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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Brookhaven, Ms/ Sakhalin Russia
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I will do a build thread as well, just need to stop and do it lol
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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#7478 |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Willingboro, NJ
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Bought parts from Rockauto tonight. Another 400 bucks hard earned money being used on a good cause.
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Location: Arizona City, AZ
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
painted up the grills and got me new 6x9's in.
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Drove it below " E " to my favorite Pick-A-Part Yard where they let me in the back to search amongst the junkers in storage , I found a '72 C/30 they got in over a month ago , it has a complete 292 I6 , plus a '69 C/10 with a pretty good cab (non AC) ~ I pulled up the carpets along both A Pillars and didn't see any holes , the rockers don't even have rust bubbles .
These trucks (and a whole buncha other vehicles) won't be released until late August so I'll keep looking but this may be the cab I'm looking for . I also need to address my oil drinking engine ~ I don't want to repair the current 250 CID , I'd rather slap in a decent 292 . Then I drove to Gardena (hi Vince !) and pumped 19.999 gallons into it ~ I guess it really does have a 20 gallon fuel tank .
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Location: Sheffield, ALA
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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Well ;
Making a fuel gauge accurate isn't difficult , it just takes time (who has that ?!) and diligence .
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Right. And, as for my preference, I think it's accurate if the needle hits empty and you're out of gas. I really try to keep mine about 3/4 full all the time. Don't know why. I just do. Everything's new in my fuel gauge set up, and I still had to bend the float-bar to get it where *I* like it.... I suppose it's also good for some folks if they know it's full when it shows 1/2..........Or any points in between that you've worked out with the bugger. As long as it's consistent. ![]()
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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#7486 |
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Southern Indiana
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
For the first time in 20 years I washed my 67...........Trust me it looks great wet. Should i wet sand it and wax it?
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Took a shot at setting the TV cable on my new 700r4.
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Spent most of the day cleaning parts for the 292 I'me overhauling ~ the oil pan was seriously over tightened and gooped with RTV so mucho hand cleaning there , soon I'll dress the pooched in bolt holes with my ball pien hammer .
Two cylinders have some rust so I washed them with Oxycilic Acid then ran a wire wheel in my drill motor to clean up those cylinders , looks to me like it'll need boring and I think it's already .040" so I may sell this block to a Hot Rodder who'll want to bore it to .060" anyway .
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Austin Texas
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Loaded it up and took the 4Runner out wheeling and drug what amounted to be dead weight to the offroad park 100 miles. The 4Runner wound up not running so on top of tow duties it got the wheeling duties and several trips to the parts house trying to get the Runner back to running. Had some fun with the family on our first camping trip and my daughter loved bouncing around on the lighter trails in the big truck. I'm gonna have to get the gear ratios changed up to some lower gears as it lacked as far as pulling up hills but it did good. Not sure whats in there right now but they are definitely not geared for towing.
Everybody at the park loved the tow rig and I felt like I was gonna have to wipe spooge off of it after this weekend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A couple of the real rigs playing around. ![]() So that's what I did to my truck this weekend since it is running great even dragging a few extra thousand pounds around.
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Drove it to The Coffee House @ 0-Dark:30 where everyone liked it even dirty & loaded up with old car parts .
Then off to Pick-A-Part East where I lucked into a 1979 G/10 retired 'phone van that still had the (untouched) late version 250 I6 & Turbo Hydro tranny , I grabbed the l o n g dip sticks & tubes for both so now I won't have to reach past my radiator to do my daily oil checks..... I also grabbed the engine lifting brackets and HEI . I found a '70 GMC camper Special with rust free cab but some one before me , had cut out the dash corner AC vents , ruining it ![]() One of these dayze I'll find a nice cab . I also found & stripped a 1960 Metropolitan Nash FHC , that was a really good , hard find .
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#7491 |
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Magnolia, Texas
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Just a little dis-assembly and note taking today. I've had it a couple of weeks. I makeing a list of needs and a list of wants. I can see both list are going to be long ones.
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Bought 6 19.5s from a great guy in Cottage Grove.
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#7493 |
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Location: Vallejo, California
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Working on removing the blower motor for the A/C and heater, stuck on one bolt that annoyed the hell out of me, couldn't find the right size so I called it a day. lol
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: West Virginia
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I managed to twist the head off of one of the bolts holding in the gas tank. Oh well, only one more bolt to remove now!
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Location: Roseville, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I got the truck running saturday after it set for 5 years. Going to adjust the carb and hopefully take it around the block
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Location: West Virginia
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Running after 5 years? Way to go dude! That gives me encouragement that I can get mine going before the fall.
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Weatherford, Texas
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I made a short video of my truck. not very good. I will get better at it, I hope.
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#7498 |
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Kansas
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Put new bumper, door, tailgate, chased down the wiring gremlin, replaced a starter, installed some headers and spintech Prostreets. put my posi 3;73 rear under it, and picked up a set of camaro style rallys for our trucks. One hell of a day if you ask me. haha
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Clever Missouri
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
This is what i got done on the bed so far.
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Lisbon ND
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I got it dirty.
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