my truck

oh, and i just finished installing Mac OSX 10.4 tiger
i like it so far

oh, and i liked the mustang a lot too :cool:

saturday-got a canopy for my truck so i can go camping
sunday-crack head offered to trade his pos 88 chevy 3/4t 4x4 for mine. guy must think im stupid or something. the motor was covered in oil, interior looked like sh*t, box was rusted. worth about half of mine.

I had some friends come up from Austin, and we went to the Pate Swap meet out at TMS Saturday morning. There were loads of overpriced junk out there. Not much interesting. I almost picked up a white 86 GMC SWB, but teh dude was stuck on $2500. A little rich for that truck. There was an 87 with a not so great repaint and partial color change that was $5K. Waaaaay to much. We went home empty handed. The bright spot was seeing a set of slotted mags in 17" sizes. I almost bought a set, but cooler heads prevailed. Here is a link:http://www.americanracing.com/wheels...lloy&section=V .

worked... mostly....
truck related? hmmmm

Tues the passenger side exhaust fell off the truck.. the flat flange part of the collector actually seperated from the pipe.. wasnt rusted just cracked. Went ahead and had new collectors welded on both sides.. sounds soo much better now.. had been leaking for some time and i suppose i just got use to it..

towed it to a trans shop... yep.. it finally gave it up..going to stop by the shop in the morning and see how much its going to run. If its too rich for my blood i will have a buddy and his Jeep TJ (350 chevy, th400, 38" swampers) tow my truck home so i can tear it out myself..unfortunately i dont have a concrete driveway to lay on, and would rather not roll around in the dirt. At the moment i would rather have it done even if it cost alittle bit more.. but if worse comes to worse i will do it myself over a week or two time. Unfortunately that leaves 4 working adults with 2 cars... makes things difficult. hopefully tax return will come in soon.. was planning on using it on a front end rebuilt (tie rods, idler arm, pitman arm, ball joints, and control arm bushings). Oh well... we shall see what another week will bring..

Cranked the truck and drove it around the block. 1st time its been ran in over a month now. Bought a new John Deere lawnmower....and mowed grass.

well this weekend was not a truck related weekend.. my buddy towed his mitsubishi eclipse turbo ( yuck i know a ricer) and we put the trans in it he has some kind of boost system hes rigging up but hey i have all kind of tools and it was easier to do that here. the deal is i help him he does the clutch in my kids acura so thats a fair deal lol i do have to get some stuff done on the truck maybe next week the carpet needs to get done the exhaust is loose and i gotta fix that

saturday morning woke up at 5:30...my mom,brother,sister went to a bull ride....i stayed in till about 12...then pulled some trucks around with my uncle...went to my other uncles place...looked at some junk....think thats it...sunday....got up went and welded on my uncle semie trailer till around 12:30...cam back cranked my 67 IH 2wd let it run for awhile and moved it then pulled the engine out of my 67 IH 4wd.....worked on my uncles 52 chevy....by then it was geting dark so we put up the tools and went in...so that's all folk's.....

I cleaned the 89 up, and put the dash together, just to find out that I messed up two of the gauges. They are pegged all the time now, DOH!!

Throughout the week I gotta put hinge pins in, new gauges, new pull straps, fix the DS seatbelt (bottom strap doesn't retract) and a new caliper on the front right. Then the 89 is going byebye ASAP

sanded the dash down in the blazer and fixed the rear gate

Finished up detailing/sanding/polishing the truck around 2:30 saturday morning in time to get 3 hours of sleep before going to Dustoff.

Here's a new pic of the wifes truck I just painted:
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Looks awesome Izzy, excellent job!

Still hanging drywall in my addition

Wow that paint job looks good. Got a Din radio installed, Kenwood CD player. Then I put new bulbs in the dash, now I can see speed from 0-30ish, lol lot brighter. The one on the fuel gauge was out also.

Changed my water tank - - I mean the natural gas fired appliance in my house. It sprung a leak just as we were heading out the door to church yesterday morning. So, not quite how I was planning to spend my Sunday afternoon/evening, but that's the way it goes, I guess... :rolleyes: :)

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I wanted to go to Pate this weekend, but decided that 4+ hours each way plus walking around all day was just too much. I feel better hearing that there was not much of interest. :)

The only thing I did related to the truck this weekend was to drive it. I spent the weekend doing the two other things I am interested in, computers and scooters. I spent Saturday at a computer swapmeet. I didn't buy much, but it was fun looking around and drooling over all of the high end hardware.

Sunday was spent on a scooter ride. Scooter as in motor scooter. This was a 60 mile ride open to all types of modern and vintage scooters. We had a good showing of classic Vespas as well as a couple of Allstates and a Lambretta. Just in case anyone is interested in this stuff, you can view the pictures I took here:

http://www.slonaker.net/gallery/MC-S...-Ride-05-01-05

Slonaker

wow looks awesome fiveeight

my weekend always consists of actually being at work on Sat
then Sun i got the baseboards, quarter round and door trim put up in the main bathroom. also got the vanity and sink put it but since theres no hardware stores open here on sundays i will have to wait till today (mon). luckily i have most the day off, just need to stop into work for a few hours to do some screening.

It looks great Izzy, but something is missing in the picture.... :D ;)

Oops, I'll have her pose for the next round of pics. :D

There will be plenty soon since it'll have the 2tone by the end of junes probably.