What did you do to your truck today?

[rustyrodknocker]

Originally Posted by Rich 5150 69

I had plastic wiper arms on the truck when I first bought it in `93, running down the road with traffic raining real hard , I`ve got the wipers on high and the right one flew off and hit the car next to me at the light, thank god the driver had a sense of humor he just started laughing.

This has happened to me twice! once in a downpoor in a dodge the drivers side flew off I had to lean over fast and look out the other side. intill i could pull over to swap it over. then last year I had jiffy lube put knew ones one the company truck. they both flew off as soon as I turned them on
I stopped and picked them up. and like a MORON I drove down there in a absolute deluge to make them put them on correctly. Well, they sent out a young girl, that was so small she had to bring a step ladder. To stand on, in a epic downpoor. while all six foot four 245lbs of my embarrassed *** sat in the the truck and proved a point. horrible expierence.

[towersddg9]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, well I fired it up for a short time yesterday, first time in about a year, popped right off sounds nasty, anyway had a leak at the cooling lines (700r4) I ran the lines right in but need fittings between line and tranny, I had two in my box they fit tranny and not return line, I will hunt some down tomorrow, hope you all have a great turkey day

[Indian113]

Thats looking sweet, can't wait to see it when it's done

[porter90]

i sat at the table wishing i was at the shop tinkering with the truck! oh well, hopefully getting stuff done this weekend!

[KroAutomotiveInc]

[KroAutomotiveInc]

[Alan's Classic]

Got fat and happy and got all the hardware installed on the bed floor.

[KroAutomotiveInc]

perfect!

[Alan's Classic]

Originally Posted by KroAutomotiveInc

Perfect!

Thanks

Originally Posted by KroAutomotiveInc

That looks cool. Do you have a how to posted somewhere?

[KroAutomotiveInc]

well i have one more photo of it in my build thread but you take it down to bare metal tape off all of it draw squares cut out the ones that need to be black paint it then take off the taped squares still there and clear coat

[KroAutomotiveInc]

here it is ready to paint after everything is cut out

[Alan's Classic]

Originally Posted by KroAutomotiveInc

well i have one more photo of it in my build thread but you take it down to bare metal tape off all of it draw squares cut out the ones that need to be black paint it then take off the taped squares still there and clear coat

X2

[jbgroby]

For a moment there I had a Batman Flash Back. The red/orange color against the gloss black made the barbell look like something from the trim of the Adam West Batmobile.

That gives me an idea. What WOULD a truck/WHat truck would Batman have used to modify look like IF Batman needed one? I figure he would want a '60 GMC to start with (hood snout - Nose of bat?) Maybe a 59/60 ElCamino becasue of tailfins?


Dudes we just got to draw this up. Lets have some fun with this. Lets make another message

Originally Posted by KroAutomotiveInc

[jimmydean]

I picked up some wheels that I thought might work at leas until I get some nicer wires, But after fighting to get them bolted up (universal lugs suck), they don't clear the caliper when torqued. hey did look pretty cool with the old school meats, though.



<edit> Still working on the logo for the center caps, that one is OK, but I like my design better.

[Bardahl]

Well, I tried some poverty caps to go on my painted steel wheels w/trim rings ??, still can`t decide which ones ???

[budden]

gave sara a bath a rub down then went for a drive

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by jimmydean

I picked up some wheels that I thought might work at leas until I get some nicer wires, But after fighting to get them bolted up (universal lugs suck), they don't clear the caliper when torqued. hey did look pretty cool with the old school meats, though.



<edit> Still working on the logo for the center caps, that one is OK, but I like my design better.

If the interference is minor and in a limited area, you might get away with some light grinding on the calipers. There's a lot of meat on the calipers. I did this when I was running mid 1960's vintage 5 spoke mags designed for drum brakes. I also had to be careful that balancing weights (Tape-a-weights) were mounted near the centerline of the wheel or they would run into the calipers. After the minor grinding they worked fine with no issues.

Here's a picture although the disc brakes aren't visible:

[jimmydean]

I might try that, but it seems to be the whole face of the caliper. I haven't tried mounting the front, the back is a Caprice axle.I noticed as soon as I snugged them up, I couldn't see light between the caliper and the wheel. I thought they looked pretty sweet, but what I really want is a set of Caddy wires. These were just too good to pass up. I might even make a buck.

[jimmydean]

Update on the wheels. Put them up on CL and they sold today for twice what I paid. Now to find some wheels that fit.

[cb1965]

finished bending and installing my trans lines. no leaks.

gave her fresh coolant . cant wait to take her out for a ride!!

[KroAutomotiveInc]

[wutnxt]

I dropped my pro street truck off at the body shop last night and the elves were all over it.....they called me at 7 pm and were still at the shop working on it....thats got to be good right ?

[KroAutomotiveInc]

you getting body work and paint whats the bill on that going to be?

[E911manager]

Measured another guys project today to check the cab to rear axle to see if all my calculations have been correct so far. Everything appears to be spot on. So i moved to the front end and took the radiator support off of the caprice and started mocking the 1964 truck radiator support. New pics uploaded on "My build" page

[XtechX]

I bought some new seats yesterday and I sat them in the truck today. They are tan buckets from a 2001 F**d. I got them for $40.00 on craigslist. They are in great shape, very comfortable and seems that they are darn near a perfect fit !!! They fit the shape of the floor pan nicely, but I'll need to drill new mounting holes. They seem to sit a little higher than the stock bench but that ok with me because I'm not a very big guy. Now I just need some ideas for a console for in between the seats.