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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Hauled off a dead coyote with it.
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Location: Idaho Falls, Idaho
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
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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I tried posting pics but it won't work on the iPad.
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Location: Kingsport, TN
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
We built a heat shield out of 1/8th aluminum for one of the mufflers.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Started installing the Ez21 wiring harness.
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Location: Morristown TN.
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Agree. Is the heat shield painted (with what?) or is it powder coated!
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#483 |
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Location: Morristown TN.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
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.
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#484 |
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Location: Toppenish, WA
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
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.
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Today I cut out the passenger side floor pans to fit up a new one.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
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.
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Location: Idaho
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Cleaned out the last of my office stuff from the second bay so I have some room to work...
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#488 |
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Location: Christchurch New Zealand
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
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. |
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Location: Detroit
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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.
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Got the new trans and engine crossmembers in. Next weekend its off to the exhaust shop. Unless it snows again...
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Rebuilt my instrument cluster
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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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#495 |
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Location: Detroit
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Dug threw all my parts an found:
1. tail gate hinges 2. driver door hardware! Gotta order metal tomorrow ![]() |
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#496 |
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Location: Winlock Wa
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
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.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
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 ,,
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#498 |
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Location: Central Missouri
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
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. |
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Location: Central Missouri
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Here is the sub/amp/6x9 rear speaker setup
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