What did you do to your truck today?

[awbrown]

Originally Posted by K98AL

Had Mobile Auto Glass come out and put in new windshield in my '62 - I figured they would fight it, but ONE guy put it in, in about an hour. He also reinstalled the rear window - the dude knew what he was doing! Now my truck looks so much better.....getting close to driving once again!

Did you take notes ?? I hope I am as lucky when I atempt mine....

[iceship]

dynamat behind the seats.... no more raddle
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[K98AL]

I did not take notes, but he did use the rope in the gasket channel, gasket around glass, and he put the bottom in first. After that, he worked his way up, going from one side to the other. He said it would've been better to do it in the spring or summer - it was around 50 degrees, and the rubber is not as flexible as it would be at 80+.

[Rich 5150 69]

i did the same with my `64 although not as hard with mine, after a rock came thru it from a belly dump on the freeway the guy( from safelite ) came out had mine out and the new one in in 1 hour by himself, no scratched paint ( not that it mattered the way it looks now ) but was impressed.

[protrash64]

Loaded up the '66 with tools and material and did a side job; drove home listening to some SRV .

[wutnxt]

Rolled the 65 chassis from inside one shop to the other shop to finish running all my lines.... Looked for a 64-66 body online for a couple of hours ...could really uses a clean suburban body ....or a big window cab....all of that good body stuff is sooooooo hard to find these days

[coulter]

bolted some more new goodies on the motor.. but the tab on the water pump broke when i bolted down the alt. adjustment linkage. tuff stuff water pumps are trash.. gonna try to trade it out for a weiand


put the bed back on and my new bumper

[creep]

A part named Tuff Stuff breaks, irony can be a real B!+@# sometimes.

[doobiebro]

Originally Posted by coulter

bolted some more new goodies on the motor.. but the tab on the water pump broke when i bolted down the alt. adjustment linkage. tuff stuff water pumps are trash.. gonna try to trade it out for a weiand


put the bed back on and my new bumper

Coulter sweet truck. Where did you get ur bumper from?

[coulter]

Originally Posted by doobiebro

Coulter sweet truck. Where did you get ur bumper from?

thanx!!! i got it from classic truck parts of america

[coulter]

ya you aint kidding

[AllenKarber]

The last thing I did was add gear oil to the trans and rear-end. Whoo-hoo! Exciting.

I still can't get used to the smell of the GM posi. additive. Yuck!

[protrash64]

Drove down the freeway screamin' at 3000rpm to go get some parts for the 'burb. My turn signals quit working and when I picked up my parts it turned out to be the flasher. Pulled one out of a 68 GMC and popped it in; good to go!!! Thanx Tom!

[Bardahl]

I started the body work on my 68 Chevy and I bought them a new stable mate, 6 cyl. PS, and shoulder belts, it is really fun to drive, I haven`t had a Nova in 10-12 years and could not pass it up for the price !!

[glos55]

Originally Posted by Bardahl

I started the body work on my 68 Chevy and I bought them a new stable mate, 6 cyl. PS, and shoulder belts, it is really fun to drive, I haven`t had a Nova in 10-12 years and could not pass it up for the price !!

Really like this car!! I just bought a 72 off from Craigs List. It's under restoration now.

[A.T. RockDriller]

Originally Posted by glos55

Really like this car!! I just bought a 72 off from Craigs List. It's under restoration now.

Shoot, glo....
That looks to be a real clean lil Nova....Blue vinyl and matching interior.
That's got a ton of potential.

It looks like those are Oregon plates....
Did ya buy locally or drive cross country...?

As far as my truck goes....I took the '66 and brought home a generator for a special project....and then...I also used it as a saw-horse.

[jbgroby]

When I was a teenager, those Nova's seemed to be all the rage. Many boys I went to school with had the rearend about 6" higher with "Hi-Jackers", wide rear tires, hood scoops, etc. It has one of those universally appealing body styles.

[66farmer]

I spent all day streighting removing dents sanding buffing and polishing the stainsless steel windshield trim.
Got a call from the painter of my truck to come look at the first painted part.
(IIII LIKE IT)

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by 66farmer

I spent all day streighting removing dents sanding buffing and polishing the stainsless steel windshield trim.
Got a call from the painter of my truck to come look at the first painted part.
(IIII LIKE IT)

Both turned out very nice!

[mrfixit4818]

Nice shape ,good luck w it!

[AZ66GMC]

I installed my CPP 2.5" drop spindles my son got me for Xmas

Also installed new front stock springs and cut 1/2 a coil off to gain a little more drop. Rides much better than the stock spindles with 2 coils cut on the stock springs... Only had 2" of travel until it hit the bump stop...



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[mrfixit4818]

Anyone ever try heating old coils to drop the truck down?

[protrash64]

Originally Posted by mrfixit4818

Anyone ever try heating old coils to drop the truck down?

No.

[mud.man.rj]

Ya we heated the old rear coils when we order a drop for front and back(coil) and got the wrong rear coils(sent stock) so we returned them and while waiting for the new ones (the front had 5"drop) we heated one coil only and gently put 2 peoples body weight on rear bumper until it dropped and mid way between the 2 coils and had a 3" drop and it worked good and drove nice but we didn't care because it was back end high so we heated another coil and dropped it the same which worked good too but of corse it road bad but good enough until the new set showed up, so if trying this you will only get a 2-3" drop and will ride a little stiffer, easy to go too far though and collape the coil, did it on a beater for fun but jumped on bumper and collaped the coil.

[AZ66GMC]

Originally Posted by mrfixit4818

Anyone ever try heating old coils to drop the truck down?

When I bought my truck the front coils were heated for drop and it rode like crap... I converted to a 75 Chevy front and cut the stock coils. It rode better but I made the mistake of cutting 2 coils which is too much...

My rear leaf springs are heated for drop and I think that I will replace them and do an axle flip for the drop.



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