Restoring Rusty

[Gregski]

ok so test fitted the radio to make sure it physically fits and it do, and I also hooked it all up temporarily and it works, well I only get two FM stations but it plays music

then I go to unplug the thing to take it back out for a proper cleanin' and realized the genius over here forgot to hook up the antenna, so that's why only two stations came in - LOL man I still get too excited when working with radios what's wrong with me

[Gregski]

and as luck would have it the plugs are different so this can't be just a plug and pray, and even the pins be different so I can't do my regular trick where I just repin the connectors (old pins are female new pins are male and the radio is female too)

and you know me I will not cut the original harness, so I put some blade connectors on the back of my new connector to slide right in to the old factory connector (got all that)

this will work if not just for testing

[Gregski]

well lets take a closer look at that beauty

[Gregski]

aint you gonna tell us about all them purdy wires stickin' out the back

BLACK POWER CONNECTOR

WHITE FRONT SPEAKER CONNECTOR

BLUE REAR SPEAKER CONNECTOR

[Gregski]

cool, but lets take a deeper dive

BLACK POWER CONNECTOR

Red - snipped missing in the pic

Yellow - Power Rebel? (hey man that's what it says on the wire) I assume switched power source

Black - Ground

Gray - Lamp

[Gregski]

WHITE FRONT SPEAKER CONNECTOR

White - Right Common

Gray - Right Front

Brown - Left Common

Green - Left Front

* honestly I don't know what they mean by common maybe someone can learn us

[Gregski]

BLUE REAR SPEAKER CONNECTOR

White - Right Common

Orange - Right Rear

Brown - Left Common

Purple - Left Rear

[Gregski]

wait what? you had the radio installed, you said it worked, then you took it back out and took it all apart, what gives?

first of all taking things apart is cool - no argument there

second I wanted to clean things more better

and C, the AM - FM slider jobbie was refusing to slide, so we must fix it

ait then, go fer it!

[greg64]

Greg, have a great time with your family. I used to live in Vancouver. Maybe Rusty and Dusty can post in your absence...

[CodyWorks]

Waiting on Rusty to post some updates while the Greg is out of town. I may be having withdrawals.

[Gregski]

What's up you'all Rusty here, figure I give you an update while The Greg cleans the house for the Canadians to show up, you know him, a bucket of water and some paper towels...

How did I log in to his account, well he leaves his password on a sticky under the keyboard, duh

Anyway I'm just sitting there in the driveway leaking oil so I got to entertain myself some how

Watched him wash the stupid electric Nissan Leaf right in front of my face, he never washed me like that, see if I start on the first try for him ever again, no just kidding the dude is cool

don't tell him I told you but next month is The Greg's birthday the 25th I recon, poor dude is always eating steak off a paper plate on his B day cause they go camping for Memorial Day weekend each year, for once he would like to eat off a real plate with metal knife and fork

what else, I hear I'm getting a new exhaust next month, don't think I need it, the LMC Truck one I got suits me just fine but what the heck, also I spied a new (used) gauge cluster with one of them Tack-O-Meters in it I think he said, an electric oil gauge and something called a Volt Milimeter, so what ever that is

what else oh yeah, love the new radio, AM, FM, Stereo, Cassette can you believe it, what will they think of next?

shoot here he comes, gotta go... hey whats with this Incognito Window... ???

be good to your trucks you'all

P.S. The Leaf aint even got a radio with a cassette

[Guilty-by-Design]

Thanks for the update Rusty

[greg64]

Good job, Rusty. Sorry about your leak...

Oh, and don't worry about the stupid Leaf, you'll still be running when the Leaf's battery pack packs it in.

[Rich84]

Don't worry ..we all start leaking a little over 40.

[rusty76]

It wouldn't be a Chevy truck if it didn't pee somewhere.

[Gregski]

well Happy [early] Birthday to me!

... and what do we have here?

any guesses

[Jeramy]

a rabbit, three pairs of gloves, yellow safety glasses, and chocolate milk

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Jeramy

a rabbit, three pairs of gloves, yellow safety glasses, and chocolate milk

And a pair of headers to scare the kids away from the truck.

[Jeramy]

Originally Posted by enaberif

And a pair of headers to scare the kids away from the truck.

that was my second guess

[Titomars]

Cleaning supplies & paint? lol

Judging by the box I am guessing carb and intake manifold. But I might be projecting my own wish list into Greg's

[68Timber]

I'm guessing mufflers...

[Chaplain]

Idk

[Gregski]

X pipe and collector extension reducer jobies

[77K10Silverado]

This will do!

Excited to see how the pipes fit. Been thinking of this for mine.

[Gregski]

before we tackle the exhaust we gots some unfinished business to attend to, as you may recall we left the inner fender primered (redish) and coated its belly with the terrible RUST-OLEUM undercoating but we never painted it green to match the other side, so here we go....

first pic, inner fender ready for paint

second pic first coat

third pic second coat

I recon we will only need two cans of paint for this amount of surface area or roughly 4 coats, (2 coats per rattle can)