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Old 12-23-2012, 12:49 AM   #6676
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?

I did nothing to the truck today.... Rain rain go away!
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Old 12-23-2012, 11:11 AM   #6677
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Yeah it def sucks!! still gotta figure out what im gonna do next. Gotta find another engine soon or maybe a cheap car/truck so i can take my time with the engine swap this time. Rather that a 4 day thrash. I paintef the engine compartment last time so it should go alot more qickly this time
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Pick up a beater to drive and do your truck right... I think you are on the right track with that idea..
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Old 12-24-2012, 11:02 AM   #6678
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Figured this was a good place to reach everyone that I "hang out with" here on the forum...

I wish everyone of you and your families a very Merry Christmas, and a safe and Happy New Year.
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Old 12-24-2012, 11:21 AM   #6679
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Figured this was a good place to reach everyone that I "hang out with" here on the forum...

I wish everyone of you and your families a very Merry Christmas, and a safe and Happy New Year.
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Old 12-24-2012, 01:14 PM   #6680
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Merry Christmas!

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Old 12-24-2012, 01:20 PM   #6681
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Have a Safe and Awsome Holiday!
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Old 12-24-2012, 03:01 PM   #6682
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Merry Christmas from the Great White North. Have a great hoilday season.
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Old 12-25-2012, 12:17 AM   #6683
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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).

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Old 12-25-2012, 12:33 AM   #6684
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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.

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




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Old 12-25-2012, 12:58 AM   #6685
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Old 12-25-2012, 01:00 AM   #6686
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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





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Old 12-25-2012, 09:27 AM   #6687
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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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Old 12-25-2012, 04:40 PM   #6688
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Got my wood removed.
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Old 12-25-2012, 09:55 PM   #6689
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Just took a couple of Snow Pics...
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Old 12-25-2012, 10:05 PM   #6690
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N a s t y, yep.
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Old 12-27-2012, 06:00 PM   #6691
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Picked up my upgraded ubolts for the lower control arms. Also bought some clearance switches that will work on the future door shave project.

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Old 12-27-2012, 07:57 PM   #6692
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The design your messing around on your hood looks like my old truck deisn also
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Old 12-27-2012, 07:58 PM   #6693
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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.
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Old 12-27-2012, 08:23 PM   #6694
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Replaced my 7 year old battery.
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Old 12-29-2012, 12:24 AM   #6695
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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
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Old 12-29-2012, 12:26 AM   #6696
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You can see snow on the cowl
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Old 12-29-2012, 01:16 AM   #6697
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OK, I have seen the past few "snow" pics so I will stop crying about working in the Arizona cold on my trucks.....
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Old 12-29-2012, 11:19 AM   #6698
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I like it, looks like a clean original truck.
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Old 12-29-2012, 11:25 AM   #6699
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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?
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Old 12-29-2012, 06:36 PM   #6700
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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?
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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.
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