What did you do to your truck today?

[poorboy]

I got the front turn signals and running lights working today.

[Alan's Classic]

Originally Posted by 66-PMD-GMC

Is your truck a chevy with a GMC hood??
I like the color

Yes sir you are correct. Btw thanks it's hugged orange with silver top and accents.
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[jbgroby]

Started making the connections for the instruments. The ground was rigged as daisy chain method. I'm a bit old school and believe in crimping, soldering and heat shrink.

[jbgroby]

Overall ground

[LDO]

Originally Posted by jbgroby

I'm a bit old school and believe in crimping, soldering and heat shrink.

That's the only way to do it as far as I'm concerned.

[hopped up]

I cruised with some of my c10 club brothers to San Diego and met up with sow other members out there.had a good breakfast then went over to deer park auto museum/winery. It was a very goodtie with sow good people. I was the only 60-66 in the bunch so thought id post pix here. It was a good cruise, I did over 350 miles there and back . Not bad for a Saturday
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[Vernski]

Cool Pic's Hoped-Up thanks for posting them..Vernski

[bmur66]

Found a puddle under my new radiator after filling and bringing up to temp for the first time. I am really tired of being quality control for companies. I quess it's cheaper to replace defective radiators than it is to pressure test them before they leave. I could have spent $600 instead of $200 and got a good one.

[jbgroby]

I toured several winery's back in 2005 - Barringer (oldest US Wine maker), Paraduxx and several others. Man If I ever hit the lottery, that is where I'm moving it is just beautiful

[cortcomp]

" I could have spent $600 instead of $200 and got a good one."

On the other side of things, i spend money on the good stuff and it doesn't work, then i buy the cheap one when i return things and that works fine. YMMV i guess.

[dean jendro]

Replaced all the side window weather strip stuff in the '65'. Door edge fuzzies(belt line strips), glass run strip and division bar strip. The wing windows looked fine.
Cleaned and lubed all the door and window mechanisms while I was in there.
Not much fun and I ruined 2 belt line strips in the process but I had extras.
I need to find someone who makes the rubber bumper that the bottom of the window run rests on in the down position. One of those was missing.
Everything works and looks great now, so all in all a satisfying adventure.

[zippeay]

Finished painting the rest of my truck last night.
It's dark brown not orange. The lighting made the tailgate look orange.





Now I get to figure out how everything goes back together... Lol! It's only been a year and half.
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[T Smith]

Originally Posted by bmur66

Found a puddle under my new radiator after filling and bringing up to temp for the first time. I am really tired of being quality control for companies. I quess it's cheaper to replace defective radiators than it is to pressure test them before they leave. I could have spent $600 instead of $200 and got a good one.

Had the same issue with a brand new NAPA radiator in my buddies 68, didn't get up to temp before a stream was coming out of the middle of the core.

[Blue_Aura]

Originally Posted by zippeay

Finished painting the rest of my truck last night.
It's dark brown not orange. The lighting made the tailgate look orange.




Now I get to figure out how everything goes back together... Lol! It's only been a year and half.
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Beautiful paint!!! My Dad had a '54 Ford F100 in that color, and I had a '84 Z28 in that color. Oh yeah, my Mom also painted her '78 Renault Le Car in that color too. Looks like my family loves Root Beer Brown Metallic. lol

[mud.man.rj]

Installed new Rancho RS9000's front shocks and had new but rough looking Pro-comp rears that I repainted red and added Edelbrock stickers, hoping to tame the 1 ton ride a bit in the front with the adjustable Rancho's.

[jbgroby]

Rigged up the power wire for the cluster.

[zippeay]

Originally Posted by Blue_Aura

Beautiful paint!!! My Dad had a '54 Ford F100 in that color, and I had a '84 Z28 in that color. Oh yeah, my Mom also painted her '78 Renault Le Car in that color too. Looks like my family loves Root Beer Brown Metallic. lol

Thanks! Ya it's a strange combo that you wouldn't think works.
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[Grizz1963]

Spent time after work with my wife, had dinner after which she went to have a bath and I went to the garage..... good compromise ?

Sprayed another coat of clear on the trunk.

Then my buddy Jon, who I ride trials with came around to show off a new mountain bike he is looking at £4k WTF ???

Anyway, he also brought some AutoGlym Bumper polish for me to try on the black vinyl tonneau cover on the truck. After washing it, it looked fine, but this stuff really made a huge difference, lifting dirt and revitalizing the colour.
After applying, I buffed it all back.
By the weekend I will give it another coat and buff back again, should do the trick.



I am impressed.

Also started to remove the non matching bolts from the towbar where it is mounted under the chassis, will be replacing them all with 30mm M12 nuts and bolts.
How do you remove domed bolts that just turn around when you tru move the nuts? Vice grips ?

[craig7070]

I thought about all the stuff I want to do to the truck.....

[66-PMD-GMC]

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

Also started to remove the non matching bolts from the towbar where it is mounted under the chassis, will be replacing them all with 30mm M12 nuts and bolts.
How do you remove domed bolts that just turn around when you tru move the nuts? Vice grips ?

??? what the... oh yeah! Brittan... metric... thats why you are using 30mm...
I use a grinder to take off rusted, stubborn carriage bolts..

[sixTsix]

well after jacking with my throttle linkage some more I finally came to the conclusion that im not gonna be happy till I buy a new one ....
so after that I did a partial bench bleed on my master cylinder ...found out there is a lot of air trapped in the system, also figured out my brake linkage needs adjustment ...is too short....which ill be addressing this week ....
picked up a new rear main seal and oil pan gasket so I can try to get that done this week as well....
hell might even finally drop a tach in it , ...since ive been meaning to do it since I got it

that's about it for right now ...

[bigblock79]

bought a parts truck for it

[mud.man.rj]

Helped my buddy install his cab on his mudracer went from a 76 to an 81 cab with quad headlights, nice difference. Looked at my truck.