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09-18-2010, 01:24 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
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09-18-2010, 01:39 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Well today I had alot to do I want to get my truck to a roller by Sunday. I started off by taking the one cross shaft out of my lower control arm and tried cleaning up the threads I messed up. First side went good. Second side the die nut went crooked and screwed up the threads. So I started calling the junk yards. Only place I could find cross shafts was a junk yard in town that wouldn't seperate from the arms and they wanted 70 bucks for the pair.
So I threw an ad up on Craigslist WTB cross shafts, and within twenty minutes I had an email so I called the guy and he told me 20 bucks for the pair of A arms. I ran out there on my lunch break. Then after work I cut my old cross shaft out of my other A arm and cut the A arms away from the cross shafts of the arms I just bought, made them way easier to take apart. I had a check list of everything I wanted to get done before I left work and I managed to get it all done, including packing bearings, and machining new thick washers for my lowers. I've got one side almost all buttoned up and hope to have the other side on early tomorrow, then I'll roll her outside and see how it looks with that fresh paint and new tube A arms.
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09-18-2010, 01:02 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Nothing. I am broke. My dog needed a 150 dollar vet visit because his ear is filled with blood.
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09-18-2010, 01:54 PM
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"Where were you in '62?"
 
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Bought some Tail Lights today so I can mount them temporarly on my frame of my bed while I'll have the bed off.
  
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09-18-2010, 09:34 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Got the front end of my truck all back together for now. And made this video, just messing around like the 80000 dollar can crusher the MEGA SLAB
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09-19-2010, 12:05 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
bought a paint and rust remover wheel for the drill and two cans of paint. more pics tomorrow.
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09-19-2010, 06:14 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
New tach install here.
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09-19-2010, 06:18 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Rear Parking Brake Levers, never should have cleaned up around the truck BEFORE doing the brake job. On the hunt now for replacement levers.
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09-19-2010, 07:05 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
installed new heads and got mine back on the road.
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09-19-2010, 08:27 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Finished connecting the wiring on the ididit column to the painless harness, reinstalled the tach and my new mooneyes wheel then hooked up the horn. I love it when everything works the first time, had time for a cruise before the game.
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09-19-2010, 09:39 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Repaired my core support and both inner fenders so they could be sand blasted and powder caoted flat black along with my hood hinges.
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09-19-2010, 11:53 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
sanded and painted two wheels dark dark gray. started stripping the chrome and rust from the grill for its paint this week.
 
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09-21-2010, 08:28 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
not much changed the oil again on the new motor,fixed the fuel that was dripping from the hose at the fuel filter!thats about it....
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09-21-2010, 09:07 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I drove mine full of junk to a swap meet ..
going to tow our race car on a road trip Sunday.. BTW,anyone remember where the thread is regarding replacing lower steering shaft bearing? thanks; Rick |
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09-21-2010, 09:25 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
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As to what I did today.... spent most of the day finishing the mockup of running duals on my 65, then tack welding and finish welding all the joints. I need to add hangars, then disassemble and paint all the weld joints with high temp. paint. I will update my build thread then. I must be getting old, two days in a row out in the shop kicked my butt... I am one tired dude! Last edited by lakeroadster; 09-21-2010 at 09:59 PM. |
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09-21-2010, 09:53 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Thanks..thats my next project..
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09-22-2010, 04:29 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Exhaust is done, except for hangars... here is a video clip.
Old School: Long tube headers, 28" Cherry Bomb's and full length 2-1/2" diameter duals (no crossover pipe) More specifics in my build thread Last edited by lakeroadster; 09-24-2010 at 08:42 AM. |
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09-22-2010, 04:56 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Sounds good John!!
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09-22-2010, 05:35 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Pulled the speedometer gear housing out and dropped ATF all over the driveway. Ooooops...
And that truck sounds ridiculously awesome with Cherry Bombs on it. :drool: Last edited by firefighter736; 09-22-2010 at 05:36 PM. |
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09-22-2010, 06:08 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Finally got my Olds 350 put up on an engine stand. Also went by Summit and picked myself up a tranny jack.
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09-22-2010, 07:19 PM
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Check The Champ, Demonstrator
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Por15 my hands and got some on some pieces too.
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09-22-2010, 09:42 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I tried to polish the scratches out of the windshield. I'll never understand why people will ruin a $400.00 whindshield insted of buying $10.00 worth of new wiper blades. it still looks terable but I can see better. by the way this is a 64 I bought for parts for my wife's truck but it was in sutch good shape we desided to drive it insted. now it's my dayly driver other than my harley.
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09-23-2010, 12:08 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Tuesday I finally finished rebuilding my front suspension and got it back on its wheels.
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09-23-2010, 12:13 PM
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It's Better With Nitro
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I finally got around to painting my frame...
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09-23-2010, 07:40 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
mounted my fron wheels. sanded, primed and am painting the grill as we speak.
 
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