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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
prob. totalled the Civic!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Tried to get the driver`s side motor mount lined up for a couple more hours. Finally, I decided to just pull the engine and open up the opening on the perches that some jackdonkey welded to the frame. After modifying the holes, I installed the engine again and wrestled with it another couple hours, but finally got them all lined up and bolts in them.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Rednecks in England!?! Don't you mean redcoats?
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Adjusted the stop light switch, again... brake lights were coming on at random or staying on after I parked it. I added a washer in there for a spacer so that the nut would snug up better.
What a contortionist act that was... -W |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Got all the body panels and small parts together for the media blasters on Monday, dropped off the 60 LCF hood and a 61 hood (for reference) at a local shop for the sectioning I was asking about several months ago (since I decided it was beyond my fabricating / welding skills).
Going with 66 e brake cables so I got the trailing arm cable brackets from LMC and found some bolt-on hose tabs from Speedway for the front hoses. rg |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Installed an internally regulated alternator today. They must be running low on alternator parts, the back casing came from a 12SI and the front from a 10SI. Regardless, this mish-mash regulator took no time to install and works great.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Today's photo shoot
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Is your truck a chevy with a GMC hood??
I like the color ![]()
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Those are super easy to rebuild too. I just did mine. Nice choice!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I got the front turn signals and running lights working today.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I cruised with some of my c10 club brothers to San Diego and met up with sow other members out there.had a good breakfast then went over to deer park auto museum/winery. It was a very goodtie with sow good people. I was the only 60-66 in the bunch so thought id post pix here. It was a good cruise, I did over 350 miles there and back . Not bad for a Saturday
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Cool Pic's Hoped-Up thanks for posting them..Vernski
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Found a puddle under my new radiator after filling and bringing up to temp for the first time. I am really tired of being quality control for companies. I quess it's cheaper to replace defective radiators than it is to pressure test them before they leave. I could have spent $600 instead of $200 and got a good one.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
I toured several winery's back in 2005 - Barringer (oldest US Wine maker), Paraduxx and several others. Man If I ever hit the lottery, that is where I'm moving it is just beautiful
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
" I could have spent $600 instead of $200 and got a good one."
On the other side of things, i spend money on the good stuff and it doesn't work, then i buy the cheap one when i return things and that works fine. YMMV i guess.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Replaced all the side window weather strip stuff in the '65'. Door edge fuzzies(belt line strips), glass run strip and division bar strip. The wing windows looked fine.
Cleaned and lubed all the door and window mechanisms while I was in there. Not much fun and I ruined 2 belt line strips in the process but I had extras. I need to find someone who makes the rubber bumper that the bottom of the window run rests on in the down position. One of those was missing. Everything works and looks great now, so all in all a satisfying adventure.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Finished painting the rest of my truck last night.
It's dark brown not orange. The lighting made the tailgate look orange. ![]() ![]() Now I get to figure out how everything goes back together... Lol! It's only been a year and half. Posted via Mobile Device |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Beautiful paint!!! My Dad had a '54 Ford F100 in that color, and I had a '84 Z28 in that color. Oh yeah, my Mom also painted her '78 Renault Le Car in that color too. Looks like my family loves Root Beer Brown Metallic. lol
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Rigged up the power wire for the cluster.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today?
Spent time after work with my wife, had dinner after which she went to have a bath and I went to the garage..... good compromise ?
Sprayed another coat of clear on the trunk. Then my buddy Jon, who I ride trials with came around to show off a new mountain bike he is looking at £4k WTF ??? Anyway, he also brought some AutoGlym Bumper polish for me to try on the black vinyl tonneau cover on the truck. After washing it, it looked fine, but this stuff really made a huge difference, lifting dirt and revitalizing the colour. After applying, I buffed it all back. By the weekend I will give it another coat and buff back again, should do the trick. ![]() I am impressed. Also started to remove the non matching bolts from the towbar where it is mounted under the chassis, will be replacing them all with 30mm M12 nuts and bolts. How do you remove domed bolts that just turn around when you tru move the nuts? Vice grips ?
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