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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
that looks like it was a beautiful day for a drive!
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Hit the Pomona swap meet this morning. Picked up a 7-blade fan, crank pulley, air cleaner, XX gloves and an old Crescent wrench.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Changed the back up circuit wiring so I can also use a switch to turn on the lights and wired the door switches for the courtesy lights. I borrowed Orge's idea for hidden switchs that work off the upper hinge. Also scored a pair of 68-72 4wd front hub caps so I do not have to cut up the 2wd ones.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
A whole lotta sanding, and laying down primer.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Picked up my gas tank and radiator from the shop, they cleaned and sealed the tank and boiled out, tested, and repaired the radiator. I might be driving before too much longer.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Inventoried my Vintage Air Magnum IV system!!!
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
JJ, What's the timeframe for installation?
Will you install it yourself or have others do it? Please take pic's (as you usually do) cause that's one job I think a lot of us intend to do eventually and we'll (well, I will be!) searching for info with pictures later. - Dan
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Oh, ok. I've missed checking in on your thread lately so I'll go take a look!
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
I finished the chassis paint on my '47 GMC so I can finally bolt down the cab so I can get back to the rot replacement. This brings up a question for you experts: I rebuilt the rear cab support trunion with a kit that included the bushings for the center trunion and a pair of rubber pads that support the cab corners. The pads were 1/4" thicker than the originals and round instead of rectangular. The old ones mounted with two bolts so I drilled new holes to put them on the center of the frame. I figured that the originals had taken a set or were worn down but when I let down the jack the cab rested on the bumpers and the trunion base was 1/4" off the frame. I made a 1/4 " spacer piece which when bolted in pulled down nice and flush with the pads. Looks good but apparently not correct. The spacing between the frame and the floor is 0.76" in the assembly manual and mine is about two inchs. The rub is that the manual shows the trunions which support the cab at the corners with no pads which was a revised design. The single trunion design put too much stress on the cab and caused cracking. I am not sure if the .76 is valid for a '47 with the old design. I am leaning towards just adding 1/4" shims to the front cab mounts and radiator mounts and probably be OK. Any suggestions how to proceed. |
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
proceed with caution. AD cab angle is critical to hood and fender alignment as well as horizontal with the bed. there have been a number of threads about fenders not fitting that go back to the cab angle.
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worked on wires and connectors new tail light harness , also finally after 3 years got the wire from the dome light threw the pillar and to the head light switch i cpould never get anything threw it did the string with compressed air and it worked after a pencil finnaly blew threw the sun visor hole , ,, old pencil that says Old Line State Annapolis .. so i looked it up truck must have came from Maryland it is a military vehicle , but i am in Wa state , so traveled a long way , .also changed to corvette ralleys and getting ready to put a 10 bolt 57 chevy car rear end in in it for now for the 5 lug bolt pattern
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Opened small packages the white and blue truck dropped off. Get to see if the LED backup lights will work ok. Also got the front hub caps, in better shape than I anticipated. Basically snap them on and go.
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tiny tiny tiny 7/8'' diameter, both are drawfed by this razor blade i'll try to get 12v to them tonight and post a pic ![]()
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cool, an ogre smiley ![]() how to put your truck year and build thread into your signature shop air compressor timer |
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Would the fasteners on these (& light itself) be too big to use in place of upper license plate bolts? Seems like an easy & logical place to mount them.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
look like mine, only shiney; I got black.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Haven't done nothing for a month. Cab, doors, hood, and frt fenders are close to paint. Need to do some things to the chevelle this winter also.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Turned out to not throw as much light as I want. May put them in to light inside the bed.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
ogre... can those fit where the license plate bolts go , ?
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Ogre
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I picked up a complete short bed from a 53 for my 49 today.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
I threw a couple of bails so straw in the back and gave kids rides at the neighborhood Halloween party. Even set up a "zombie zone" where they could shoot the zombies with their Nerf guns from the bed of the pickup. Loving Halloween!
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
That's awesome! Here, we don't go out till dark but the boy's in the black and white sports cars would frown on that. Talk about tak'in the "F" out of fun.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Finished buttoning up my stock 327 SS Impala 275hp engine.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
very very nice looking engine!!!!
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