What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

67ChevyRedneck · 06-04-2007, 09:55 AM

I managed to tear my truck apart to install a vintage air kit. I found out I needed about $200 in more parts

I also pulled my rear bumper that had been smacked in an accident... about 3 months ago now

Anyone else have as much fun as I did???

seanu · 06-04-2007, 10:06 AM

I got the old bed off my 68 and finally got the 6 lug rear end out from underneath it...and took it and a couple of other rear ends and an old busted TH350 to the scrap yard...made $32 buck

.....so that averages out to about .50¢ an hour..lol

70c10 · 06-04-2007, 10:15 AM

I finally finished installing a fence I was working on

I also did a little trimming of carpet for my bedliner I am working on. Hope to have it done this week with pics!

**kwmech** · 06-04-2007, 10:20 AM

I spent a day and a half doing wiring on my longhorn---almost ready to start. If I can find the keys

Jonce · 06-04-2007, 10:31 AM

I installed my power brakes, head liner, sun visors, USA-2 stereo, and speaker kick panels - busy weekend.

67ChevyRedneck · 06-04-2007, 10:34 AM

I also pressure washed another large section of Jena's parents deck on saturday (it's huge and completely surrounds the pool.)

RetroSBK · 06-04-2007, 10:43 AM

finished the wiring at the battery, finally deleting the wiring from the firewall that went to the marker lights. Trying to redo all of the underhood in shrink tube and route it sano.

Got home friday afternoon to run off to the big Santa Paula cruise, only to find the Holley carb puking fuel... So, had to swap it to an edelbrock POS I had laying around... Talk about a HUGE difference in performance! a huge DROP! Cruised it Friday night, put some new jets in the holley, and changed out the broken power valve.

Had my painter come over sat and tell me I should just get a new hood, and then sunday while cruising around, had the ride height switch for the air bags fail. Thank god I listened to my brother and set the fail safe to freeway height, and not fully dumped!!

so lots more to do NEXT weekend!

Luvlegs · 06-04-2007, 10:43 AM

hmmm where to start!
I dug and boxed about 30 feet for the footer down one side of an old pole barn I am turning into my truck shop.
I cleaned both upper and lower gutters on the front of the house.
I removed about 5 years of moss growning on the front porch roof (probably 600 pounds of it! (new to us house).
Went to my "Land of the Lost" place and pulled a few parts
2 power steering pumps, 2 '64 glove box doors and an ashtray
a '64 heater plate, switch and cable for a board member
the front end off a '66 pontiac, a couple bucket seats....
And then "huffed" them 1/4 mile out of the woods.... THEN, dropped a $20 glove box door - not once but TWICE on the same side of my new truck bed, doing about $200 worth of denting and scratching!!!! UGH!
I did some other stuff but it's making me tired thinking about it.... except spending quite a bit of time with baby girl (best part of the weekend!)

Alvin · 06-04-2007, 11:57 AM

Spent all of Friday evening cutting/grinding/pounding out the last cab mount bolt holding the cab to the old frame. Finally got the cab bolted down onto my rebuilt chassis on Saturday. Sunday, I cleaned up the cab a little bit, installed the last clamp on the brake line (had to drill a hole in my nicely painted frame!), and put some hose clamps on the fuel line connections.

Today I'll order more parts and the saga will continue!

Big D · 06-04-2007, 12:39 PM

Not Much, I spent most of my weekend cleaning up the garage and yard to get ready for my sons 3rd birthday party. The forecast was for rain so I was out in the garage till 1:00 a.m clearing out an area for the kids to play.

Luckily It cleared up a couple hours before Sundays party. His favorite toy was the die-cast Vega my buddy got him ( along with the Chevette and the faux rusted out Suburban! )

rikbar · 06-04-2007, 12:45 PM

Put new wheel bearings in the front, trying to get rid of a noise, all I have to say is that I should have changed u-joints while I was there....
Took the quadrejet off and put on a Holly 750, alittle overkill at this point, but it does run better.
Thats about it for this weekend.

Mt Man Chad · 06-04-2007, 12:46 PM

Played around on Mt Rainier....

Shyguy · 06-04-2007, 12:53 PM

Saturday I had to work so I missed the car show at Oran. My son entered his '70 C-10 with a 454 and his Harley. He won 1st place in the rap-off contest and his motorcyle won 3 place.

