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Location: Sachse, Texas
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
drove it to the airport to pick up the wife.... my ears are ringing.......... (glass packs turned down in front of the rear tires....)
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#7902 |
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Location: Creighton Sask. Canada
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
The loud truck gets quieter as you get older, or is that just deaf.
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RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
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Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Huh?
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#7904 |
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Painted the engine bay, almost ready to drive her for the first time... Miscellaneous parts arrived from LMC today as well. Over 2weeks delivery time and $86 shipping charge for $75 worth of parts...... The issues of owning an old american truck in the U.K (but its worth it)
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#7905 |
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!
It's not even 11:30 here and I'm beat to death.
Pretty much finished (I thought) cleaning up the rear wheel wells and undercarriage from paint overspray. Since the Krylon black outdoor furniture paint held up pretty much on the drums, I decided to paint them again with something different than black . This time, with something I already had in the cabinet. It's called Krylon Black Metallic....Although it really doesn't have any metallic I can see in it. And it's really gray... ![]() ![]() ![]() When I painted the rear pass side drum, I noticed some...just a little... ooze on the backing plate from the brake cyl. Bummer. Rebuild time. After I cleaned up the garage I heard the truck at the gate bringing me the fender/paint - pad/protector thingies. Gotta order some wheel cyl rebuild parts and think about getting under the front....Tomorrow's a good day for cleaning up the front end wheel wells and suspension part's overspray.
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Location: Ontario, Kali
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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Friday: Went and got new front tires and had an alignment done. Went home, packed up the backpack, some tools, and headed down to Escondido for Cruisn' Grand. The truck made it fine. Saturday: Woke up made the trip home from Escondido. I was going to take a nap, but I'm motivated to continue working on the interior of the truck, sounded like I was riding in a tin can, gonna change that with new headliner, door panels, weatherstripping, and carpet. Before that, I need to paint the dash, kick panels, cab ceiling, pillars, back window area and then finish it off with a radio/speakers install.Then I'll finally get the cst seats (buddy buckets) upholstered, collapse the steering column, install a bigger diameter steering wheel, a dash pad and install a new tach/guage cluster. Dano
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#7907 |
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Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Installed new hella horns in prep for out of state inspection.
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#7908 |
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Location: Anton, Texas
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
washed ole dollor and cleaned her up a little. the bird poop had to go.
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#7909 |
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Location: North Carolina
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Took off some hoses and am changing the PCV....Does anyone know why a truck would shut off on Idle
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Location: Amish Country
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72 C10 - Multicolor, 4.8 ls, NV3500. Sold 72 K5 - Under Construction |
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Location: Vancouver, Washington
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Spent all day on my electrical upgrades.. new alternator, battery, cables, new grounds up front.. new battery box.. hardware all new.. Made two trips to the parts store for the "right" belt to work with my new turnbuckle adjuster.. one more trip should do it, I hope..
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Location: So. Cali.
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I drove it to my favorite Pick-A-Part Junkyard & went diving , I found some 1 gauge battery cables on some old Cadillacs , the ends were those nasty "Add-A-Clamp" repair things but I need some spare battery cables for my 292 make run before installation project so , even @ $12.00 each (GA$P ! WTH ?!) I was happy as each cable is about 4' long and the 1 gauge thing means easy cranking hot or cold .
I found one of those hard to find oil filler extensions too , it'll go on my Cadillac Hearse as there's so much junk over and around the valve cover it's easy to spill oil when topping up on road trips .
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#7915 |
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Location: Various Barns in N. Illinois.
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#7916 |
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#7917 |
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!
I've got a mess to deal with.
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#7918 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
A bit of a mess, but easy enough.
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#7919 |
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Location: auburn,al
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Used the crap out of it!
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#7920 |
RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
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Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Okay. It's done. Just did the right rear that's in the pic.
For anyone's info: I knew it was drizzin' a couple of days ago. So, I ordered a wheel cyl from LMC for $19.95. I was going to get the driver's side (rear) at the same time, but I was staring at an almost $60 price for both with shipping. Then, I searched a thread on the Forum. People were touting Napa's USA made replacements. The auto parts store closest to me is a Napa. I use 'em all the time. Sometimes they are crabby, but I can live with that. I went online last night and "reserved" a right rear wheel cyl. for pick up in the store today. This morning, when we had to go out for other stuff, I stopped by the Napa... ...opened at 10:00....Sunday. I came away with the wheel cylinder. Another one for the left (driver's) side, a quart of DOT 3, a new bleeding tube, and three big-a$$ cans of Napa brake cleaner. $38. When the LMC shipment comes in five days or so, I'll just crank the $27 as the price tag for the ticket that will make me think instead of acting too fast next time.
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#7921 |
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Location: Searcy, Ark. USA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I dropped in the new skip white dizzy and wires I've had for a couple of years. The old dizzy was an old gm hei one and the wires were a mismatched set just to get it running. Initially after startup it ran great but after I rev'd it a few times it went to running crappy again and real rich. It means the qjet carb has to come off now. I rebuilt it with the engine a few years ago. The truck has zero miles on it since the rebuild though.
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#7922 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Tried fixing some things
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#7923 |
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Location: Brookhaven, Ms/ Sakhalin Russia
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Dropped the front, still need another 1" or so drop in the rear
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Started Work on assembling the bed I got yesterday at Classic Parts of America...
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