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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Put the bumper on and headlights back in.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Did a much needed tune up on the '98 Silverado Xcab...drives much more better!!!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I got the bed put on a couple of weeks ago, but it's not 100% bolted together or bolted to the frame. But, with a bed on it, I can let it help me around the house. The water heater was leaking bad, so I chucked it into the bed.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I put in a new headlight relay harness upgrade - still need to dress up the wiring at the battery side, though
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
It made a huge difference when I put that system in, now I have head lights that are brighter than the park lights.
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NAPA's Echlin line used to sell a nifty dual headlight booster relay, it takes the headlight switch out of the load carrying and so brightens up any headlights, even those old GM/DELCO ones from 1964.....
I'm sure there are many headlight by pass relays OnLine . Another simple thing I do to every single GM product I buy is : take the light switch apart and hand polish (not abrade !) the copper contacts inside it ~ they're always dirty and this simple thing will make any headlights noticeably brighter and not co$t you anything but time and metal polish.... Old DELCO switches are usually pretty well made, I take apart the blower switches too, the improvement is instant .
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Loaded it up for Carlisle.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Don’t know if I’ll ever get to start reassembly because Of the endless cleaning
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All new brakes ,All new parking brake cables, new wheel cylinders, new brake lines, new shocks, cut cross member and welded in 4" tube for tucked exhaust,new 4" drop springs ,New shocks , It's always more fun when they start going back together
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
One more with an “almost” after. Not today but last week. What I was talking about when I said never ending cleaning!
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Thank you .
I live in town and so cannot sand/bead blast . I'm pondering buying a soda blasting nozzle from Harbor Freight for some smaller items .
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Soda would be nice for delicate stuff and may even work for the frame but I think you’d need much more volume to do rusty old steel like this. When the sand flowed well it peels back the years like nothing. Wet is actually messy but kinda nice. If one was to better control the environment (like I did not) I would imagine it would be much less of a mess. A tarp my have been nice to place beneath.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
My nights have been a mess so i have been getting up at 5 a.m. and putting a little time in on the truck. installed both doors fenders and grille the last two mmornings
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Made a cab cover for when she sleeps outside.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Ahhh, morning brew!
Love it! -klb
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Man that’s a nice body.
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A little wiring tonight. I re did the wires on my markers and got all of them working again!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Looking good Andy, can't have too many lights. Spot light next? Gotta have a spot light!
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