What did you do to your truck today?

[mud.man.rj]

Merry Christmas from the Great White North. Have a great hoilday season.

[firefighter736]

Swapped in my new SBC "pumpkin". After fighting with the torque converter we finally got her in there. Now if I can get it timed after Christmas I can break her in (and hope to the big guy upstairs that it doesn't blow up).

[RANDY COX]

Originally Posted by firefighter736

Swapped in my new SBC "pumpkin". After fighting with the torque converter we finally got her in there. Now if I can get it timed after Christmas I can break her in (and hope to the big guy upstairs that it doesn't blow up).

I was just lookin through your rebuild,man that was a job,I just recently purchased a 64 4x4 3/4 350 4spd short-wide,I want to do a full resto,anywho I see your from the Floyd-Salem area,I'm in Radford now,I used to cruise to Fast Freddies a few yrs back.Maybe I will see you around somewhere.enjoyed the Pixs.

[Woogeroo]

Yesterday I was buzzin' down the highway, hit a bump on the other end of a bridge, where it drops back into the road.

Hit so hard it knocked my water bottle loose! This water bottle was put on by a PO, so it was held on with sheet metal screws... for a good 10 years, if not longer.

Well, today I bolted it back to the inner fender with some bolts and lock washers.

The wire frame may break, but the bolts are not coming loose.

-W

p.s.

The story behind it breaking... and figuring out it was broke, is more interesting than the actual fix.




12/24/2012 : water bottle securing

[TxRat]

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[TxRat]

Swapped passenger doors and started rebuilding the vent windows. Those rivet kits suck so I used short stainless pop rivets. Worked like a champ. Also added the jeep Cherokee door stops.Gonna have to get used to the doors not opening as far but a nice upgrade with steps to stop the door in two places

[TehNewGuy]

Had my brother over for Christmas so before everyone woke up we bled the the new brake lines!!! Now I can drive around the block and stop! ...and run out of gas half way around the block the second time... Haha
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[Formanbob]

Got my wood removed.

[Ta2Don]

Just took a couple of Snow Pics...

[mud.man.rj]

N a s t y, yep.

[dantimdad]

Picked up my upgraded ubolts for the lower control arms. Also bought some clearance switches that will work on the future door shave project.

Steven

[markeb01]

Replaced my 7 year old battery.

[luvbowties]

Originally Posted by markeb01

Replaced my 7 year old battery.

Why? That one owes you no more service, that's for sure. Really, what brand was it? IIRC, you drive your truck every day, right?
Thanks for info,
Sam

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by luvbowties

Why? That one owes you no more service, that's for sure. Really, what brand was it? IIRC, you drive your truck every day, right?
Thanks for info,
Sam

Yep my truck is a daily driver most of the time. It was my daily commuter about 90% of the time up until retirement, 72 miles round trip daily for 9 years. It doesn’t run up as many miles any more but with the mild winter it is still getting used regularly. Both the old and the new batteries were/are EverStart brand from Walmart. I certainly got my money’s worth on the last one.

It’s been a long road bringing me to Walmart of all places for a car battery. Back in the early 70’s I did my first 54 Chevy/283 swap which was the first time I ever had an excuse to buy a new 12 volt battery. Sears Die Hard batteries were new on the market and I was so proud having my first new white plastic battery:



Man that thing was powerful. If I remember correctly it had 1000 CCA. I swapped the electrical system over to 12 volts before the V8 went in, and that old 235 would spin over like it was rocket powered. Same performance after the V8 went in.

Sadly the Die Hard developed a dead cell at about 6 months old. And every 6 months after that the replacement battery ended up with another dead cell and another replacement. After 2 years the warranty had diminished to where I was basically paying the cost of a new battery that only lasted 6 months, and I’d had enough.

About this time J.C. Penney released their new “Forever” battery. Instead of tin and lead they were engineered around antimony and lead and really did seem to last forever. I bought two at the same time, one for my car and one for the wife’s car. As those cars were sold the batteries were swapped from car to car. After ten years both batteries went away in cars I sold, and they were as strong as ever. By that time Penney’s didn’t offer them anymore, so I had to start searching all over again.

