Quest to DD my '71 again

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Originally Posted by JJorgensen52

On the seatbelts, anyway

I had a set custom made using my original buckles - they're reversed from the normal orientation, the tab is on the seat and the buckle is on the shoulder harness, but they work fine and it looks great.

Those are really cool, I looked into doing something like that. Where did you have it done?

Originally Posted by original-71

if you can drive it and be happy i would do the same with mine, minus the rain and thieves

Tell you what how about we just trade and you can drive mine. Yours will be safe in my garage!

So the DD Day is here, sold the wife's Tahoe today and she is driving my '08 Silverado. I have made some headway, been working on freshening up the tilt column by removing the upper guts, cleaning and prepping for paint. I also may have fixed the major leak, of all things it was the dipstick. I have a chrome one, and I suspected it of leaking before so I cleaned and sealed with RTV. It's really hard to spot, because the oil comes out clean then travels backwards between the block and head and off the back of the engine. There was no dirt around the dipstick so I didn't think it was leaking again but after some searching I ran across a thread where somebody said they have to be seated so I tapped it with a mallet and what do you know, it seated firmly in the block. Took a long drive, came back and there was one drip a half hour later (hopefully leftovers).

I'm exited to have tilt soon!!!