What did you do to your truck today?

[T Smith]

Was at the muffler shop when they opened this morning. Had the headers hooked up to the existing exhaust pipes and flowmasters, cut the old tailpipes off and ran new ones since they hit the axle after I did the bags and lowered it and I didn't like the outlets anyway. The boys did a pretty good job for me.

That said, I've been running this pretty stout 355 through the old manifolds and man did the headers wake it up! The old girl will break the tires loose at will pretty much any speed now and sounds awesome! It's a lot throatier and the header ring just makes her sound great!

[wayno]

Today was transmission hump mods for the new TKO that's going in - impressed myself with this one

[endlessearth]

I made mine into a bench today so my wife and I could watch our stallion during turn-out this evening.

[Fastest32]

Originally Posted by wayno

Today was transmission hump mods for the new TKO that's going in - impressed myself with this one

Looks great!
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[jsdoyle]

I replaced my tired tail lights with LED's from LMC. Unbelievable difference! They work great!
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[Lugnutz65]

I made it RUN!!!

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[TJ's Chevy]

Awesome!

[19666Trucker]

Drove to watch Snake & Mongoose
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[mr andrerson]

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[mr andrerson]

Tried out the CLR and scratchpad technique I heard about here on this forum...
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[racecougar]

Spent some time hanging out on the nice, new, solid, rust-free floor.




While I was there, I cut/shaped/welded/smoothed out the fuel tank mounts. The tank won't be returning to the cab.

[Improbcat]

Cut the bottom off the driver's fender to start rust repair. Discover the last time someone "fixed" the rust they welded the bracing inside the fender to the cab. The original fender lower mount is long gone. Going to take some interesting work to fix. Then I manged to slice my palm open badly on the cut off fender and had to stop for the evening.

[K98AL]

Put speedo adapter in, now it reads correctly! Then dropped it off at the paint shop.....I can hardly wait!

[66-PMD-GMC]

Putting together a 62 frame this week.
Pulled the torsion front end and replaced with a coil unit.
Drop springs and spindles, disk brakes etc.. etc..
The rear is a different story.
Shock location and angle absolutely sucks.
Need to make a change but not exactly sure what.
The 60-62 chassis' are a different critter all together.

[markeb01]

I'm tuned in to see what you come up with. If there was a bolt on aftermarket solution available, I would have replaced the stock arrangment long ago.

Originally Posted by 66-PMD-GMC

Putting together a 62 frame this week.

The rear is a different story.
Shock location and angle absolutely sucks.
Need to make a change but not exactly sure what.
The 60-62 chassis' are a different critter all together.

[TJ's Chevy]

Here's what I did with my truck today! 4 loads worth! Sifted out to!

[TJ's Chevy]

Unfortunately I have to upload one at a time. Here's a picture of Dad and I finishing the raised beds for the fall crop. I'm the one in the blue shirt.

[robber grin]

Yesterday we had blocked and shot the inner fenders with black epoxy primer. Primed the grill recess in the filler panel with black too. Shot the firewall one more time while we were at it. Had to buzz a small delete plate out for the heater since mine was too big.

Bolted it all on the truck today. The Chief of Staff even helped us for a while!

I didn't have any of the rubber that was stapled on the inners for the gap at the firewall so I grabbed a trunk seal off a late 90's Buick at the boneyard for $2 and cut it to length. It has the rigid channel and about the right looking shape too. Worked GREAT! Even had enough factory adhesive in the channel to help with the application to the inners.

Then we combined the chrome 60 and 61 grill parts we had to make one decent chrome grill without any lettering. Replaced all the adjusters and wired it up with four good bulbs that match. Then bolted it on too.

Things were going so good we had to see what the powder coated front bumper was going to look like on the truck. Hanging on two bolts for now.

rg & rayray

[tincan1966]

Just some maintenance today on the DD'65- had to replace a leaking rear intake gasket. While I was there, switched out to a truck TBI intake and a different distributor. Some cleaning and some rattle can rebuild as well.

Nothing too exciting, just all in a days work.

[Hipper]

I bought a 79 suburban back that I used to own to put the 454 turbo 400 into my 65 1ton camper!

[mud.man.rj]

OK Hipper, how do you afford to register "all" those cars/trucks. wow, the insurance company must rub their hands.

[tincan1966]

Originally Posted by mud.man.rj

OK Hipper, how do you afford to register "all" those cars/trucks. wow, the insurance company must rub their hands.

As a fellow Kansan, I can say that all antique-qualified vehicles are only about $20 a year to tag. Insurance varies on how much you use them, etc,etc.

I know the tags AND insurance on our daily driver is only $200/year

[ncoonen]

Installed a spare tire winch under the back of the bed on my '63 long fleet. More pictures and a description are in "Winch for underbed spare" thread.
...ned.

[NEWFISHER]

Finished restoring a deluxe wheel, polished the last bit of stainless for the wi ndshield , hung a reAr bumper and parked it inside waiting for the windshield guy to come tomorrow to glue the front and back glass in

[Hipper]

well some of them are project but as tincan said its like 20 bucks a year for and antique and the insurance is like 100-150 bucks a year for full coverage from hagerty!