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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Mt. Carmel,Tennessee
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
New Radiator w/ Upper and Lower Hoses..Not really a "fun" thing.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Farmville, Va
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
on my dd i drove it about 100 miles and replaced the fuel filter runs like new now
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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Open the driver's side door on the truck. Climb in facing the windshield. Adjust the seat and mirrors, if needed. Maybe the tilt steering wheel. Push the odo button, if you have one, until it reads "0". If you don't, and you probably won't, make a mental note of the fourth digit from the right on the milage counter (odometer). You'll need that later. Insert key in the big round thing under the ashtray (to the left of the heater/air conditioning controls). Turn the key to the right. But only for long enough so that you can hear the engine start. If you let go, the truck will keep running. Look up. Look left. Look right. Look in the rear and side view mirrors. If you have an auto trans like mine, the gear selector is on the steering column. Select the appropriate gear. If you are backing out of a driveway...In fact, if anything is in front of you that's pretty close, choose "R". But before you do that, check to see if the emergency brake is on...Put your foot on the foot brake. Keep it there while you release the e-brake. Keep it there while you 1) select the proper gear..."D" usually works pretty well... and, 2) Look up. Look left. Look right. Look in the rear and side view mirrors. Again. Signal if you're into that. Assuming an auto trans, release the foot brake and, at the same time, use the same foot (right) to lightly (if that's the way you want to start out) press on the big rectangular foot pedal that's all the way to the right (on the floor). If you have a standard trans, column or floor shifter, someone else will have to chime in. Then, drive around until that fourth digit from the right adds up to one more number than when you started. If it was a "9" when you started, you'll be looking for a "0". Another good tip is to check for gas. I mean, check to make sure there's gas *in the truck*. DAMHIK to do this....just make sure. And, oh, you can't always rely on that big gage on the right side of the dash. Sometimes it reads Full when it's really "Empty". Just a bad joke that is sometimes played on 67-72m truck owners. Don't know who started it..... Hope you have a sense of humor...No disrespect intended...Just in a joking mood tonight...
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Location: Anton, Texas
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
and where are the pic's, you know we need pic's
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RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Pics?
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: vallejo,ca
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
just lmao at mags reply
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: canoga park, ca.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Started my baby today !!!!!!!!! Fresh built 350 motor with lots of machine work and lots of goodies,camel back heads ported and polished,holley carb,edelbrock intake, TH400 trans bullet proof I hope stall converter, lokar kickdown kit, headers,magnaflow mufflers,black magic extreme fan. Going to break in the cam 2mro and readjust the valve lash.Can't wait to drive it.
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Hayward, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Replaced blown header and collector gaskets with new ones from Remflex and added ARP hardware to the mix. Now I just need to get rid of these old rusty mufflers.
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Grand Island, Nebraska
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
it's 38 degrees here today, and i'm heading out to go replace the hub with the new assembly i got.
$25 at a place in the next town over. wheel hub, dust cap, taper bearing, bearing seal, brake drum and lug studs. we'll see how it goes. |
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Location: Winnipeg
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
pricing parts and planning financially how to attack this build. The biggest question is drive train and how to get the box and cab home haha...
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Location: West Hills, California
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made some passes...
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Northern Cal
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
VWnate - what's a "pc" that you are referring to?
Flushdrew - sounds like a lot of progress in a week - I've got to get to work on sanding and priming my beast soon! Pont406 - love the pic of the old beast at the track! What times did you turn?
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It's Friday and the plan is to yank the pre - smog cylinder head off my '66 292 and get it to the Machine Shop for a total rebuild , I plan to put it on my ailing 250 then set about overhauling the 292 , not sure what I'll do with it when it's done .
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Grand Island, Nebraska
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
hpcgmc thanks! - the truck i bought was pretty close to road ready, but the PO had done some work on the body but never sealed it. so it was rusting. rust protection was priority 1.
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Location: Southeast Missouri
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
We continued getting the '67 cab and front clip ready for putting on the primer. I did paint and surface rust removal with a random orbital sander while my son patched a few spots and layed on a thin layer of bondo here and there.
Sanding is slow going when it gets to where hand sanding has to be done for the feathering in.
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: krugerville Tx
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
just got my baby out of mechanic pergatory. (he had it for two months)
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Grand Terrace, Ca.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Went to the upholstery shop to pick up my truck, it wasn't done yet. The seat was back in it and the door panels were done but not installed. I was told I will be able to pick it up tomorrow. The upholstery guy still has the headliner, dash pad and sun visors left to finish.
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Location: Creighton Sask. Canada
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Good work takes time and the work looks good.
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Pulled the head off the 292 , it looks a bit grim in there .
Dropped the head off for rebuilding and made arrangements to buy a four wheel engine stand to - day after my Union meeting , maybe I'll be able to get the engine hoist and get the 292 off the ground and onto the stand so I can begin disassembling it .
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: McKinney,Texas
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Kurt - '68 GMC short step - NIB '09 LY6 6.0L crate motor w/mods, NIB '12 crate 4L85e w/billet 3k stall Circle D, 3.73 posi 12 bolt, DynaTech f-swap headers, 3/4 drop, handling mods, etc. - my toy '72 Chevy LWB C-10 Highlander - 350/350 ps/pb/tilt/ac - not original but close '06 Chevy TrailBlazerSS - LS2/4L70e - little black hot rod SUV - my DD '18 Kia Sorento - wife's econo-driver '95 Chevy S10 - reg cab shortbed, LS, 4.3, auto... my '68's powertrain and chassis build -links broken A surprise phase - carb to efi -links broken |
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Location: Grand Terrace, Ca.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: LA, CA
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Randy the seat and door panel look great. So my friend what do you really have left to do, your almost done right? Also I cleaned up the grille and im getting ready to repaint the black lines and lettering. |
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Location: Grand Terrace, Ca.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Still have to finish the bed (wood), spray the tail gate finish the rear wheel tubes and color sand the truck.
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