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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Kingsport, TN
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Great looking truck!
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Location: Las Vegas - Nev. aka Sin City
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x2 ^
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Oregon
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Tossed some stainless 3/4 trim rings on it, unbolted the front seat and ordered a pleated seat cover and matching headliner. It seems to never stop!
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Fishers, IN
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The starter was making a horrible sound. Crawled underneath and found that my starter housing is cracked from the PO torquing it too tight. At least I know what that sound is now! Off to the parts store again...
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Location: Denver, CO
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watched the snow melt off of it...
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Nevada City, CA
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Got the pitman arm, steering box & column removed. Still need to separate column from box, or source a 60s / 70s column to use. Not really sure how to separate column... hammer hasn't worked yet.
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Location: Oregon
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Masked and resprayed the interior.
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Location: Las Vegas - Nev. aka Sin City
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hey guys -
For any of you 55- 59 chevy guys who are still utilizing your lower side cowl vent - i have a great tip for ya - for the doors i was trying a bunch of different materials to replace the worn cracked rubber . After buying the ''so-called'' replacment foam stuff for these vents - 3 times ( they tear v v easily - pure junk ) i tried other stuff and it all did not work . what is ''the'' best stuff is a old car or truck inner tube - get a busted one -make a template and a shot of wd-40 and there ya go - seals great !!!!! hope this helps out anyone. i am a guessin that the 47 -54 - guys may find a use for that tube rubber also ' |
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Location: Kennewick WA.
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My rear fleetside bumper just showed up today. It will be the first time iv'e had one on the the truck. I'm so excited i'll probably sleep with it tonight.
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Looks good. Ordered it from brothers on friday and its already here. Now to find some brackets.
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Location: Olympia WA
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Here is what I did with my truck on the 31st.......
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Location: Tucson, AZ
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Wow! Bumper envy! I worked on my firewall and frame. More scrubbing to remove 50+ years of grease and yuck. Sprayed my new posies drop springs. Hope to be ready for paint in a few weeks. Ready to have my truck back.
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Location: Fishers, IN
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Drove it.... :-) 180 mile round trip to buy a Camaro T-5 5 speed. I was really surprised that I got 17mpg!!! Just gotta find an s-10 tail housing now.
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Location: Hampton, VA
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Wanted to get the rear speakers off the floor, so I cut the box down so that it would fit in the cab corners.
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Still finetuning the windows, on hold until the channels get here. Made a support for my floor jack to hold the doors during hinge installation.
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nice work
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Location: Auburn ca.
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Finished up my new transmission cross member. and got a quart of rust bullet.
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Location: Oregon
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Pulled the seat in the Apache and tore it down to the springs, rebuilding the foam and installing a new fitted cover.
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Location: Auburn ca.
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the brown truck brought my front control arm bushings
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Location: Tucson, AZ
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FINALLY got the Lokar parking brake the way I wanted it and got the boot to fit without interference from the mounting bolts. I also fabbed up a (I think) pretty sweet shifter for the overdrive unit so I won't have to use that ugly cable and big red knob under the dash.(US Gear V2, not Gearvendors) I'll get the shifter handle chromed to match the other two, but I think it turned out kinda neat. I wanted the E brake handle to stick up some cuz I think it gives a little bit of the "old truck" look.
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Kingsport, TN
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Looking good!
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Location: Olympia WA
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Happy Days...got my wheel spacers so I can use the stock wheels with disc brakes. Now to get all the Halloween items that are drying on the truck off so I can install these shiny pieces of metal.
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