What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II

[jessemthompson]

I started laying out my BP auto wiring harness for my LS swap. Hope to make some serious progress throughout the weekend.

[stepsider]

Got up this morning, (Retired) What can I do to my Stepside, How bout some end caps for the bed. Took about 3 hours (have cable TV in my garage could have don it faster) Told my wife long time ago, to keep my happy buy my tools. My nipples still get hard everytime I walk past the tool Dept in Sears. To much information !!!

[VWNate1]

Well done sir ! .

[Saclandman]

Drove it.

[In The Ten Ring]

Originally Posted by Saclandman

Drove it.

I don't care WHO says WHAT: long wheel base trucks look better than short wheel base trucks.

(And stepside lwb trucks look the best!).

All I did today was get up into my dad's attic and find the 1967 hood cowling I have up there and yes, it has an antenna hole although the hole looks to be a "redneck hacked hole." I'll get my cowling blasted and if it's destroyed in the process then I'll have another look at this one and depending on how that goes, maybe buy one from a board member. The attic cowling is however, very rust-free.

I also dipped my hood latch bracket into Evaporust and it's doing well. I find an Evaporust soak after electrolysis works amazing wonders on rusted metal.

[stepsider]

After putting 4" Lower springs & 2 1/2 blocks on the rear of my Stepside this is what it came out to. 4 1/8 lower. The driver side is 1" lower than the Pass side. Drivers sit at 29" Pass at 30" When I do the front with spindles & springs, I hope that some way it fixes itself. The truck alway sat lower on the dr. side. Might have to take it to a frame shop, Will see after I do the front

[In The Ten Ring]

I forced my hood latch bracket to fit into a plastic tray, poured in a gallon of Evaporust, and forced up the level with bricks and plastic bottles. The bracket is about half way to being totally rust free. :-)

(I realize this looks crazy but it's working).

[cooperhw]

Primed the underside of the bed while my bodyman was working over the rear fenders getting them ready for primer. Let dry a few hours and undercoated the underside of the bed. bodyman then laid down some high build DTM primer on the rear fenders, hood, grill, and cowl.
Came out real nice.
Getting the bed stuff ready for color in a couple weeks.

[In The Ten Ring]

Wow, I had to go back 5 pages to find this thread! Stop the slacking guys!

I am behind: yesterday I put the last coat of paint on the newly derusted hood latch bracket. Today I paid for a Custom/10 emblem for my NOS front fender.

I also called the media blaster, my parts are ready.

OH! I had a look at my original cowling and it's really too badly rusted so I got the 1967 cowling down out of my dad's attic. If the hole for the antennae lines up with my original or the antenna fits it, I'll use it.

[sk8er32283]

finished putting together my side A/C vent speaker pods. Now to cut the dash. I am not looking forward to that. Measure 15 times and cut once will be my motto for this project. Also got the solid window with stainless installed. It looks so much better than the old slider without any stainless.

[MoFormula]

Those speakers look just awesome. Great job.

[sk8er32283]

Originally Posted by MoFormula

Those speakers look just awesome. Great job.

Thanks MoFormula. It is a relatively cheap solution to my speaker problems. Now to mount some speakers with more mid range sound. I think those will go where the stock speaker used to reside.
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[DillonGMC]

I lowered mean green and put some rallys I had on.

[magwakeenercew2jh]

Played with the motorized bicycle today. It's going to be RAT's spare tire.

[demi]

I installed the newly rebuilt carburetor (7029214) that my wife surprised me with on Father's Day. It was from one of the professional quadrajet builders and I chose not to go with the show plating. Apparantly, she has been in contact with him for awhile trying to answer questions. She told me what she was up to and that I had to speak with him. When she told me I was shocked. He said he would have it finished by father's day.

[VWNate1]

On those door latches , all you needs do is make up a dilute Phosphoric Acid & water solution , when you're finished de rusting thrm , rinse them off and quickly dip them into the Phosphorus solution , it will *instantly* prevent the flash rusting you're struggling with now .

DO NOT use undiluted Phosphoric acid ! you can dip your fingers into it yes but it's not good for the steel .

NO alloy / pot metal parts either ! .

Brass , like completely rusted closed carby jets , will come out looking new as will old rusty chrome bumper bolts but pot metal or alloy things will be ruined .

The best part is : you can strain and jug this solution for years of re use , making it very co$t effective .

Nice to see all the hard works going on here , Spring must have sprung although heavy rain storms have dogged us all the way across America .

I am surprised to see many folks simply pull off the road and stop , emergency flashers going instead of simply slowing down to safe speeds .

The big rigs often flash past us in less than 1/4 mile visibility going 85 + MPH .

71CHEVYSHORTBED402 : have you tried a wire wheel for rust removal ? I go through them like crazy (buy by the box full) and have worn out $25 Harbor Freight drill motors but I like the resulting clean bare metal and no chemical burns .

The (in)famous Rochester Qudrajet carby is in fact a sterling carby , you'll need to upgrade the fuel inlet and jet well plugs so they don't weep/seep/leak and cause engine fires but once repaired and properly set up they never ever go out of adjustment and provide good drivability plus power when you stamp the foot feed and open up the secondaries .

[ole dollor]

Originally Posted by magwakeenercew2jh

Played with the motorized bicycle today. It's going to be RAT's spare tire.

very good spare . a fun spare . I like it .

[Ozzy2013]

Originally Posted by DillonGMC

I lowered mean green and put some rallys I had on.

How much did you lower the front and back?

[fartblossom]

I worked REALLY hard today. I installed my new "lighted" LMC cigarette lighter. Because we all know how important it is to be able to get your lighter back in the hole at night after lighting your Pall Mall.

[zellway]

Originally Posted by fartblossom

I worked REALLY hard today. I installed my new "lighted" LMC cigarette lighter. Because we all know how important it is to be able to get your lighter back in the hole at night after lighting your Pall Mall.

just seeing the pic I was thinking you had a shorted out one and it was glowing from it. Guess it's best to read the info first.

[In The Ten Ring]

Running electrolysis on the hood latch.

I also put off picking up my fenders from the media blaster due to predicted heavy rain in his area. Monday is the new date for that.

[71CHEVYSHORTBED402]

Restoring under the bed while it's off. I "finished" getting the paint off the frame, though still have a little to go when the leaf springs, brakes, shocks, and exhaust come off, but it's close. Took about 8 hours with paint remover and lacquer thinner. Kind of a bear, but it's really not bad. Next weekend comes the axle and differential. After that it gets a bath and the real fun "phase two" begins.

Incidentally, this restoration business is a kind of a blast. Always something to make look new again.

[In The Ten Ring]

All I did today was run ERR on another bracket and then soak it (along with the hood latch) in Evaporust. I hope to get those derusted and repainted within days.

[StoningtonQB]

Replaced the old dash speaker with a replacement pair and installed the Retrosound Hermosa made for 67-72 GM Trucks

[kingstrider]

I replaced the rubber fuel line on my 400 sbc with 3/8" steel line instead. I have a late model serpentine setup so had to snake it between the timing cover and water pump which took a while to get the bends right. I still have a couple of short rubber connectors for the fuel filter but feel much safer without all that rubber touching the motor.