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07-11-2011, 02:49 PM | #1 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Got my purple hornys on and mounted they sure bark nice. Also installed my flying lady hood ornament, I know some may groan but what the hey it's my truck. Still doing body work on the box one side done and one to go...Vernski
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07-11-2011, 04:38 PM | #3 |
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Vernski, could I borrow that chrome grille and chrome letters for just a little while, I will send them back next tuesday........Kieth
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07-11-2011, 05:17 PM | #4 |
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07-11-2011, 11:57 PM | #5 |
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Got the bed disassembled and off late yesterday. More frame prep today. This would go a lot quicker if I was 30 or 40 years younger. It takes me 5 minutes just to get up off the floor. But I love my hobbie.
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07-11-2011, 08:51 PM | #6 |
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Mark I`m assuming thats a woman, but the hair or head dress looks to be Darth Vader.
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07-12-2011, 01:11 AM | #7 |
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I find a generous supply of cheapy interlocking sponge rubber floor pads from Costco very helpful in keeping my old busted self functioning in the garage. And stacking 2 or 3 together is very helpful in knee protection when getting up off the concrete.
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07-12-2011, 02:34 AM | #8 |
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Yeah, those sound great. Right now I have a couple of old carpet pieces to pad the floor of the garage and they work pretty well. I'm just already old and creaky from life in general but anything is a help. I've also got a couple of old computer chairs with rollers that I do a lot of scooting around on when I can keep the work at sit down level. It just sucks getting old. LOL....
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07-12-2011, 10:09 AM | #9 |
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Painted my wheels red and had my doors lettered.
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07-12-2011, 12:16 PM | #10 |
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07-12-2011, 12:50 PM | #11 |
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Well..
My '63 GMC was pretty much stock and in good shape when I got her, but among some of the problems that it did have, the radio slot had been hacked up a little. I have a factory radio and wanted to get the dash taken care of so I could install it, so I got after it. It will be a while before I can paint the truck, so after the repairs, I threw some Rustoleum on it so I could get it back together. Overall, it turned out well.....but as usual, the 4 hour jobs pretty much take two days.
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07-12-2011, 01:08 PM | #12 |
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That turned out great. Most would never suspect it had been repaired.
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07-13-2011, 01:15 PM | #13 |
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Wonder what happened to lakeroadster. I wanted to see his paint job. Was he a bad boy?
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07-13-2011, 02:46 PM | #15 |
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I replaced all my lock cylinders with a set keyed alike from Classic Parts, now I need only carry one key and my glove compartment locks to boot, nice!
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07-12-2011, 02:31 PM | #16 |
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rockdriller, how did you do the repair? did you just piece it or what?
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Clyde...
Someone had over-sized the square in height by 1/2" overall and drilled another set of tuner knob holes inboard of the oe's.... I made a plate with the correct dimension square and long enough to cover the new holes....short enough to miss the original ones. I placed the plate inside the dash..(from the back) and welded it in place. I patched it "overlap" style and leveled off my welds with a die-grinder leaving a bit of bondo work to do...but over-all turned out great. The only actual "sculpting" that I had to do was below the repair where the contour changes. The rest was very close. Maybe I should have done a "flush" graft, but I'm probably not that skilled. Anyway....thanks for the props.
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07-13-2011, 04:48 PM | #18 |
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Almost finished the bed wood today, learned a lot...........loose is better keep a few 1/4 X 2 carriage bolts around to suck things into submission, take your time I am really impatient. Kieth
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07-13-2011, 07:15 PM | #19 |
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The new engine mounts are all in and that puts it back another 6" and down another 2"......ready for the new engine thats almost ready to go . New cross member is in and the tranny is mocked up. Now we are cooking
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Got my new radiator today from Entropy Radiator. Very nice!! Maybe this weekend I can mock up the front under hood sheetmetal and run the trans lines.
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07-13-2011, 06:24 AM | #21 |
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Installed new grille, headlights, bezels, parking light lenses, bezels, and painted white accent band around grille.
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07-13-2011, 01:00 PM | #22 |
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All I did was order more parts and pay for the last ones i just got.....planted my first money tree no sign of any growth as of yet.
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I took my truck down to Sango, TN with my daughter riding shotgun. We hit a rough patch on a bridge and the rearend hopped around a bit. My daughter looks at me from the passenger seat and says: "Slow down, Dad... You know you don't have AIRBAGS!!!" I laughed the rest of the way home.
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Got my wheels back from being polished and my new tires mounted......it was a good day....
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