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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Had another long ride today with my truck
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
$1 at local swap meet. Probably need to post on the for sale board.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Dropped off my grill to the chrome shop.. 6-8week turnaround time and giving me a lifetime warranty on the plating
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Location: Chula Vista California
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Rebuilt the power stering box, noise eliminator for my radio and found out a guy that can add USB and AUXILIAR to an old stereo.
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Location: Spokane WA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Replaced the old non-working radio that said "Civic" with one that says "Kenwood". And added 2 speakers. Just sitting under the seats right now until I replace the seat, then I'll find a permanent spot. Nice to listen to something other than wind noise.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Installed front and rear sway bars...and buddy bucket seats
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Ok, probably will catch some slack over this. But for various reasons my wife and I chose this route...... I have been a tech for quite some time and am a huge Chevy fan and Toyota as well!! For those of you that see a contradiction, I'm not going to apologize, those that are married... will understand. We have a 68 long bed with potential that belonged to her grandfather and the chassis needed help and I needed a 4x4. We bought a 04 tundra and are putting the cab and bed on that chassis engine and drive train. Any thoughts opinions and suggestions would be greatly appreciated, good and bad. Our first time at this type of project... I'm used to it comes in broke, I fix it. But this is different, thanks. Have read many many posts before joining. I like the class of people here... So we would like opinions and suggestions.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Not today but last weekend I kicked her out of the garage so i could blow about a million pounds of dust out of the garage... Gotta get to the sheet metal shop and get a piece to do the repairs on the leading edge of the hood where the rust is from the trim that used to be there.
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Yes sir and thanks for the support!! All engine, power train, and chassis will be Toyota. Wheelbase for 68 is 127", Toy is 128.3, extensive research shows this to be the closest to what we wanted without major mod. Toyota is TRD package with the V-8,and only has 115k on it!!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Installed a new fuel gauge, cleaned up some underdash wiring. Started to mock up the 73-87 volt gauge to replace the non functional ammeter.
For the first time in 10 years, the truck now has a functional fuel indicator. Sometimes its the small things ![]()
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buy American
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Not a big Toyota fan compared to old iron but like the idea, perfect powertrain that's bullet proof compared to American built and cool old style Gm body, thumbs up, hope it all works out. I like different projects that take a thinker to build.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Well one more task down. Got the new seat covers installed. Thanks to Rick's Custom Upholstery. Came out really nice.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Nice!.. How do you like the one piece windows? I'm struggling with buying a kit from a guy that didn't use it...
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I like it. I haven't had any problems besides forgetting to glues the seal in. My wind wings were rusted out and the one piece window kit cost me less then buying a new set of wings so I saved money in the long run. And I can always switch back if needed. Thanks
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Got my dash painted today. Now I can install it and start on the wiring, which is what I was planning on doing before I realized the dash needed to be replaced. One step forward.....
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I did! Both of them built right here in our States!
And thank you Don "Ole dollar", I'll post pics soon!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Got started on the patching of the front of the hood today... hope to get the rest of the metal work done tomorrow and get started on the finish work. About tired of screwing with this hood...
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I was able to get some metal on the truck today, doors, inner fenders, fenders and grill along with a few trim pieces.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Pulling wire mode today. Next up is score some hose line to see if the windshield washer system works. I'd like to see what I've got before I remove the LH dash panel components. Since I've owned this (1989) its never been hooked up, including a missing bottle. But it makes noise when I trigger it. I noticed the jets might be a bit clogged, could be why they disconnected. Will find out soon enough. 70/30 it works.
All new to me...........This is pretty cool. I've managed to avoid the windows and door latches so far (ha!). But I'll soon run out of parts to remove as I keep her running. Speak of, safe to assume I can remove the entire emergency brake system and still have brakes? Believe it or not, I've never even done a brake job outside a master cylinder and bleeding brakes...........Meanwhile, I'm taking this down to nuts and bolts.
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