Thanks for routinely checking in Don, even when little is going on. I appreciate it.
Last night I painted the GMC emblem black, and it turned out looking crappy:
I tried twice and just couldn’t get the edges to come out clean enough to attain my standards. It subsequently got washed in lacquer thinner, double waxed, and reinstalled without paint. I prefer it with black in the textured area, but only if it’s perfect. So I’m done messing with it, the emblem will stay bare chrome (which my wife prefers anyway)!
Next up I snapped a shot of the new bigger porthole lights just for comparison to the smaller ones. Here’s the old lights a few days ago:
And here’s the new ones, in the same location as close as I could match:
And finally, all of the squeaks in the truck are finally gone! It turned out there were numerous items generating noises at similar frequencies. The hood was the biggest one, but the last one turned out to be the pivot bolt inside the Hurst shifter mechanism:
It was at least a couple of turns loose, and simply tightening it up eliminated the last annoyance!
