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Location: West Virginia
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I picked up the Advance Auto radiator suggested to me on here (3 row) and I tore down my driver's side rear drum and cleaned all the parts. I think my adjuster screw/pivot nut is seized.
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PROJECT 7DEUCE
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I'm digging that new vintage air set up..
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#7628 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Brought her home!
See my write-up in the main forum
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PROJECT 7DEUCE
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Got my new shocks mounted..
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RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
What are those? Do you remember $$$$$ ?
Thanks.
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#7631 |
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: modesto ca
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
tried fixing my brakes 58 chevy truck.
brake pedal does not return completely. when I step on brakes. brakes stay on while driving. have to pull it up with my foot. might need to put a spring on it. |
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#7632 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
They are bilsteins 123.60 each
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#7633 |
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Central OR
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Installed newly covered bench and adjusted the clutch.
Ahh, comfy.
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#7634 |
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Location: strausstown pa
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
scrapped and re blasted the underneth of my floors today.
I've blasted it once allready but the undercoating i sprayed on it afterwards didnt dry up in 4 months ![]() so i scrapped as much as possible an started blasting again. this time i'm doin epoxy an 503 on the bottom....cant go wrong there ![]() i started the custom trans crossmember but i still cant do pics? an i noticed i turned pink this week ![]()
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#7635 |
I have a radical idea!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Sweet Home Alabama!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Painted my gauge cluster and matched the grain on the glove box door. Also picked up a new beside today.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=592128 ![]() ![]() New bedside - ![]()
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#7636 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I am getting some parts ready to switch everything back to original under the hood or at least as close as I can get it.
I sand blasted and painted all of the parts pictured. All of these parts were bought from board members. I am not sure about the black on the exhaust manifolds but it is extreme temp so maybe it will not burn off. I have a few more pieces to collect and then I will tear it down and put the new parts on. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Primered my grill and blasted and primered the center support and hood latch. Hope to have the cab and the front clip bolted back on in a couple of weeks.
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#7638 |
RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
This just in from the painter: His first color coat test on the new passenger's side rocker. I think I'm going to love the color.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I took it out for a drive....
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#7641 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Changed the needles in my Edelbrock 750 and checked the complete truck over to drive 350 miles to the Saskatoon out door cruise weekend on Aug 23rd - 25th weekend. Will be a real cool time going with a few others from our area, they are trailering their cars, a 69 Charger, 69 Camaro SS and a recently finished 56 GM lowrider truck from our site (Dubie). Can't wait but will be some kind of gas bill with the big block.
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#7642 |
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#7644 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Nothing exciting... oil change, plug change
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I drove it to the junkyard where the truck I saw over a week ago , was still there and 90 % untouched .
I took the core support out of it , came off fairly easily , only those two BIG @$$ bolts were rusted solid and fought me every inch . Now to find some one with a sand / bead blaster that'll fit this 6' behemoth and get it cleaned up (surface rust along the bottom see pix) and find an honest paint shop to squirt it shiny black then I can install it along with my rust free right inner fender . Bit by bit , piece by piece ![]() A guy came up to me to day and told he wants to sell me his old '66 LWB stepper with 250 I6 and Three On The Tree , it has some rust holes in the cab floor but looks worth saving or Hot Rodding , I have no where to store it else I'd buy it and break it for parts ~ the fenders , hood , doors , tailgate and windshield are all pretty good . I just want the 250 as I'm beginning to despair of finding that elusive 292 to overhaul . 250 miles , 2/3 a tank of fuel , it's oil & filter change time again .
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RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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#7647 |
RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Thanks, much. The boss (wife) and I are happy with the color sample.
Painter Lee says he's probably going to be done *early*. Now, it hasn't happened yet. He has until 9/26 to still be on time. But wouldn't that be a turn of events to what usually happens to us in paint jail (and, I guess some with some suspension parts ![]()
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I'm actually trying to finish up my current projects within three years when I retire . I have a tiny yard and a crazy@$$ed drunken b*tch living next door to me who hates me and hassles me to death , she gave free BJ's to the local crooked Code Enforcement Officer so the City would come down on me ~ I won that of course and got him fired to boot but still and all , I'm getting old and want to drive more not continue rebuilding old vehicles . I have one buddy who has a pretty big Bead Blaster but I doubt it's this big ~ the last time I needed it , someone had broken it after mixing all the abrasives up , I only had 15 minutes of blasting to do but he's running an Industry Fabrication Shop so I spent a few hours fixing the bead blaster then hand sifting the media into buckets using some screen I found in a corner . To me this is better than having little used shop equipments lying around ~ I always leave the workplace cleaner than I find it , it's the right thing to do and keeps many doors open to me I'd never get in otherwise . I think I'll begin by running a wire wheel in my drill motor , see how that cleans off the surface rust and overspray from the cheapo resale paint job this nice old junker had . I'da bought the cab but the drip rail was rusted through in one area . As I was working on it , older guys like me kept passing by and shaking their heads , asking me how a clean old work rig like this could have possibly been scrapped . BTW : don't be thinking my Stepper is anything nice ~ it's a POC to be sure , I just try to to everything the best I can as I like to drive far & wide and want to be able to rely upon it . Ask the fellas who've seen it , it's an incredible 20' er but up close it's nasty ~ structural rust throughout the cab .
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RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
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RAT. She's the second truck 67-72 build I've done. And, the last. Like you, I just wanna drive her. Wasn't gonna get paint. But I decided to bite the bullet and get 'er done. And, when I say, "the nice stuff you do", I'm the kind of guy that doesn't necessarily equate that with show-truck type of stuff.
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#7650 |
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Location: Upland Ca
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I've seen Nate's steppie up close, beautiful survivor. I would be proud to own it. I was saddened to hear about all the rust.
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