What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[crossfire84]

Refinished my small block serpentine mounts and mounted them to the BBC using kwik performance mounts. I had the cast iron BBC mounts and man were those things heavy, a total of 32lbs on my bath room scale.

[Bierkan]

Originally Posted by Jgowin

Redid my speedo
Before

After

And it lost a mile in the process! Just like the used car salesmen used to do.

[mechanixman]

I got the motor to fire!!!!

[maxdog51]

I did a little cutting and welding.......

[mechanixman]

Looks great!

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by Daze57

OrrieG

Could you post a pict of those starfire lenses please ?

thank you

Will do in the next couple of days.

[tpimuncie]

Installed some spotties
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[buggy5872]

Drove the 59 to work.....

[mechanixman]

Originally Posted by buggy5872

Drove the 59 to work.....

Without trouble I hope

[arturo7]

Pulled a few more bolts out of the floorboard.

[Some_Guy]

Put blinkers on the 55 last night. Got the vacuum wiper motor hooked back up and working too. Drove it to work again today.

[dubie]

I actually feel like a neglectful truck owner. I haven't driven mine since Saturday. I pop into the garage every day to see how the old Dirtbag is doing but the plates expire in 12 days so I'd like to get it out a couple more times before then. After that, it's back in the shop to be partially disassembled and get it ready for body work and paint

[FarmerSid]

Here's my helpers and new LMC parts..

[daveccpa]

Getting the truck back from the paint shop. Can't wait to start putting her back together. I'll post pics when I can.

[arturo7]

Busy weekend.

Spent yesterday removing tar from the bottom of the panel body. What a miserable job.

Three thoughts kept rolling thru mah haid all day-

* Why the (bleep) am I doing this? No one will ever see it.

* Did the (bleep)er (bleep)ing PO work on a (bleep)(bleep)ed road crew?

* Beer waiting in the fridge.

I actually wrote a song whilst de-tarring but I can't post it here. Outside of tar, PO, and road crew, most of the lyric is expletives. It is however, sung to the melody of, "I've Been Workin' on the Railroad."

Today, I got out the power tools and hacked out the plywood bed.

[OrrieG]

Put the faux leather on the kick panels and mocked up the ac vent, courtesy light and speakers. Speaker grilles may become grey, want to see how it goes with the rest of the black in the interior. Vents are 09 Mustang, Courtesy light 64 Olds Starfire, speakers cheap for now.

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

Will do in the next couple of days.

Here is the Starfire courtesy light lense. Do not know why it is different than other Olds, maybe the depth profile. Diameter is the same at 2".

[Daze57]

good picts sir - thank you very much !

[iowaboynca]

Got my rear end! F*rd 8.8, 3.73 posi w/ disk brakes out of a Explorer from that Pick it 'n' get it place...pretty happy.

[Coupeguy2001]

found out that my truck SUCKS the gas at 85 mph. Guess I won't be doing that very often. Took it to work, and kept up with this guy in a Land Rover. I sorta thought he was irritated with me just sort of hanging back, at 85 mph. I know he could have gone faster than me, but the freeway was getting crowded.
Besides, the cheapie electric fuel pump was real close to it's maximum output. I could feel the engine sort of starving a little bit.

[Yewhi]

(Finally) got my new bed wood in. I now know that it is NOT as easy as it looks.

[lowdownstar]

Originally Posted by Yewhi

(Finally) got my new bed wood in. I now know that it is NOT as easy as it looks.

what type of wood and stain did you use it looks super.

Ray

[Yewhi]

Originally Posted by lowdownstar

what type of wood and stain did you use it looks super.

Ray

Thanks Ray!

The wood is Red Oak. They are all treated with 4 coats of Helmsman Spar Varnish followed by 2 coats of POR-15's Pelucid for further protection.

I ran into a bit of an issue midway through. While "attempting" to install I realized that the forward bolt holes for the frame on the second boards were in the wrong location and had to have a couple of replacement boards made. I needed more Pelucid but apparently POR-15 stopped making it. I ended up using POR-15's Glisten instead. The end product seems to be similar but requires a hardener. Regarding appearance, you can't tell the difference but it'll be interesting to see whether they age differently.

Thanks again!

Tim

[NEWFISHER]

Originally Posted by arturo7

Busy weekend.

Spent yesterday removing tar from the bottom of the panel body. What a miserable job.

Three thoughts kept rolling thru mah haid all day-

* Why the (bleep) am I doing this? No one will ever see it.

* Did the (bleep)er (bleep)ing PO work on a (bleep)(bleep)ed road crew?

* Beer waiting in the fridge.

I actually wrote a song whilst de-tarring but I can't post it here. Outside of tar, PO, and road crew, most of the lyric is expletives. It is however, sung to the melody of, "I've Been Workin' on the Railroad."

Today, I got out the power tools and hacked out the plywood bed.

Priceless. Do you sing it with the band on the weekends?

[nacho55]

I was hard to take mine out of commision this weekend because I drive mine alot but was tired of looking out of the cracked & pitted glass so I took the plunge and removed my 58yo glass and seals and started painting the interior and going to replace all the seals and glass, Just going to raddle can it , but found a nice match for the original color,