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03-25-2008, 07:53 AM
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Robert Olson Transport
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: recent transplant to NC USA
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What did you get done? Easter Edition
I didnt do a dern thing this weekend truck related..in fact i spent all day easter painting my living room and saturday i had to deal with a client all day and go to a wake in the evening how about yall did the easter bunny bring ya truck parts??
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Bob 1951 International running on a squarebody chassis "If a man's worth is judged by the people he associates himself with, then i am the richest man in the world knowing some of the fine people of this board" http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...t.php?f=25&a=9 (you can review the site rules here!) PM Me for your vehicle/parts hauling needs in the North East US or see my Facebook page Robert Olson Transport Live each day to the fullest.. you never know when fate is going to pull the rug out from under you... I hate cancer!! |
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03-25-2008, 08:02 AM
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Gen III Power
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Hesperia CA
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Re: What did you get done Easter Edition
I spent most of the day cleaning house, then worked on the truck for awhile.
I finished painting the driverside door and installed the door panels I painted..need to finish the passenger side and im done... Im still fighting a light wiring problem 
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03-25-2008, 09:07 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: spokane, WA
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Re: What did you get done Easter Edition
i thought about doing a lot of things on my truck....instead i sat on this damn fourm all weekend looking at what my truck could look like someday if i ever worked on it. i hate computers sometimes
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03-25-2008, 12:24 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Rolla, MO
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Re: What did you get done Easter Edition
To cold to work outside on my truck
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03-25-2008, 12:47 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Germany, Krefeld
Posts: 180
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Re: What did you get done Easter Edition
Stayed in Paris the hole weekend. Very nice town to be. Can't remember that I ever walked that much.
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03-25-2008, 03:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: NSW, Australia
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Re: What did you get done Easter Edition
Spent mine cleaning out the shed, and getting all the tools and equipment organised to bring my truck in over winter
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 1979 C20 pickup 454 big block turbo 400, 4.56 gears
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03-25-2008, 04:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Groves,TX
Posts: 483
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Re: What did you get done Easter Edition
saturday i built the foundation for my portable building so i can store all my tools in so i can put the 83 in the garage. got the 83 fired up saturday for the first time in 7 years. i had the timing spot on and it fired up on the first crank, i was excited, i called my dad just to brag. didn't do much of anything sunday except spend time with my kiddos and cleaned the garage a little.
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03-25-2008, 04:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Clearwater FL
Posts: 271
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Re: What did you get done Easter Edition
Friday I got lit at the neighborhood BBQ, but while i was mingling with some of my new neighbors (i just moved to a new apartment complex) I meet a guy that said he has rebuilt over 100 steering columns. (see my thread on my trashed steering column). I also got my novelty horn in the mail...It makes animal noises (yes, it does a Rooster).
Saturday it rained from 9am to 5pm...leaving me trapped in my house with my girlfriend, to her delight. I got absolutely nothing done on my truck. I did do some cleaning and organizing around the house. She had some people over so i did the host thing for a little bit in the evening. Sunday, i had to go to a wedding but before i left i ran into my neighbor that does steering columns and he asked for the key to my truck so he could take a look at it. I give it to him and when to the wedding...3 hours later i get home and he had pulled apart my doner column taken out the ignition switch, and turning signal switch and installed them in my truck as well as tightened all 4 screws that were causing the column to wobble. In short he did the entire fix for me. So i was pretty happy..but also a little disappointed, i wanted to help him so i could learn how it was done. Oh well, you can't look a gift horse in the mouth. Oh, i also mounted my novelty horn Sunday morning...kind of neat , has a PA and all, but it's not very loud. Sort of disappointed...does anyone now how to bump up the volume on something like that? What i didn't get too... I need to put in a new water pump, the seal on the old one is bad right now so i'm just pouring water through my system daily. I have wanted to clean and paint my engine bay for the last month...still haven't got to it. I need to install new valve cover gaskets, they have been leaking for a good 20 years. I didn't fix the 2 rust holes at the corners of my windshield, I have decided to go with the weld-less system that was recommended. and last but not least find and install a 600cfm edelbrook carb....toss some new plugs and wires in while i'm at it.
