What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[mknittle]

Hey, Orrie how do you keep the cup holders from turning when you dont want them to?
didyou use wave washers or?

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by mknittle

Hey, Orrie how do you keep the cup holders from turning when you dont want them to?
didyou use wave washers or?

Take a look at my build thread, has more detail. Locking nut and plastic washers.

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

Take a look at my build thread, has more detail. Locking nut and plastic washers.

LOL should have known looking good shifters came out nice too

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by mknittle

LOL should have known looking good shifters came out nice too

Little secret I found out about the shifters is that if you want plain black knobs, round, oval or mushroom type, look on Ebay in the tractor section. I paid $7 plus $1.50 shipping for those two knobs. Hot rod and car resto places wanted a lot more. I got two different sizes so I can tell them apart without looking. I believe mine were the shifter and transfer case knobs for a older Massey Fergensen tractor, it has different sizes for the same reason.

[mknittle]

[QUOTE=OrrieG;5523413]Little secret I found out about the shifters is that if you want plain black knobs, round, oval or mushroom type, look on Ebay in the tractor section. I paid $7 plus $1.50 shipping for those two knobs. Hot rod and car resto places wanted a lot more. I got two different sizes so I can tell them apart without looking. I believe mine were the shifter and transfer case knobs for a older Massey Fergensen tractor, it has different sizes for the same reason.[/QUOT


That makes sence. I bet they are better than the repop ones. I bought a pair of the small repop knobs for my jeep. The sun did them in in no time.I used to have a pair of alumnum dice that I made with the year numbers up{42} but they evaporated. Now I have a pair of Reno plastic ones.

[mknittle]

back to the forking lift for me.

[oneoff]

Just did some engine bay cleanup on the 402BBC. changed plugs, valve cover gaskets and freshen up the air cleaner and valve covers.

[OrrieG]

Cleaned up the garage and helped Ms. Joan sell tomatos in exchange for car $. Here is what a real heirloom tomato looks like. No trick photography, thats a regular hamburger bun. And its one of the early small ones!

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

Cleaned up the garage and helped Ms. Joan sell tomatos in exchange for car $. Here is what a real heirloom tomato looks like. No trick photography, thats a regular hamburger bun. And its one of the early small ones!

Did you have to do that?

Looks great! ours aren't doing so well this year.The veggie garden is my wife's thing I stick to bonsai as far as plants go

[Daze57]

worked on frame mounted brake booster and brake pedal assembly -

[mknittle]

Tacked my floor supports in and changed from .035 to.024 wire to weld the thin parts

[mknittle]

welded the parts of the frame for my floor and trimmed the drivers side sheet metal. got a little tuning to do. then the other side.

[OrrieG]

Worked on the panels that are going behind the seat and in the inner cab corners. Also got some fabric samples ordered from my interior decorator friend.

[crossfire84]

mounted inner fenders and cut hole for the steering shaft.

[mknittle]

Did some clean up and tuning on my floor panels. I punched and drilled the passenger side to plug weld to the frame work i built.then it got too hot to touch the metal so that was the end of that.

[beanyard]

I installed 72 batts of r19 and 3 rolls of r13 in my garage. Then followed up with 20 sheets of sheet rock yesterday. I still need to install 20 more sheets and do the taping. Then perhaps I can brave the Idaho winter working on my truck.
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[TX58]

I'm starting on the vintage air install. Just found out I need a double groove waterpump pulley. I did manage to install a new 2bbl carburetor yesterday along with a few other odds n ends. Too bad I go back to work tomorrow.
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[Russell Ashley]

Finally got my doors back on. When I replaced the bottoms of my doors last year I failed to drill the holes for the door seal. I also just ground the welds but never filled and smoothed them so I decided all of that would be easier to do with the doors laying horizontal. I had the interior and exterior paint matched so I could touch up where it needed it, and I painted all of the interior of the doors and up to the crease line on the outer doors and front fenders where I had put patch panels. It's not a perfect match but I'm not ready to get into an all-over paint job so it will stay like it is for now.

[ChuckDriver]

Nice work Russell!

[arturo7]

I bought a speedometer face. Significant in that this was the first part purchase for the new project.

First rock of the pending landslide...

[Chevette]

Russell: Looks like you got a good tight fit on your door seal. Nice and straight too.

[Red Foreman]

"First rock of the pending landslide..."

Nicely said sir!

[1project2many]

Replaced the leaking float on the fuel sender, cut a new sending unit gasket out of 1/18" thick neoprene, fabricated and installed a baffle in the tank. Removed the 7747 ecm and engine wiring harness. Located the 7427 ecm I had stashed and a matching engine wiring harness form 94 Jimmy. Removed unneeded wiring from harness.

[Russell Ashley]

Thanks, ChuckDriver and Chevette. Those plastic pins in the weather stripping seem to hold it in place really well. On the bottom corners and a couple of other places I used a hot glue gun and glued it down. I've always used that stringy weather strip adhesive before but I think the hot glue works better and is not as messy.
Some trash blew up and got in the dark blue paint on the door panel so I'll have to re-do that, but I am going to replace the latch in the drivers door so I will wait and re-paint while I have it off replacing the latch.

[crossfire84]

just ordered 2 billet wheels from centerline wheels today, take about 3 weeks to ship. i hope i measured correct, theres no sending them back.