What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[ChuckDriver]

Inventoried my Vintage Air Magnum IV system!!!

[Gippetto]

I finished the chassis paint on my '47 GMC so I can finally bolt down the cab so I can get back to the rot replacement.
This brings up a question for you experts: I rebuilt the rear cab support trunion with a kit that included the bushings for the center trunion and a pair of rubber pads that support the cab corners. The pads were 1/4" thicker than the originals and round instead of rectangular. The old ones mounted with two bolts so I drilled new holes to put them on the center of the frame. I figured that the originals had taken a set or were worn down but when I let down the jack the cab rested on the bumpers and the trunion base was 1/4" off the frame. I made a 1/4 " spacer piece which when bolted in pulled down nice and flush with the pads. Looks good but apparently not correct. The spacing between the frame and the floor is 0.76" in the assembly manual and mine is about two inchs. The rub is that the manual shows the trunions which support the cab at the corners with no pads which was a revised design. The single trunion design put too much stress on the cab and caused cracking. I am not sure if the .76 is valid for a '47 with the old design. I am leaning towards just adding 1/4" shims to the front cab mounts and radiator mounts and probably be OK.
Any suggestions how to proceed.

[OrrieG]

proceed with caution. AD cab angle is critical to hood and fender alignment as well as horizontal with the bed. there have been a number of threads about fenders not fitting that go back to the cab angle.

[JumboAMONGus]

worked on wires and connectors new tail light harness , also finally after 3 years got the wire from the dome light threw the pillar and to the head light switch i cpould never get anything threw it did the string with compressed air and it worked after a pencil finnaly blew threw the sun visor hole , ,, old pencil that says Old Line State Annapolis .. so i looked it up truck must have came from Maryland it is a military vehicle , but i am in Wa state , so traveled a long way , .also changed to corvette ralleys and getting ready to put a 10 bolt 57 chevy car rear end in in it for now for the 5 lug bolt pattern

[OrrieG]

Opened small packages the white and blue truck dropped off. Get to see if the LED backup lights will work ok. Also got the front hub caps, in better shape than I anticipated. Basically snap them on and go.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by ChuckDriver

Inventoried my Vintage Air Magnum IV system!!!

JJ, What's the timeframe for installation?
Will you install it yourself or have others do it?

Please take pic's (as you usually do) cause that's one job I think a lot of us intend to do eventually and we'll (well, I will be!) searching for info with pictures later. - Dan

[_Ogre]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

Opened small packages the white and blue truck dropped off. Get to see if the LED backup lights will work ok. Also got the front hub caps, in better shape than I anticipated. Basically snap them on and go.

blue dropped of mine today too.
tiny tiny tiny 7/8'' diameter, both are drawfed by this razor blade
i'll try to get 12v to them tonight and post a pic

[JumboAMONGus]

ogre... can those fit where the license plate bolts go , ?

[ChuckDriver]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

JJ, What's the timeframe for installation?
Will you install it yourself or have others do it?

Please take pic's (as you usually do) cause that's one job I think a lot of us intend to do eventually and we'll (well, I will be!) searching for info with pictures later. - Dan

Dan, I plan on doing it myself, learning as I go! I've already done a few things and pics are in my buid thread!

[Daze57]

Ogre

dem is some small lamps !!!

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by ChuckDriver

Dan, I plan on doing it myself, learning as I go! I've already done a few things and pics are in my buid thread!

Oh, ok. I've missed checking in on your thread lately so I'll go take a look!

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

blue dropped of mine today too.
tiny tiny tiny 7/8'' diameter, both are drawfed by this razor blade
i'll try to get 12v to them tonight and post a pic

Would the fasteners on these (& light itself) be too big to use in place of upper license plate bolts? Seems like an easy & logical place to mount them.

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

blue dropped of mine today too.
tiny tiny tiny 7/8'' diameter, both are drawfed by this razor blade
i'll try to get 12v to them tonight and post a pic

look like mine, only shiney; I got black.

[vht]

Haven't done nothing for a month. Cab, doors, hood, and frt fenders are close to paint. Need to do some things to the chevelle this winter also.

[abrahamseven]

I got my front springs, front axle, steering and front brakes finished today

steven

[ghettoluxury]

I picked up a complete short bed from a 53 for my 49 today.

[Yewhi]

I threw a couple of bails so straw in the back and gave kids rides at the neighborhood Halloween party. Even set up a "zombie zone" where they could shoot the zombies with their Nerf guns from the bed of the pickup. Loving Halloween!

[BIG10SILVERADO]

Finished buttoning up my stock 327 SS Impala 275hp engine.

[Daze57]

very very nice looking engine!!!!

[panelrodder81]

Originally Posted by G&R's57GMC

Dan,
Call the U-Haul company store near you not the local dealer, If I remember right the receiver was around $125.

PLEASE MORE INFO on this!! I've tried searching the entire forum and this tread and can't find any other mention/info on it, even just searching 'uplander'. Any uplander year?

-Panelrodder

[FarmerSid]

Originally Posted by Yewhi

I threw a couple of bails so straw in the back and gave kids rides at the neighborhood Halloween party. Even set up a "zombie zone" where they could shoot the zombies with their Nerf guns from the bed of the pickup. Loving Halloween!

That's awesome! Here, we don't go out till dark but the boy's in the black and white sports cars would frown on that. Talk about tak'in the "F" out of fun.

[Zach B]

Went out to a scrap yard and discovered they had a salvage yard for the old trucks and cars. Found an oil pan for for a chevy 216 with no oil fill hole. Been after one of those for about two years. Next is the breather tube. I will go back sometime after deer season and get one. I spotted two of them.

[Zach B]

Went out to a scrap yard and discovered they had a salvage yard for the old trucks and cars. Found an oil pan for for a chevy 216 with no oil fill hole. Been after one of those for about two years. Next is the breather tube. I will go back sometime after deer season and get one. I spotted two of them.

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

look like mine, only shiney; I got black.

Turned out to not throw as much light as I want. May put them in to light inside the bed.

[_Ogre]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

Turned out to not throw as much light as I want. May put them in to light inside the bed.

bummer, i'll throw mine in the stuff-i-bought-and-never-used pile.