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Good stuff, both of them!
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Got the "new" aprons stripped of parts and straightened out for sand blasting. I am thinking maybe having them powder coated as they the only kinda funky part will be behind the grille. But even then these are so rough from the factory it's hardly different where I worked the damaged areas.
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I gotta admit guys, I’m feeling a little lost now that the truck is done. I go out to the garage and putz around but there’s really nothing to do. After pushing for months to get stuff done, it’s hard to quit cold turkey...
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![]() I disassembled the parking brake stuff I just got and started figuring that out. If anyone knows, does it have a pin through it to hold it into the the fender/cab bracket? The last photo is the close up of that. It has what looks like a pin in it that is broken off flush. Brian
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martin: if I remember correctly there is a cotter pin thru that hole that holds a spring and a flat washer in place. I will have to crawl under mine & look this weekend unless some one else chimes in. my shop manual doesn't show any details of the parking brake.
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I gotta admit guys, I’m feeling a little lost now that the truck is done. I go out to the garage and putz around but there’s really nothing to do. After pushing for months to get stuff done, it’s hard to quit cold turkey... response drive around all over looking for deals on stuff related to fixing old trucks. buy the good stuff. totally fix it, sell it. that gives you time in the truck driving around the projects are small and have a light at the end of a short tunnel if you get tired of a certain part or it is more involved than you want, just resell it keeps your skills up keeps you happy because you get to hammer the living S%$# outta stuff and work your frustrations out post pics of your stuff (ahem, car parts) on here so we can keep tabs on you, lol. |
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This might help. I hooked up the floor ebrake in my truck.
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Ordered some blanks to cut myself a few extra keys. I was sure I did not have any blanks that would match. They arrived and I went out to cut them, while setting up my key cutter I looked on my key board and saw a an entire stack of old GM keys. (Key on right) So I matched the key and tried cutting it, sure enough it was the right blank. I sure like finding stuff I forgot I had.
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usually you keep that stuff on a shelf or in a box and move it from house to house. then you finally do a clean out and purge the old stuff. next day, you need that part and have to go buy it.
looks like you need a 108638 cp pin for that shaft Brian. maybe a bit of ginding and a bushing on the and where it is worn down. |
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I am trying to come to a color and am coming up empty. The large spray out card is 58 Corvette "red" and it looks like friggin mud! OMG it's NOT red, it's not orange, it looks like dirt was sprayed on the card. This Ford you see is pretty close to it, but still way more red. And what is funny is the color you see here taken with my camera and put on the net with you looking at it with an HP or a Mac, or what ever it isn't going to be even close to the real color. The second I took the photo of that Ford I could see it was WAY, WAY redder on the camera than in person. So right off the bat this is a waste of time for you guys. LOL
The small spray out cards are SPI colors with the reds really more what I want. But damn, I WANT a 50's Corvette color to fit the theme of the truck but damn this is not where I want to go. I am going to check the spray out card against Corvettes at the next Goodguys and see what they have and talk to them on their color. There are a few that are restored that I see that I believe are the correct color. Brian
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It just cracks me up, that large spray out card isn't even in the same city let alone the same ball park as that Ford it's laying on in the second photo.
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If you want to go completely crazy, go for the 2019 Ford Edge Ruby Red, http://www.brandonford.com/blog/2019...ption-gallery/
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I have to assume Harley Earl had access to redder reds! Brian
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I got some welding done on my parking brake bell crank. Got the roll pin and cotter pins drilled out. Took my evening walk making a trip to the hardware store part of it and got some machine washers for the parking brake.
Got my five minutes in! Brian
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I installed my speedo pulse generator. Now I face a decision:
The truck needs some work that's beyond my capabilities in a home garage so it must be taken into town. Trouble is "town" is an hour's drive on Interstate highways over three mountain passes with 6% grades. Hardcore road test, eh? I don't have a rig that can trailer it, and getting a tow truck to my remote location would be prohibitively expensive. Pretty scary driving it so far having just put the thing together and only driven around the block! But here there's no back roads, only the freeway.
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https://www.sw-rodandrestocustomcolor.com/colors/PCCL72 The same hue was on the Buick too: https://www.google.com/search?q=1956...U8oLiiP0a5FQM: ...and the Olds: https://www.google.com/search?client...30.hUY0xh1Ucr4 ...and the Caddy: https://www.google.com/search?client...30.vz8JWpa7YL0 ...and the Pontiac: https://www.google.com/search?client...30.qEM38Rxr0BI ...and here are the paint chips: http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/chipdisp...&info=&page=11 Keep lookin'!
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I'll look into that, thanks!
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