What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[renegade8720]

Great looking truck!

Renegade

[Daze57]

x2 ^

[NEWFISHER]

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!

[agnes the dog]

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...

[jrdecat]

watched the snow melt off of it...

[yossarian19]

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.

[NEWFISHER]

Masked and resprayed the interior.



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Then painted the hub caps and emblems, tossed on some buffed/ground whites and drove it to the Drive Inn for a shake. Found an engine for my Burb, so the Apache is now for sale

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[Daze57]

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 '

[meter swinger]

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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[meter swinger]

Looks good. Ordered it from brothers on friday and its already here. Now to find some brackets.
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[Chevette]

Originally Posted by meter swinger

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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If I put my bumper on the kitchen table, I'd probably end up sleeping with it too (out on the lawn). I'm sure she'd eventually cool down and let me back in the house though, as long as I didn't try to sneak the bumper back in. Looks good Meter. Make sure you put lots of polish on it.

[meter swinger]

Originally Posted by Chevette

If I put my bumper on the kitchen table, I'd probably end up sleeping with it too (out on the lawn). I'm sure she'd eventually cool down and let me back in the house though, as long as I didn't try to sneak the bumper back in. Looks good Meter. Make sure you put lots of polish on it.

I have five boys. You outta see the crap they drag in the house
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[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by Chevette

If I put my bumper on the kitchen table, I'd probably end up sleeping with it too (out on the lawn). I'm sure she'd eventually cool down and let me back in the house though, as long as I didn't try to sneak the bumper back in. Looks good Meter. Make sure you put lots of polish on it.

Yall do not want to find out what happens when you rebuild your engine during the winter in a two bedroom apt. That was in my second year of marriage, I am pretty sure it took me another 5 or so and a new house before she forgot.

[tttuba]

Here is what I did with my truck on the 31st.......

[vwjohnny]

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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[agnes the dog]

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.

[mobileortho]

Wanted to get the rear speakers off the floor, so I cut the box down so that it would fit in the cab corners.

[OrrieG]

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.

[crossfire84]

nice work

[mknittle]

Finished up my new transmission cross member. and got a quart of rust bullet.

[NEWFISHER]

Pulled the seat in the Apache and tore it down to the springs, rebuilding the foam and installing a new fitted cover.

[mknittle]

the brown truck brought my front control arm bushings

[Speedbumpauto]

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.

[renegade8720]

Looking good!

Renegade

[tttuba]

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.