Restoring Rusty

[Gregski]

cheers campers

[LT7A]

Just getting caught up here. Congratulations to you and wife for 20 years! That's fantastic really. And this might sound weird, but seeing both of your rigs parked at a campsite underlines the benefit of your investment in the family together. Love seeing it man. And it's good to see Rusty doing truck stuff out in the wildlands.

[texxxan]

Just stopped by to do some square body research and thought I should say hello to you and Rusty.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by texxxan

Just stopped by to do some square body research and thought I should say hello to you and Rusty.

How very kind of you my Lord, thank you

just a quick update, the upholster I was supposed to take the bench seat to lives up in the forest I believe he is safe and out of harms way and his area is not on fire, however I haven't been able to make the treck lately and last thing I need is my seat burning up in his shop during this "fire season"

[texxxan]

Originally Posted by Gregski

How very kind of you my Lord, thank you

just a quick update, the upholster I was supposed to take the bench seat to lives up in the forest I believe he is safe and out of harms way and his area is not on fire, however I haven't been able to make the treck lately and last thing I need is my seat burning up in his shop during this "fire season"

Hopefully the fires are contained soon. Rusty deserves a comfortable seat.

[Gregski]

LSed Truck doing Truck Things!!!

[Gregski]

so a bit of good news finally, the skies turned blue finally (think California fires) and I also sold a Turbo 4,000 transmission from another project for $425 which will go towards the $1 million dollar bench seat re covering

so today my 19 year old son (left his bedroom) and I piled the old bench seat in mamas Honda Pilot and off it went to Dan at Scott's Auto Trim in Auburn (you follow that, ha ha Dan bought the shop from Scott) where I dropped it off with Tim who will have Adrian work on it, ha ha

super excited we are looking at black pleather on the back of the seat and black cloth for where the buttocks and our backs will go with gray stitching I think it will look *****in'

this may be the first thing I build with my wallet and it feels great!

[MikeB]

Been through Auburn many times. My wife's family lived in Grass Valley, and we spent a lot of time there when we lived in the San Jose area and I worked a "3 on and 4 off" shift at Intel. Used to ride dirt bikes back in mining country with some guys from Nevada City. It was a great place, at least back in the 1970s.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by MikeB

Been through Auburn many times. My wife's family lived in Grass Valley, and we spent a lot of time there when we lived in the San Jose area and I worked a "3 on and 4 off" shift at Intel. Used to ride dirt bikes back in mining country with some guys from Nevada City. It was a great place, at least back in the 1970s.

Killer, thank you for sharing, they have one of the last remaining Foster Freeze burger joints where they dip the soft serve ice cream in a pool of milk chocolate and allow it to harden on the cone, I believe Dairy Queen stole the idea but theirs don't come close, that and a bag of salty fries and you are in heaven my friends!

[MikeB]

My wife loved Foster's Freeze as a girl. Said there were quite a few of them in the East Bay area where she grew up in the 50s-60s. She also remembers an A&W in Auburn where you could get a root beer float in a real glass mug. I think switching to plastic was the beginning of A&W's death spiral.

[memo43]

I just wanted to say wow.
I sent the link of your build to my 17 year old son. He is getting an 86 k20 (dream car) for him. Your build has given him and myself some ideas, starting points.
I'm glad he doesn't think that I am the only that is just OCD about certain things.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by memo43

I just wanted to say wow.
I sent the link of your build to my 17 year old son. He is getting an 86 k20 (dream car) for him. Your build has given him and myself some ideas, starting points.
I'm glad he doesn't think that I am the only that is just OCD about certain things.

glad you enjoyed it I hope it brings you and your son some value, these trucks are like Duplo blocks even easier then Legos to put together so they are great conventional front engine vehicles to learn on, I say it that way because my first car was a '69 Bug and that is the penultimate knuckle buster for the youngins

thank you for your service

[Gregski]

get steel braided lines they said

[Gregski]

so a quick unleaded bath later and the new replacement fuel line from the fuel filter to the fuel rail was in and we was as good as new, all in the driveway mind you, take that HOA

Note the heat shield, yup that's how we do

[LT7A]

Nice! I remember the show car era were guys were putting that stuff everywhere. I think it does look cool in limited, purposeful quantities. Keeping Rusty tip-top, I like it.

[Gregski]

alright guys, I figure I'll give you an update on the seat, can you believe I dropped it off 6 weeks ago today

so just want to say that when I drop something off at a shop I politely ask them when they think it will be done, than times that by two, carry the 1, and multiply by the circumference of the earth, ha ha

no my point is I don't nag them, I don't call them, I wait

well a few weeks ago Dale texted me and said they could not remove the rusty bolts to free the back rest from the bottom portion, I suggested he just drill them out

well six weeks later and they still haven't gotten the seat apart and have not even started on it

[blazer2007]

I,m doing the waiting game on getting my rearend done, I told him take your time. He is.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by blazer2007

I,m doing the waiting game on getting my rearend done, I told him take your time. He is.

Yeah, I learned never to say that, ha ha!

[LT7A]

"I,m doing the waiting game on getting my rearend done."

I learned never to say THAT either.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by LT7A

"I,m doing the waiting game on getting my rearend done."

I learned never to say THAT either.

Always one in the crowd! well played

[texxxan]

It may be time to find a different upholstery shop.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by texxxan

It may be time to find a different upholstery shop.

i concur, leaning towards just doing it myself

[texxxan]

Originally Posted by Gregski

i concur, leaning towards just doing it myself

I'd love for you to teach me something new.

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by Gregski

i concur, leaning towards just doing it myself

This, FTW.

[blazer2007]

I did mine and wasn,t hard. I,ve saved some pics and can tell you what to buy and what you need for a household sewing to make it work