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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Thanks . Amazing what 40$and a little elbow grease can do.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I turned mine into a barricade to keep people off my new driveway. It's orange, so that works, right?
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I cut them from an old tread mill track and lined my fuel tank straps with it. Make sure you add some ground straps from the frame to the bed. Looking good, when do you get the engine back?
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Fresh new Concrete ~ SWEET ! .
I just washed mine again last night and am sad looking at the cracks and how it's settling below the side walk.... -Nate Last edited by VWNate1; 08-10-2018 at 02:42 PM. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Is that the Holley Mid mount Holley system? It looks so good.
I am about to do a 5.3 swap into my Blazer. I am so tempted to use the Holley system.
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Good call on the ground straps! I cancelled the rebuild on that engine last week. Going to go a different route on the CST. 5.3 LS/4L60E. So I'm pulling the 327 out of the CST to put in "The Readheaded Stepchild". It had a recent rebuild and has LT1 double hump heads & and a new duel exhaust system as well as power steering. I expect the CST will be a 4-5yr build as my honey has me on a strict allowance. I have a lot of parts to get started. Time to photograph, remove, clean, paint, bag, tag, shelf. Lol
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Changed the oil this morning and noticed that the power steering reservoir is loose on the fender. Before I just tighten the bolt up, I'd like to see a picture of it properly mounted. There is only one bolt attaching it to the fender, but it has two nuts welded to it. I'm thinking it's not mounted in the right place. GM wouldn't use a bracket like that and not have two bolts in it, methinks.
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doing some simple wire rerouting as inspired by Lucky Costa of Mobile Tech Lucky. this is where I run the red and purple wires from the starter right into the hole in the firewall right by the starter instead of dragging them across to the bulk head connector, and I do the same for the brown alternator wire and the pink ignition wire run them through another hole in the firewall and into the cab, makes the engine bay look so much cleaner
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I believe his truck is a big block. Big blocks had remote resavoirs.
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The bezel turned out nice, what kind of paint did you use on the needles? Just curious
because I want to do mine.
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Don'cha just love DPO & DPM bodges you keep stumbling across ? .
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Today was a milestone, I can start building the truck. Had the frame, cross members, A/C brackets and some other powder coated for the first run. $1150, and well worth it, better than new.
Dropped the axle off for the once over too. They're setting me up with a 1-piece shaft. Guess I better order some suspension huh? Going deep into the pocket this month ![]()
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@Steeveedee :
I say 'dang previous owner but it's essentially the same thing..... easily 1/2 of the repairs I did as a Journeyman mechanic involved some sort of first un - doing some ill considered bodge repair . You're right the person doing halffast repairs is legally liable but proving who made the mess is difficult . I mostly worked on older vehicles during my long career so I got to see more bad repairs and patches than do most . OTOH, I learned a lot about field repairs at the same time.......
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Krylon fluorescent orange
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I had the truck undercoated and a paint protection applied. No waxing till death do us part! A new set of snow tires and I'm ready, cause it's coming.
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