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10-22-2012, 11:48 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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VWNate1 (at) yahoo.com Thank you .
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10-21-2012, 01:37 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Got my cooling fan brackets made and got them mounted to the radiator
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10-21-2012, 05:53 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I sanded the dents and around them on my '67 cab and C10srule put bondo on dents that could not be popped out.
The repairs looks great. Next weekend we will finish sanding the cab and front clip. It is nice to have the truck running again so we don't have to push it in and out of the garage.
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10-22-2012, 04:19 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
 Finished painting it and put the side mirrors on, the headlights are out because we have to replace them.  We had to notch out a small piece of the fender well to have the lines clear for the power steering gearbox.  We got the power steering pump mounted in with a few of our custom brackets that we had to make, but it definitely works extremely well. We might have to get another radiator hose because it looks like it's slightly touching the belt. And, I put a chrome oil breather on, a new air filter, and fuel filter.  This is the ground wire that kept giving me my brake light problems and all I had to do was clean it and replace the screw and every light works now.
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10-22-2012, 05:36 PM
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Re : Power Steering Hoses
That radiator hose is too short . not to mention the crappo accordion typ .
Those P.S. hoses are wrong too , the corect ones are bent differently and clear the inner fenderwell easily . All these parts are available cheaply @ Rock Auto.com -Nate Quote:
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10-22-2012, 06:04 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Pulled my leader hose because Im dumb and trashed it lol. This is what I did the other day! Happy Halloween!! Since the cops got called and tried to make me do away with my Halloween I said F it and didnt. I did put yellow tape around it like a crime scene.
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10-23-2012, 01:45 AM
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10-23-2012, 09:05 AM
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10-24-2012, 12:43 AM
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10-22-2012, 06:11 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Filled it up with $3.19 a gallon gas... lol
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10-22-2012, 06:36 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
painted my frame.
 
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10-22-2012, 07:08 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I sanded and stripped paint off my 67 SS steering wheel.
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10-22-2012, 07:25 PM
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10-23-2012, 12:28 AM
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10-22-2012, 07:43 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
VWnate1 - Yeah, when I get paid on Friday, we're gonna get a different and longer radiator hose. And, everything works fine with the lines, maybe ill replace them with the ones from rock auto when I get paid.
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10-23-2012, 12:18 AM
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Well worth the wait if you ask me. Very nice!
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10-23-2012, 01:47 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I have been fighting with my Vortec 454, been having low power and high fuel consumption issues, I am thinking it is my MAP sensor, going to go get one tomorrow and see if it fixes it.
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10-23-2012, 06:15 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Itsrandy - That seat is beautiful! Well worth the wait for it.
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10-23-2012, 09:17 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
totally agree with gor 77, my sway bar and bumper bracket came in finally
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10-23-2012, 10:01 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I tried to put the freshly coated front upper control arms back together with the new cross shafts and bushings. The bushings would bottom out on the shaft before tightening up on the arm, so when installed, the rotation is on the arm threads instead of the greasable shaft threads. Ugh....If I understand these correctly, the bushing should lock down on the control arm. The shaft is centered because the bushings are tight on it, and there is equal gap between the hex ends and the control arm....
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10-24-2012, 01:07 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I removed my Barden rear bumper (the thing must weigh 75 lbs!) and pulled apart the tailight wiring to get the tailights to work. Anyone in NorCal wanna trade a bigass Barden bumper for a stock smoothie bumper???
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10-24-2012, 11:34 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Nate, looks like it is an 8cyl tach.
 P/N even says it's an 8 cylinder  Just wish I knew why it reads off so bad.
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10-25-2012, 09:53 AM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Phooey ~
Thanx for trying anyway . Back to the Jaguar SMITH'S gauge I guess  .Looking at the corroded PC there , I imagine it's just a matter of taking some serious time to disassemble the entire dash binnacle and ever so carefully hand polish each and every connection , especially where the MPC plugs in ~ those female contacts are usually brown and they need to be shiny copper colored to have accurate gauges ~ I've done several of these now and the improvement in fuel gauge accuracy and ilumination is amazing . However , it's very easy to ruin the PC if you're rough on it when polishng . Also , you'll need to schlepp on down to SEARS or where ever and buy some thin ignition wrenches so you can hold the inner nuts from turning as you loosen the outer nuts on the PC , as soon as they twist , the delicate PC's mylar is ruined... Adding a ground wire from the binnacle to the cab's frame is always wise as is replacing the usually gone missing braided ground straps from engine to cab , engine to frame , cab to frame , core support to frame and so on ~ try this , your headlights will *instantly* be white at night and your battery will charge up faster too.... All these gaugse work on milliamps so anything that hinders current flow , makes them balky and inaccurate .
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10-24-2012, 01:25 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
wednesday - purchased my 70 CST-10
thursday - bought parts and materials to shoot primer on it friday - sanded all of the surface rust on the body - put rust preventer and sealant on. saturday - blocked and primed with black primer - bought new wheels/tires from CL sunday - mounted new wheels and tires - discovered front drivers side hub is rotten monday - called everywhere to no avail tuesday - posted here about finding a '70 hub wednesday - ordered one from a semi-local place that actually had one that takes up just my first week of owning this truck. am i addicted? |
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10-24-2012, 01:41 PM
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
waited on my order from infinti machine got my heater delete panels and sanded down fire wall and tack weilded al panels in place now to figure out if im guna grind them smooth or leave them
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