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#3376 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Well I FINALLY got off my butt and painted my doors. After a few days I put them on the truck just need to put the guts in them. Now to get to het off my butt and get the fenders and grill painted.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
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Is your battery nine years old?
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#3379 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
I have one in my Chevelle that’s 8 or 9 years old . I was looking to buy a new one for the truck but the reviews aren’t that good . Guess when they moved from the US to Mexico the quality went down hill and I believe they are made in China now
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#3380 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Got the passenger door and fender painted today . I have them in the cargo trailer with an electric heater . I like to keep the fresh paint warm for at least 8 hours . Didn’t think about taking pictures.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
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#3382 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
It is.. still going strong!
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#3383 |
At the body shop.
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Land of fruits and nuts.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Truck stuff. Dragging home squarebody stuff for the kids K5
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#3384 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
I remember the TV ads for Optima Batts: They shoot out 4 or 5 cells of a redtop with a .45 long colt six shooter and it still started.
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#3385 |
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Location: Space Coast, Fl.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
I've been sick and my 2 old trucks have been neglected in the shop for a year+. The battery in the Blazer wouldn't hold a charge so I jumped it drove it down to O'Reilly's. I got a good deal on a Delco battery & a nice young lady installed it for me. I took the long way home and had fun blasting the Blazer around. BIG FUN till I got home and bumped a pole in my shop & broke the passenger side sport mirror... just old n' stupid I guess. Eckler's BIG warehouse is in Titusville so I bought a pr. of repro mirrors. Don't know how they'll hold up but they're pretty nicely turned out. Luckily the old screws came out & the doubler fell inside the door. I took the door panel off & lubricated the window & door mechinisms. My wife held the new doubler inside the door while I started the screws... I think the screws that came with the new mirrors are made out of lead and are flat head and look like crap. Even after putting a dab of grease on the sheet metal screws and CAREFULLY installing them the phillips part of the screws rounded off. The old oval head screws cleaned up nicely & screwed in smoothly. I wish the rest of the Blazer was detailed as nicely as the passenger door.
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#3386 |
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#3387 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Only thing I did on the truck I remembered to put the emblem before I put the fender on
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#3388 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Installed the altman easy latch kit on my 68 driver door.great kit, good instructions. Door closes easy
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#3389 |
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#3390 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
How well does it pop beer bottle caps?
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#3391 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Have a decision to make painted or SS stalk ?
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#3392 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Built up new exhaust to put the muffler under the bed and exit in front of differential. I am no professional welder but I manage to stick metal together. Much better on the sound and the old exhaust exited short and you got a whiff of fumes occasionally. Now you can actually hear the radio.
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#3393 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
, I went thru the same question , Being your truck has hubcaps I'd say painted since they're already done . or add the bling with the stainless ones ?
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
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#3395 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Do you think the doors close easier with them than the factor ones?
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#3396 |
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Location: Beebe, AR
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
I was kicking myself for not getting it sorted and done before putting the bed back on the frame. Would have been WAY easier.
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#3397 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
I bet it sounds pretty good with a single exhaust and shorty pack and turn down. I did that with my old 56 ford truck. Made that Y block sound way bigger than it was.
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#3398 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
It's WAY better than this. I slapped this together to get it running and driving but after the first trip from Beebe to Searcy and back I told my wife that exhaust wasn't going to cut it.
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#3399 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Oh yeah, the misses. If you hadn't said it, she would I bet.
![]() My wife and I took a 2000 GMC I had just bought on a trip down to Texas Motor Speedway. It had a single blow master or something like that with dual tails. We were both tired of it before we even got there. She almost wouldn't ride in it again after that. I changed it soon after. ![]()
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#3400 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Got the clips for the hoops today . Installed them and the grille emblem not moving to fast took a spill on Sunday working the wood pile . Wet moss on slimy bark is like ice . Nothing broke but my left arm and hand took the brunt of it . Just swelling and a few bruise’s. Glad I didn’t have a saw in my hand I was just moving some rounds with the cant hook .
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