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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Over the weekend I painted my new brake calipers to be ready prior to my brake conversion. Used high heat primer, followed by VHT high temp black and clear coat.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Popped the rear lines off the combo valve and blew air through them to verify there were not obstructions.
RR finally bled out fine with low vacuum. LR still seems to have something constricting or perhaps leaking air Will confirm both in the cold light of day |
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#3930 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
slapped my truck onto my chest - so far, much better fuel economy
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'72 C10 Cheyenne SWB North Carolina truck for 50 years, 72k original miles, Medium/Hawaiian Blue, 3 owners - one for 40 years, garaged kept, original: sheetmetal, undercarriage, moldings, glass * * * New - engine rebuild at 65k in 2015, one repaint in 2010, new front bumper, houndstooth seat, carpet, 8 inch rally wheels on 275-60R-15, LED lighting. - Semper Paratus! |
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#3931 |
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Location: Catskill Mountains,NY
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Cool shirt .
Towed the trailer over to my moms . It will be on the trailer tomorrow behind the motorhome . Should be in Macungie in the afternoon
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#3932 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Nice T shirt Casper, very nice
have a safe trip yo PA Mark, lookin' good
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
After chasing and correcting a couple of wiring/fuse box gremlins, I dropped the steering column (hopefully for the last time
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
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Will a reversed polarity burn them out? [Asking for a friend.]
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#3935 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
why'd you need to drop the column? I got my cluster out "fairly" easily without - just a little finesse and wiggling. were you in attendance at Enumclaw the other week?
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'72 C10 Cheyenne SWB North Carolina truck for 50 years, 72k original miles, Medium/Hawaiian Blue, 3 owners - one for 40 years, garaged kept, original: sheetmetal, undercarriage, moldings, glass * * * New - engine rebuild at 65k in 2015, one repaint in 2010, new front bumper, houndstooth seat, carpet, 8 inch rally wheels on 275-60R-15, LED lighting. - Semper Paratus! |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Finally got around to stripping and painting these pulleys I got from Classic Bowties over a year ago in preparation for installing a Gen 5 Vintage Air system in a few weeks.
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I’m unfamiliar with the reverse polarity you mention. Last edited by samkost; 06-16-2023 at 09:16 PM. Reason: Spelling |
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Fresh paint mainly. Oil gauge line, speedometer cable, dash harness clip and big clumsy hands for easier access. ![]() I missed the Enumclaw show. |
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#3939 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Found a nice period correct Coleman cooler at a reasonable price
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#3940 |
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Location: Seattle, WA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Installed Retrobright LED headlights, in Classic White. Far better visibility, and they look pretty close'ish to OEM. Classic Industries ran a 20% discount last weekend, so that really helped on this somewhat pricey purchase.
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#3941 |
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Location: Beebe, AR
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Wife and I took the truck on its furthest journey since putting it back on the road. Went to the annual car show and swap meet on Petit Jean mountain in Morrilton, AR. About 80 miles one way and the truck did fine. Did get me to thinking about vintage air though!
Picked up a pair of Chevrolet script valve covers for my little mouse motor. Gonna try to get those cleaned up and painted before the C10 shin dig in July in north AR.
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#3942 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
My GV Overdrive went on the blink a couple weeks ago and finally had time to trouble shoot it. I started with the easily accessible stuff and thankfully found it right away.
The button/switch on the manual gear shift has two bullet connectors GV supplied that feed into a little snap in telephone style connection adapter pigtail just before the controller, about 4" or so long. It grounds the milli-volt relay that powers the 12 volt solenoid to engage the OD. I unplugged that phone connector from the controller and hit it with Electric Clean, plugged it back in...no dice. Next I unplugged the two bullet connectors at the other end of the pigtail and hit them with Electric Clean, they tested with good continuity with the ohm meter so I knew the button was good, re-connected and... Bingo! Dirty/bad connection at the bullets was the problem. I was a happy camper! ![]() |
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#3943 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Got the rear drums pressure bled, after failing multiple times to do so with vacuum(yes the shuttle valve was pinned). Had to finish building the Motive bleeder due to missing o-ring and their goofy clamping system, but it works really well once it seals.
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#3944 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Charged the A/C. Rode home with the windows closed in comfort. Oh yeah!
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#3945 |
Who Changed This?
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Location: Simi Valley, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Brought some glued-up wood for shelving home. Made a freeway run to warm up the bodily fluids while I was at it. Surging at idle. Probably needs a new needle and seat, again. Cliff Ruggle's kit lasted a few years. I got lazy and bought local, didn't get the ethanol-proof needle.
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#3946 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Stripped and painted these original side mirrors
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Location: Catskill Mountains,NY
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Have I said before I hate doing hoods . Four coats of filler primer dusted with guide coat , initial sand with 150 paper . Going up to 220 - 320- final is 400 since it’s a single stage paint
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#3948 |
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Location: Beebe, AR
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
72c20,
How do you like the Durablocks for sanding? Saw some in different lengths at the swap meet last weekend and considered them since I am about to really get into the bodywork on my jeep project.
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#3949 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
There are very good . I bought the big set at the Carlisle truck show two years ago prices are all over the place for the same set guess it depends on the seller . I did have a couple of them that I had bought years ago but never the whole set
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Re: What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter
Installed some original mirror heads after painting them black. Painted this crusty lug wrench while I was at it.
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