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Stripped down my interior and removed the old gas tank. Removed old seat cover and foam and now I'm just sitting around looking for that FedEx truck full of goodies so I can start putting her all back together again. It was pleasant to find that the floor and the seat frame look really good. Frame only needed a light brush and some paint down on the bottom.
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I widened the tailgate 6 inches to match the bed I did earlier this weekend.
It's now a Chevivrolet. I don't know if I will leave it like that or put a patch panel over it with a bow tie or something? We'll see.
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Great day to put down my first coat of wax on Texas Touch after paint (been almost a year now).
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04-07-2015, 11:29 PM | #5 |
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Looks great SuperC10Tex. Me I won't use wax anymore. Not since it made my 72 yellow Chevelle look so badly. I've been using this since 1996, and couldn't be happier. They have great polishes as well. I used the mild to take off the wax.
http://www.detailsupplyoutlet.com/item.htm?item_num=115
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Beautiful truck super
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When out and got gas today, still working the bugs out. It's better everytime I take it out, fix a rattle here, tighten a bolt there, small airbag leak...
Clean it up and out the the Steak and Shake tomorrow night.
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Success!!!! Not exactly a today only project. I replaced the brake system on my truck during the winter months. Today I took it off the jack stands and down the road for the first time since October.
I installed a power brake booster, replaced all brake lines, and replaced rear pads and hardware as well as having the drums turned. I was pretty happy seeing I have never worked on drum brakes or replaced lines before. I spent a lot of time watching Youtube tutorials. I learned a lot and have the satisfaction of accomplishment. I am so pleased I just had to post. |
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No, it has disc up front and drums in the rear. I bought the booster from Classic Parts. It bolted in pretty easily. The biggest challenge was connecting the linkage to the brake pedal under the dash.
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Took the passenger interior door panel off my 68 C20 so I could rig the driver's side door handle. Cleaned some grounds so I can get her cranked this weekend
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04-08-2015, 06:08 PM | #15 |
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Bought a full set of new tires today. Nothing fancy, just some M+S's. Now to get them on the truck. Maybe tomorrow.
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04-08-2015, 06:27 PM | #16 |
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Did everything I could without U-bolts to get ready to install the rear end back where it belongs. The U-bolts should be here tomorrow and I can wrap that part up. I mounted the Wilwood brackets and just set the disks and calipers on just to see how its gonna fall together. Man what a nice disk brake setup. That drum style E-brake is really nice. None of those big ugly springs hanging off the calipers... just nice, clean and modern design.
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Are the brakes drum and the disk for the e-brake only? Beautiful...And I know it's me...being a simple disk front/drum rear guy....Butt, What The %&*(^^?
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Its like a newer disk setup where the rotor is also the drum for the E-brake.. the drum part is only for the E-brake, it works by cable... the disk part is what you stop with. Nice 4 piston calipers too
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I moved mine from the driveway to the street...Big day/
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I spent the better part of Sunday pulling the pan on the TH350 to stop the leaking. I was pleased to have found very little crap in the pan. So, I changed the filter/gasket, cleaned and painted the pan and bolts, new modulator and topped it off with fluid. (Fluid just dripped out of the modulator too, yikes!).
Cranked it up and it was leaking worse than ever, looked like the pan again, but it was dry. Upon further inspection, I found the secondary accumulator cover leaking. I removed the clip and cover, and found the spring broken in 3 pcs and had damaged the cover. I was lucky and had another tranny to get the parts I needed, woo-hoo!. Got it all back together Monday afternoon and took it for a ride. NO LEAKS, its like a miracle. Shift like new, crisp into 2nd was something new fo this truck...replacing that broken spring helps here and smoothly but firmly into 3rd. The bad modulator was allowing the fluid to be sucked into the intake an burned, and of course, it was always "hunting" or "floating" into 3rd. Spent time cleaning the spent trans fluid off the undercarriage and exhaust. Time well spent! Tom
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Baby's got new shoes! More like work boots.
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04-12-2015, 01:55 AM | #22 |
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Removed and polished headlight bezels. Happy to see after all these years they're show quality. I'm going to be lucky with this truck. Most of it is in excellent condition, though you'd never know it by the picture below.
Removed NOS lower moldings from their packages. Cleaned the glue off and repacked. Couldn't be happier. I need to figure out the tires. The current are old and I don't like the way they sit in the well anyway. They're 255/70/15.
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Cool pictures!
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Excellent night photos! I really like the first one. You should post it to the artistically shots thread
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