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Well, I broke down and finally pulled my truck in the shop to work on it. I took the fuel tank out because it wiped out a brand new fuel pump. It also used fuel filters about every 2 weeks. I pulled the seat out, too, along with the sill plates. And boy, let me tell you, those sill plates hide surprises. The drivers side floorpan is a little rough in the front corner. It need a fair side patch put in. And, the rocker dams weree rusted through on both sides. Its nothing too serious. I didn't want a showpiece truck, anyway. Just something that looked good and went good. I'm getting a new fuel tank for X-mas. Mine was completely rusted on the inside, but looked brand new on the outside. I took the tranny cover off in the cab to look at the tranfer case. It has been apart before, because there s blue goop smeared everywhere where the transfer bolts to the tranny. It could just be a matter of something put together wrong inside it. I painted the floorpans with Rustoleum brown primer. A coat of black Rustoleum is going on on tuesday (53* F!!!!!!!) and maybe a patch for the drivers side floor.

Overall, I really cannot complain. Everytime I start to feel bad, my dad chimes in that the trc is 40 yrs old. Then I realize its in dang good shape for a 68.

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Good luck !!! jyd

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good luck with that. I was kinda pissed that my sill plates were all rusty, but i took them off and no floor/rocker damage(that was visible), so i need to get some new sill plates before these ones completely fall apart

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sill plates???
I think mine fell out the holes that they were covering. :whine:

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I think those sill plates are there to keep the door frames on. At least that's what they were doing in my truck...

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Fun Mudder you might want to invest 25.00 in a board subsription and do a Want to Buy thread for a tank! If you are going to keep it in the cab lots of folks pull good ones out all the time! I have one here I'd give you if you were closer!

Kevin