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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
New gas tank was supposed to include the sending unit gasket, a 2 buck part, not there, vendor says will reimburse me. Small town, parts shop sells me make your own. Spend an hour travel, cutting, fitting, all done. Go to get box from Autometer sending unit that I have looked in at least a dozen times and the gasket falls out, its been in there nearly 20 years. Now I have a spare.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
put my windshield wiper motor in after greasing and cleaning and now it working , i have vacuum wipers once again at a slow speed ,,lol maybe they will go faster in the rain , now trying to figure out the heater someone looks like they put a delux car heater unit in it all fits up had diffrent holes for heater core tho and the drefrost heat switch cable is diffrent location
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Nothing, worked on Ms. Joan's greenhouse foundation.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Unfortunately I can only work on this during the weekends. Commuting 5 hours each way until it is drive-able.
Took out the seat to clean underneath it. It had to have at least 6 inches of acorns, leaves and oh...a possum and 2 birds. Once I cleaned that out, I am was happy to see pretty solid floors and corner cabs. There is a small patch I will do (not now) in the passenger toe board, but other than that she looks solid. |
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hey focusedontheprise, i found the same! removed my gas tank cleaned all the fuel lines ,sand blasted them, reinstalled and cranked the motor over..
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Finished up the tailgate cables, took two different tries to get it the way I wanted.
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I worked on converting my OEM dome light for my 48 over to LED..It will look stock until you turn on the light. I will do a write up once I'm finished. I stole the idea from someone that did that same thing for a 58-59. It is a little different for AD trucks. Inexpensive as well.
So far it coming together nicely. Marc
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do you happen to have a link for the 58-59 dome light idea? i am a guessin it would be the same for us 55-57 guys |
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Got come seat from the junk yard set them in place looks good think these just might work.
My build http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=468622 |
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Ok, I had to do some diggin....It was OKGMC4 that I barrowed the idea from and it was for his 56 (not 58 as I stated previously..ooops). http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=368649&page=7 The LED circuit board I bought was a smaller size beacuse the light housing for a 47-53 is different. Marc
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Stopped by the shop, bed is painted, yippee!
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Nasty cold outside, snow on the ground so I'm grounded to the garage.
I have been doing a lotta 'walk out to the garage and stare at the truck' the last few days. I still need to prep/prime and paint my front fenders and hood and that ain't happening till spring. So I'm tinkering with interior stuff off and on. Right now the 'rear cab cover' area (where the fuel tank used to be has me staring at the truck more than working on it. Mentally trying to envision what I want to do with the area. I have the base in that my seats will sit on, and the rear cab area is a blank canvas begging for some fabrication genius. Problem is my fabricating skills are far short of 'genius level' so I'm mapping out how I am going to make useful and nice looking use of that space. The battery is back there (in a box of course) - with that I see a sub woofer box, two 6x9's, and maybe a storage area for a 'roadside emergency kit'. When I quit staring and get busy I will set the seats on the cab to make sure I'll have the space for what I ultimatley decide to do...then back out with the seats and on with the 'fabricatin' Won't be long before I quit thinking about it and start doing it....I suppose ![]() |
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whoa --- dem is some very nice seats !
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Lookin good. If it were mine I'd be REAL excited. Is it dark gray or black but hard to see in the photo?
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thank you very much youngrodder - gonna try it out on my 57
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I lost the bid on some reallllly nice windshield stainless trim. OEM not repro... so if any of you out there have a nice set please let me know.... I was way looking forward to getting it. I am trying to round up all the small stuff so that when the wife and I decide to go forward with a paint job we don't have a whole slew of unplanned expenses.
I guess my 3g phone doesn't have a chance with last min buidding wars. Too bad I can't touch ebay while at work or I would have used my PC and won. Posted via Mobile Device
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Finished up my brake lines on the frame.
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Beautifully done sir.
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Eek! Really?! Now I'm REALLY impressed. I'd have thought you were an old hand.
How'd you do it? Please explain. I've heard of using coat hangers as templates and making subtle radii like over your rear end by rolling tubing over round objects. What did you do? I will need new lines on my truck but had wondered if I wouldn't just EFF it up? Have you pressurized them? Much in the way of leaks and please tell us what equipment you had? |
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what year truck do you have ? i might have what you need |
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