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JG If you can't find it at the junk yard you don't need it. Last edited by Rooster's82; 03-25-2008 at 04:47 PM. |
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03-25-2008, 04:46 PM
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It followed me home?
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Yup
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Re: What did you get done Easter Edition
Sold my 85 and picked up an 86 K20, with a new crate motor that I am going to use as a work truck. Got it buffed cleaned out, trailer controller and stereo wired, oil changed ...
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=284502 Also dropped my Blazer off to the tranny guy to get it fixed it started slipping and it only had like 100 miles on it. I hope I get it back soon I'm ready to start driving it, I've had it since may and only driven it once or twice
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Adam That's why they call it a shortcut Kyle, if it was easy it would just be the way. 86 c-10 SWB 85 CCSB 90 GMC K30 Crew SRW 1985 C30 Dually Last edited by cochino12; 03-25-2008 at 04:48 PM. |
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03-25-2008, 05:31 PM
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Happy to be here
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Cypress, TX
Posts: 39,021
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
I went to Atlanta on Wednesday. I spent Thursday with my family at the Georgia Aquarium which was really nice. The rest of the weekend I watched my daughter play volleyball.
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03-25-2008, 05:42 PM
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Registered User
 Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Pensacola, FL
Posts: 1,461
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
I hit the junkyard on Saturday morning with another boardmember and didnt really find anything good so I went back to the house and washed both the trucks. I did get the th400 in the donor back in working order. Apparently a new filter/fluid and some Lucas was just what the doctor ordered, that saves me some $$ I thought I was going to have to spend.
Sunday was spent doing the family thing. This was my boy's first real Easter and he was in rare form after downing a few Peeps from his basket at 8am! Sometimes I wish I had the energy of a 2 year old.
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03-25-2008, 05:56 PM
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Moderator
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Ozark, MO
Posts: 4,888
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
Took Friday off (first non-family vaction day ever) to swap a 700R4 for the TH375? in my '87 swb. Hit the driveshaft shop first thing, ended up having to get a new d-shaft because of the extreme tailshaft length on the TH375. $148 later I was out the door with new shaft and u-joints, balanced and painted. Then off to the junyard where I found the 700R4 connector and vacuum switch for lockup. I also located several trucks with sway bars and talked them into removing one with the brackets for $40. Then off to the stealership for a new dipstick/tube. Spent the rest of the day installing, stopped at the x-member.
Saturday went to Missouri and pulled the '71 suburban out from behind the parent's barn. What a wild ride getting towed down the hill over the creek but the brakes held. Then I put three different tires on the RRear only to end up using fix-a-flat and a plug in the sidewall of one to get it rolling. I sold it to a soldier stationed in Bagdad. His father is sending a shipping company after it this week. Sad day but I would rather see it done! Big truck weekend for sure. That's rare for me.
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03-25-2008, 07:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: minnesota
Posts: 191
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
well i ripped off all that fake plastic chrome trim on the tail gate and around the cab of the truck. ripped out the old interior carpet. reinstalled my seat belts with the exception of the passenger lower bolt since i need a good drill bit and an easy out to get the broken bolt out. cleaned out all of the extra body panels out of the bed. thats pretty much it. this week i plan to get new tanny lines and also get the motor a tune up with plugs, wires, belts and such
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1981 - C-10 SCSB Planning on putting this thing on it's rocker! 
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03-25-2008, 07:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 241
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
I did get some time for the truck this weekend on Saturday. I started another link for it here http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=284330 .
I have some more metal cutting and welding to do to finish it up the way I want it. Hopefully my rollpan and other parts will arrive today and I can finish the mock up. I will then have to tear it back apart and then prime and paint fun can begin.
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03-25-2008, 07:54 PM
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1962 C-10
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Las Vegas, New Mexico
Posts: 4,978
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
On Saturday, I sanded and primed the 'new' hood and fenders for the '73. I also cleaned and painted the hood hinges, alt. bracket and an Edelbrock intake that I picked up last week... next weekend, hopefully I'll go out to Rowe and put these parts on the truck....
