What did you do to your truck today!

[Tmwoodall]

Got my fronts in from UPS, mounted balanced and on the truck.

[Andy4639]

Originally Posted by Tmwoodall

Got my fronts in from UPS, mounted balanced and on the truck.

Are those the Boss wheels? Looks great against the black frame.

[RossRinSD]

Originally Posted by windmill

got my 3 inch lowering rear leaf springs in friday, got to put them on today and the shackles too,,, bolts would not go through the eyelets so had to drill them out some.. but worked out well.... guess i need to get some pics put up too...

I ran into a very similar problem with my lift kit. I could not get the bolts back out of the rear of the front leaf springs. I had to slide my sawzall in there and cut them out. There was no metal sleeve in there and the bolts had rusted/melted to the rubber.

I couldn't get my bolts through the new sleeves either, and installed everything without them.

[67Slider]

Installed a new 1 inch, phenolic, 4 hole spacer in between the edelbrock performer intake and the 1406 carb. seems to have stopped the hard starts after it warms up. Drove it about 60 miles today with my two boys. They dig cruising in dads old truck.

[purple gas]

well, I was out in the garage working on this furniture project, kept looking at my truck feelin all guilty that it hasn't turned a wheel in I don't know how long. Then an Indiana Jones movie came on the TV, So I had a beer and well,,,, maybe tomorow

[red71c10]

Took the kick panel vents apart so I could vacuum out the the dead leaves. Cleaned and oiled everything before putting them back together so they open and close easier and quieter. Very nice on a hot day to be able to open those vents without being blasted by bits of dry leaf!

[laplander]

Since I'm gimped out from work right now, I'm relying on my 16 year old to do most of the work. He got the 2" dropped coils put on the front and and 4" dropped in the rear almost done. That and the new car style rallys change the whole look of the truck. Next week I hope to have the dropped spindels and lowering blocks ready for him to put on. LOL

[sboris]

Had a wedding yesterday...UUg. Blew my saturday. Rushing out to start stripping cab
and if my help arrives I`ll get the box off today to see what I got.

[prairewolf]

resized newer pictures of truck, .... yep,.. that one hole in passenger floorboard has to be Rifle bullet hole. ... exited close to dead center of tire, ... might explain why truck only had 3 original steelies when I baught it.... I had never noticed or thought about that hole till just the other day when I saw it........ I baught new oil for it and need to get rear lights to quit blowing fuse.


perfect weather to work on truck or to blow it off for another day. time will tell.

p.s .. the dual floor consoles cost 120$ .... on sale at 79$ closeout.

p.ss. it has good oil pressure, the key was just on for a second to get picture.

[wilbilt]

Originally Posted by prairewolf

.... yep,.. that one hole in passenger floorboard has to be Rifle bullet hole. ... exited close to dead center of tire, ... might explain why truck only had 3 original steelies when I baught it....

My nephew killed his Ford Ranger several years ago with a 30.06. Why the rifle was loaded in the cab, I don't know, but the round went through the floor, took out a transmission line, hit the frame and fragments went through an A/C hose, the radiator and the A/C condenser. It was an expensive day for him.

[jeff's 72 4x4 K20]

Well, I haven't accomplished much today, last week I did get about 90% of the entire underside of the ole '72 coated with POR-15, one header installed and working on the other between the rain bands from Tropical Storm Lee, I am also working on relocating the clutch tube with the linkage due to header tube interference.

[ItsRandy]

Bought paint (on Friday), a close friend came over on Saturday and we block sanded my cab before the last coat of primer (only close friends will come over and help block sand). We only found a few spots that needed spot putty, we filled those and I am heading out into the garage to finish those in a few minutes. Tomorrow morning (before it gets hot) I am spraying the final coat of primer and hopefully, next weekend I will be spraying color on my cab. I have been sanding/filling/sanding/priming/block sanding/filling/priming/ block sanding etc., etc., and so on and so on for about about 8 weeks. I hope to show you all the results of all of my (and my close friend's) labor very soon.

[ryanroo]

dragged it across colorado and finally unloaded in my garage.

[Bennett68C10]

Yesterday I started taking my doors apart to replace the inner bottoms and outer door skins. Sorry forgot to take pictures.

[LadyBird]

Got mine into it's permanent primer paint job Came out pretty good for "paint it in the driveway" paint job. Wheels, tires, and a lot more soon to come!



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[RossRinSD]

Ordered a MileMarker winch today... And, I should get a visit from the UPS fairy with some stuff from LMC tomorrow.

Its still 104 outside. I was hoping to get a little bit more done today, but doesn't look like thats going to happen.

[willys72fleetside]

FINALLY, I got the paint work done all but the hood.

[flashed]

I went and bought new wide trim rings for my 8" ralleys and put them on my wheels .It will be a while before the truck is home from the body shop for me to put the wheels on the truck .I cant wait to get the van rallys off and get the 8" rallys on as that will mean new paint on the truck.

[Shyguy]

Monday we started doing sheet metal work on my '67 swb stepper cab. I have never done any sheet metal work myself so my son was showing me how to do it. We removed the inner and outer rockers using hammers and screw drivers, not a fun way I don't think.

I cut off the old cab corners and cut and fitted the new ones, my son tack welded them. Also he cut, fitted and tacked the driver's side floor pan.

We removed the '73 454 from my '71 along with the SM-465 to prep them to put in the '67.

I helped one of my grandsons take apart the front clip off the '71 I gave him.

Today I ordered the seals and gaskets for the SM-465 from Rock Auto.

It felt good to finally start working on the '67 and since I gave the '71 to one of my grandsons I will be able to concentrate on the '67.

[ItsRandy]

Started block sanding the last coat of primer on my cab. I've sprayed 2 gallons of primer on the cab and swept up at least one gallon from my garage floor. sealer and paint are next!

[FRENCHBLUE72]

I installed a chevy only sticker on my back window today does that count as anything???

[eagleuh1]

Keep your head out of them window openings when rolling them up Magwakeener. They're pretty quick. Jim

[magwakeenercew2jh]

Will do, Eagle.

Unless I'm ready to end it all.

[Shyguy]

I went to my son's place early this morning to help work on my grandson's '73 Malibu and my '67 swb stepper cab.

We got the master cylinder and rear axle seals replaced in my grandson's Malibu.

While my son was welding in the patches I made and he tacked in last Monday I made some patch metal pieces for the kick panels and the passenger side outer floor. I used pieces of an old hood to make the patch panels today. I used an angle grinder with a cut-off wheel to cut out the patch panels and an angle grinder with a grinding wheel to massage the patch panels so they would fit.

I was smart today, I took my own power tools and a very large face shield with leather gloves.

My son was almost done welding in the panels from last week when he ran out of wire.

We stopped for the day so we could straighten and clean the garage.

[Andy4639]

Originally Posted by Shyguy

I went to my son's place early this morning to help work on my grandson's '73 Malibu and my '67 swb stepper cab.

We got the master cylinder and rear axle seals replaced in my grandson's Malibu.

While my son was welding in the patches I made and he tacked in last Monday I made some patch metal pieces for the kick panels and the passenger side outer floor. I used pieces of an old hood to make the patch panels today. I used an angle grinder with a cut-off wheel to cut out the patch panels and an angle grinder with a grinding wheel to massage the patch panels so they would fit.

I was smart today, I took my own power tools and a very large face shield with leather gloves.

My son was almost done welding in the panels from last week when he ran out of wire.

We stopped for the day so we could straighten and clean the garage.

Thats a cool day. Nothing like the family hanging out together doing what they love doing!
I drove mine to work tonight!