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02-24-2017, 11:28 PM | #1 |
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
It was a snowy day today (where's that global warming they keep promising me?) so I finished the carpet on my trans hump. Now I need to decide how to hold everything in place: spray glue, velcro, sill plates? I'd rather not use glue because it's too hard to remove for any future maintenance. How do the pros do it?
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02-24-2017, 03:32 AM | #4 |
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Cut and installed some carpet in my '50. I've been driving it a couple of years with just foil-backed insulation on the floor. I found some cheap rubber-backed outdoor carpet at Lowe's that doesn't require binding. It's not fancy, but it's lots nicer than the original rubber mat. I cut a paper pattern and transferred it onto the carpet. I still need to cover the front part of the trans hump. I may get around to it in a couple of years...
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02-25-2017, 01:45 PM | #5 |
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Jesse Z, the carpet looks great. You might use glue just in spots, or around the edge to hold the trans cover in place, and sill plates for the carpet at the door openings.
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02-25-2017, 03:14 PM | #6 |
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Double stick carpet tape (commercial stuff) works good too. 2" wide around the perimeter and corners.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
you can also tie the pieces together on the back side with the carper seam tape and a laundry iron. that is how household carpet is seamed.
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C4 home made cross member all tacked in, upper and lower control arms installed, a piece of square tubing for struts for now. Made a front motor mount for my 235, mine doesn't have side mounts, I have front corner mounts. Set the motor in the frame with the new cross member and motor mount, found out rack is not going to have room to clear the oil pan, not just the lines but the main body of the rack won't clear the pan. After a sit a stare at it with a cold brew and having visions of cutting and modifying the pan I decided there might not be room inside, was looking like it might be close. Decided raising the motor an inch or so might make it work if I reclocked the lines, cut out the tacked in motor mount, made some blocks for the back of the motor, raised it up and it looks like it will clear now. Trying to avoid the "fix one problem and create 2 more" deal I have a habit of doing. Gotta get the picture deal figured out, keeps saying My iphone pics are to big.
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03-20-2017, 05:16 PM | #11 |
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
some would say I 'used it for what it was intended', some would say I 'abused it'. most would say I was just plain stupid for using it to haul the way I did. Anyway, I am not proud of it, but it did get the job done. (oh, I should add.... a cop passed me on my way home and didn't even give me a second look)
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03-20-2017, 07:53 PM | #13 |
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Not stupid or abusing it to haul something with it. In fact I love that pic. Usually, if you load it yourself and be a little bit careful you can use a truck without damaging it. I always get thumbs up when I use mine to haul something.
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03-20-2017, 07:59 PM | #14 |
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I just decided to go white like msaint, only with a red top. Also a NFL Broncos logo megantic sign on the drivers door and a NFL Vikings megantic sign on the passenger door. My two favorite teams since forever!!
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Finally got the paperwork in the mail to get these vintage 1957 New York plates on my truck! only a $3.75 fee, but a lot of paperwork!
form mv-82 form mv-440v photocopies of: my drivers license current registration current HISTORICAL insurance card photo of vintage plates
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finally had a weekend where the ground wasnt a swamp so got to dear apart the old truck
was pretty much nothing holding the fenders on in the back as the lower cowl section was missing on both sides im scrapping this cab anyways and have a good one in the garage. so im trying to get the front end off and everything else but the cab so i can get it into the garage and swap cabs so my other truck doesnt have to sit outside. my yard is looking like a junkyard Last edited by abig84; 04-11-2017 at 01:53 PM. Reason: spelling |
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I'm sure you could post that cab for sale and quickly have a buyer. i know I'm guilty of it, but I hate having to send any of these original pieces to scrap.
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is there actually a market for a stripped out old cab? its got the vin plate but no title got holes in the floor, the upper beam above the windshield is gone, holes near the rear corner by the back window, and might even have to cut a piece off the dashboard for the new cab. and who knows what else im going to have to destroy by the time its stripped down
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I've been busy, end of winter weather was great.
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I have a few more pictures.
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Looking very nice.
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Sorry wrong thread. I tried to delete this post.
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