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Remember , *VERY* important to :
A : install a relay to carry the fan's current B : wire it live so the fan will come on during the heat soak when the engine has been shut off . Properly installed , the Electric fan out cools the mechanical fan hands down , is quieter and saves a couple (about three) horsepower and allows you to delete the mechanical fan completely . -Nate |
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#7752 |
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Location: Creighton Sask. Canada
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
The only thing is even with a relay still need to update the charging system, a lot of the old trucks were generator or the wimpy 37/60 amp alts. I upgraded to a 100 amp 12si style.
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#7753 |
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Actually ;
A standard GM Delcotron SI alternator from any old dead Chevy will do just fine . Your 100 Ampere alternator only puts out what is necessary and 100 amperes is never necessary so 90 % of the time , it's putting out 15 ~ 20 amperes tops . IIRC the 1989 V6 Camaro has a 65 +/- ampere alternator , I always use & suggest this because it's available EVERYWHERE off the shelf , is dirt cheap and uber reliable . plenty of power to run the AC . killer stereo , power windows , halogen headlights on and on and.... As long as the battery remains properly charged you're good to go . I do understand the want to have over capacity but many here just want turn key old trucks they can drive/work/play with / in .
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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!
Came home from the paint jail today. One month and three days early...July 26-August 23.
I have a bunch of detail work to do. Clean up the bed. Put the wood floor back in clean up a little polishing compound around the windows and in the seams. Put the new and newly painted to match solid (no turn signal holes) front bumper on, and a few other little things. I'll post pics tomorrow. Too tired and excited to take 'em this evening. My painter experience had, up to now, been the same as most of yours. Before I met Lee The Painter. Body work was replacing a pass. rocker (that I supplied), welding up a bunch of holes, including some strange ones up behind my head on the cab, pulling out bondo from here and there, re-doing doors that I'd paid a schmuck $300 to do, took it all down to metal, skimmed it and shot it with eight coats of primer that mostly got sanded off. Color and clear in high quality paint. $4,500 plus $320 in extras that came up as surprises to him as he found them. I gave him four silver 1" x 3" plaques I had engraved, "PAINT BY LEE MOISANT", but kept one for my own truck. Gave him a $100 "thank you" bonus. And a lower end, but very good, Yamaha acoustic guitar with the promise of at least ten 1/2 hour guitar lessons....if he wants 'em. So, even though it wasn't a $15,000 paint and body job which would qualify for SEMA show time (even though the truck..with a $15,000 paint job wouldn't even be allowed in the parking lot), it's better than the paint on my fairly new daily-driving Japanese Altima Hybrid. Now, off to a car show tomorrow to get some pinstripe ideas. Just wanted to tell the tale of paint. Guess they don't ALL turn out bad, huh? Could'a fooled me before today.
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#7755 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Home!!
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I got seriously pi$$ed off about the oil fouling spark plugs in my 250 I6 , popped the hood and decided to set the ignition timing where I think it belongs instead of the book's emission compliant 0° BTDC .
It was right at 100° F and I had no shade so after burning my fingers a fair bit I stopped when it was @ 6° BTDC , I'd wanted 4° but what the heck , right ? . Now , it idles much smoother and has much more power , starts easier when hot and even runs cooler (retarded ignition lowers NOX emissions , that's why they like it so much) I'm a Journeyman Mechanic but I also like to try and follow the ding-dang book even though I know better having had GM/ Delco training back in the day . Anyways , it runs tops again so I guess my search for a 292 engine continues ~ I have no troubles finding them but the sellers (ALL of them , are flakes and nuts ~ they post an advert to sell but when I call up and say " I have CASH and a truck , they begin tap dancing , hemming and hawing , what all else ~ I've been in The Auto Trade most of my life and I never , EVER give The Customer the run around ~ either you're in business to sell or not ~ MAKE UP YOUR MIND dangit . Oops , ranting again , aren't I ? ![]() Anyways , I need a complete 292 and I will come fetch it ~ I even found one in MEXICO for dirt cheap and he flaked out .
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RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Location: West Virginia
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
VWNate,
I feel ya bro....I once test drove this guy's 1976 Pontiac Bonneville and made an appointment with him to buy it twice and both times he flaked. He later hunted me down and called me (at my job back then) but I was so fed up with him by that time that I told him to get lost. Some people.....looking back I probably should have gone for it but oh well. All I got done today was I picked up the NAPA version of the carb rebuild kit and float and this time, inspecting the box before leaving the store (see I am learning!) it seems unopened and the float is brass not plastic, ![]() I hope to drop both carb and kit off to a garage for the rebuild Monday, unless I change my mind and (after quickly manning up) deciding to do it myself. |
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#7759 |
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Denton, Texas
Posts: 92
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Moved my shifter back 6" so it would clear the new A/C vents I am going to install.
Ran the speaker wires so when the carpet is in I don't have to fish them under the carpet. Finished installing the seat belts. Opened the box with the carpet to ensure it is for a high hump (2nd attempt, lat one was not). Taking it to the upholsterer early next week to get it installed. The fan in the picture is to keep the 103 degree air moving.
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Location: Mt Nebo WV
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Worked it!!! This a wall my Grandpa had built in the 1930's that was going to be dozed and filled over. I have been hauling 1 to 2 truckloads every Sat. One more load next week and I will have it finished. Noticed I have a axel seal leaking,will have to get that fixed this week.
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#7762 |
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Spanaway
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
In the last week spent over $2000 in parts for it.. time to rebuild the hubs, brakes, ball joints, u joints, steering ect.. and a lot of other stuff too.
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#7763 |
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Location: Parker, Texas
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Met with forum member LIVRAT (Mark) and he helped me hang some doors.
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#7764 |
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Location: Upland Ca
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Looking good Wes, that's one of the first mods I did, that and HEI.
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Between yesterday and today, I put about 350 miles on the truck. Running good so far, and putting out a nice, steady 14.5-14.6 volts. I upgraded my other 67 to a HEI, but not sure if I'm going to on this. Hoping the points last until I can do my LS swap in the spring.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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Joe put another coat of the "wood boat" wax on the bed today. It's really holding up well considering it's been finished for almost three years now !!! . . . .
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#7767 |
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Location: Northern Calif.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Got the seat put back in the '70. Turned out pretty good. Lots more work to do!
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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!
I took my little boy fishing today behind one of the shut down cottom mills around here, and snapped a pic with the old mill in the backdrop. Also picked a new radio with a FM converter.
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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!
Put the wood back in...Cleaning up after getting out of the paint shop.
My Low-tech home improvement wood bed will have to do for now. Down the road? Who knows? Tough to beat the cost...And in-and-out in about an hour. I numbered all the pieces so it fit right back together...snap, snap, snap...screw, screw, screw (about ten screws in the aluminum strips). Forty bucks the first run and $0 every other time she's in and out..... ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Location: Kansas City
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I installed my new-to-me tube grill. Had to fab some mounting brackets, but it wasn't too bad.
What do you think?
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#7772 |
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Location: Houston, TX
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Location: Northern Calif.
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#7774 |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Arizona City, AZ
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Looks great! What drop spring and stock arm?
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PROJECT 7DEUCE
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Plumbed in my Hurst roll controlled and Wildwood proportioning valve.. Hopefully I'll be able to bleed the brakes after work today..
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