What did you do to your truck today!

[Bishops Trucks]

Installed my cowl induction hood on my K10.

[effects66]

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.

[Sinister]

Originally Posted by effects66

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.

Trick on the hinge pins is a little heat with a propane torch and an air hammer.

[effects66]

thx for the tip. If I every do that again, probably not, then that it what I will try.

[07SSSC]

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?

[cokeb]

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?

[ERASER5]

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.

[cokeb]

Thanks Eraser5, that is our plan of attack as soon as we can get wheels back on so the truck can go on the ground to lift from the frame.

[prostreetC-10]

Drilled and tapped the back of my tunnel ram so I finally have a vac port for a pvc. Carb bases and the ram had no provision for a port. Now I don't douce my valve covers with oil when I land on it!

[07SSSC]

Cleaned and painted the area that was covered/hidden by the fuel tank and the cab corners. Soap, water, then Por-15. Tonight the sound deadener gets layed down.

[pro1955]

Installed new poorly fitting carpet, new Lokar shifter. Just started and broke in new motor, trans. and rearend. Long day.

[67Slider]

Painted the front frame and firewall.

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[07SSSC]

Nohin, too cold and windy. Glad I enjoyed our 2 days of Summer like weather while it lasted.

[68GMCCustom]

today I pulled the rest of the rivets holding my passenger side rear suspension, removed the carpet, amp, floor insulation, seat, and unbolted the cab. Will pull the cab tomorrow....I've sweated all I can sweat for one day.

[Dads69C10]

Today i removed the steel plate that was welded on top of the wood bed when the truck still belonged to the Air Force.

[Deggs]

Replaced the upper control arm shaft, drivers side, and repacked the front bearings.

Should be a little less "ricochet" effect down the highway now.

Found a hole in the collector of my header... Time for a louder radio

[SOON2BLAZE]

I got the B%#@H runnin!!! Ran her around the block too! so far no leaks from the dif trans or brakes. Gotta take it easy to break in the new gears (but I wanna roast the old tires off as it's been off the road for 3 years, minus two 5 mile drives last summer) New tires tomorrow, new gas lines and dual exhaust next week.

[68GMCCustom]

pulled the cab....everything else was off except for a few riveted items

[07SSSC]

Finished laying the rest of my Second Skin on the last 10" of floor and then put the rest on the back of the cab. Por-15-ed o few more spots too.

[joes50pu]

I finished blocking out the rear fenders and doors. Now I just have the hood and bed sides to repair.

[Shyguy]

It seems my projects have stalled out, two many projects too little time is the problem.

This time of the year is pretty hectic out here in the flatland of Missouri on the farm.

Also the next thing I need to do on the '71 is figure out where to buy and what carb the stock 454 needs. I have a couple of mechanics telling me different stories, one says go with Edelbrock and the other says go with Holley.

Hope you all have great progress on your projects and keep the post and pictures coming.

Danny

[Ole Blue 71]

Battled with the ignition timing. I will get 'er dialed in yet!

[71tahoe]

Bags!

[67Slider]

Finished prepping the engine for reinstall.
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[marks1972]

started yesterday repalcing my resistor wire for my HEI upgrade. while i was in there deside to replace another wire i didnt like then another wound up replacing all electrical wires under the hood one by one and eliminating wires not needed anymore like the TCS wireing. used the hot wire for that one on my electric choke. who needs a painless wiring harness when you have diagrams and all the help in the world on this site. thanks for everyones inputs and help. it is amazing at how much better it runs with the new wire on the HEI. smoother and better throtle response. night and day.