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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I took off the original mirrors since im gonna run 71-72 mirrors. I heard the backplate clank on the inside of the door( I had no idea the mirrors had a backplate) i sanded and primed the spot where the mirrors were. Removed the door panels and recovered the backplates. First time taking off the door panels, Pretty neat experience.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
the question is.. what didnt i do.. i wanted to set the thing on fire cuz it was pissin me off...
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Drove about 50 feet and sounds like the tranny S.T.B. I just replaced the rear end too. I feel your pain Tim.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
ha ya my truck is being a pain in the toosh
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1972 C-10...402/400..flowmaster 40 series 1967 Mustang 347 stroker/C-4 1966 Mustang 289/3-speed 2013 Mustang V6/6speed w/300 ponies I may be 23, but i sure do knows 67-72s are sexy! Its not MPG its smiles per gallon! build started 11/25/08 build thread: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s....php?p=2993796 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Drove it for the first time in the dark. Discovered that my instrument cluster lights are indeed bright enough to see by, and then noticed that I have no high beams. Clicking the floor dimmer reveals darkness
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Had to move my truck completely out of the way today so my honey could power wash the drive way...Im really getting over worked here =)
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Finally sprung for a pair of new wind wings for the front doors.
Put them in today, and just finished putting everything back together. What a PITA!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Finished cleaning up, painting, and putting back together 2 sets of heads, a set of 3487's and a set of 882's. Cleaned up the garage some from my mess. Tomorrow morning before we go for a long motorcycle ride with friends, I am going to put the 9th coat of varnish on the 56 Lyman topsides.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
bled the brakes again, (pedal still going almost to floor), drove down street and back truck died in driveway and would not restart, found a leaky wheel cylinder, got frustrated pushed it back in the garage and quit for the day.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Looked for transmissions........
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
2things....
Drooled...and... Glovebox door : REINSTALLED!! lol.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Took it to a car show!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Picked up a new set of wheels for the kid's GMC and then heading out tomorrow for some tires. Good thing is, for the next 6 months any truck parts I buy I can blame on his rig. LOL
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Installed new rotor/cap, plugs & wires.
flanged a broken tranny cooler line and quick fixed it with some cooler hose. (left me on the highway...) ordering some prebent lines pretty quick.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Pulled the motor Sunday, pressure washed and degreased it today
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Ordered some new parts to put on....
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I painted my fuel filler tube cover and the filler tube ..also prepped and painted my door panels I got me a rattle can of the same paint that my truck color is .
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Installed my cowl induction hood on my K10.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Decided to finally replace my door hinge pins. What a PITA!!! 30 years of rust and paint. Geeezz. I will never do that again. Next time I will just buy the whole hinge with the pins installed. lol
Was going to put in my cab mounts and realized that I don't have the damn spacers. FYI, don't buy them from Brothers. They don't come with them and the ones I had on my truck were totally rusted, bent and deformed. Get them from LMC. They have the whole complete kit. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
thx for the tip. If I every do that again, probably not, then that it what I will try.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
nothing at all! everything that i went to do was a disaster so i quietly gave up and watched college baseball
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#348 |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Buhl, ID
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Removed my seat then the fuel tank, found some ancient petrifed mouse droppings that had to be scraped up, eww.
Question for y'all, there was some super hard rubbery/tar looking stuff down in the cab corners. I take it that was factory installed to plug and cover all the gaps from the converging sheet metal? What is it exactly?
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#349 |
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Location: boise, Id.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
OH my where do I start?
Saturday night my son calls and says the brakes on his 71 are locking up, meet him at the truck so I can drive it home get to about 15mph the engine starts to load truck slows to the point its barely moving I lift off the gas and shortly after it seems normal, this repeats 3 more times in the half mile to get home, I idle down my street and everything seems fine, pull the drums and everything looks fine except the right rear axle seal has a small leak, while spinning one wheel my son thinks he hears a clicking sound in the rear end. Sunday, go to pull the inspection cover off but the track bar needs to come off first,good time to install the new track bar bushings we bought, easy right? nope, some idiot has beat on the end of the rear end stud to the point that the end of the stud is mushroomed over the nut, take the nut off the other side of the stud and drive it out of its tapered hole. finally get the inspection cover off and every thing looks normal, frustrated at this point I take the day off and head the race track for some R&R. Monday, try to get the nut off the track bar, I decide to cut out the washer and lock so I will have space to run the nut in then I can cut off the end of the stud, the nut wont budge, after hours of trying everything I know (which isn't much) I decide to score both sides of the nut with a cut off wheel so I can split the nut with a chisel, an hour later I have the nut removed, threads chased with a file a new nut on ( Boy, look at me, I'm moving now!). pull the right axle to replace the seal and find half of one roller in the bearing is missing. Tuesday, after work stop to pick up a bearing and find out they have to order one in, head home to pull the bearing and decide to replace the other seal while it is a part. while messing with the rear end my son realizes the drive line will only rotate in one direction, hmm? lets drop the drive line to make sure I'm not missing something and confirm the yoke will rotate both directions, I know, your thinking easy enough, wrong! pull the U-bolts and drop the carrier bearing only to find out the drive line wont move forward enough to clear the yoke! seems the slip yoke is bottomed out against the out put shaft. I thought this was supposed to be fun? Last edited by cokeb; 06-16-2010 at 02:10 AM. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
cokeb, try supporting the truck from the frame and let the axle hang. This will give you a bit more clearance to get the U-joint out. Worked for me.
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