What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[OrrieG]

Got some woodworking projects out of the way. Determined that the fill tube from the wrecking yard probably will not work without modification and it has a lot of plastic parts that may not stand up to cutting and welding.

[mknittle]

I finished adding stiffeners to my floor and welded a small section in the middle of the toe board to the floor. i added stiffeners for the stock e-brake mount because it cracked the stock floor. and made one for the passenger side because i removed the lip where the stock toe board meets the floor.The rest will come off when I get some room.

[Wheelie]

Got these 17" offsets!

[handyhands]

started welding in my floor panels and still working on the fire wall. 53/s10

[crossfire84]

put the other side of exhaust system on.

[Wheelie]

Scrapped the 4 link for now. Went ahead and flipped the axle. I got all the rear suspension hung tonight minus the axle u bolts and lower plate which I am still looking for (my axle is just under 3". My engine is almost out of the machine shop and Im ready to have a roller again!

[mknittle]

I think i got my clutch linkage worked out.

[Nordic]

Got it registered!!!!!! Now to see how it drives!

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by Nordic

Got it registered!!!!!! Now to see how it drives!

WOOOHOOOO

[mknittle]

I took two clutch bell cranks and made one. but it came out crooked!
Must have been that wooden Smokey the bear ruler. I knew I should have throwen it away after it caught fire!

[crossfire84]

put new rotors on the back.

[Hot Rod Todd]

I drove mine home - I keep it in my warehouse at work as the home garage isnt really big enough to spread out in.

Have a supply of poormans dynamat and will start putting that in the truck tonight, and will try to sort out some issues with my "Chinese River" steering column while Im working in there.

[RINC]

I drooled over new pics my buddy sent me from his shop ....

[crossfire84]

test fit the box and fenders.

[Russell Ashley]

I got my condenser mounted and my X brace back in. I put the condenser as far in toward the radiator as the hard lines would allow, and made some one inch spacers for the top of the X brace and 3/4 inch spacers for the bottom, and bolted it back in. I'll have to move the radiator back slightly to clear the condenser but I have plenty of room since my truck was originally a six.

If you are installing a vintage Air setup like this don't go by the template that they supply to cut the holes for the lines. Get the condenser mounted first and then see where the holes need to be. Mine don't match the template.

[ChuckDriver]

Nice work Russell!

[Russell Ashley]

Thanks, Chuck. It took me a lot longer than it should have because I got disgusted with it a couple of times and quit on it for a while. I thought it should have fit up better than it did since it's all Vintage Air stuff. They are sending me some rubber grommets to go in the holes so I can't do anything more until I get those. Their tech support folks are friendly and nice to deal with though.

[la hi]

Wraped my headers, put boots on the plug wires, made new metal bases for the electric bucket seats, did a test drive to see if the new u-joints would vibrate, the engine temp went down from 215 to 185/190, and all is well.

[OrrieG]

Committed to the gas door. Details in the build thread.

[arturo7]

Bought a crate 350.

[Johnny49]

Last coat of urethane on the last four pieces of the original bed wood... Here's a little sample of what the whole thing will look like:

[pvienneau]

Cleaned the Bell housing on my 49

[mknittle]

I discovered that the bell housing I was going to use is a buick(starter on the right) i need one with the starter on the left. So it looks like i get to swap it for the one in my jeep.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by Johnny49

Last coat of urethane on the last four pieces of the original bed wood... Here's a little sample of what the whole thing will look like:

Amazing that the original wood is in one piece and reuseable at all!

[Rude Dude]

Installed the front sheet metal, a word of advice do not buy off shore chrome grills. I spent two days trying to alin the grille area finally figured out the grill was the culprit I put painted one back on and everyhing lined up perfect. I will body work the front sheet metal and have my grill rechromed no more fighting that made in tawain or china garbage!!!!!!