...Easter was with the family... I hope everyone had a great Easter...jc
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Joseph Chavez  "See the USA in a Chevrolet!!" ......................_____ .........________//__{\_____ ,,,,,,,/__(O)___//___/__(O)_/ 1962 C10 Shortbed Fleetside 327/th350 GV overdrive 1974 C10 Longbed Fleetside 350/th350 "The Trash Truck" 1999 Chevy 2500 OBS, Longbed 5.7/4L80E 4x4 2015 GMC Sierra SLE 1500 4x4 Last edited by jchav62; 03-25-2008 at 07:55 PM. |
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03-25-2008, 09:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Edmond, OK
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
After spending alot of the past 4 months fixing my wifes blazer.... This weekend I broke it. DOH!!.. The door mirrors are weak on the S10's. The three plastic mounting points get brittle over time and break easily with the vibration of living in the country. I already replaced the passenger side but the driver's side hadnt failed yet so I was going to let it ride. After driving down the highway on Ssaturday and seeing how much the mirror was moving around I knew it was going to come off soon.... what I didnt realize is that it would come off on Sunday when I hit it with my arm as I walked by the truck... Oh well...
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03-25-2008, 10:07 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: DALLAS,TX
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
Finished removing all automotive related parts from the driveway area & then slapped a front suspension on my 68 so I could load it up on my registered/tagged trailer.
All this work to complete the items I was 'cited' for when the city went through my neighborhood w/it's 'spring clean-up' program. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the truck. They say I can't have a partially assembled vehicle that's not tagged/inspected stored in a residential area. Covering it up is deemed not acceptable.
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03-25-2008, 10:27 PM
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Under desk
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Castle Rock, Colorado
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
I ran some water form the garden hose on it... that's about it. Had big plans for it this weekend too.
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Frosty Smith 1979 GMC 1/2 ton 2wd diesel that now has a 1976 Firebird V8 engine and is a 4X4 with a 7inch lift. The real question is would I have still bought it if I had known all this... |
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03-25-2008, 10:43 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Moore, Oklahoma
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
Took the top off my K5 and cruised it ---- that was - and is fun . I had to make room in the garage for it - the top is heavy and its not going on for another 6 months - LOL
Changed the oil pan on a big block project i have on a stand. thats it.
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03-25-2008, 11:51 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Southern Kalifornia
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
Put my new(to me) wheels on my truck....'05 Silverado 2500HD aluminum.Just waiting for the conversion nuts so I can put the caps on.
Sorry for the bad pic I used my phone.. -Lance
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03-26-2008, 12:19 AM
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>130dB Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Sacramento, CA
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
Not on the weekend, but today, like 10 minutes ago, a blew up a set of ARC6000 component speakers. I was acting on orders to try and blow the amplifier apart but instead smoked a set of $500 speakers. I'm awesome.
Now I just have to wait until I get back from Yuba City in 3 weeks to fix it. At least my door speakers still play...
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03-26-2008, 12:44 AM
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Phone's ringin Dude.
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Colorado Springs
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
My weekend started off with a nice 2 hour roadtrip to pick up a seat from Randy (teeitup). Hell of a nice guy, I'd do business with him anyday. After that, it was another 4 hour drive to my parents in Nebraska. Couldn't ask for a better day for a roadtrip. 2-60 air conditioning the whole way through the scenic backroads of rural Kansas and Nebraska. When I finally got to my parents, it was time to work. I ripped out my sweet-ass 80's van seats, and put my new bench in.
  After that, it was time for some rattle can magic. I wanted to do the whole front clip, but my trigger finger couldn't take anymore (neither could my buddy, seen stumbling out of the shop from paint fumes).  After that, it was time to paint my new rally's 
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03-26-2008, 12:52 AM
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Chevys Kick A$$
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Zootown, MT
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
Not a whole bunch of anything. Just messed around with my Camaro a little and took a look at my buddies car that is acting up. Other then that just hung out with family and friends.
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03-26-2008, 01:54 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: CT
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
Sandblasted my rebuilt rear axle....sandblasted right through the diff cover so now i need to clean it out and buy a new cover.....
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03-26-2008, 06:06 AM
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Navy Radioman Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Western Kentucky
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Re: What did you get done? Easter Edition
Finally got the motor put together this past week. Still have to put in the new wheel wells, install the control module, coil and new motor mounts before I drop the RAT in this weekend.
Before  After 
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