I bounced around after that with batteries until I needed a new one in 2005. It had been so long since the early Die Hard failures, I thought I might try them again. I went to Sears on my lunch hour to buy the Die Hard model most highly recommended by Consumer Reports. After being ignored for 45 minutes I left the store, drove over to Walmart and grabbed the #2 recommendation. Picked it up, plopped it in the cart and was out of there in 5 minutes. I’m pretty sure that was the last time I was ever in a Sears store. The Walmart do-it-yourself complete lack of service was vastly superior to the terrible treatment at Sears, and since their battery ratings remain high I’ll probably keep buying them until something else changes.

At one point I wanted to go with an Ultima but their recent reputation killed that idea.

[Crx150zc]

I pulled the front of my truck apart, in the snow. It sucked but I feel like if I do not do a little some thing every day nothing will get done. before and after

[Crx150zc]

You can see snow on the cowl

[LT1 Burb]

Originally Posted by Crx150zc

You can see snow on the cowl

I like it, looks like a clean original truck.

[66-PMD-GMC]

OK, I have seen the past few "snow" pics so I will stop crying about working in the Arizona cold on my trucks.....

[dantimdad]

Bought a shark steam cleaner for $5 at a thrift store. Works perfect!

It gets into all the nooks and crannies on the engine to get it rest of the way clean.

I wish I had found this thing months ago.

As soon as the gloom and cold lets up, I will get it painted.

Steven

[TxRat]

I wound up adding a floor to the bed of my 66



I have since added a few more bed strips since this picture was taken

shameless shot of my beater

[61_FL_Apache]

Put it up on jacks in the garage today trying to chase down a tranny leak.

[waspp]

Installed my drop spindles, new springs, tie rod, upper control arm shaft kit and 6 lug rotors. Looks sweet! Nothing like new parts.

[Hx16457]

Been working on a driving light front cowling. The trick is I am starting with a "paintable front bumper".
I had seen something like this done on a burb that I crawled under at a swap meet. My wife thought I was crazy crawling all under this guys burb! LOL
Any how I just took his main idea and blindly went at it.
I have taken a few picks so I will show what I did. But basically I cut the original bumper in half. Then sectioned 3inches out of the bumper (from both ends using the mounting holes as my start point) for a total of 6 inches being removed. I used the bolt holes as my start point because I wanted to keep the stock mounted look. Thus I left the holes for carriage bolts.
I have gotten the whole thing dry hung and ever thing looks good, I did have to take a few bits off the other half and fix the ends so they looked more factory!
Here are a few pics to give you the idea!







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[markeb01]

I really like what you've done. I thought about doing something similar to my truck at one time, except the holes were going to be round with small blended shrouds above the lights. Nice work, looking forward to seeing the finished result.

Originally Posted by Hx16457

Been working on a driving light front cowling. The trick is I am starting with a "paintable front bumper".
I had seen something like this done on a burb that I crawled under at a swap meet. My wife thought I was crazy crawling all under this guys burb! LOL
Any how I just took his main idea and blindly went at it.
I have taken a few picks so I will show what I did. But basically I cut the original bumper in half. Then sectioned 3inches out of the bumper (from both ends using the mounting holes as my start point) for a total of 6 inches being removed. I used the bolt holes as my start point because I wanted to keep the stock mounted look. Thus I left the holes for carriage bolts.
I have gotten the whole thing dry hung and ever thing looks good, I did have to take a few bits off the other half and fix the ends so they looked more factory!
Here are a few pics to give you the idea!







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[1enick72]

So this part will be mounted under the bumper? I was thinking about flipping my bumper and adding round driving lights to it. I look forward to how yours comes out.

Originally Posted by Hx16457

Been working on a driving light front cowling. The trick is I am starting with a "paintable front bumper".
I had seen something like this done on a burb that I crawled under at a swap meet. My wife thought I was crazy crawling all under this guys burb! LOL
Any how I just took his main idea and blindly went at it.
I have taken a few picks so I will show what I did. But basically I cut the original bumper in half. Then sectioned 3inches out of the bumper (from both ends using the mounting holes as my start point) for a total of 6 inches being removed. I used the bolt holes as my start point because I wanted to keep the stock mounted look. Thus I left the holes for carriage bolts.
I have gotten the whole thing dry hung and ever thing looks good, I did have to take a few bits off the other half and fix the ends so they looked more factory!
Here are a few pics to give you the idea!







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