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01-11-2023, 10:47 PM | #1 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Changed the oil. I don't remember the last time I did that, but after coming back from our rental house with the oil nice and hot, I finally did it. I don't normally take the truck over there, but I had to have a nice long straightedge to guide the circular saw to trim down a gate. I build things to tight tolerances, and when I built that gate 8 years ago, it was dry and summer. With all this rain, the wood swelled up and the gate was hard to open and close. I'm sure that it has been this way in the past with rain, but the renters never complained. If they had said something, I'd've been all over it. My best complaint about them (after 9 months of not paying rent!)- we had a new toilet put in the rental house, and for whatever reason, the plumber only turned the house water supply valve on part way. Two weeks after that, they were complaining about low water flow. While I will say that the plumber should have opened the valve all the way, they should not have waited two weeks to say something. When I went over to look at the problem, and found it, one of the renters said, "****", because he knew that even he should have seen such a simple problem, having worked for a plumbing company in the past.
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01-15-2023, 02:15 PM | #2 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Got my door panels painted and put on
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01-15-2023, 02:53 PM | #3 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Looks good
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01-15-2023, 03:33 PM | #4 |
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Nice! Brought the color right through the door skin!
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01-15-2023, 11:16 PM | #5 |
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Nice.
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01-16-2023, 02:39 AM | #6 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Put a trickle charger on the battery... does that count for anything?
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01-16-2023, 09:37 PM | #7 |
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I did a rear frame C notch, 4 shocks, greased the front suspension, tracked down a trans leak on my 84 squarebody....all in preparation for the hot rod power tour this year.
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01-17-2023, 04:51 PM | #8 |
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Started on my 68 a seat . Ran into a snag the original foam is most likely compressed and the skin is fitting loosely. So I’m going to add some filler to it either poly fit wrap or put jute backing behind the foam . Guess I’ll have a delux or CST seat in a plain Jane .
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01-17-2023, 04:56 PM | #9 |
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Ohh and I had redo a bed board . I moved some stuff and can of paint fell on it putting a big dent in it . I can assure you that I did my best Samual L Jackson “ The hit man’s bodyguard “ imitation .
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01-17-2023, 08:22 PM | #10 |
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I've heard that if you put a damp cloth on top and use your wife's iron it will pull the grain up
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Repair , it slightly altered the grain but you need to look real close
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01-17-2023, 05:32 PM | #12 |
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Blasted and painted my seat frame
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01-20-2023, 08:12 PM | #13 |
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Cement was too cool to lay on, so did some cruising around the area.
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01-20-2023, 08:30 PM | #14 |
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^ When was Jefferson Davis president?
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01-20-2023, 11:26 PM | #15 |
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Civil War, He was the president of the Southern folks.
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01-22-2023, 05:21 PM | #16 |
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Did the seat tracks today it’s a pleasure working on parts that aren’t covered in rust .
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01-22-2023, 05:26 PM | #17 |
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And somewhere during the process I lost the little clip that holds the spring and wire linkage . So I made a new one out of a left over piece of tool steel from knife making. Lots of hand filing as I didn’t want to overcut it on my belt grinder . Not my favorite thing to do in 90+ degrees . Turned out pretty well
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01-22-2023, 07:09 PM | #19 |
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Set plug gap and timing in my brother's 56
After new HEI install.
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01-24-2023, 06:12 PM | #20 |
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Picked up my seat back from the upholstery shop . Did not like the way it was made at all . Didn’t fit right cut wrong and had the sail pieces to cover the side bracket’s like 69 and up . The owner of the shop I had met at a couple of shows and this is the first time I used his services. Very fast turn around dropped of Thursday was done Monday morning very reasonable too . Had him add some of the original seat skin to the bottom of the seat so it wrapped around like the original . He also cut the sail piece and restitched the piping to give it a finished look around the hinge . As you can see in the second picture the whole bottom of the seatback was open . Third picture it wraps around like original
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Stumbled upon an original 67 right front fender today too . And the price was right .
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Seat is not good . The pleats running from left to right on the seat back are short . There are 10 pleats per panel each pleat is 2.125 inches on the seat bottom it is exact on both sides .
The seat back however has 8 pleats per panel at 2.125 the other two outer ones are 1.862 Also the center panel in the seat back is 8 3/8 inches while the seat bottom is 8 1/2 inches. So the run lost just about an inch when you get to the drivers side . I’m just going to have to live with it since even my upholstery guy said he can’t match the color . PUI doesn’t even offer it anymore
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Installed my 3rd radiator. First two from different manufacturers are junk. So I "settled" for a US Radiator. It's built very well and everything fits like it's supposed to. Pending time there's absolutely no substitute for those desiring an original replacement, IMO. Downside it costs $1100 shipped.
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01-25-2023, 11:59 AM | #24 |
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Upgrading hardware on the C10
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Shiny
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