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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Been doing more work on the electrical rewire. My buddy Vince put on all new rear drum hardware, shoes, drums, wheel cylinder kits and springs. Here's a pic of him workin on it.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Holy cow! That's SHINY!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
THANKS! That's 3 coats of primer, blocked and sanded. Then another coat of primer wet sanded with 600. Then 3 coats of base, that also had to be wet sanded with 600 to get some debris out. What you see is 4 coats of clear. We are real happy with it, very little debris in it and as deep as can be. We will also wet sand and buff that.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Oh man that is amazing!! Nice work!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I wish I had the patients to do body work.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
today called the machine shop to find out why it takes 7 weeks to install a brand new balanced rotating kit...............
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
picked up or ordered all the parts for the front end rebuild today except for the shocks.
The control arms and blasters will be at the blasters this week. The rest of the frame gets painted tomorrow. Should have the frame completed sans shocks in the next two weeks! My sons and I are getting stoked! Steven
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got some 4th gen wheels yesterday to replace my splits I slapped some pain on one of them, Im going to powder them red or black I cant decided yet. Did a photochop 4 inch drop for the springs Ill be ordering tomorrow
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man that black paint is nice!!
put a new radiator in the 66 yesterday then drove her to raleigh. ran like a top. painted the master cylinder today with POR 15..bare metal is the color.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Finished cleaning up the ends to the control arm shafts and installed new zerk fittings.
![]() I think they turned out great! Now, it's just a waiting game on getting back parts from the blasters and new parts coming in. Steven
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I replaced the leaking flex hose and thermostat cover with new chrome ones. Replaced the thermostat while I was at it. That turned out looking pretty nice! See the old vs. new pic.
I also installed door jam switches and plan on putting in some under the dash "courtesy" lights next weekend.
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Man! That did make a difference in the engine bay.
Nice job! Steven
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Nice Paint Porky!!! Can't wait to see it finished!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I had to take some waste oil to a drop off spot where the trash trucks go. There is also a scale there. I wanted to know the weight of my truck so I was able to see as I went over the scale..
It was 3940# with me in it. I figured with out me and the waste oil the weight is around 3700#.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Got the lower ball joints out with a loaner ball joint kit from A.Z. and an impact.
Found a different media blasting place much cheaper and BBB rated so I am going to have him do the backing plates, coils and a few other small parts as well. Dropping off Wed and picking up Sat. Way ahead of schedule for once! Also picked up part of the material for the door panels today on sale. Gotta find some lighter suede to get started on them. It's way too early for them but, it's getting dark quicker and I can work on these in the back room of the house. Steven
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It was saturday and Sunday I got this up and going. Got the 283 put back together air in tire and bled the clutch. Still have som slipping in the clutch and some wire issues. Will tackle those this coming weekend.
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What do you think about the 283? I started to buy one.
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New Rocket Booster Hyper Silver wheels for my truck.
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Well decided to run down the electrical problems. With all the previous posts on electrical it was easy to find the biggest problem. On the backside of the fuse block I found the power wire into the block corroded and completely apart. That was a easy fix. It was not long I had to unwrap the wires under the dash. There I found wires cut and spliced where they didn't do any good. Two days into the electrical and I think I can wrap it up. Finally got turn sigs, tail lights and all.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Those look fantastic on your truck!
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Thanks !!!!!!!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Ball joints and tie rod ends came in yesterday. Dropped off even more parts to be blasted. They will be done Tuesday... a couple days behind but I can make up the time by going to the shop in the evenings to get them painted. Still plan to assemble the suspension next weekend.
Steven
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