What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[mechanixman]

Bought a 400 ci Small block yesterday.
Did the engine swap in single digit weather.

[Nev68]

Wow, are you keen or what?! Well done.
Just to make you feel a little colder it was around 88 deg. F here at midnight.
Happy New Year.

[OrrieG]

Sent off payment for one piece door window glass, thanks to tbrown5079. Also ordered manual door actuators and purchased fuel filler hose and wiper fluid hose. Going to order the interior fabric too.

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

Sent off payment for one piece door window glass, thanks to tbrown5079. Also ordered manual door actuators and purchased fuel filler hose and wiper fluid hose. Going to order the interior fabric too.

Whoopee, the windows arrived in one piece, thanks again.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Crap Nick, you're hardcore! Congrats on doing the work. Can you even FEEL your fingers anymore?

I actually drove my heap over to the traditional New Year's Eve morning Rose Parade route cruise down Colorado Blvd. I've lived here 14 years now and had never done this. Took a looong time. Just abut an hour from the gathering point at Michillinda & Foothill to Suicide Bridge. Didn't do the return trip I just kept going to my daughter's new house in Eagle Rock.

But getting out in it really gets my "juices going" to work on it some more. She liked the tank of fresh premium and getting blown out running down the freeway coming back.

[Daze57]

nuttin - had to work all day today !!!!!

[Jack Guzman]

Picked up my wheel(3 others are done) at the sandblaster but it was too pitted. Gotta find a decent fourth wheel somewhere. It's been too cold to work on the truck. It's in a tent and no heat source. Temps have been right around 10 deg. I can stand the cold,especially if I dress for it but handwork is impossible. Ever try to thread a 1/4-20 nut on a bolt wearing heavy gloves? Maybe I can heat up the tent somehow.---Jack

[mechanixman]

ha ha Thanks Guys
Our garage is just as flimsy as a tent - absolutely no insulation value whatsoever. I was having the same problem ,as you said, with handwork. We bought a kerosene heater from menards for $100 on sale. It says it'll warm a 25'X45' room. It hasn't ever heated my garage, but if you keep it close, it'll keep you warmer. When it gets bellow zero, I keep the heater on full, and periodically warm my hand/gloves on it.

One of these suckers
http://www.menards.com/main/heating-...069-c-6862.htm

[nvrdone]

Took the truck out for a ride. It's a clear, beautiful day in Seattle.
Stopped & took pictures of the truck. Now I just need to figure out how to post them.
Happy New Year to all. May 2014 be much better than 2013.

[oldman3]

I decided to take mine out for a ride today. It was overcast, buy 45*, hadn't been out in a couple months. Here's a couple pics from inside running down the highway...Jim

[mechanixman]

A whole lot of shoveling!
This is our back yard...

[tbrown5079]

Marked the doors for the Porsche mirrors I got, made a list of things to still be done ( it's still pretty long but mostly one or two day jobs ), patching and filling holes in the lower cowl by the cab mounts to make sure I don't get water where I don't want it. Looking forward to getting to the paint shop.

[msaintg]

I took the '47 to the junk yard today to get parts for my other truck. You should of seen the guys eyes at the junk yard when he said "we won't have any parts for that truck". well, duh, priceless.

[panelrodder81]

I finally built my trans xmember and got the hole in the firewall drilled for the LS engine harness to pass through to the cab. Next is lengthen some of the wires and get the ecu and fuse panel mounted.

-Panelrodder

[blue57]

Started to pull mine apart to get it blasted so I can send it to the body shop

[_Ogre]

looked sadly at my truk
not coming out of the garage until salt season is over

i admire you guys that work outside in sub-freezing temps.
just not my style any more, i'm getting soft in my old age

[msilva12]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

looked sadly at my truk
not coming out of the garage until salt season is over

i admire you guys that work outside in sub-freezing temps.
just not my style any more, i'm getting soft in my old age

It has been about 65 degrees out here. No rain yet just a few bad windstorms ripped through here.

I think I am going to sand and rattle can primer the truck just to protect it until this summer.

[Wrecker55]

slow time of year for me so re-doing my interior in my 46

[OrrieG]

Next round of parts are arriving, also going to do a winter garage clean up to get organized for the spring push to getting it drivable.

[57chevyman]

installed a coolant overflow tank

[OrrieG]

Ordered interior fabric, got lucky, it is commercial grade furniture fabric and I found an auction on ebay for a mill end that has twice as much fabric for 1/3 the cost.

[Red Foreman]

I like it!

[57chevyman]

nice fabric!

[lgoodso1]

I assembled my sand blast cabinet and started on small parts cleaning, got the cab off yesterday and ready to start the engine swap

[Romansroad828]

I finally got the 1949 to my house. Started it today but still have not unloaded it!