What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter

[69Penka]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

I like the seat. Nice job.
Will you paint the Cab top White?

Thank you the upholstery guy did a great job with only a picture as a reference. Yes the top will be white... Hopefully next week!

[69Penka]

Originally Posted by 68bowtie

Looks great

Thank you, Bowtie!

[69Penka]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

Sure is purty! I like that color.

Thank you!

[69Penka]

Originally Posted by Chevys4life

That's a nice color combination. It is going to look really good!!!

Thank you Chevys!!!

[69Penka]

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20

Nice, looks good

Thank you Blue!

[Rust_never_sleeps]

Finished carving out space in my garage and moving my benches and boxes around
Installed floor anchors so I can winch by myself
I've jiggered my divorced choke coil to make it kindasorta adjustable, and she smoked like a chimney on cold start, so I need to make a kindasorta adjustment ;-)
Asked for an electric choke for Father's Day :-D

Drilling concrete w/o a hammer drill is tedious and the drill wanders

[Rust_never_sleeps]

I also pulled the plug off one of the headlights to diagnose an intermittent fault, and the lug came off the back of the light with the plug.
Root cause identified

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by Rust_never_sleeps

I also pulled the plug off one of the headlights to diagnose an intermittent fault, and the lug came off the back of the light with the plug.
Root cause identified

Was it LED or incandescent [incl. Halogen] ?

[Rust_never_sleeps]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

Was it LED or incandescent [incl. Halogen] ?

Old skool sealed beam incandescents

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by Rust_never_sleeps

Old skool sealed beam incandescents

Less than $10 buck fix. R&R headlamp.
Bulb manufacturers will tell you to replace the pair. Sure. They sell twice the bulbs that way. You could keep the used/good one for a spare.
How old was the failed one?
Here in AZ corrosion is at a minimum, but Packrats might gnaw your wires out overnight.
I left my Jimmy alone for about 3 nights. Rats chewed thru the #5 sparkplug wire. They were expensive blue silicone 8mm Taylor HEI wires. I found an old used yellow Accel wire and stuck it on. Works fine.

[Rust_never_sleeps]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

Less than $10 buck fix. R&R headlamp.
Bulb manufacturers will tell you to replace the pair. Sure. They sell twice the bulbs that way. You could keep the used/good one for a spare.
How old was the failed one?
Here in AZ corrosion is at a minimum, but Packrats might gnaw your wires out overnight.
I left my Jimmy alone for about 3 nights. Rats chewed thru the #5 sparkplug wire. They were expensive blue silicone 8mm Taylor HEI wires. I found an old used yellow Accel wire and stuck it on. Works fine.

It's old enough I could have probably soldered the lug back on, but I already have the relay kit, so I bought two halogens to use with that.
Slapped some satin black on the headlight bezels while I'm at it

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by Rust_never_sleeps

It's old enough I could have probably soldered the lug back on, but I already have the relay kit, so I bought two halogens to use with that.
Slapped some satin black on the headlight bezels while I'm at it

Great excuse for an upgrade.
Not as versed in the 69/70 look. I'll need a pic.
I guess you could still solder the lug back on for a backup.

[Rust_never_sleeps]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

Great excuse for an upgrade.
Not as versed in the 69/70 look. I'll need a pic.
I guess you could still solder the lug back on for a backup.

One of the reasons my kids called this thing the "Indiana Jones ride" was because of the dim yellow headlights ;-)

[KQQL IT]

Finally got another stereo installed.
Last one locked up on a reset.
And got the cab corner mounts from Jeff Drew installed. May paint them eventually if I get around to repairing the rest of the rust.