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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Finishing up my 4 link conversion.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
We had a Christmas cruise so I decked out the truck
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
^^^awesome^^^ I wouldn't mind seeing a little more of that.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Thank you, its tedious and time consuming, but I like to build my own, lots of these pieces were left over from my last 2 cars…
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
MT65 meticulous job on your exhaust! Looks great. Don't think that I have seen one tucked so close in behind the tire before.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
MT65 meticulous job on your exhaust! Looks great. Don't think that I have seen one tucked so close in behind the tire before.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Thank you for the nice words, its got just under an inch on clearance, takes more speed than this truck will do to make the tire grow that much, at least I hope so🤔🤔🤔
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Had to run to Home Depot for a fitting last night. When I came back out to the truck, the sunset looked great, so I snapped a few pics with my iPhone. Wish I would've had a real camera and been in a better location than HD's parking lot, but for a total impromptu shoot, I think these turned out well.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Finished mounting my rear sway bar, a front bar from an early 70’s Camaro should be fine, may have to fine tune end links when its on its wheels…
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Finished mounting my rear sway bar, a front bar from an early 70’s Camaro should be fine, may have to fine tune end links when its on its wheels…
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Finally resting on its own , maybe a little fine tuning on stance, 5” ground clearance as it sits…
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Started working on stuff and ended up pulling the engine. I over did it as usual.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Started painting my new spindles to replace the one that broke.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
I finished replacing the bed wood and raptor lined the inside of the bed. I got it finished and mounted back on the frame.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Removing the floor of the utility body, and de-rusting the frame. I left a small part of the floor to hold the fan to help blow away the dust as I'm wire brushing. Wife brought home a bunch of N95 masks the local pharmacy was giving away, I said "Perfect for the shop!"
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Thanks! I don't believe the difference in condition of the frame from one part to another. The truck had some sort of fantastic undercoating, and in many places peeling that off reveals metal which looks like it just left the assembly line. But in other places the salt has really done a job. The trailing arms have all the structural integrity of a couple potato chips!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Sorry folks, no pictures but today I:
Installed new knobs for the headlight switch, wiper and heater (one knoberoo). I had all black knobs but put the stainless and black ones in. Installed new glovebox, it was a learning experience, had to do some trimming and whatnot. I wish I knew what to put on that cardboard to protect it. I may remove and do some final trimming. Installed a new heater fan, those big 45 size sheet metal bolts for the airbox to cowl were all stripped out so I drilled out the holes and installed stainless nutserts with stainless steel 1/4X20 bolts. I also used stainless steel screws on the heater box and lid. The new fan worked great and didn't scream like a screech owl. Oh yeah, installed new clutch pedal rubber to match my brake pedal. Slowly but surely it's coming along. I took it for a spin to a local store (about 15 miles one way) and love driving that truck. I also have an NV4500 5 speed to install pretty soon. Can't wait!! I didn't have a nutsert tool, so I used a 1/4X20 bolt with a couple of washers and pulled them in with a nut behind the washers. Broke a couple of bolts thinking I had some tightening to do, note to self, broken bolt, probably tight enough. The airbox is sturdy now. Here's a pix of the truck itself with an under the hood for giggles. I'll try to get some pix of the new stuff but it started to rain when I finished up putting my toys(tools) away. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Got the frame and body ready over the last few weeks and both sent out to be blasted this morning.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
We had some unusually nice weather over the weekend. So I built a cart for my Suburban and pulled the frame out from under it.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Started on my drivers door inner and outter skin replacement plus some odd dents to pull out… and 16 holes to weld up that were from previous owner that I can only assume were for different types of mirrors… and his over use of a grinder in those locations 🤦*♂️
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part IV
Almost done inner door skin, finished welding, just gotta hammer over bottom flange.
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