What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[_Ogre]

looked sadly at my truk
not coming out of the garage until salt season is over

i admire you guys that work outside in sub-freezing temps.
just not my style any more, i'm getting soft in my old age

[waybad]

Originally Posted by msilva12

I got my seats mounted. I used the third row Tahoe seats mounted on some early 80's electric seat frames. Wired up my headlights, tail lights and brake lights.

I took the truck out for the first time today. Went out for dinner and it got dark. Turn lights on and made it about 200 yards before they started flickering on and off. Of course a police officer was right there.

I disconnected it from the switch on the side of the road and hooked it up directly to the fuse panel ran with the lights hot all the way home. (20 miles)

After I fix the lights the right way I need to hook the heater up.

Still nice to drive it finally.

can you post picts of the 3rd row seats?

[rollinrooster]

Worked on tranny tunnel

[msilva12]

Originally Posted by waybad

can you post picts of the 3rd row seats?

I will take some pictures in the morning and post them. I need to fab up some sides to hide the rails and mount the seat controls.

[msilva12]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

looked sadly at my truk
not coming out of the garage until salt season is over

i admire you guys that work outside in sub-freezing temps.
just not my style any more, i'm getting soft in my old age

It has been about 65 degrees out here. No rain yet just a few bad windstorms ripped through here.

I think I am going to sand and rattle can primer the truck just to protect it until this summer.

[Wrecker55]

slow time of year for me so re-doing my interior in my 46

[OrrieG]

Next round of parts are arriving, also going to do a winter garage clean up to get organized for the spring push to getting it drivable.

[57chevyman]

installed a coolant overflow tank

[OrrieG]

Ordered interior fabric, got lucky, it is commercial grade furniture fabric and I found an auction on ebay for a mill end that has twice as much fabric for 1/3 the cost.

[Red Foreman]

I like it!

[57chevyman]

nice fabric!

[lgoodso1]

I assembled my sand blast cabinet and started on small parts cleaning, got the cab off yesterday and ready to start the engine swap

[Romansroad828]

I finally got the 1949 to my house. Started it today but still have not unloaded it!

[Red Foreman]

Drove for the very first time on a public road since the build, well not today but a few days ago, first time posting on this thread so cut me some slack Edit just noticed 2nd time

Anyways straight to the Servo or as you guys call it the Gas station, for a fill.

[oldman3]

Congrats on the first drive, they are always the best, nice ride...Jim

[nvrdone]

Yesterday gutted the interior fabed new seat mounts & installed Dynamat.
Today the new carpet goes in & it all goes back to gether

[ChuckDriver]

Fabbed the heater lines.

[Some_Guy]

Oil change. Was due for one. It'll finally be nice enough (no salt) to go back to daily driving it tomorrow.

[youngrodder]

I finished making my floorboard templates out of cardboard. I also managed to remove all of the front suspension. I found someone local that is going to buy it from me.


Marc

[Stepside Jim]

Great picture Red Foreman, seeing pictures of these trucks in public is so inspirational since usually most of our pictures are in workshops.

Case in point, those following my build thread, know I'm upgrading to an over drive. Since there very little information on these as I was considering purchasing one and I take a lot of pictures, I'm show my progress.

Gear vendors unit, I read as much as I could. I found no problems with the strength and longevity of the over drive itself. I did however find some had issues with it behind a four speed, which I do not have, and some had issues with the unit that allows you to create a 6 speed out of a 3 speed automatic.

The negative remarks I saw were from 5 years ago, I believe the bugs have been worked out of the auto programmer since then.

Basically, it attaches to the back of the trans using an adapter for your application.


I don't want to hog the thread with pictures, but I do have more posted on my build thread.

1957 Chevy truck re-rebuild. Yes Ogre, I should have listened and put my build thread here already, we never listen, sorry.

[musgrave]

We flashed the old 216 today.

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by Red Foreman

Drove for the very first time on a public road since the build, well not today but a few days ago, first time posting on this thread so cut me some slack Edit just noticed 2nd time

Anyways straight to the Servo or as you guys call it the Gas station, for a fill.

Looking good Red, nice to see it on the road.

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

Sent off payment for one piece door window glass, thanks to tbrown5079. Also ordered manual door actuators and purchased fuel filler hose and wiper fluid hose. Going to order the interior fabric too.

Whoopee, the windows arrived in one piece, thanks again.

[davecarney2]

Bit of sandblasting today

[lgoodso1]

Bought a new air compressor today and ready to start sand blasting