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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
today I drove up the shop and grabbed the carb off the other truck and put it on my 65. The one I had on there i got at 1/2 price day at pick and pull, it seemed to be a rebuilt carb since it was clean and had a tag on it. Well it was giving me nothhing but trouble so I swapped it out to the one I knew was good and it runs good. Just need to do alot of small adjustments to it. Well after that I drove it around the block.. oh yeah more then once..
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spent some time in shop and dang guess H E double tooth pick must have froze over . i got 2 things done . primed the frame and painted it .I must be sick . dang what next put it back to gether
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Damn double post.
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finished up the power steering and front end conversion. 100% better stopping and steering. capt fabs brackets were the best. [IMG]
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I went out to put the center wood pieces in my bed today only to find out that they were too wide. Grrrrrrrr I cut them to the width listed on GMC Pauls website. I ripped them down and put on more urethane. Then the rain started so I will have to wait till tomorrow to put it together. My son is coming to help so it should go pretty fast. My plan is to get the wood in loosely tip it back up on end, make sure it's square then tighten it all down while my son feeds the bolts through from the other side. I'm still going to have the bolts that hold the bed to the frame hidden. I want to be driving it by tomorrow night!
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Jim - motor looks bad-@$$!
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Going to do a dry-run with un-finished boards and go from there... I'm still doing body-work on my much abused cab roof panel. Ray and I went to welding supply yesterday since he needed a chipping hammer for tech-ed and filled all the bottles, got the hammer, then putted over to pick up some white single-stage enamel and odds and ends at the paint supply. Costs are getting sick... dexter - I'm LOVIN your truck! Thanks for posting pics. Fun times for sure. back to the truck - rg & ray~ray Last edited by robber grin; 09-19-2013 at 08:07 AM. Reason: none given |
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Have never installed a wood bed floor, sounds tricky for sure, like need a lot of patience.
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It's really time consuming but not real bad. I'm stuck where I'm at now due to needing help and everyone is at work. lol
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Yesterday w/ my '65 c10 :
changed the oil/filter and lubed up everything. changed the air filter out, checked all the fluids and things while I was dirty. major adventure : old grease gun started leaking the grease out the end, except it was in a liquid-y mess! Never had that issue before, I'm suspecting it's some synthetic-y lube, it's a reddish color... what a mess! old trucks are fun! -W |
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Spread Icing and block-sand.... repeat... spread more Icing and block again... and again... and...
Teaching my son (+ myself) patience - 90% preparation right. rg |
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Put my headers on, headed to the muffler shop in the morning. Originally planned to just hook up the existing pipes but think I'm going to have him run all new stuff all the way out.
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WOW... You folks do allot on your trucks..
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Turtleman - out of necessity! I can't wait to join you driving mine!
Roof body work is getting there and in primer again. Windshield is IN! I still need to find a big back window - mine was wrong... liv'n the dream rg & Ray~Ray Last edited by robber grin; 09-21-2013 at 12:39 PM. Reason: fuzzy pic |
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Hey Don -
I don't have a build thread and sometimes I wonder if I should have started one - but thanks for asking. Bob / robber grin |
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nice truck T Smith, you are sure right on the difference from manifolds to headers, sounds so much better plus the HP diff.
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I didn't like how one of the boards looked and fit so I got another one. I got it cut and stained so far and will have it cleared in a bit. It fits alot better and I can live with it. Hopefully my son will be able to come over so I can tighten the rest of the bolts down and get it on the road.
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20 bucks @ the pick n pull the other day.
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