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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
It's been a busy few weeks with my love affair with mine. I had a section of fuel line break on me and it prompted me to look at other areas of the truck. It was purchased in the west side (dry side) of Idaho, so I think that or the use of ethanol over the years. I replaced the line and then all of the heater and radiator hoses to new. In doing so I added the retro "tower" style clamps and separated the heater hoses with a nice billet piece. Also - fixed the power steering pump squeal by adding two new belts to the dual pulley. Changed the alternator belt for good measure. The rears of the valve covers are leaking bad, so hopefully the new gaskets I just bought will solve that. The internal regulator on the old alternator is acting up, so a new chrome Powermaster arrives tomorrow, along with a new chrome mount and turnbuckle style tensioner. The old girl is looking good!
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I drove it in the 96° ~ 100° F heat , only the cherry picker in the bed .
I thought about maybe finding an AC Cab and adding AC to it..... It runs nice and I like it as is but I oughta be able to cobble up some seriously cold & dry AC in there , it's not a big space .
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Gotta go stock? If not, I know you'd have fun hooking this up to your sixer. But I bet you could fab it for a lot less $$$$. That's your art. I went with this one. Ahhhh...Only one gen earlier. http://tinyurl.com/lksx2hw
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Yeah ;
It's actually pretty simple once you figure out the brackets and Japanese Sanden compressor . Then a BIG condenser , buncha hoses and crap . The hard part for me is figuring out the dash and evaporator ~ there used to be many different aftermarket kits with under dash or floor mount evaporator and fan/vents , gotta figure out to use one of those or a factory AC cab with the built in dash vents..... I'm too old & fat for no AC too but , well , I dunno . My brother who often travels with me , said emphatically " NO MORE TRIPS WITHOUT AC !! " ~ even though the dead simple AC in both his old Mercedes and the Hearse seized up the Delco R4 AC compressor while he was driving them , I have new compressors , flushing kits and so on but still ,my driveway is full of my junk , not his unless it's tune up or oil leak time . go figure .
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Nate : the under dash a/c works real good. its just hangs down a little, you can also get a slim line that goes across the dash more . any a/c is better than none, but built in is the best for more room in the cab.
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Painted the engine bay, almost ready to drive her for the first time... Miscellaneous parts arrived from LMC today as well. Over 2weeks delivery time and $86 shipping charge for $75 worth of parts...... The issues of owning an old american truck in the U.K (but its worth it)
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It's not even 11:30 here and I'm beat to death.
Pretty much finished (I thought) cleaning up the rear wheel wells and undercarriage from paint overspray. Since the Krylon black outdoor furniture paint held up pretty much on the drums, I decided to paint them again with something different than black . This time, with something I already had in the cabinet. It's called Krylon Black Metallic....Although it really doesn't have any metallic I can see in it. And it's really gray... ![]() ![]() ![]() When I painted the rear pass side drum, I noticed some...just a little... ooze on the backing plate from the brake cyl. Bummer. Rebuild time. After I cleaned up the garage I heard the truck at the gate bringing me the fender/paint - pad/protector thingies. Gotta order some wheel cyl rebuild parts and think about getting under the front....Tomorrow's a good day for cleaning up the front end wheel wells and suspension part's overspray.
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Installed new hella horns in prep for out of state inspection.
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washed ole dollor and cleaned her up a little. the bird poop had to go.
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Took off some hoses and am changing the PCV....Does anyone know why a truck would shut off on Idle
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Spent all day on my electrical upgrades.. new alternator, battery, cables, new grounds up front.. new battery box.. hardware all new.. Made two trips to the parts store for the "right" belt to work with my new turnbuckle adjuster.. one more trip should do it, I hope..
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I drove it to my favorite Pick-A-Part Junkyard & went diving , I found some 1 gauge battery cables on some old Cadillacs , the ends were those nasty "Add-A-Clamp" repair things but I need some spare battery cables for my 292 make run before installation project so , even @ $12.00 each (GA$P ! WTH ?!) I was happy as each cable is about 4' long and the 1 gauge thing means easy cranking hot or cold .
I found one of those hard to find oil filler extensions too , it'll go on my Cadillac Hearse as there's so much junk over and around the valve cover it's easy to spill oil when topping up on road trips .
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I've got a mess to deal with.
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Tried fixing some things
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Dropped the front, still need another 1" or so drop in the rear
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yanked the transmission and transfer case to change the clutch.
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I drove my 72 to work on saturday; approx. 50 miles round trip. This has been the longest trip since engine and tranny rebuild, It only has about 175 mile on it. It ran great; still think the carb could use some tweaking!! It really sucked down some gas!! Almost 7.5 gallons used. Is this normal?? I'm used to my daily driver, 91 Nissan sentra, 28 mpg.
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Probably normal...That is, if you have a 552 with two fours and a blower. Then again, I'm afraid to do the math on mine. And, a 552 it's not!!!!
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Went to the dyno. 368 rwhp and 345 ft torque.
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