What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II

[jdalexa84]

On Sunday I built a relay harness for my headlights that plugs into the original harness to activate the relays.
It hooks up to the power junction block and the harness has relay plugs that are mountable (haven't mounted them yet). So as for today I got to try it out since this was the first day I have driven my truck in the dark. Man what a difference.

[el_fantasma]

Gaylord (r) bed cover. Getting painted next week

[Bocephus69]

Since it was such a nice November day, I took ol goldy locks to town to pick up my new toy that just showed up. I'm officially ready for winter now! Almost 50 years separate their build dates, and the sled's MSRP is more than quadruple of the C10.

[thedudeabides86]

Originally Posted by Bocephus69

Since it was such a nice November day, I took ol goldy locks to town to pick up my new toy that just showed up. I'm officially ready for winter now! Almost 50 years separate their build dates, and the sled's MSRP is more than quadruple of the C10.

Greetings fellow North Dakotan! I'm originally from Grand Forks, living down in Albertville, MN as my wife's family is from down here.

I took a few loads of leaves over to the leaf pile last night. We dropped a new to me, used 350 in this and I'm still ironing out all the issues with it. Ran pretty well, considering I need a little carb fine tuning......

[66clow]

My 69 orig came with reflectors , I wired up the side marker lamps.

[71CHEVYSHORTBED402]

Cleaned remaining parts from the column tear down and removed the brakes down to the booster bracket.

The rear brake line to the back of the combination proportioning valve was on real tight. Discovered you need to support the valve and its bracket with a big crescent wrench, when tightening/loosening that brake line. Bent the bracket, but I was able to bend it back. Lesson learned.

[LongBox]

Installed cigarette lighter in place of the "lighter delete plug"; installed rubber bumpers for glove box door so it opens when you push the button, and replaced the original all black lights and wiper knobs with ones with the stainless trim, so that they match the radio and the new lighter.

Tomorrow, if all goes well, I'm going to install the little metal plate that covers the small hole in the firewall on the right of the steering column. Mine came with tape covering the hole, and it looks like factory, as there are no holes for the plate attachment sheet metal screws, indicating that there never was a plate there. Since the tape was falling off, this will seal the cab interior from the engine bay noise.

Don't worry though, cause if I ever want to, I can return it to the way it rolled out of the factory.

[LongBox]

Installed cigarette lighter in place of the "lighter delete plug"; installed rubber bumpers for glove box door so it opens when you push the button, and replaced the original all black lights and wiper knobs with ones with the stainless trim, so that they match the radio and the new lighter.

Tomorrow, if all goes well, I'm going to install the little metal plate that covers the small oval hole in the firewall on the right of the steering column. Mine came with tape covering the hole, and it looks like factory, as there are no holes for the plate attachment sheet metal screws, indicating that there never was a plate there. Since the tape was falling off, this will seal the cab interior from the engine bay noise.

Don't worry though, cause if I ever want to, I can return it to the way it rolled out of the factory.

[TXTruck]

Put some Packard 56 series 3 contact connectors on new LED side markers for the 72 C20. Just need to wire the rear markers to act as turn indicators now.

[74baggedbug]

Waiting on quickfuel technology to send back my carb.. putting around on this small carb sucks lol

[Zeroman]

"LeRoy" got his grill on........

[VWNate1]

Where did you get that beautiful grille please ? .

I bought a " GM HERITAGE " grille that was worse than my old slightly dented original one ~ no way could it be made to fit .

I'd love a nice one just like yours .

[Zeroman]

I got it local here in Houston at Outback Truck Parts. Paul and Tracy are great folks to deal with.

For something like this I prefer to purchase local so I can "put my hands on it" and make sure it is a quality part. Bought the inner grill as well.

We had one of our larger swap meets this weekend and some of the replacement grills I saw were pretty bad...over spray on the paint and some with small dents and scratches.

Hope you find a good one.

[74baggedbug]

Originally Posted by Zeroman

I got it local here in Houston at Outback Truck Parts. Paul and Tracy are great folks to deal with.

For something like this I prefer to purchase local so I can "put my hands on it" and make sure it is a quality part. Bought the inner grill as well.

We had one of our larger swap meets this weekend and some of the replacement grills I saw were pretty bad...over spray on the paint and some with small dents and scratches.

Hope you find a good one.

I stopped in at outback Friday after I left the Conroe swapmeet.. yea I noticed also some of the replacent grills at the swapmeet weren't something I'd wanna receive in a box..

[Zeroman]

I'd call them direct tomorrow, they are closed today.

[BugzC10]

Added some more bling...chrome master cylinder

[DarkFlounder]

Got my eBay door hinges disassembled and ready for new pins/bushings. Only took the shop press, a lot of hammering, grinding the head off one of the pins, and a fair amount of cussing. But they're disassembled (almost, got a few roll pins to drill out) and ready for a proper cleaning, repainting, and new pins/bushings.

[matthamby]

If Hillary can share secrets, so can he!

[rsgt]

Well this is actually what I did yesterday. I did some custom painting on my door.

[66clow]

Painted my wheels gloss black, made a big difference. Had a dumb moment, went to move my truck and it wouldn't move forward or back. Thought oh no my transmission. Got underneath to check the linkage and was fine. Checked fluid fine. Burned my arm on the exhaust, ouch! Come to find out after putting the wheels back on I still had the rear jacket up.

[matthamby]

Originally Posted by 66clow

Painted my wheels gloss black, made a big difference. Had a dumb moment, went to move my truck and it wouldn't move forward or back. Thought oh no my transmission. Got underneath to check the linkage and was fine. Checked fluid fine. Burned my arm on the exhaust, ouch! Come to find out after putting the wheels back on I still had the rear jacket up.

That sounds about right, we must be related!

[66clow]

Finished the body work and rattle can fautina to the blue panels. Still need to take care of the white roof area. Also FedEx came with a few gems.

[74baggedbug]

Installed the led dome light a forum member made for me.. it's really really bright

[matthamby]

i'm pretty upset about the dome light I put in a few months ago, it's already broke on one side where the plastic clips hold it in, so the other side will break before too long and it'll be hanging like the old one was!

who made it for you and how much? if they don't mind us knowing...

[LongBox]

Today, I removed the cowl cover on my 69. The Lisle wiper removal tool works like a champ, and I'd recommend it at the very low price. Actually, the hardest part about removing the cowl cover was figuring out the needlessly complex radio antenna mounting system, but once that was done, no problem.

Cleaned up thoroughly under the panel, lubed the wiper linkage, gave the cowl cover a good waxing, cleaned up and treated the rubber seal that goes between the cowl and the engine hood, then put everything back together.

The reason for doing this was to make sure that there was no accumulations of dead leaves, dirt, and other crud that would hold moisture and promote rusting. Feels good to know that all the metal under there is in really good shape (no rust at all), and that one more little job is done.

Next, vacuum bleeding the brake system, next sunny day.