Sunday I put a door in the south-side of the craftroom I am building for my wife and then went to my son's to look at his wife's grandfather's truck they picked up. It is a '68 no frills stock C-10 with a 6 cylinder and 3 on the tree. It is pretty rough but they plan to keep it and fix it up for my daughter-in-law to drive.

Danny - SEMO

73737373 · 06-04-2007, 12:58 PM

Finally got around to ponying up the $25 to post "for sale" ads, so spent the weekend sorting thru parts and taking pictures. I have waaaayyy tooo much of this stuff!!!

Lippyp · 06-04-2007, 01:08 PM

Took my twins to see their grandparents (my parents) as my dad hadn't seen them yet, they got played with by all their aunties and cousins which explains the fact that 3am saturday night I was to be found with a cup of takeaway coffee pushing the one that wouldn't sleep around the car park of the motel we were staying in.

Saw lots of rods and american cars on the road on the way back as there had been a big show. This beauty was parked up in front of me at a service area.

72BlckButy · 06-04-2007, 01:43 PM

Went to my boss' daughters wedding on Saturday. Went to the Home Depot with the wife, where my plans for any truck parts, fades farther and farther away....

Dingfodgy · 06-04-2007, 02:17 PM

Friday- Hauled a couple scoops of Garden Soil and filled the planter boxes I built last weekend. Went with the wife to the nursery to pick up a crap-load of foliage for said planter boxes.

Saturday- Started cleaning out the garage- finally got rid of the last remnants of our old kitchen along with the scraps of flooring we put in a couple months ago and a bunch of plain old garden variety junk I had laying around. Went to the dump to dispose of above trash and then went back to the landscape supply yard and got a couple scoops of bark mulch. Spent the rest of the day spreading bark-dust and tidying up the back yard.

Sunday- Cleaned out the garage some more and began stripping the front clip for the '67 I picked up a couple weeks ago. Lots of WD-40 and busted bolts, but things are coming along nicely. Hopefully by this coming weekend I'll be able to get the grill and hood in DP-40.

Today- I took a day off the "grind" and am hauling the LWB bedside I scored out to the stripper to be "dipped" and phosphate converted. It'll be nice to work with clean virgin steel when I get this back in about 10-days!

**John Fabris** · 06-04-2007, 03:36 PM

I spent the whole weekend selling my extra truck parts at the swap meet at a Goodguys event.... Gotta love it when I'm selling complete doors for $10-20 bucks each and the vender near me was asking $260 for a shell of a door....
I had 16 doors when I started. Came back with 1 door. I had a bunch of things that I sold very cheap. Hoods were $10, all kinds of other things that I sold were $1 - $5. Made close to $900 over two days....

The only thing that really bugs me was that one guy from Fremont (who I feel sells his stuff for way too much) brought a lot of things from me, and I know he is just going to turn around and up the price by 3-4 times and rip off other guys who just want to build thier trucks... Had a nice 67 chevy grill for $40 and this guy was still trying to talk me down on the price. I kinda yelled at him that at $40 bucks he was still going to make triple $$ on it so knock it off....

Also had my 67 in the show and met up with Jerry Jones and Rokcrln and chatted with them both a bit.... I had met Jerry before and it was great to meet Kevin (Rokcrln). I had a lot of fun hanging out near my truck and watching them check it out. At times I had about 10 guys standing around me asking me about the truck (wood bed, gas filler, stereo, drivetrain, etc...) My wife had to rescue me a few times as I had guys waiting at the swap meet spot to buy stuff from me....

06-04-2007, 09:55 AM	#1
67ChevyRedneck Hittin E-Z Street on Mud Tires Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 23,090	What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 I managed to tear my truck apart to install a vintage air kit. I found out I needed about $200 in more parts I also pulled my rear bumper that had been smacked in an accident... about 3 months ago now Anyone else have as much fun as I did??? Attached Images __________________ Jesse James 1967 C10 SWB Stepside: 350/700R4/3.73 1965 Ford Mustang: 289/T5-5spd/3.25 Trac-Loc 1968 Pontiac Firebird: Project Fire Chicken! 2015 Silverado Double Cab 5.3L Z71 2001 Jeep Wrangler Sport 4.0L 5spd 2020 Chevrolet Equinox Premium 2.0L Turbo 2011 Mustang V6 ~ Wife's ride American Born, Country by the Grace of God 1967 CST Shop Truck Rebuild! My 1967 C-10 Build Thread My Vintage Air A/C Install Project "On a Dime" Trying my hand at Home Renovation! 1965 Mustang Modifications! Last edited by 67ChevyRedneck; 06-04-2007 at 09:56 AM.

