What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II

[3757chevy]

Me too Derek. I had the silver 6 lug with spinners prior to the disc conversion .

[Metaldoc]

It's been 30 years ago since I rebuilt a power box and now remember why. What a pain getting all 26 BB's back in the right way. I'm on try #8 now and took a break.

[RodnRudy]

Back tracking a bit to Fri. I got the heads on and torqued. Also installed the lifters, rocker assemblies and set the valves. First pic using a thread chaser to clean out head bolt holes.

[RodnRudy]

So today I decided the engine had to be Chevy orange and I proceeded to prep and paint the thing with VHT engine enamel. Painted the water pump cast aluminum also. Stuck the intake on to get a look see and I can tell I'll be shopping for some more classy valve covers.

[icewaterdon]

Those that live in the northern states can appreciate this. What did I to to my truck today, I drove it. Only 1 burnout.

[FRCvette]

Originally Posted by icewaterdon

Those that live in the northern states can appreciate this. What did I to to my truck today, I drove it. Only 1 burnout.

I understand completely. Drove mine on a 300 mile round trip today.

['69C-10]

Started tearing the old bed floor out.

[SoCoC10]

Took the doors apart to replace the locks. Lubricated the regulator, rollers in the glass channel and used a dry lube on the glass run channels. Cleaned and polished the door trim with 0000 steel wool, repainted the black and installed new woodgrain tape.

[69BUCKET]

Haven't been able to find any good how to's on making a sending unit for oem tank but doing ls swap....i ordered a 72 unit with a 3/8" out line and 1/4" return...cut and drilled hole to accept oem 5/16" out line from my 69 tank after i took apart the original sending unit...

[findog78]

Looks good.

[OregonNed]

Choke adjusted

[Barnfind46]

I changed out my heater core. Got home Friday from work and my passenger side floor was wet and smelled like antifreeze.

[rjs53]

Shortened the frame today. Now a swb , got the bed almost done and she'll back together till I pull the cab to repair all the rust.

[stevenfromtexas]

sprayed my hood 2 days ago.....prolly not the best thing to spray for your first time EVER painting.

wet sanded today. sprayed the back of the cab and front of the bed this evening. gonna spray everything tomorrow.....
i actually had fun wet sanding the hood....is that weird???

oh, smoked some ribs too

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by stevenfromtexas

sprayed my hood 2 days ago.....prolly not the best thing to spray for your first time EVER painting.

wet sanded today. sprayed the back of the cab and front of the bed this evening. gonna spray everything tomorrow.....
i actually had fun wet sanding the hood....is that weird???

oh, smoked some ribs too

Are you the same Steve that has a hot rod Buick, posting on V8Buick? I also posted over there as Steeveedee, up until I sold my '68 GS California. If so, small world!

[findog78]

Originally Posted by B Myers

Installed a Edelbrock air gap intake and a Holley Sniper kit. Still getting the setup and learn process perfected. [ATTACH]Attachment 1754463[/ATTACH]

How are you liking the Sniper system so far? Did the set up and tune go well?

[stevenfromtexas]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

Are you the same Steve that has a hot rod Buick, posting on V8Buick? I also posted over there as Steeveedee, up until I sold my '68 GS California. If so, small world!

no sir

[SlowGreen71]

Originally Posted by rjs53

Shortened the frame today. Now a swb , got the bed almost done and she'll back together till I pull the cab to repair all the rust.

PICS! Lots of them. I'm about to do this. There's a couple great threads on it already but more always help. I'll be doing this same thing before too long.

[JustToxic]

Worked out the bugs with making a fixed center seat a folding center seat. Had to take it all back apart and add some grease to certain spots and add a hard back for where your arm goes.

[VWNate1]

@ Steven ;

If I could do paint as nice as your hood looks I'd enjoy it too ! .

Keep up the good works .

[stevenfromtexas]

Originally Posted by VWNate1

@ Steven ;

If I could do paint as nice as your hood looks I'd enjoy it too ! .

Keep up the good works .

thank you sir....

fortunately the good lord invented grinders for our welder brothers/sisters and wet sanding for our painter/"non"painter brothers and sisters hahaha

[VWNate1]

Yeah well ;

I can't weld either .

I can tune the crap out of old engines and build 'em, do all the repairs etc. but making 'em look sharp isn't my forte' and I hate 'patina' 'cause when I were a laddie it meant : you're a broke ass Country Boy...... .

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[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by VWNate1

Yeah well ;

I can't weld either .

I can tune the crap out of old engines and build 'em, do all the repairs etc. but making 'em look sharp isn't my forte' and I hate 'patina' 'cause when I were a laddie it meant : you're a broke ass Country Boy...... .

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I know what you mean. We were so poor we didn't even have a rug to pull up to watch the floor show.

[VWNate1]

"I know what you mean. We were so poor we didn't even have a rug to pull up to watch the floor show. "

Wow ~ you had a TELEVISION ?! .

We had two old pre war Jhonny - Poppers, a '35 'A' model and a '37 'B' model, we couldn't afford $9 for a new battery so we spun the flywheel by hand .

Ouch .

I'm sure others here will chime in with their poverty stories, living on a Dairy Farm I didn't skip many meals so I wasn't worried about any $ .

[Metaldoc]

Originally Posted by stevenfromtexas

sprayed my hood 2 days ago.....prolly not the best thing to spray for your first time EVER painting.

wet sanded today. sprayed the back of the cab and front of the bed this evening. gonna spray everything tomorrow.....
i actually had fun wet sanding the hood....is that weird???

oh, smoked some ribs too

Nothin like smoked ribs, My smoker runs at least once a week.