What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[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.

[Red Foreman]

Not today but yesterday I put the finishing touches on my engine.

[rollinrooster]

started working on my front shock set up.

[oldcouple]

Bed is on, side trim, used to be black is now red, third brake lights in rail ends, bed liner, and new radiator. Windows next.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Thanks JJ! It's "small potatoes", but at least I'm on it again. Can't wait to driver her again.

[Hot Rod Todd]

Mate has remounted the Jag rear an inch higher to lower the rear, and I bought a set of blockhuggers for the SBC swap that will commence in a bit over a weeks time.

Truck has Jag front end too, and calipers are off being repaired, and the guages are out and getting made workable too.

And I did some work on my T Coupes electrics today so I can make it street legal again (We have a warrant of fitness regime here) as I have a buyer who wants it, but wants me to have it all legal.

The truck is still drivable but some extra cash from the Coupe sale will get the project accelerating along.

We will use it next weekend to get to a friends daughters wedding in the North Island, and then the engine swap can start. Im hoping that it may be all done by early April, then I can bring it home (a 600 mile drive).

Am looking forward to it, big time

[1956chevtruck]

Looks Great Dan!
Byron

[oldcouple]

Front trim on, still waiting for windows, warmer weather for the rubber will help.

[JumboAMONGus]

lowered my 56 today went got some u bolts made up and took three leafs out of the back and two out of the front lowered back 2 1/2 inches and the front 1 1/2 inches ,, got rid of the big gap in the rear and some from the front [/IMG]

[dcmalone]

Originally Posted by JumboAMONGus

lowered my 56 today went got some u bolts made up and took three leafs out of the back and two out of the front lowered back 2 1/2 inches and the front 1 1/2 inches ,, got rid of the big gap in the rear and some from the front

So how amny leafs did that leave you with up front and in the back, and which ones did you remove? I have no idea how many the 3100's came with originally.

[JumboAMONGus]

Originally Posted by dcmalone

So how many leafs did that leave you with up front and in the back, and which ones did you remove? I have no idea how many the 3100's came with originally.

i removed 2 up front i bent the front tabs on one long one fromthe bottom and the the smaller one under it and on the rear i removed 4 .5 .6 from the top there was 6 on front and 8 in rear ,

[JumboAMONGus]

[/IMG] after

[ruby57]

Are my eyes deceiving me or are those pictures of a five lug spare and another picture of a six lug wheel? I'd hate to get a flat if so. -Doug

[Russell Ashley]

Originally Posted by ruby57

Are my eyes deceiving me or are those pictures of a five lug spare and another picture of a six lug wheel? I'd hate to get a flat if so. -Doug

Your eyes aren't deceiving you. It's a five lug wheel but it goes on a different truck.

[JumboAMONGus]

mine is 5 lug front and 6 lug rear but that is not my wheel ,,, [/IMG]

[JumboAMONGus]

Originally Posted by JumboAMONGus

mine is 5 lug front and 6 lug rear but that is not my wheel ,,, [/IMG]

[rollinrooster]

worked some more on my front shock mounts and ordered a new set of slam specialties RE8 bags for the rear.

[FFredo]

Spent last weekend at the Big Three parts Exchange and Swap Meet. Spent about 600 bucks on parts for the truck.
Air Bags and Bracketry
Coil Overs
Steering Wheel
Weiand 4 bbl Intake
Porta Power
Center Console
Air Cleaner
Vintage adjustable Craftsman motor and pully set up for my leather working tools.
Stereo Amp
3rd row seat to use as a Bench Seat
NEW in the BOX Carpet Kit for the 59 Apache!!!!
Various other items not for the truck but could not walk away from

[rollinrooster]

big brown truck dropped off my rear air bags, so i put them on.

[OrrieG]

Nothing. I made this pile working on Ms. Joan's greenhouse, the current domestic priority. Then I did this because it was still warm and sunny.