What did you do to your truck today?

[weaintscared]

Beds off and welded up holes in the top rail and on bed sides where molding was... Little at a time one day it will be done...

My build slow but getting there..
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=468622

[iceship]

I put my smooth bumper on....

[wutnxt]

Okay it was not actually today...it was friday....but i did open some new parts boxes for my prostreet truck of my new air ride stuff.....

[steverino66]

Cool new toys there, wutnxt.
I released about a pound of 40-year-old dirt from between the passenger side rockers (some of it's still in my left eye…)
Good news is, the inner needs only minor repair after cleanup.

[wutnxt]

Steverino66

Het i hear ya on the dirt thing....but hey the floor is good too.....

[samuellg1977]

I put on an electric fan - Only to realize it was failing. (Grinding sound inside the lil motor) I then re-installed the clutch fan and fan shroud, then I figured out that adjusting a carburetor is apparently outside the limits of my mental abilities. It smokes worse now than before... White smoke that I am sure is quite flammable and would be a good fire starter under the right conditions. The thought of flame-throwers flashed in my mind. Then, I said "Um, No, Sam, No" and then drove it out to recover my buddy's broken down Ford Ranger.

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I am not a "mechanic" - I am a "part replacer"... There is a difference.

[Turkey]

filling bed holes where the trim was.

[iceship]

Pic.s of my bumper

[TopFuel1966]

To drive my truck at highway speed you had to be "up on the wheel" all the time as the NASCAR people say. It wanted to wander all around and rode like a buckboard. So I did some experimenting. I raised the tire pressure from 32 to 36 PSI. That partially solved the wandering problem. Then I replaced the KYB GR-2 shocks with a set of Monroe Sensi-Tracks. Wow what a difference!! Now it rides like a Cadillac and handles like a slot car racer.

[towersddg9]

Put my trans cooler and fuel tank in, tank fit good (CPP) took 3 weeks to get, the intall kit for fill thru bed still needs fab to work at tank inlet as it comes with a screw on cap

[karlbenz]

mounted electric fuel pump. hooked up fuel lines. ran new fuel return line from the throttle body to the tank

[SRVBLUES64]

Worked on front suspension installing new lower calipers and disc brakes I also finally got the rear lowering springs on that was a ***** but I won oh yeah I did get the engine and trans in.

[tropa]

found me a power steering bracket and pump off a '70 nova for $25 and a steering box with an adapter for $30 off a 64 c10 at the junk yard ... got lucky!!!

[Vernski]

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

[kieth]

Vernski, could I borrow that chrome grille and chrome letters for just a little while, I will send them back next tuesday........Kieth

[Vernski]

Originally Posted by kieth

Vernski, could I borrow that chrome grille and chrome letters for just a little while, I will send them back next tuesday........Kieth

Are you sure it would be Tuesday ???...Vernski

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by Vernski

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

Holy cow Batman, scavenger pipes?! I haven't seen those since the 60's. They look great! I always thought the mid-50's Nash hood ornament was really cool, but they cost about $400 so I won't be getting one anytime soon. It's somewhat similar to yours.

[Rich 5150 69]

Mark I`m assuming thats a woman, but the hair or head dress looks to be Darth Vader.

[pdxhall]

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.

[markeb01]

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.

[pdxhall]

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....

[MBEXHAUST]

Painted my wheels red and had my doors lettered.

MB

[steverino66]

MBEXHAUST-
That looks REALLY cool (and I like all the green stuff behind the truck too - it's 103+, dry and mostly brown here right now)

[A.T. RockDriller]

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.

[markeb01]

That turned out great. Most would never suspect it had been repaired.