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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Busted off 2 out of 6 studs while dropping the exhaust. Then had to grind off one exhuast manifold bolt while pulling off those. Found another rotted expansion plug too. Good times.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Replaced temp gauge sending unit and tore into my wiring to figure out why it still wasn't working. 3 hours and a ton of new wiring and split duct and still no working temp gauge. But the wiring sure looks a lot nicer now!
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1979 Silverado C10 Shortbox - Photo Album 1977 Silverado K20 Camper Special - Photo Album 1972 C10 Custom Deluxe Highlander - sold 1971 Cheyenne Super Longhorn -sold 1972 Cheyenne Super SWB 4x4 -sold, bought back, sold again... I'm dumb. 1970 Chevy C10 SWB "Sprout" -sold 1972 Cheyenne K20 -sold 1969 GMC Shortbox Stepside 4x4 -sold 1972 GMC Jimmy 4x4 -sold |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Polished the wheels yesterday.
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
While I'm pondering a rear disk set up and waiting while she's in paint jail, I stole another member's paint scheme and plopped it on my truck
with P-Shop. The "new color" on mine will be a little darker, and more to the gray side of silver, I think...More the color of the spokes on the wheels. But, I needed something to do without pressing "Buy It Now" for a $600 disk set-up that would have to sit in boxes for at least two months while I wait for RAT to come home.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
did my floor braces this weekend and ready to put the cab on the frame to do the rest of the body work, also looking at front end and rear end components such as disc brakes all around and 5 bolt conversion and power steering boxes then maybe in the garage it goes. check out my thread for details and picture on my project!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I didn't do it. But here's my first pic update from paint jail.
Kinda like looking at your dog at the vet getting ready for an operation.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Actually a few hours Saturday and Sunday: Made my own headlight relay system to run battery voltage to the headlights. Tried to post with a pic but i think the pic was too big and it never got posted.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
just some stuff i seen on here and i thought why not give it a try... dont laugh.. lol
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
one more from today still not done
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
spent two weekends.
clean up and chase low oil psi. closed all oil leaks off.(so far) $15 oil filter, hi vol pump, new oil psi gauge, and changed the port from top of motor to down below, plus some lucas oil thickener to go with the new 20-50. result? 40-60 psi in cruise mode....http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/i...aah.gif....and up from 5 psi to 10 psi at idle in gear at temp. i think con rods are questionable as all the mains show no wear and nice consistent .002 clearance and are all clean with no galling. the oil pan was surprisingly clean, only 3 little grains of carbon. anyway here are the before and after. check my thread for more pics of my project. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I repainted the inside parts of my grille. It had already been repainted when I bought it so I figured I'd just go with that and sprayed on some fresh satin black.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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Nice job on the grille. If you're wanting a more stock look, with a little more depth and color separation, you can get some metallic gray/silver plastic spray paint from Autozone, and paint just the squares, and leave the flat edges black. I did mine last year Posted via Mobile Device |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
So what was your trick for not spraying into the inside of the "squares?
You use a brush? My hand wouldn't wanna be steady for that long.... ![]()
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Here's a new in the box GM '69 replacement to give you an idea of what I mean ![]() Here's a '70 grille ![]() Here's mine after I got it all painted ![]() Here it is after I replaced the broken squares below the LE letters ![]() Here's the piece off a '69 original grille from the junk yard to further bolster the theory that the entire square should be painted gray/silver ![]() That's probably TMI, so sorry... But thought it might help this guy and anyone else going for a factory look Posted via Mobile Device |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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Your grille looks very nice. MY grille looks like this (right) now. ![]()
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Then again, Mister-B, if you wanted to go with the "full" patina?
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Traded off my perfectly good, BRAND NEW and perfectly good I might add, CPP front upper & lower control arms for a new pair of '67 bedsides and front fenders. I've decided to bite the bullet and get a PB touring DM and tubular upper & lower control arms
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Cool truck. If you want to get together sometime, let me know. Posted via Mobile Device |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
magic double post!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
climbed under the truck after work today. to see which of the 3 new u joints was squeaking, or if it was the new carrier bearing.....survey sez.......the dust cover rubbing the new rubber on the carrier. sprayed pb lube in there and it stopped. for now. ill address next weekend if i have to.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I ordered some parts I have wanted but really didn't need and then I found some parts I might really need but now will have to come up with more money!
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