What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II

[70STOVEBOLT]

Put my grille together with allNOS parts except the brackets and parking light housings. I may leave the inner grille black or I might paint the horizontal raised areas silver, not sure yet.

[Redneck Rydes]

I remember doing the same thing with my old 71 GMC ,load her up and KABOOM, blew the old Hush Thrushs apart

[wpavlis]

Finished assembling my transmission

[OregonNed]

I finished the installation of an E Brake cover and lower steering column cover. Both were missing in my truck when I obtained it.

[jojo-munson]

Finally got my exhaust manifold off! Just not exactly the way I was hoping it would come off...

[66clow]

Originally Posted by jojo-munson

Finally got my exhaust manifold off! Just not exactly the way I was hoping it would come off...

Attachment 1786293

Poor manifold! But why, what did he do to you? You couldn't borrow someone's socket? 😆

[66clow]

Transported my freshly painted bug home today from my buddies shop.
Hopefully I'll get to my truck next.

[Boog]

Looks good. I need a bug to mess with.

[Trackbar]

Cleaned and clear coated Park Brake Assembly

[OregonNed]

Started work on my new shifter install. Working on a template now for the metal work

[71CHEVYSHORTBED402]

Originally Posted by HO455

That came out looking sharp!!! Good work and thanks for posting the applicator information.

Thanks....... After using a foam brush for a second coat on the pan, I'm back to using just brushes on the final coat. It's a bit thick for foam applicators larger than 1.5", IMP. I could reduce it, but I don't have "their" reducer and it's not worth the effort.

I'll finish the pan tonight. Think I'll hit the top (technically bottom...ha!) and top edges first, with somewhat a heavy coat. Then work my way down. I'll be sure and post the final results.

For the first hour or so it looks like crap man. Every imperfection revealed. I may have exaggerated brushes Vs shooting, but either way you can't go wrong here. Can't speak for the pan yet, but the cover looks sprayed. Shame I have to sand it

[NoStopN]

I started piecing my turn signal cam & associated parts back together. When I got to putting the brass parts onto the new cam, I noticed one of the springs on the front side had grown legs & walked off. I took a quick look, but didn't find it. Damn field mice will run away with anything that isn't nailed down.

[Jim Boy]

Originally Posted by NoStopN

I started piecing my turn signal cam & associated parts back together. When I got to putting the brass parts onto the new cam, I noticed one of the springs on the front side had grown legs & walked off. I took a quick look, but didn't find it. Damn field mice will run away with anything that isn't nailed down.

I hear ya. When old and can't see that well, magnetic tray for the small stuff is the only way to cruise. Make sure you can find the tray! Have a good one eh.

[1968 baby blue C10]

Pulled the steering wheel and tightened the turn signal lever up, lock tighted it. Yesterday on the way to a cruise in Dad said “Aw man I forgot to tell you to honk the horn when we went by her house.” It was someone he knew. Literally as soon as he said that the horn started going off haha. I would love to have seen the look on my face, we just looked at each other and he said “Wasn’t me.” It was slightly comical considering it was a oohga horn. It would only go off in left turns hah. Luckily my switch wasn’t cracked or stripped.

[rjs53]

Started on my 4-6 drop from ece. Got the shocks, track bar and springs installed. Figured as long as I'm hear may as well replace the control arm bushings. Tomorrow ill start on the front end.

[Steeveedee]

Set enough 60# sacks of cement just inside the bed at the back to make the mud flaps drag the ground, once yesterday and once today. I have a whole bunch of other stuff in the front part of the bed from the garage so that I can store the rental cement mixer inside, so that it doesn't grow legs overnight. That's a lot to mix up- about 50 sacks. Last time I rented a hopper full and dragged it home, and was done in a couple of hours. This took all day yesterday and half of today. That does include digging the trench, though.

[NoStopN]

I found the other turn signal brass spring, thankfully. I'll slap the steering wheel back on a little later & enjoy working turn & self cancelling signals.

[OregonNed]

Holes and slot created for the new shifter today. Put things together temporarily to check for fit and to take a photo. Also soldered up wire jumpers for
The NSS.

[Mikes68C10]

Originally Posted by OregonNed

Holes and slot created for the new shifter today. Put things together temporarily to check for fit and to take a photo. Also soldered up wire jumpers for
The NSS.

Very nice, true professional craftsmanship.
Have some full interior shots to post? Look forward to see the final install.

[OregonNed]

Originally Posted by Mikes68C10

Very nice, true professional craftsmanship.
Have some full interior shots to post? Look forward to see the final install.

Not quite yet. I made the final adjustments to the mechanism and cable yesterday. It too a lot of trial and error. The one issue I ran into was the transmission cross member. It wasn't evident until I mounted the lower cable bracket on the bottom of the transmission. The opening to mount the cable interferes with the cross member slightly, so I had to move the entire bracket up by one bolt, closer to the gear shifting lever at the front of the transmission. Even with that, the actual cable fits tightly over the cross member with the bracket (with slotted hole openings),is pushed back as far as possible. It puts a little stress on the cable making the "bend" but not really distorting it at all. The main issue is getting full interior cable adjustment (the inner cable pulled out completely) when it park - it just barely works. Other wise I think it will all be good. My only worry is that 1 LOW feels like it will just engage, and hopefully not pop out. But hey, I seldom if ever use the lowest gear on the TH 350 anyway. Look for more pics this week. Anxious myself to see how it all looks!

[CATCHALLBLUE]

Went from this
To this
To this
After removing 60 of these little rusted buggers by hand

[NoStopN]

Originally Posted by CATCHALLBLUE

Went from this
To this
To this
After removing 60 of these little rusted buggers by hand

Thanks for showing me what to expect in my future. Actually, I'll probably just take the bolts out that connect the whole framework of the flatbed to the truck frame.

In the meantime, I finished up fixing my turn signal cams in the column. The previous cam had the switch screwed into the plastic cam directly. The screw had lost grip & came out that started this whole thing. The old cam was broken. To make a long story short, I bought a package of screws & nuts to fit a nut on the backside of the new cam, so the screw will have something strong & threaded to hang on to. But, it's back together & I had a successful test of the signals.

[Trackbar]

Fixed the old 3speed shifter hole

[Grandview]

Finally got a chance to install new wheels and tires 17x8's and 17x9.5's

[3757chevy]

That's a beautiful truck Welcome aboard Grandview. I see you joined in Sep '17 ...not many posts? that would be a perfect picture for my pic thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=761184