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08-21-2009, 01:47 AM | #51 | |
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Re: The Joys of Driving an Old Truck.
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As for the headlights I went out and bought the Sylvania Closed Beam headlights and am installing them tomorrow after I wake up and I'll check the difference tomorrow night. I also bought some Rain X and Rain X's anti fog solution for the inside of my windows as well. So we'll have to see how that all adds up to clearing my vision problems while driving. I'll let you guys in on the video and update you with the upgrades tomorrow!
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08-21-2009, 12:44 PM | #52 | |
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08-21-2009, 01:43 PM | #53 |
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Re: The Joys of Driving an Old Truck.
I can usually get a little smoke from my right rear with open 3.73's and a Tremec 5spd that has 454 cubes bolted to it - it usually stops though after I hit 4th and let off the gas a little... man I need a posi
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08-21-2009, 02:22 PM | #54 |
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Re: The Joys of Driving an Old Truck.
Without The wheels are 15x8's wrapped in 215 70 R15's. The tires are too small which is probably why it does it but oh well lol. I can't do the video today since it's raining and that wouldn't make it fair.
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08-22-2009, 03:03 PM | #55 |
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Re: The Joys of Driving an Old Truck.
I installed the new headlights, it really is a night and day difference! I can see so much more now and it's great being able to drive safely at night. I applied the RainX to my windshield as well which I hope to test soon with Florida weather the way it is. Thanks for recommending those headlights, they were a great investment!
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08-22-2009, 07:52 PM | #56 |
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Re: The Joys of Driving an Old Truck.
My 72 has heat shields and brackets clanging and belts squealing and brakes growling, ahhhh yes I do love an old truck, am radio (dont use it) it drowns out the music of the metal.
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09-18-2009, 03:25 AM | #57 |
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I just had to come and revive this topic to speak of my newest joyful experience! First I'll get the bad one out of the way, lol. So, a week ago I installed a new fuel sending unit because my old one was far gone. After installing it, my gas gauge now fails to work and at the connection between fuel lines in the cab it now leaks. It's leaking because there's a huge amount of pressure building in my tank now for some reason that was never there before. I open the gas tank and *poof* out comes a shot of air. I'm working on fixing that now.
As for the great new joyful experience, well I was driving home from town the other day and I got caught at a red light. I look in the rearview and notice a white van slowly creeping up beside me. This wasn't just the usual slow creep up either, you know the kind where you try to get the nose of your car in front of the persons beside you. No, this was a creep from my tailgate til they were even with me. I see out of the corner of my the guy we'll call hippy1 glancing at my truck and looking at me. I figure, it's just some nosy guy no harm intended. Then the window started to come down, I was in a shady part of town so I wasn't too sure what was about to go down. Well hippy2 (the driver) leans forward and says "Duuude, your truck is aawweessoommee" my face lit up like a little kid in a candy store haha. I said thanks and the light turned green where I proceeded on my way home. I was probably smiling for the next twenty minutes. That was the first time I had someone pull up beside me and say something about my truck.
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09-18-2009, 04:35 AM | #58 |
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Re: The Joys of Driving an Old Truck.
Driving my truck is a joy because its like a tractor compared to the DD. Its a half ton but it thinks it can run over anything.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." Nice words. Are they yours, or who said them? You can give credit in your sig... |
09-18-2009, 11:19 AM | #59 | |
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-John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), “The Contest In America,” Fraser’s Magazine, February 1862
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09-18-2009, 03:23 PM | #60 | |
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09-18-2009, 03:38 PM | #61 |
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Notta week goes by with out complements.
Though my favorite was the police... Walked out of a gas station to find a cop behind my truck, with him checking it out... He just wanted to talk, his dad had one Still scary at 1st |
09-18-2009, 04:18 PM | #62 | |
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09-19-2009, 04:52 PM | #63 |
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Re: The Joys of Driving an Old Truck.
i know how you feel. my wife calls me crazy because i park my 2009 chevy truck and drive my 72 for a month at a time..
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09-20-2009, 07:24 AM | #64 | |
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My wife and I are in a little financial trouble right now (I got laid off of a good paying job, and haven't found anything comparable yet). So instead of selling the 72 that was not running because of a knock, I am letting my car get repoed and am fixing the truck. People say "Why not sell the truck?" And my answer would have to be that I wouldn't get much, whatever I got would only help for a month or two, and then right back where I was. But most of all, the truck is paid for.
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