06-04-2007, 10:06 AM	#2
seanu Too many projects!!! Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Jacksonville, Florida Posts: 508	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 I got the old bed off my 68 and finally got the 6 lug rear end out from underneath it...and took it and a couple of other rear ends and an old busted TH350 to the scrap yard...made $32 buck .....so that averages out to about .50¢ an hour..lol __________________ Sean 1995 Buick Roadmaster Sedan 2004 Chevy Trailblazer 5.3L V8 1963 Chevy Biscayne 4D Sedan 1971 Chevy C10 (now have 70 cab & frame) 1968 Chevy C10 (parts for the 70) 1991 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser (Chevy 355 motor) 1937 Pontiac 8 4D Touring Sedan (in pieces) Jacksonville, Florida

06-04-2007, 10:15 AM	#3
70c10 67-72 Addict! Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The TAX State! Posts: 7,857	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 I finally finished installing a fence I was working on I also did a little trimming of carpet for my bedliner I am working on. Hope to have it done this week with pics! __________________ Jim 1970 C/10 Fleetside w/Ghost Flames Lowered 4.5" front and 4" rear (Raked) 355/350 Turbo w/shift kit 10" Redneck Performance Verter w/2500 stall Hooker Super Comps part#2808-1 Performer RPM Air-Gap 12 Bolt w/3:73 gears- Eaton Posi Comp Cams XE262 with 1.6 Crane Energizers, Road Demon 625 and Brodix IK 180 heads

06-04-2007, 10:20 AM	#4
kwmech Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Colfax-California Posts: 8,501	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 I spent a day and a half doing wiring on my longhorn---almost ready to start. If I can find the keys

06-04-2007, 10:31 AM	#5
Jonce Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Twin Cities, MN Posts: 115	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 I installed my power brakes, head liner, sun visors, USA-2 stereo, and speaker kick panels - busy weekend. __________________ __________________________________ 1971 GMC Stepside 350HO Deluxe 330hp, TH350 w/Gear Vendors, 3.73 Eaton posi, Fitech EFI, Boyd's Welding Tank, Ridler wheels, ECE 4/6" drop, front/rear sway bar ________________________________

06-04-2007, 10:34 AM	#6
67ChevyRedneck Hittin E-Z Street on Mud Tires Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 23,090	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 I also pressure washed another large section of Jena's parents deck on saturday (it's huge and completely surrounds the pool.) __________________ Jesse James 1967 C10 SWB Stepside: 350/700R4/3.73 1965 Ford Mustang: 289/T5-5spd/3.25 Trac-Loc 1968 Pontiac Firebird: Project Fire Chicken! 2015 Silverado Double Cab 5.3L Z71 2001 Jeep Wrangler Sport 4.0L 5spd 2020 Chevrolet Equinox Premium 2.0L Turbo 2011 Mustang V6 ~ Wife's ride American Born, Country by the Grace of God 1967 CST Shop Truck Rebuild! My 1967 C-10 Build Thread My Vintage Air A/C Install Project "On a Dime" Trying my hand at Home Renovation! 1965 Mustang Modifications!

06-04-2007, 10:43 AM	#7
RetroSBK Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Camarillo, CA Posts: 64	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 finished the wiring at the battery, finally deleting the wiring from the firewall that went to the marker lights. Trying to redo all of the underhood in shrink tube and route it sano. Got home friday afternoon to run off to the big Santa Paula cruise, only to find the Holley carb puking fuel... So, had to swap it to an edelbrock POS I had laying around... Talk about a HUGE difference in performance! a huge DROP! Cruised it Friday night, put some new jets in the holley, and changed out the broken power valve. Had my painter come over sat and tell me I should just get a new hood, and then sunday while cruising around, had the ride height switch for the air bags fail. Thank god I listened to my brother and set the fail safe to freeway height, and not fully dumped!! so lots more to do NEXT weekend! __________________ 1970 C10, shortened long bed, Alum Headed full roller 383 (with Victor, 750DP, stainless rockers, behive springs, CNC ported heads) TCI SSF 700R4, 4.10 Posi, Bagged on C-Notch and 2.5 spindles. Air Cond, black out tint, satin black paint, custom interior, rolling low and not so slow...

