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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
You are going to record it, right?
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Looked at the frame on mine where I blew a portin of it out with the water hide and it opened up a hole. I can fix it confirmed that so now the only other questionable spot is just behind the cab and I can get a kit for it.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
the camera will be rollin'. How could I not record and share a moment like that?
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Picked up fleetside bed from Qksilver outta NC. Perfect sides
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
very nice lookin fleetside bed
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
flipped the traction bars to try and get a bigger angle on the traction bars to eliminate clutch chatter. Then loaded the bars against the rear so it would control the spring wrap up.
Helped, didn't eliminate it. Still have to check out the motor mounts and the trans mount for security. played with the toe a little. It drives better. |
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Ok, so my new tie rods and couplers came in at NAPA and I picked them up for installation this coming week. Great find today, while I was browsing around on a jobsite I am working on, I found rolls of 3/8" jute padding not the cheaper stuff either, this is the higher density stuff for homes(its used and flattened a bit) . Perfect timing as my carpet just came in and is lacking full jute padding. I guess I know what my weekend is going to consist of work wise on the truck.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
worked on fuel tank install sliced my arm a bit on a sharp edge, had enough and took my wife to a brewers game today!
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=G6nqu...%3DG6nquIo_GFs
Fired the engine for the first time. Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
That sounds SWEET dubie.
I wired the truck today all except the ign. Switch, light switch. Since I was under truck running all my engine wiring I though I would hook up my new vacuum booster S/S line to save the effort since I was already down there and low behold as I pushed the #&$%3+ plug into the vacuum booster, the rubber seal that holds it in falls INSIDE THE BOOSTER. ![]() I guess now I am going to have to drop the master cylinder and booster and hopefully I can fish it out of there. It really feels like someone doesn't want me to drive this truck ![]() ![]() Well, thats my 2 steps forward and 1 back for the week. My lesson learned was " I need to slow down'' and be patient.
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Thankfully one of my buddies had cancelled for today, otherwise the master cylinder would have been full because we were going to fill and bleed the entire brake system today as well as fill all the fluids in the truck. I am happy NOW that my brakes werent filled and bled today only because it would be a big mess and having to bleed the system again wouldnt be very fun at all. Although I did fill all the other fluids afterwards.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Drove it to the local Saturday night car show and put it in the show. Determined that my toe was out, so tomorrow, I will fix that. Met another Corvette guy, and we talked fuel injection for hours.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Today I was allowed to go to the shop to work on my truck, my 10yr old daughter told my wife that WE need to get the truck done because we will miss car shows if we don't have it finished soon. She washed away all the over splatter from the buffing and polishing compounds. She cleaned 90% of the truck, meanwhile I finished the light switch and Ign switch wiring as well as starting gluing down the carpet and cutting holes for brake pedal etc. Then we went to lunch and Barnes & Noble cause she wanted a custom classic truck magazine....
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Put my fresh heavy duty built tranny in Big Bertha......it works great just my wallet is complaining
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
fabguy, I think your daughter is a keeper!
![]() You guys that rewire a truck in an hour and rebuild an engine in an afternoon kinda piss me off! ![]() ![]() I had bigger plans but all I got done was to wash mine, razor some overspray off the window, and went to OSH for a couple bed bolts - since I've been driving mine for 1-1/2 years with only vice grips holding the bed on! I also did a trial spray of my lower interior door with spray undercoating to kinda camouflage the less-than-I'd-hoped-for fit up of my speaker hole repairs. Jury is out on whether I'll leave it. |
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Actually landing the wires took me about 2 hrs. Routing, soldering, shrink tubing, strapping, and installing it almost hidden took well over 24 hrs. I still have to wire the speedometer and the torque conv lock out thing. Hopefully going to fabricate my battery box today. Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Yesterday I bought a bag full of cheap bolts to mock up the front sheet metal.
I can't get stainless bolts here by the pound so I will use the $2.50 a pound grade 2 for mock up. |
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
I've also been doing the mockup, 53/s10 cab height and front sheet metal,rad support. Everything lined up pretty good once I raised the front. Front cab mounts are clamped in place. Still need to make the rear mounts. My welding is getting better. Also been working on the guages, trying to use the s10 guages. Need to take more pictures.
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Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?
Nutin, got roped into carb work on the other "new" car...
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Nothing. it's raining and my frame outside is under a tarp.
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Slacker! Lol. That's what EZ-Ups are for!
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