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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Mated these
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#2752 |
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Location: West Virginia
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I ran electrolysis for what I think will be the last time for quite a while. This last part is the new (well, 1970 OEM) battery tray. The part is now soaking overnight in evaporust. I was able to load up the soaking container to the point that I got 80 percent of the tray in the fluid and tomorrow I'll flip it over and that will be that!
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#2753 |
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Location: Bay Area, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Painted the back side of my grill, and both rear wheel wells .
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Location: Farmersville, TX
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Waiting to fund a new oil pickup, and a few other odds and ends. Top end is ready to put on, but I want to get the bottom stuff done first.
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Grunt: 1971 C20 Custom Camper. Runs/Drives/Kinda stops. 350Ci, TH350. 4.10:1 D60. Eight Lug LWB is more better. Hell no its not fast! Donkey: 93 Nissan D21, the farm truck. My 1/2 ton SWB. The Indomitable Datsun. 1st BN 3rd MAR. '00-'04 ![]() |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Here's how it's sitting now.
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Grunt: 1971 C20 Custom Camper. Runs/Drives/Kinda stops. 350Ci, TH350. 4.10:1 D60. Eight Lug LWB is more better. Hell no its not fast! Donkey: 93 Nissan D21, the farm truck. My 1/2 ton SWB. The Indomitable Datsun. 1st BN 3rd MAR. '00-'04 ![]() |
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Location: billings, mt
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
finally scored a sweet deal on a radiator from my local hoarder and now i'm finally all GM under my hood! on the down side I was doing a big narly burnout and my speedo exploded again 5th one this year......
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#2757 |
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Location: Lutz, Florida
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I got all the trucks out (but one) did a little maintenance on a perfect Florida day.
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1967 Red, C10 Short Bed 6.0L T5 5 speed 1967 Orange and Black C50 6.2 Detroit Diesel NV4500, 2 Ton Pickup 1972 White, Chevy Blazer 2WD 67 Dog house 5.3 4L65 2016 Power Tour LH 1955 Red-Cream, Chevrolet Nomad, restoration on hold 2004 Black, Corvette Z06 LS6 convertible (Rock solid Fun) 2011/2018 Power Tour Last edited by colgad; 10-11-2015 at 07:04 PM. Reason: typo |
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#2758 |
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Location: Austin, Texas
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
400 mile road trip this weekend to pickup a Th350 auto transmission from 4X4GMC1972 in Dallas. My 72 ran great and only burned 1 quart of oil, not bad for 117,000 mile truck. I'm excited to get an auto, 3OTT stinks in traffic.
Thanks for gift wrapping if for me Todd ![]()
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72 Cheyenne SWB C10 (daily driver) (Super fake cause I just love the glovebox emblem) 70 Camaro RS (frame-off in pieces) 70 Camaro RS (daily driver backup) 69 Custom LWB C10 (son now drives) |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
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1967 Red, C10 Short Bed 6.0L T5 5 speed 1967 Orange and Black C50 6.2 Detroit Diesel NV4500, 2 Ton Pickup 1972 White, Chevy Blazer 2WD 67 Dog house 5.3 4L65 2016 Power Tour LH 1955 Red-Cream, Chevrolet Nomad, restoration on hold 2004 Black, Corvette Z06 LS6 convertible (Rock solid Fun) 2011/2018 Power Tour |
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#2760 |
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#2761 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
All I got done today was flipping the replacement battery tray over so as to get the other 1/2 cleaned in Evaporust and wire wheeling and rust treating (NAPA spray) my original battery tray bolts. I also put some replacement fender bolts into evaporust.
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#2762 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I replaced the throttle return spring, made the engine return to proper idle.
Ten Ring: Have you tried white vinegar for rust removal? Worked well for me, 6 gallons for $12. Added 2 gallons of water, no flipping needed, just 48 hrs. |
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#2763 |
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Location: Shropshire, UK/ Lot, France
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Waved goodbye to it, end of a 12 year era.
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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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#2764 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I finally got around to working on some 5 lug donor parts. It's a long term low budget project... :-/
I added new gear lube to my, wire brushed off the rust, and then brushed on some of Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator. Ordering the new drums and hardware next month and then some new rubber for the 6.5" Van Rallys I scored the month after.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Disassembled, sanded, primed, the vent window frames yesterday. This morning I went out and painted them. Drying now. Will put em back together next weekend or sooner.
Not much progress actually, but better than nothing.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Last few days I've just cleaned parts and organized. Also purchased two rare pieces...........
3994046 Exhaust manifold. I had never seen one. I guess cuz the part # is consistent with the 3994045. I don't know, these manifolds are kind of a mystery. NOS coolant recovery. Wasn't cheap. ![]()
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Tony 71 Custom Deluxe, SWB, 2WD, 402, A/C. I developed an assembly kit for restoring the (a) truck from the ground up. My build thread, and more on the assembly kit https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...d.php?t=730025 Last edited by 71CHEVYSHORTBED402; 10-13-2015 at 12:54 AM. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Wheelsmith sent me a early X-Mas present on friday. my 14" wide smoothies. When i get back from my hunting trip i will be test fitting and then paint..
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Messed with some bed strips and bolts. I am at a loss for words. ugh. Any advice?
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#2769 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
If you can't find the correct ones, grind the square part of the stove bolt till they fit. I drained the water out from the engine build this summer and put in antifreeze. It got down to 29 F last nite....
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Thanks, Joe.. 1969 C/10, 348 C.I., 3X2 bbl. V8, 2004r , LWB. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Started getting the engine back together.
Went from this...
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
To this...
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Test fit the 315x75x16 BFG TA KO2 on 16x10 steelies on the front. Perfect, plenty of room. Ordered the tires and rims. Should be here Tuesday. Not soon enough. Through cracks in the tread of my current/old front tires, could see the belt core.
Took my dash apart to diagnose why my wipers stopped working. After testing everything thoroughly, reassembled and it works great now. Must have been bad/loose/dirty connections. Replaced the missing e-clip on the wiper motor arm. Vacuumed out probably 40 years of crud and pine tree needles from under the cowl.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Converted back to true dual exhaust..took out crossover. I didn't like the motor boat sound at idle.
Before and after(upside down picture)
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Installed a fan
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Beautiful paint!
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