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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Wow Jeff nice wheel! Your truck is amazing man, we need to hang out soon.
Eric (Evaded)
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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!
Stenciled "RAT"on that $200 cover. Weather's gonna hit. Not much chance, but I don't want to see this cover on someone else's truck.
Did a short-term change-out of the glove box door (metallic "black" hammered finish paint...not really black, huh?). Just until I can find a used one with no dents and a good chrome edge. As you can see, I dressed it up with a pre-67 badge. Just to see who could possibly care enough to be pissed about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Location: San Antonio, TX
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Thanks Eric. Yeah I'll try to get by next week to check out your truck!
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#8354 |
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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!
Installed a new GM 350 in my Dads 70. Not a bad little weekend project. Would have been nice to clean and paint the bay but we still got a bunch of little things done on this old truck.
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Location: San Antonio, TX
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Thanks to CaptainFab, Mister-B and a dozen or so of you guys, finally finished my brake booster upgrade and all I have say is ..Daaamnnnn! Thanks all. Works great.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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Discovered a MASSIVE vacuum leak in my engine , it's stalling out constantly , I hope can find it before Sunday but I'll drive it there anyways
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Location: Franklin, TN
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
New door seals and door lock pins!
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Location: West Virginia
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Sent off payment for an original driver's side rear fender, with the spare tire cut out (step side truck).
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Still waiting to get Money for the Generator
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What's wrong with your generator ? . they're dead simple to routinely overhaul and NAPA has the parts .
Or cheap to buy rebuilt exchange . Easy to upgrade to the far better Delcotron SI internally regulated alternator .
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Location: Fairview, ks
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Picked up a passenger bed side and made arrangments with salvage yard to get a new windshield (new to me anyway). Now if the weather would just cooperate I could do some actual work on it. Where the hell is this global warming people a complaining about!
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Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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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!
My right rear drum is locking up. Pretty dangerous, really.
New brake booster/prop valve (disc/drum), master cyl. New pads/rotors up front and new shoes with good drums in the back. Multi-bleedings with no air in the system that I can see in the bleeder jar. It's the pass rear brake that's locking up, and locked up first *before* I recently changed out a leaking wheel cyl) may be out of adjustment ????? I don't know. I *do* know that I've never been able to get a good enough adjustment on the parking brake to make it work properly. Gotta play with this one. Possibly I have a bad P-valve? I'm not too happy with the overall brake performance compared to my '72. So maybe it's a crappy booster/m/c/prop valve set up all together. Or maybe I just need to play with the adjustment on the pass rear drum???
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Not sure why anyone would waste one penny on a used windshield when new ones are $211.00 installed , this includes a brandy new crappy Chinese made rubber grommet if you go to Safelite Glass Co. ~ they're on the Internet , just google " cheap windshields " and you'll get lots of professional glass shops that'll do it cheaply , while you wait .
New glass is one of those amazingly good dollar value things , once you look through a crystal clear glass instead of the old pitted ,scratched one , you'll be sold for life .
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#8367 |
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Sandy Utah
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Rebuilt the Right front brakes again, fixed the backing plate and got a new wheel cylinder in there. A bolt broke on the back of the Wheel cylinder, and it came loose. No brakes on the freeway sucks. Also got a set of mirrors in that I wanted. Going to pull the mirrors off the truck tomorrow, and install the new ones. Might then be able to see whats behind me.
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Port Hueneme, Ca
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Headed out for a can of spray paint, and refreshed my door panels. I read it on someone else's thread, great idea, looks like new, and saved money. Don't mind the speakers I have not put a new sound system in yet, haha.
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Location: Pomfret VT
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Switched my 67 K20 from Armstrong steering to power steering. Finally finished yesterday. Had to shorten the drag link to get it to line up. also had to fabricate a mounting bracket for the pump. Bought one on Ebay but did not fit. Not really sure what motor I have or what the pump came off of? also not 100% sure what the steering gear came off of so the pressure hose I bought had the wrong fittings for both ends. had to fab that up as well.. Works great though!
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Location: Pomfret VT
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Yea. the old Armstrong steering gear was completly shot. It was incredibly hard to move. can't believe that somehow I managed to plow with it last winter.
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Location: Creighton Sask. Canada
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Good brake advice.
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
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One thing I know for sure is that when something isn't working properly, there's something I DON'T KNOW, THOUGHT I KNEW AND DIDN'T, or DIDN'T DO CORRECTLY...Hahahahaha!!! I rebuilt the brakes a year ago before I was done with the build. Then, 400 miles with slight pulling to the right. Nothing as terrible as it is now. Then the right rear wheel cyl started puking fluid. As far as I can remember, I put it all together correctly. But with your info and Tom's, I'm headed down for a new set of shoes, I'll re-check for proper shoe placement and adjustment... ...and if it's correct on the passenger side, and the new ones still pull (should say, "lock up" waaay early) without ever having been "wet", then I'll pull the driver's side to make sure that both sides have the shoes long-to-the-rear. Two sure things: 1) Something's not right; 2) It's REALLY dangerous...You should'a seen the smoke I laid down sliding toward a "surprise" yellow-to-red light from 65 out on our rural highway. Oh, and the third thing: 3) I really appreciate the input. Drum brakes are not my long suit. Keeping them for now. If I can get 'em to work properly, I'm keeping them forever.
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Location: Anaheim, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
So shiny!!! haha. Only makes me want to pull the trigger on a crate engine asap. Was this a crate engine or a rebuild?
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