What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[Daze57]

also x2 on the brake line work for rollinrooster

[Daze57]

cool

[Dan in Pasadena]

Thanks for the info, man. i REALLY like how you followed all the little turns and curves so carefully. I think thats what makes it professional.

I've seen one of those hydraulic flaring kits for about... $275, I want to say(?)

While I'm annoying you with questions, can you tell us if the frame is painted or powder coated? If painted, did you do it yourself and what prep and paint? Is that hydraulic tee on your rearend somehow bolted to it? Is that available from a catalog or something?

[oldcouple]

took a picture of it thru the paint booth window. at that point it had one more coat to go, 12 noon, he had been shooting since 11:30 last night.

[rollinrooster]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

Thanks for the info, man. i REALLY like how you followed all the little turns and curves so carefully. I think thats what makes it professional.

I've seen one of those hydraulic flaring kits for about... $275, I want to say(?)

While I'm annoying you with questions, can you tell us if the frame is painted or powder coated? If painted, did you do it yourself and what prep and paint? Is that hydraulic tee on your rearend somehow bolted to it? Is that available from a catalog or something?

Dan, youre not annoying me at all. The frame is painted by me with POR 15. As for the rearend tee, it is bolted to the flange on the 9 inch (i just bored / tapped it to fit then used a stainless shoulder bolt to hold it) I have another thread with all the info / pics of my build, but i dont know how to link it to all my post yet.

[oldcouple]

Out of the booth, now the hard part, remembering where everything goes.

[meter swinger]

Hauled off a dead coyote with it.
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[beanyard]

Worked on repolishing some finned corvette valve covers to go with the corvette theme I will put on my engine. I found a cool air cleaner that was corvette inspired.
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[itstheshu]

Started installing the Ez21 wiring harness.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Agree. Is the heat shield painted (with what?) or is it powder coated!
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[rollinrooster]

Started cleaning an old set of valve covers that came with my truck. I believe i will powder coat them black to match the look im going after.

[mr48chev]

My son was over and we checked out the MII front crossmember, figured out the ride height and bolted one of the forged caliper brackets (11inch rotor) on to see what it looked like. A nice afternoon.

[jremig]

Today I cut out the passenger side floor pans to fit up a new one.

Joe

[handyhands]

ordered engine gasket kit and all the s10 front bushings and ball joints. Got all the parts lined up and ready to go. Been doing some rust removal on the 53 parts. mostly the grill. I took it apart and doing a little at a time.

[OrrieG]

Cleaned out the last of my office stuff from the second bay so I have some room to work...

[Hot Rod Todd]

Bought it a replacement engine.

Truck has a 250 Chev 6 and Toyota 5 speed and goes okay, but not so good for towing a racecar around. As I drag race a street legal blown BBC T bucket, getting home can be an issue if we break stuff.

So will upgrade the truck to a 350 and then the hills wont be a challenge for us anymore. Have to use the 48 truck now as I sold off the old diesel suburban when the engine died.

Being down here in NZ, prices and availability arent what they are in the USA.

[Detroit3100]

cut a temp bed floor out of plywood. Pulled running boards out of the corner and pulled the hardware out so I can find the replacements.

[meter swinger]

Got the new trans and engine crossmembers in. Next weekend its off to the exhaust shop. Unless it snows again...
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[usmc_butler]

Rebuilt my instrument cluster








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[dcmalone]

Originally Posted by usmc_butler

Rebuilt my instrument cluster








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Nice color choices...

[Dan in Pasadena]

After a couple of MONTHS (Doh!) of not having touched it, I finished painting the lower dash today. This is just rattle can stuff so it'll be tolerable while I do the mechanical stuff I want to get done. Rustoleum Sage Green is the darker color. Krylon Celery Green is the lighter color. Apologies for the crappy cell phone pictures.

I'm trying to get it running again and needed to put the instrument cluster back in so I can drive it tomorrow night to a family gathering. I may not make it, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow.





Oh, and I did a quicky "Refurbish" on the spare. The tire is kinda checked and definitely old. Sprayed Sage Green and Clear on it.

[ChuckDriver]

Nice work Dan!

[Dan in Pasadena]

USMC-Butler, Nicely done. I did mine too and used a medium green but I gotta ask, how'd you do the dots in the gauges with white faces? My gauges are black with white dots.
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[usmc_butler]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

USMC-Butler, Nicely done. I did mine too and used a medium green but I gotta ask, how'd you do the dots in the gauges with white faces? My gauges are black with white dots.
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THANK YOU ! This is how I did it, I pulled the 2 gauge pieces out of the housing (temp and amps in one, oil and gas in the other) taped and painted them almond white then used a fine tip black paint marker and dotted the factory dots back in the same place, very simple to do, you could see the factory spots where they go if you looked closely. For the needles I just used a fine brush with the same orange paint as the overlay and put a couple coats on them. I do not have steady hands and this was a breeze. Hope this helps

[Dan in Pasadena]

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