06-04-2007, 10:43 AM	#8
Luvlegs Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Smith Mountain Lake Virginia Posts: 1,537	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 hmmm where to start! I dug and boxed about 30 feet for the footer down one side of an old pole barn I am turning into my truck shop. I cleaned both upper and lower gutters on the front of the house. I removed about 5 years of moss growning on the front porch roof (probably 600 pounds of it! (new to us house). Went to my "Land of the Lost" place and pulled a few parts 2 power steering pumps, 2 '64 glove box doors and an ashtray a '64 heater plate, switch and cable for a board member the front end off a '66 pontiac, a couple bucket seats.... And then "huffed" them 1/4 mile out of the woods.... THEN, dropped a $20 glove box door - not once but TWICE on the same side of my new truck bed, doing about $200 worth of denting and scratching!!!! UGH! I did some other stuff but it's making me tired thinking about it.... except spending quite a bit of time with baby girl (best part of the weekend!) __________________ "A cat will almost always blink when hit between the eyes with a ball peen hammer" (you don't always have to state the obvious) Wear your PPE! You can eat with false teeth but you can't see with a false eye. 1959 Studebaker Silverhawk 350/400 1972 C10 L6 3OTT 2005 F350 - Built - whew!

06-04-2007, 11:57 AM	#9
Alvin Never Done? Join Date: May 2000 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,435	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 Spent all of Friday evening cutting/grinding/pounding out the last cab mount bolt holding the cab to the old frame. Finally got the cab bolted down onto my rebuilt chassis on Saturday. Sunday, I cleaned up the cab a little bit, installed the last clamp on the brake line (had to drill a hole in my nicely painted frame!), and put some hose clamps on the fuel line connections. Today I'll order more parts and the saga will continue! __________________ Ethel - The Legend Continues... Ethel has been sold.

06-04-2007, 12:39 PM	#10
Big D Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Dunlap, IL Posts: 308	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 Not Much, I spent most of my weekend cleaning up the garage and yard to get ready for my sons 3rd birthday party. The forecast was for rain so I was out in the garage till 1:00 a.m clearing out an area for the kids to play. Luckily It cleared up a couple hours before Sundays party. His favorite toy was the die-cast Vega my buddy got him ( along with the Chevette and the faux rusted out Suburban! ) Attached Images __________________ 68 GMC 64 1/2 Mustang convert A bachelor's life is no life for a single man." - Samuel Goldwyn

06-04-2007, 12:45 PM	#11
rikbar Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: South Dakota Posts: 65	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 Put new wheel bearings in the front, trying to get rid of a noise, all I have to say is that I should have changed u-joints while I was there.... Took the quadrejet off and put on a Holly 750, alittle overkill at this point, but it does run better. Thats about it for this weekend.

06-04-2007, 12:46 PM	#12
Mt Man Chad Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Oakridge Oregon Posts: 1,865	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 Played around on Mt Rainier.... Attached Images __________________ 68 CST SWB - Gold/White 50th anniversary /TH350/Buddy Buckets/3.73 Posi/dogdish caps. 68 K10 Burb - Gold/White 327/SM465/NP205/3.73 "Daa Burb" build thread

06-04-2007, 12:53 PM	#13
Shyguy Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Southeast Missouri Posts: 2,436	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 Saturday I had to work so I missed the car show at Oran. My son entered his '70 C-10 with a 454 and his Harley. He won 1st place in the rap-off contest and his motorcyle won 3 place. Sunday I put a door in the south-side of the craftroom I am building for my wife and then went to my son's to look at his wife's grandfather's truck they picked up. It is a '68 no frills stock C-10 with a 6 cylinder and 3 on the tree. It is pretty rough but they plan to keep it and fix it up for my daughter-in-law to drive. Danny - SEMO

06-04-2007, 12:58 PM	#14
73737373 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Oklahoma USA Posts: 1,000	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 Finally got around to ponying up the $25 to post "for sale" ads, so spent the weekend sorting thru parts and taking pictures. I have waaaayyy tooo much of this stuff!!! __________________ 1968 Custom SWB, 327/3 speed OTC 1969 CST LWB, 402/400 1970 CST LWB, 402/400 1970 Sierra Grande LWB, 350/350 1971 Cheyenne LWB, 350/350 1972 Cheyenne Super LWB, 402/400 1972 Sierra Grande LWB, 402/400 1979 Silverado LWB, 350/350 1984 Suburban 1990 454 SS 1991 Silverado, X-cab, 4.3/5 speed Getrag 2005 Silverado Crew Cab Corvettes: 75, 77, 78, 93, 96

