What Did You Get Done This Weekend?

[72swbcamo]

My last post I had just installed my transfer case. Well today we installed the engine and transmission. This is my buddy Dave, the welder in my last posts, at the lift control, and my son Pat with the Mohawk


Me and Pat settling the engine in place.


Engine sitting in place all bolted in. Went in pretty easily. A few scrathes on the oil pan and on the engine crossmember but they will touch up OK.


Back in the garage. Pat let the dog sit on the engine go figure.


Good feeling to have a rolling chassis again. I send more detail photos of the transmission lines and the other add ons.

[rancid]

kick ass engine hoist.

[ND_guy]

Did some block sanding on the bed got board of that quick. So I went to a antique tractor pull and John Deere slow race.

[trkklr77]

i brought home another truck, 35% WARNING: the following may be considered a bannable offence!!












and i cut it up and junked 80% of it!!!!!

this was the last truck from my 3 free truck deal. the cab was pretty well rotted and the 4x4 brackets had all been cut off and mounted under my short truck when i picked it up.

8am sunday

[trkklr77]

930 am

[trkklr77]

1030 am

[bigbassmann]

Reupholstered the seat for my '70 C10 and got the seat back in. Don't have to use the 5-gallon bucket anymore.

[trkklr77]

1230

the bed and 75% frmae go to a freind to make a long bed trailer to replace his short trailer.

[trkklr77]

300pm

[trkklr77]

500pm

done, the motor goes to another buddy who kinda brokerd the free trucks. he did give me the pimpn ooooolld school finned valve covers but wouldnt let me have the power master mini starter . i saved as much of the trim and nit picky stuff that i could but some stuff i just had no use for and my friends didnt need either.

it all happend for this stupid peice of aluminum

[Shane]

I got a big ass knot and a pretty good cut on my foredhead. C-notches are heavy when they come flying out of the vise because your drill "catches" and pulls it out and towards your melon.

Other than that, I got all my new stainless brake lines ran, brackets welded, braided lines attached, booster, prop valve & master cylinder mounted and prop valve bracket fabbed up and finished.

Not as much as I had hoped, but I had a headache that prevented much more progress.

[Palf70Step]

I took pictures of cars and trucks all weekend.

Cruising The Coast

Heck that is what i did all week to think of it. Unfortunately, other than buying a bunch of stuff for the 70, no work was done on it.

[Ryan'70]

Tore down the original 402 out of my 1970 GMC, it's been sitting in my garage for the past couple months and now it's ready to take a trip to the builder when I have the cash.......may be a while. Did a little cleaning on the 350 that's currently in the truck too, just a little dirty after sitting in a field for 3 years.

Tomorrow I think I'm gonna start ripping apart the interior.

[trkklr77]

i also was about to put on the new flex plate for my 454 when my dad got a hair up his but about going to get the bbc heads i spotted last weekend. yeah!!! true oval port 049 heads for $129 total!!!! complete with push rods and covers!!!!

[grayw0lf]

I installed power steering in my '70 C-10! The power steering works better than i ever could have imagined. What an incredible difference. I can now easily turn the wheel with one hand, instead of 2 hands & body weight.

[67ChevyRedneck]

I had to do some rust repair on my Z71. Truck came from Indianpolis via Carmax. I looked it over very well, and I could only find a couple rust bubbles on the inside of the doors at the bottom. Told carmax to fix or I won't buy it. They sent it to a bodyshop and had the door bottoms redone. Stupid body shop bondoed over the top of the seam trapping water in the door. I realized this about a month ago when a section of my door bottom started seperating. I scraped all of the bondo off, opened up the seam on the door bottom, cleaned out the rust, sprayed a rust inhibitor on it, then topped that off with rust encapsulator. I pinched the door bottoms back together when done. I did all of that without harming the paint on the outside of the door I HATE rust!!!

[cheyguy]

I finally got to work on my front suspension.

[LUV2XCLR8]

I got the hardware off my old top, that's about it

[clay68c10]

Wired in my headlight relays. They are brighter.

[JAKES 68GMC]

Put on some 13 dollar Napa back-up lights. (bright as hell, good deal for 26 bucks), tried to yank off the header pipes for the exhaust, that was a failure. And then I re-re-rebuilt my stereo box for my truck.

[CPNEJR]

got the brakes bled and got to drive the old girl around the driveway

[Ram-Man]

Got the foundation painted and a few of the misc. little parts. I already had them sandblasted and got the primer on last weekend. It's nice to finally have a clean starting point. Along ways to go!!