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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Diana, TX
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Rewired the starter, had to adjust brake light switch so brake lights would not stay on, minor adjust to carb, fired it up for first time since last November. Drove around the yard, aired the tires, installed new plates and registration. Need inspection and then road test for reliability. Long time coming.
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#2727 |
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Northern California
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
The factory tint door glass from eBay arrived. Unfortunately, the window run channels did not. I installed the driver side glass anyway, since there was none previously. It could rain tomorrow, who knows?
Installed the el cheapo seat cover I bought after augmenting the remains of the original foam with bits and pieces scrounged here and there. It looks like crap, but will do for now. Still fighting an idle problem, the 350 acts like it has a vacuum leak. Idles all over the place and dies when put in gear. I verified the timing is correct, but have to turn the idle up and richen the idle mixture to keep it running. It has an Edelbrock (Carter AFB) carb on an adaptor plate (Q-jet manifold). Installed new gaskets above and below the spacer, no improvement. I have a rebuild kit for the carb, but didn't feel like diving into that today. Maybe tomorrow. Irritating. Cleaned and de-rusted (polished) the drivers side chrome channel that holds the door panel. Since there is no door panel, it seemed convenient. Cleaned and polished the PRND2L lens. I can almost see through it now, a great improvement! Onward and Upward.
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#2728 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Kansas City
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
New front brake pads. That squeak was driving me nuts!
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#2729 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Finally got some time to work on the trucks today. My brother came by and helped me and my son pull the engine and trans out of the parts truck today. I will try to finish stripping the truck down tomorrow.
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71 c20, 350/automatic 71 K5 Blazer, 350 3 speed (really my 16 yr old sons)http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=686111 71 GMC build thread; http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=468765 47 Chevy Aerosedan, 403 Olds/350 turbo 69 Camaro, 307/powerglide 06 Silverado Z71 |
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#2730 |
~Rest In Peace~
Join Date: May 2005
Location: CALIFORNIA NOR CAL
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
drove it
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is it fast ? it has a lighting bolt donut? B___H please, I can remove 90% of your so called "beauty" with a kleenex |
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#2731 |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sylvania, Alabama
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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...
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#2732 |
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Liberty, & Garden City S.C. , U.S.
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I put the trickle charger on mine today before I left for work.
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1971 LWB Custom, 6.0LS & 4L80E, Speedhut.com GPS speedometer & gauges with A/C. 20" Boss 338's Grey wheels 4 wheel disc brakes. My Driver Seeing the USA in a 71 ![]() Upstate SC GM Truck Club 2013,14 and 2016 Hot Rod Pour Tour http://upstategmtrucks.com/ Get out and drive the truck this summer and have some fun! It sucks not being able to hear! LWB trucks rule, if you don't think so measure your SWB! After talking to tech support at Air Lift I have found out that the kit I need is 60811. Per the measurements I gave them. Ride height of truck inside spring and inside diameter of springs. |
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#2733 |
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Pueblo West, CO
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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.
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#2734 |
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Austin, TX
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Got my fronts in from UPS, mounted balanced and on the truck.
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#2735 |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: saskatoon, planet earth
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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
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#2736 |
The Red Menace
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Roseburg, OR
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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!
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1971 Custom 10 - 350/350TH - Pwr steering, gauges, Chrome front bumper, Chrome hubcaps, Door edge guards, HD rear springs (current) 1968 C-20 Custom Camper - 350/350TH (orig 327), Pwr steering & brakes, gauges w/tach (former) 1968 C-20 - 307/3sp column (Dad's when I was a kid) "Driving is like coloring. Things get messy if you can't stay inside the lines." |
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Location: Fallbrook, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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I couldn't get my bolts through the new sleeves either, and installed everything without them. |
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#2738 |
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Location: Liberty, & Garden City S.C. , U.S.
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Are those the Boss wheels? Looks great against the black frame.
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1971 LWB Custom, 6.0LS & 4L80E, Speedhut.com GPS speedometer & gauges with A/C. 20" Boss 338's Grey wheels 4 wheel disc brakes. My Driver Seeing the USA in a 71 ![]() Upstate SC GM Truck Club 2013,14 and 2016 Hot Rod Pour Tour http://upstategmtrucks.com/ Get out and drive the truck this summer and have some fun! It sucks not being able to hear! LWB trucks rule, if you don't think so measure your SWB! After talking to tech support at Air Lift I have found out that the kit I need is 60811. Per the measurements I gave them. Ride height of truck inside spring and inside diameter of springs. |
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#2739 |
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Location: NM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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
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Location: Austin, TX
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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Only potential downside to them is the brand is carved into one of the spokes, but I don't mind it, especially for the price.
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#2741 |
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Location: dallas ga
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Love the wheels. Can you give more info on them?
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#2742 |
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: mich
Posts: 655
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Finished the paint on the cab today, put wedge plates on the rear axle to readjust pinion angle, finished the frame rails.
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#2743 |
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Osceola, Ia
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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.
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#2744 |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: south dakota
Posts: 1,892
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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.
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#2745 |
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Northern California
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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.
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#2746 |
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: biloxi, mississippi
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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.
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#2747 |
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Grand Terrace, Ca.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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.
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#2748 |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Aztec NM
Posts: 229
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Today (and yesterday) I removed the burned out cab and front end from my truck. I then removed the good donor cab and front end and got the cab mounted on my frame. Not a great amount, but it is a start at last. There are more pics on my build thread, Project Phoenix.
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#2749 |
Cool Truck
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Bowie,MD
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I put on a lighter set of tinted turn signal lenses. I made my other ones a little too dark.
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#2750 |
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: sw colorado
Posts: 2,720
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
dragged it across colorado and finally unloaded in my garage.
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