What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[dewey777]

Installed the visor, thinking I will paint it and the roof white.........

[TX58]

Nice, is it metal? Mine is fiberglass, don't like it too much. It's got waves and other things that drive me crazy.
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[Daze57]

i just looked at it as it was too hot after i got home from my cancer Dr.'' 5 years cancer free!''


best news i have heard all day !

[lowdownstar]

Originally Posted by mknittle

i just looked at it as it was too hot after i got home from my cancer Dr. 5 years cancer free!
tomrrow I will get back to the floor on my truck.

That is great news! I can't wait to here you say 10 years, then 20 then life!!!

Keep the faith and keep working on that truck.lol

Ray

[Russell Ashley]

Originally Posted by Daze57

i just looked at it as it was too hot after i got home from my cancer Dr.'' 5 years cancer free!''


best news i have heard all day !

Congratulations. Eleven years for me.

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by lowdownstar

That is great news! I can't wait to here you say 10 years, then 20 then life!!!

Keep the faith and keep working on that truck.lol

Ray

Thanks Ray.

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by Russell Ashley

Congratulations. Eleven years for me.

Congratulations. to you too Russel 11 years is great!!

I am pretty lucky I had brain Cancer, it couldnt have done much damage there

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by Daze57

i just looked at it as it was too hot after i got home from my cancer Dr.'' 5 years cancer free!''


best news i have heard all day !

Thanks Daze, me too it sure could have been worse I was driving a logging truck when I had the first seazure. 75000#s of logs and truck. i managed to get stopped then drove 5 miles to find a place to park.Sort of a hard day at the office

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by dewey777

Installed the visor, thinking I will paint it and the roof white.........

looks nice

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by TX58

Fabric came in today for my seat, taking it to the upholstery shop tomorrow.
It's vintage material that was used in impalas, not sure what year but I liked the pattern and the shade of black that it was.
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is that the 'hounds tooth" pattern?

[dewey777]

Originally Posted by TX58

Nice, is it metal? Mine is fiberglass, don't like it too much. It's got waves and other things that drive me crazy.
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It is fiberglass. Seems to be decent quality, I picked it up at a swap meet and kind of forgot about it until recently when I was cleaning out the shed. Fits really nice and has no waves in it. We will see what happens when it gets out in the sun for a while.
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[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by mknittle

Thanks Daze, me too it sure could have been worse I was driving a logging truck when I had the first seazure. 75000#s of logs and truck. i managed to get stopped then drove 5 miles to find a place to park.Sort of a hard day at the office

Yes it could have been. In the 80's I had a friend in his early 40's driving his family on vacation, he was in the motor home with his daughter and a couple of their friends, wife was following in the Jeep with another son. He had a massive heart attack driving 60 on a two lane rural road. Some how managed to hang on long enough to get is slowed down so it just slowly stopped on the shoulder. It was in the middle of nowhere but did not make any difference, aeorta exploded.

Daze, glad to hear you are still cancer free. My Mom lived 15 years after she was diagnosed with inoperable, etc. lung cancer, then went into spontaneous remission after going to a faith healer.

I worked on the drink holders and minor stuff under the seats. Manged to punch a 1/16" hole in the front of one leather seat, grrr, but now I don't have to worry about hurting them. It is where you can't seem it and I will get some of that fixing goo so it doesn't spread.

[mknittle]

just goes to show it only takes a fraction of a second and lifes are changed.

[mknittle]

i worked on my floor supports and cleaned up where the cross brace is going. Then punched some holes for plug welds on the floor. in the morning I will change the posision of the temporary brace on the cab supports. I will also get the floor braces in that go from the toe board to the beace in front of the seat.That is if Murphy leaves me alone

[mknittle]

som pics top left is the new floor support They are 12Ga with pockets made from tubing and grade 8 washers.Bottom is the new cross brace. and top right is the floor supports with temporary brace and the cross brace. The 2 tubes on top will tie the cross brace and the floor supports to the toe board.

[dcmalone]

Finally got the newly rebuilt engine installed over the weekend. I found that the one that was in it had about a pound of JB Weld on each side painted to hide the cracks. Good times with my father and my son. The replacement was built by us in my carport..honing and all.

[dcmalone]

Just to be clear, the top pic is the old one. lol

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by dcmalone

Just to be clear, the top pic is the old one. lol

Yeah, been there too As I remember it was Some good times

[vwjohnny]

Manifolds and vac lines installed!
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[mknittle]

Not much i just got started this morning and got a phone call, My dad had a front drive axle bearing cam apart in the log truck. so that was the end of that

[beanyard]

I went and looked at some panels and burbs. I am trying to decide if it is worth going across the country to get one that is mostly rust free when you could just buy one with some rust locally and save thousands.
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[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by beanyard

I went and looked at some panels and burbs. I am trying to decide if it is worth going across the country to get one that is mostly rust free when you could just buy one with some rust locally and save thousands.
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Depends on if the rust is in a place where you can get replacement panels or not. I think everything from the doors forward is same a pickup, but back quarters and doors are unique and not reproduced. Whats your time worth and do you relish the challenge of doing the bodywork??

[beanyard]

I think between what Jim carter sells and a donor truck cab it would be covered. Hard to say though.
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[arturo7]

Laid down the green and picked up the pink.

[OrrieG]

Nothing, but got to ride in the right cockpit seat on a Piper PA-42 Cheyenne for a business trip. Had a blast, wish I had learned to fly. Sun prohibitted any better photo with the phone cam.