06-04-2007, 01:08 PM	#15
Lippyp English Chevy Owner Join Date: May 2002 Location: Shropshire, UK/ Lot, France Posts: 1,848	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 Took my twins to see their grandparents (my parents) as my dad hadn't seen them yet, they got played with by all their aunties and cousins which explains the fact that 3am saturday night I was to be found with a cup of takeaway coffee pushing the one that wouldn't sleep around the car park of the motel we were staying in. Saw lots of rods and american cars on the road on the way back as there had been a big show. This beauty was parked up in front of me at a service area. __________________ Phil '67 C10 long fleet. 350/TH350, 4 bbl Carter, K&N, Dual exhaust, loads of stuff coming soon 2001 S10 Blazer Daily Driver, bone stock 4 door 4x4 with manual transmission



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06-04-2007, 01:43 PM	#16
72BlckButy Tot Roddin' Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mid-MO Posts: 24,461	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 Went to my boss' daughters wedding on Saturday. Went to the Home Depot with the wife, where my plans for any truck parts, fades farther and farther away.... __________________ -Nate 1969 CST SWB - Project Blank Slate (4.5/6" ECE Static Drop, 6-lug disc brake upgrade (manual), Billet Specialties Vintec 20x8.5 255/40 (F) 20x10 295/40 (R), 250 I-6) 1960 AMF Skylark - Tot Roddin' (Lowered with custom frame; soon to include custom push bar and interior) 2008 Silverado CrewCab 1LT (5.3L, 3:73, 4x4, LT1, Z-71, Towing Package)

06-04-2007, 02:17 PM	#17
Dingfodgy Lemme show you something!! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: St.Helens, OR. Posts: 876	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 Friday- Hauled a couple scoops of Garden Soil and filled the planter boxes I built last weekend. Went with the wife to the nursery to pick up a crap-load of foliage for said planter boxes. Saturday- Started cleaning out the garage- finally got rid of the last remnants of our old kitchen along with the scraps of flooring we put in a couple months ago and a bunch of plain old garden variety junk I had laying around. Went to the dump to dispose of above trash and then went back to the landscape supply yard and got a couple scoops of bark mulch. Spent the rest of the day spreading bark-dust and tidying up the back yard. Sunday- Cleaned out the garage some more and began stripping the front clip for the '67 I picked up a couple weeks ago. Lots of WD-40 and busted bolts, but things are coming along nicely. Hopefully by this coming weekend I'll be able to get the grill and hood in DP-40. Today- I took a day off the "grind" and am hauling the LWB bedside I scored out to the stripper to be "dipped" and phosphate converted. It'll be nice to work with clean virgin steel when I get this back in about 10-days! __________________ '67 CST-10 LWB ("Crusty") SOLD '67 GMC SWB ("Murdock") 2000 K1500 Suburban ("Betty") '95 BMW 325i ("Joy")

06-04-2007, 03:36 PM	#18
John Fabris TOTY 2006 Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Magalia CA USA Posts: 2,270	Re: What did you get done this weekend? 6/03/07 I spent the whole weekend selling my extra truck parts at the swap meet at a Goodguys event.... Gotta love it when I'm selling complete doors for $10-20 bucks each and the vender near me was asking $260 for a shell of a door.... I had 16 doors when I started. Came back with 1 door. I had a bunch of things that I sold very cheap. Hoods were $10, all kinds of other things that I sold were $1 - $5. Made close to $900 over two days.... The only thing that really bugs me was that one guy from Fremont (who I feel sells his stuff for way too much) brought a lot of things from me, and I know he is just going to turn around and up the price by 3-4 times and rip off other guys who just want to build thier trucks... Had a nice 67 chevy grill for $40 and this guy was still trying to talk me down on the price. I kinda yelled at him that at $40 bucks he was still going to make triple $$ on it so knock it off.... Also had my 67 in the show and met up with Jerry Jones and Rokcrln and chatted with them both a bit.... I had met Jerry before and it was great to meet Kevin (Rokcrln). I had a lot of fun hanging out near my truck and watching them check it out. At times I had about 10 guys standing around me asking me about the truck (wood bed, gas filler, stereo, drivetrain, etc...) My wife had to rescue me a few times as I had guys waiting at the swap meet spot to buy stuff from me.... __________________ John Fabris 67 C10 SWB Last edited by John Fabris; 06-04-2007 at 03:37 PM.

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