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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Recently purchased a chunk of the parking brake cross member from Travis, cut it apart, cleaned, primed & painted, then today was the install. Also put the drive gear in to get the speedometer working. Amazing how a DMV inspection can motivate ya'.
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Sold the 63 and have a 68 now. 63 ![]() LT1/4L60E, PS, PB, Disk Brakes, CPP 4" drop coil rear, 2.5" drop spindle w/ 1" drop coil. slotted rotors, front and rear sway bars. 18"x8" Cragar SS w/ 245/45R18 http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=544174 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
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Sold the 63 and have a 68 now. 63 ![]() LT1/4L60E, PS, PB, Disk Brakes, CPP 4" drop coil rear, 2.5" drop spindle w/ 1" drop coil. slotted rotors, front and rear sway bars. 18"x8" Cragar SS w/ 245/45R18 http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=544174 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Test fitted my rebuilt Cad 500 engine and TH400 trans.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Very nice. I'm the mod at the RWD section of the Cadillac Forum. Post it up there, the guys will love it. I've got an 81 Cadillac coupe with the bigblock/TH400.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Like a glove
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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?
Ordered 700R4 mechanical speedo tail shaft kit! Looked at my truck that I thought only needed exhaust. Now a replacement trans is sitting on saw horses and awaiting parts!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I put mine to work today. Tore down a neighbors old shed and hauled it away....to my house
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Cut out the rusted part on the tailgate that's going to eventually end up with the bed I have to fix up. Hand fab'd the patch panel. I little more filling welds and grinding and it'll be ready for a tiny bit of body filler, prep and paint!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Little late due to computer problems but I took the truck to her first Car Show! The Annual Classics by the bay, looks like a great day but it was cold... even for miami was 45 when we first rolled in. I was probly the rattiest truck there (no rat rods showed at all, and everyone elses car/truck was in pristine condition) But like a few guys mentioned my truck got in the line up when other people didn't even show up. Only 60-66 truck in the whole place! BOOM! First picture is the truck inbetween a buddies bagged 95 (he used to work there so they let him slide the truck in
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Well not today but over the Presidents 3 day holiday weekend - I pulled the motor & transmission, dropped the 64 suspension & spent an entire day scraping, degreasing & cleaning up the underside of my truck of 49 years of grease & gunk. I rented a pressure washer and thought I would be done in a couple of hours WRONG! How about most of the day. I would pressure wash the truck then the driveway under my truck, crawl under my truck and find more spots I missed. I did this many, many times until everything was completely clean (or so I thought) I then pressure washed my driveway, gutter & street of the residule grease off my truck, cleaned up and returned the pressure washer. Monday the holiday I THOUGHT I would do a little scuffing & sanding, paint teh frame & firewall but found the gutter was a mess after everything dried up not to mention I missed a "FEW" spots on the truck. So today after it warms up a bit, some final degreasing, scuffing and painting IF I can beat the incoming 15 MPH winds. If not I'll have to wait until sunday to do my painting & hopefully install my 75 rebuilt disc brake suspension.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I can certainly appreciate what a thankless task that is. I just went through the same drill a year or so ago. Ugly, stinky, and messy. It might have gone a little easier if I could have hooked up to a hot water source, but my water heater is too far away and I don't have an industrial hose that could take the pressure.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Good for you attending your first show. It can be a lot of fun no matter what you're driving. I've been to many shows where most of the cars had paint jobs that cost 10 times more than my whole truck is worth, and others where my truck was nearly the best vehicle attending. What I've found is that most participants and spectators like what they like, and the cost to build doesn't necessarily relate to popularity. I'm glad you had a good time. Don't feel too bad about not taking more pictures. The first show I attended I didn't even think about bringing a camera! I kicked myself and never made that mistake again.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I am a little late......and it's not all the way in yet....but it's stuffed in pretty close.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I have been sanding trying to locate problem areas. Found them. Lol
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I had good intentions of doing a walk-around video of the truck today since we had some very nice sunshine for a change. I modified an old plastic Wii pistol to stabilize the video camera, and then decided to take a nap. When I woke up it was dark out, so I don't have anything to show for the productive thinking!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Well I added the mech speedometer parts to the 700r4 with proper driven and drive gears to match my 3.73dif w/29" tires. The added the torque convert lock up kit from TCI.
Then we (wife and I) put the trans in. Now I am moving the crossmember and connecting the 12V power to the converter vacuum switch. Side note; this is a used trans and I really hope it's good! The PO said it was fine when pulled, and I know the guy.... This is a lot of work to have to take it back out! Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Painted the engine. Didn't turn out quite as good as I wanted but, the parts that show look good.
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