What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[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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[beanyard]

I tried posting pics but it won't work on the iPad.
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[renegade8720]

We built a heat shield out of 1/8th aluminum for one of the mufflers.

Renegade

[itstheshu]

Started installing the Ez21 wiring harness.

[rollinrooster]

Originally Posted by renegade8720

We built a heat shield out of 1/8th aluminum for one of the mufflers.

Renegade

heat shield looks good!!

[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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[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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[Dan in Pasadena]

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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

[Detroit3100]

Dug threw all my parts an found:
1. tail gate hinges
2. driver door hardware!

Gotta order metal tomorrow

[oldcouple]

Went by the shop, found out they put the door seals on backwards, gonna see how it works, they may have to redo them, and buy new ones as those little plastic rivets break off if you try to take them out.

[JumboAMONGus]

gettin ready to stick in a msd6al box and billet distributor i traded an old air compressor for stuff was new int he box laying around at a friends house ,, see if it makes a diffrence and getting ready to pull out my 71 c10 ,,

[B_Hix]

Over the last few days I have been working on my interior -

Basically I sat the battery in the box in the cab - decided against a firewall mount... Then I covered up my seat pan, built two speaker boxes for the rear corners of the cab, then installed a 10-inch sub, 400 watt amp, and two 6x9's in the back. A newdeck with IPOD connectivity went into the frenched-in box in the dash.

I bought the kick panels that have speakers built into them through LMC a while back... Got those trimmed and installed them with velcro tape for easy out reasons. Havent worried about upholstering them yet.

I still have a dual cone in dash speaker (also through LMC) that I need to get installed.

Stereo sounds awful nice though =) Will be a 400 watt, 6-speaker/10" sub in that little 49 cab

Then I re-installed my seats.

My truck now has seats in it for the first time in over 7 years! Stay the course

Pictures when I can get around to it.

[B_Hix]

Here is the sub/amp/6x9 rear speaker setup



I've got the seats back in now. Working on wiring up the three front speakers.

My battery was dead today - since there are only two hot wires I don't think it's a drain problem - more than likely a 7 year old battery thats giving up the ghost after sitting in the garage for 7/10th's of a decade

I have the extra battery cable there as I intend to put a cutoff switch in when i am ready to make a console...

[mobileortho]

Getting close to laying down some paint.