She's ALIVE!!!

[TruckinDaddy]

Thanks to good guys on the board like Castiron9 and Gray Ghost, and great vendors, like GMCPaul's, I got to take a quick spin in my old beater 68 yesterday.

I took her off the road 6 months ago, to work on some of the bugs. Then the bugs started winning the war. First I needed to swap the turn signal switch. Then I stripped the steering shaft threads when I was reinstalling the wheel.

I found the 40 year old rag joint was trashed, when I pulled the column out. After that, Castiron9 sent me one with my promise to pay once it arrived (which I got busy and forgot to do for a week or two). Then I promptly stripped that one out, too.

Gray Ghost hooked me up with a sweet deal on a column, wheel and beauty of a horn button for the 68. Then I got tired of breaking my own stuff, and the wife grew tired of me asking to buy parts, so everything stalled in December.

Last week I finally ordered a new steering coupler from GMCPaul. Than bad boy installed like butter! Once finished that without breaking anything, I spent the rest of the day re-installing the column. Then I had to re RE-install it when I realized that I had put one of the shifting linkages on backwards while I was cleaning everything out.

After I finally got the new turn signal switch (that started this whole thing 6 months ago) installed, I buttoned her up and took a little spin around the neighborhood.

She still isn't pretty, but she sure has come a long ways since I drug her out of the pasture back in the spring of 05.





I had to give her something pretty to make up for keeping her in the garage for 6 months. New tailgate letters from GMCPaul fit the bill nicely.