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Originally Posted by cornerstone
Well the truck looks very nice now! I think the steel wheels look great, and would look even better with some P03 caps. Now that you’re up and running are you glad that is the truck you bought, or do you wish you had waited?
Brian
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Thank you. I'm happy with it. Exhaust is a little loud through those glass-packs, but the price was right (free) and they were readily available (sitting in my buddy's shop). I think I'll swap those out for something with a little more muffling. Sounds really good at idle, but loud when you're at 60MPH (or pretty much anything past idle).
Definitely needs some caps on those wheels. I have a set, but they're a little too beat to go on this truck. Was watching a set on eBay and they closed for over $200. It'd be nice if someone made repops, but I've never found any.
Some of the work required was a little unplanned. For instance, it had a never-used new in-cab gas tank (it may have been 12 years old for all I know, but definitely never had gas in it). Put a few gallons in it, and the next day the cab smelled very strongly of gas. This truck was an early enough '70 model that it didn't have the vapor canister that later ones did. Right then I decided to go to the in-frame tank. That was an additional $800 or so after the tank, AN hose, fittings, etc. And switching from the eBay carb to the Holley was another $600 or so project. It was money well spent, just not planned for.