What did you do to your truck today?

[karlbenz]

got the motor and 3spd put in today. hooked up most of the linkages. lost the 3/8-24 nut for the clutch linkage

[dean jendro]

Originally Posted by markeb01

UPOL Raptor Bed Liner. A lot of people buy it from TP Tools. I was in a hurry so I bought mine locally and paid more for it. Make sure you get the kit complete with the gun. The threads are unique to UPOL bottles. I have a 3M Schutz gun but it won't screw onto the UPOL containers.

http://www.tptools.com/Product.aspx?display_id=2600

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I can also vouch for the Raptor. I shot the entire bottom of my cab with it and it works great. Hardly any overspray and very easy to shoot. Mark's engine compartment looks even better in person. The wife and I stopped by to check it out and it looks great. I was going to use it inside my inner fenders but I may do both sides now after seeing it on Mark's truck.

[markeb01]

My son came over this afternoon and helped out with the heavy lifting. Got the hood reinstalled, completing the project. I’m looking forward to doing something else for a while.

[Revoh]

Hauled my son in our town's Fourth of July parade this morning.






Now that I look at these pictures, it appears that I didn't get my door closed.

[jbgroby]

Revoh,

How big is your town or was that the historic area? Looks like a neat parade.

[glos55]

Hey Revoh, Really like your truck, I think i've seen it on here before? Looked like a fun parade. Are those 65 vette caps on the old girl?

[Revoh]

Originally Posted by jbgroby

Revoh,

How big is your town or was that the historic area? Looks like a neat parade.

Well, in total, we've got 5,000 people or so. But the downtown is sort of like Mayberry and the old ladies converge every weekend to go crafting and antiquing, while the old men sit around on the benches. There's also a nice riverfront park there, but it's under water right now because the Missouri River is out of its banks. You can sort of see some of the sandbags piled up beyond the police car in one of the pictures. Usually the parade goes down there, but they had to divert it a little.

Originally Posted by glos55

Hey Revoh, Really like your truck, I think i've seen it on here before? Looked like a fun parade. Are those 65 vette caps on the old girl?

Thanks! Yeah, I'm on here a lot. Those are from a '65 Corvette. I'll probably put the originals back on it eventually, but sometimes I get the urge to change things around for awhile.

[iceship]

Doing to get me some true dual off an old pick up today...

[Hipper]

well not today but last weekend took my 65 one ton dually on its first trip on the highway. friday night my 17 year old and I left after work on a 190 mile trip. truck vapor locked on us 4 times and had to wait to let it cool off for about 30 minutes each time. Finally the sun went down then truck ran great. Saturday mourning went and bought camper that mounts to frame and got it set on truck and welded to frame, camper is a 1970 WEEK N DER camper that was on a 1970 ford 1 ton. My truck origanally had a camper on it so it is cool to remove the flat bed and turn it back into a motorhome. So then Sunday headed back home with the 10 year old along, with the camper on the truck would only run 55 to 60 mph and the truck was running 250 deg, had to stop at every town and on the side of the road sometimes to cool off. Just a tip most elevators-co-ops have a faucet with garden hose out. and also a lot of city parks have faucets that work. took a long time to get home but we made it, outside temp was 115 deg witch didnt help but the boy and I had a system we would pull over I would get out and pour water on rad. and the boy would slide over and rev up engine till it cooled off and then off to next town. Was a great memory with both boys on trip there and back.

[markeb01]

What a great story. Your kids (and no doubt yourself) will never forget the adventure. I still vividly remember the trip home 48 years ago in my very first car, a 1946 Chevy sedan. It was a 20 mile trip that took several hours because the carburetor leaked like sieve and flooded the engine every few miles. I can still remember the smell of gasoline soaked shoes, mixed with old cloth cigarette discolored upholstery.

Good to hear you made it home safely.

[onequickchevy]

Great story, and a great way to teach your son about old vehicles and the patience that is sometimes required. He will always remember those times with his dad. I know I do!
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[spdrmnrm36]

towed it home on July 1st from the paint guy!! starting to work on the motor. I'll be installing a new engine dress kit and z28 IROC transmission to my temp 350ci engine.

[knuckledragger]

Ordered new carpet and headlights.

[66-PMD-GMC]

Originally Posted by spdrmnrm36

towed it home on July 1st from the paint guy!! starting to work on the motor. I'll be installing a new engine dress kit and z28 IROC transmission to my temp 350ci engine.

Cool and interesting paint theme... I like it... A-LOT...
I am curious however, what is a Z28 IROC transmission??
700R4 maybe?

[spdrmnrm36]

It's a manual transmission, I meant to say it's out of an IROC z28 Camaro. I'll have to find out what model it is.

[66-PMD-GMC]

Originally Posted by spdrmnrm36

It's a manual transmission, I meant to say it's out of an IROC z28 Camaro. I'll have to find out what model it is.

I had a borgwarner 5 speed from a camaro..
The shifter was too far back to work with my bench seat...
that sucked...

[spdrmnrm36]

Might be similar, because I'm having to modify my interior to accomidate the shifter issue and I'm going with bucket seats and smaller/indented middle seat.

[66-PMD-GMC]

Originally Posted by spdrmnrm36

Might be similar, because I'm having to modify my interior to accomidate the shifter issue and I'm going with bucket seats and smaller/indented middle seat.

That would work.
I have an NV4500 that will eventually go in to replace the SM420 in the 66.
My 63's have automatics.... with column shift...

[barry h.]

Noyhing to hotttttttttttt !!!!!!!!!!!!

[cheapfix66]

Got the heater delete plate ready with my guages,need to straighten the volt guage it looks like,but like it

[SRVBLUES64]

Ive been battling the rear spring bolts for 2 days now!!!!!!!! I think its time for a little heat

[Turkey]

cleaned out the interior.

[iceship]

I replaced my over flow tank with the one under the battery...

Washed and painted black

[iceship]

I'm slowly cleaning it up... relocating the waher fluid next

[monolith]

Threw the bed from the 64 on the 66- got some hauling to do before I put the wrecker bed on.