What did you do to your truck today!

[mud.man.rj]

Well started on my 454 last night and tore it all down. Today did some cleanup on heads, port matched intake gaskets to 781 oval port heads and did some mild porting, also started on port matching Edelbrock RPM intake and mild porting also, here are a few pic's will post more as I go. Mudman.




Well back to work, more cleaning then start painting block and parts.

[HotRod C/10]

installed Porterbuilt panhard bar.

[RustedMetal]

Vintage 70's pabst blue ribbon tap shifter installed


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[CSGAS]

Originally Posted by BigDaddyV

....Then Caught the carb on fire.......

I lost a '72 Big Block Charger that way when I was too young to know how to deal with it...or is that young enough to know everything? I keep getting those two mixed up!

The next time I had a carb catch on fire--real fire not just a little backfire--was when overheated tranny fluid puked out the filler tube on a Cordoba. Must have been ignited by one electrical wire or another. That wouldn't have been any big loss. I knew how to starve it of air though and had lots of good parts perfectly usable for another project.

Well, the day's just beginning...I may fall asleep in my truck somewhere or I may put some of the parts I've had lying around here for months, on it, or even go to the junkyard for more valuables that I can either sell or keep.

[Mayo]

Finished up recovering my door panels and then installed them. I started this project about year ago and it was a bit of a pain putting them back in, but its finally done.

[VWNate1]

I damn near cried ~

Yesterday I drove to get a haircut and the building owner ran the corner stop sign and banged the back bumper & fender in.....

Lucky for me I had my ipod thing-A-ma-jig as I'd been taking pix of my new Grand Daughter , I snapped pix of him , his truck , my truck etc. ~ he gave me a copy of his license and says he'll pay , we'll see .

I'm bummed out .

[mud.man.rj]

Wow that sucks, is there a lot of damage, will prob get ahold of you with pic's and all.

[shawno72]

Originally Posted by HotRod C/10

installed Porterbuilt panhard bar.

Those blocks look fabulous

[67Slider]

Made the 100 mile trip to the body shop with the suburban packed with finishing parts. Checked out the progress on the 67. Guys were color sanding the front fender. One of the body shop guys dropped my newly upholstered door panel and ripped the fabric about two inches. Looking good but still a long way to go. Looking at June or so before it's done.

[Mr Handy]

beat on the lower area of the bedside... looked like someone ran over a big log and dented the heck out of them on both sides... the panhard bar also has about a 20* bend in it... I have an adjustable one coming from ece. Anyway the bedsides look a lot better now, could still use some finessing before new paint, but definitely look better.

Over the weekend I got my HEI distributor and new wires installed... all the plugs looked awesome when I pulled them out, cleaned them, gaped them and put them back in... engine sounds great now... also got one of the motor mounts replaced... the bad one. still need to replace the other... but I plan to pull the motor and swap the heads... trying to decide if I want to put in a different cam, lifters, springs when I do. I have some minor leaks so will be replacing gaskets anyway.

[Bloodyjaws88]

Today I pulled the cowl panel and moved the rightfront fender away from the door after the PO put the truck in a ditch. The same PO also put the replacement bed on crooked, so the wife and I straightened that out. Then we put the rear bumper back on. Next is adjusting the trans and pulling a few leafs to lower the rear.
Chris
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[Square_78]

Got all the holes drilled and got my EXO mount for the Accuair bolted to the frame. Ran all the power wire and mounted the solenoid inside the frame rail. Ran the USB cable into the cab for the controller and also the ignition feed wire up into the dash. Tomorrow I just need to connect a couple ground wires and solder on one copper ring terminal onto the 4 awg power wire at the solenoid and then I can power the system up. I would have finished it today, but I ran out of gas for my soldering torch and couldnt connect the power cable securely. No bags installed yet, but hopefully I can get started on that next week sometime.

[HotRod C/10]

Originally Posted by shawno72

Those blocks look fabulous

I cleaned em up on the edge sander at work........

