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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Well yesterday I played around some with the truck.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=361556&page=2 Tonite I replaced the rotor, replaced the alternator since my pretty chrome one was bad, went ahead and swithced out the Edelbrock for a Holley and finished breaking in the cam on the 283. Man she sure does sound good. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Hi Jake, I remember!! Are you going to wait and have everything painted at once, or paint the pieces as the prep gets completed?
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Yeah and since that was the first time that I had started it up really sucked. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Mark,
Were going to have her painted in Pieces, because of the two tone pattern and the sharp break line the painted said it not hard at all but his shop in too small to take the whole truck. The color and factory correct two-tone pattern we selected is: THE BODY Roof - Canyon Blue From roofline to Body Break - Olympic White From Break to bottom -Canyon BLue Rims, bumpersm barbell -Olympic White THE INTERIOR Standard silver (factory) Charcoal Dash Grey and White (after market seat covers Rubber Floor Mat Silver and black knobs INTERIOR OF BED All componets will be semi-gloss black, strips, wood, side and wheel tubs. Not 100% authentic but will look better than the factory color. I'll Following the same paint patters as below only in Canyon Blue
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Dropping my motor off in the morning to get bored! Woo!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Swapped some wheels on the white '64 GMC, to get it ready to sell and pecked away at replacing some floor pans on a customer's big window cab.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
So I got a call this morning from the guy who cut my trees down. He says to come out to his mill and I can pick any wood I want for the bed of the panel.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Yesterday, I overnighted a cashier's check for my ebay truck. Today I found on Amazon.com several reference books. I took autobody many moons ago in high school, so I bought a refresher book for that, I bought the "How to rebuild a small block chevy", even though this supposedly won't need it, I bought "How to restore your Chevrolet Pickup", as I heard it has some good tips, and I bought the CD Books "1963 thru 1966 Chevrolet Trucks Factory Shop Manual on CD-rom" for it's reference material.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Cool. Homegrown bed wood.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Well I took out my Turbo 400 and stall......Getting ready to put my new 700r with TCI 3100 stall in as soon as New 700r cross member gets here.
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http://www.autobodystore.com/home.shtml Particularly the forum. I've painted 20-30 cars in my lifetime, but a lot has changed, and the guys on the site are every bit as helpful and knowledgeable as the guys on here. The guy that owns the site Len Stuart has owned a body shop operation for decades and evolved into mostly high end custom work. He's really smart and helpful. I also bought his Spray Painting 101 dvd and it was a great refresher with a few new tips that made it worth the money. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I put on my new rear shorter shocks from Bel-tech now I need dropped spindles & springs. Anyone have any suggestions how to dismount the front coils easy without killing oneself?--- Vernski
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I have been reading a lot the last few weeks here, still trying to get up to speed, a lot of great builds going on here! |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Just Jack up your truck to take all the weight off of it loosen your lower ball joint and smack it with a mallet. You should be fine. It's not like a strut that's under alot more weight
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
At least but a chain around the spring so it won't come flying out at you.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Blew the dust off with a leaf blower......
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I took the 70 cst to a show and replaced the fuel sender float in my 72 blazer
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Pushed mine outside,cleaned the shop from sanding dust,built a new bench and moved everything to it and made room for the new heater. Then pushed truck back in and got some saw horses to put the bed on and got some holes filled on the cab. All that remains is four bolts and off comes the cab maybee tomarrow...If I can get rid of my father in laws storage stuff...Heres a pic of the after clean..
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Took the stepvan to the local DIY carwash and cleaned the engine, tranny and suspension. Disassembled the top half of the steering column looking for why the 3 speed column shifting is so troublesome.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Changed the oil from the cam break-in. Went with the 2-quart NAPA Gold filter, changed the battery cables, started to put the new u-joints in until one of them broke when installing- never had that happen before. Took out the defective heater core. And took some pictures.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Dropped off my motor to get bored and new cam bearings installed. Might pick it up this week.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Could almost smell DPowers fresh new motor
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Got a little more work done on my hood today. Got it mounted up and the latch working. Still working on that patch tho.
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