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Re: Restoring Rusty
I know, I know, sure it's easy if you know how, but I didn't ok, lol, I didn't know how those pesky GM clips went on and I hate them
you need to push the clip in with a pointy bit to get it to slide off, again hard to see that when its all rusty and dirty and it's dark in there, or the clip is facing the wrong direction Top Tip: get a clip off that you can see, that you can get to, just to study it, you may not even need to take that clip off but do it just to learn how it goes on and off, that's what finally worked for me |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
and yes we are going to clean the begeezus out of this
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Re: Restoring Rusty
They can also be a pain to put back in ,but cleaner will help.
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Re: Restoring Rusty
You know I don't recall those indentions on my dash. Its been a long time since I've had the pad off.
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Man, I love seeing your Man Mall trips. I recently took a trip to ours and found only two things worth grabbing. Found a nice quadrajet on an old 80's GMC square, and after dropping a bolt I happened to look up and saw the 1974 K10 next to it had a carbon fiber driveshaft. SCORE! Everything else was TBI shockingly, no 2bbls or 4bbls besides the one I snagged.
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Try soaking it in some Evapo-Rust. It's like magic.
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Thanks for the tip, I actually tried that product and even shared my write up on this thread (huge thread I know) and unfortunately it did not perform too well on 40 year old Rusty parts, so I stick with Phosphoric acid from Home Depot.
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my brother saw this sexy beast by where he lives, and his wife goes: "Oh is your brother here?" man I wish, I love me some step side
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minor injury report, that's what I get for working [ahem] indoors, get it, ha ha indoors
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Re: Restoring Rusty
so I got a little wild hair up my caboose and decided to ride it out...
it appears you can remove the fender without removing the hood Note: I used a size XL light denim jacket to prevent scratchability on the inner fender, I suppose any color jacket would work maybe even a size L as well, ha ha, on a serious note the two strategically placed 2x4s are supporting all of the hood weight |
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Re: Restoring Rusty - Driver Side Fender
this OG fender is worse than I thought, it surely deserves some MIG love
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the poor door gaps and difficulty slamming the door shut is what led me on this expedition, and I was also missing the S tension spring that keeps the door open
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Re: Restoring Rusty - Door Hinges
with the fender off we could see the hinges, now you've all heard of the quote "square peg in a round hole", well...
Top hinge has one bolt that you have to get to from the inside of the cab, a bit of a P.I.A. it's the one hidden behind the round hole plug similar to a drain plug in the floors |
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and here is the door all aligned and swinging shut with ease, not bad for a one man operation (I used a floor jack to lift the door up while I tightened the hinges, took a couple tries to get it just right)
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I must say not having this tension spring in the hinge while aligning the door may have made it easier actually, but when the door was aligned I popped it back in, the color don't match cause it's from a donor truck
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and perhaps the most rewarding part of all, removing the last of the badges
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Sorry if you've mentioned it already, but what is the factory color name and code?
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517 lime green
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I always sigh a little when you extol the virtues of badge less ness. I like reducing clutter on my rides, but I guess I do like the distinctive markings these rigs came with. This nostalgic moment brought to you by LT7A. I'll be quiet now. Carry on, and good work on the door.
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Re: Restoring Rusty - Seat Cover
so I was thinking of re covering my bench seat this winter when I spotted this in the LMC Truck catalog, $900 dollars for a seat cover? Have they lost their minds?
and don't tell me that's because it is leather, cause it is not at least not 100% of it |
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1. have you seen the price of seat foam its astronomical 2. does she have a sister? jk |
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