[HotRod C/10]

fired up the 383 today after having it built 3 years ago!

[Expat_dude]

Test fitting new grill


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[buckskins4ever]

Originally Posted by Mr Handy

beat on the lower area of the bedside... looked like someone ran over a big log and dented the heck out of them on both sides... the panhard bar also has about a 20* bend in it... I have an adjustable one coming from ece. Anyway the bedsides look a lot better now, could still use some finessing before new paint, but definitely look better.

Over the weekend I got my HEI distributor and new wires installed... all the plugs looked awesome when I pulled them out, cleaned them, gaped them and put them back in... engine sounds great now... also got one of the motor mounts replaced... the bad one. still need to replace the other... but I plan to pull the motor and swap the heads... trying to decide if I want to put in a different cam, lifters, springs when I do. I have some minor leaks so will be replacing gaskets anyway.

I ordered a adjustable pan hard bar. Needed for the lowering setup. If you email me your address, I will ship you my old one if you want an OEM...Its straight.

[Scott>72-GMC]

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20

Sometimes us geezers are the problem just ask my neighborsthey frown on open headers, the skeet tourneys my kids,their friends and I have and the two am stereo contests but the closest is a 1/4 mile away. I tell em come over enjoy and get over themselves

These old people are the ( want ur yard looking like a baseball outfield perfection no cracks in your driveway no cars in the driveway professionally landscaped yard) kind of neighbors. Not that I like my yard a mess or looking crappy. But if I got a project and want to use my driveway I will
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[Mr Handy]

Originally Posted by buckskins4ever

I ordered a adjustable pan hard bar. Needed for the lowering setup. If you email me your address, I will ship you my old one if you want an OEM...Its straight.

Thanks, I appreciate it, but I ordered an adjustable. I plan to lower at some point so I figured I would kill 2 with 1.

The PO put 5 lug shafts in but left the 6 lug in the front. I plan to put the 6 lug shafts back in shortly (I have them! and the rims) and then measure for blocks to get her level. then down the road I plan to do drop spindles and disks in the front and springs in the back. At the end of the day it will be a 2.5/4 or 5 drop...

Sense this is a what did you do thread, I also degreased my engine compartment, painter my air cleaner with some paint I had sitting around and Power washed as much of the frame I could get to without getting wet while laying on the ground... seems to have made a difference....

[ryanroo]

Originally Posted by Scott>72-GMC

These old people are the ( want ur yard looking like a baseball outfield perfection no cracks in your driveway no cars in the driveway professionally landscaped yard) kind of neighbors. Not that I like my yard a mess or looking crappy. But if I got a project and want to use my driveway I will
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I am definitely "that guy" in the classy as small town colorado can get neighborhood here. in the warm snowless months, my wifes jeep is outside, my F250 DD the yellow 72 K20 is a driveway monument, my M715 lives next to the house and my trailer is in front of the 715. everything is parked on legit parking surface, and i keep the yard well kept. but no one every has a problem finding my house.

[GoaterAz]

I made a paint booth! haha...out of a box and some toothpicks.

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after

[c10srule]

replaced the 2" exhaust with 2.5" and replaced the edelbrock 600 with a holley 750 vacuum secondary, the performance is like night and day

[OregonNed]

I had it power tuned last week so I took it out today - first day this year over 70 degrees and sunny. Drove it like hell! It sounded and ran so nice!
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[BOHICA-Chevy68]

put on power brakes
finished the 200-4r conversion.
hooked up the TV cable to my single barrel carb
put on linkage
changed out the steering column to a automatic
put on my 20 in rims
new fluids; oil, transmission, diff
welded new shock mounts on the frame

[Square_78]

Finished wiring all my Accuair and fired it up for testing.. Works like a dream. All ready to mount the bags and connect the air lines. C-notching the frame and doing the rear bags on Wednesday.

[heathbirkendahl]

Got her ready for motor swap.
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