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**N2TRUX** · 10-09-2005, 07:54 PM

I didn't get anything truck related done this week. I did talk to my buddy Keith and found out my Ram Horn manifolds are back from the coaters. He said they look like chrome, so I'm excited.

Saturday morning I went to watch one of my daughters club volleyball team mates play in her middle school tournament. I also got to check out one of the new players that will be on her club team in action.

Saturday night we took her club team to watch the Rice vs SMU volleyball match. They had a blast watching the big girls play. Saturday night I had a house full of 13 year old girls for a sleep over after the game.

Today I ran some service calss, then watched the Astros game. It went to 18 innings. WOW! What a looooong game.

What did you get done....?

454HO · 10-09-2005, 07:59 PM

I made the dogs bark and the little children cry...

Yep, I started up my engine for the first time!!!!!! Woo Hooooo!!!!

Something about a big block revving up thru open headers just brings a tear to my eye.

*iceman7329* · 10-09-2005, 08:01 PM

Im going to pickup my new truck in the morning, I went and cleaned it off today, its was full of crap. Ill get pictures once I get it home.

**N2TRUX** · 10-09-2005, 08:01 PM

Doooode! That's awesome Greg. I'm glad to hear it busted off and ran alright. That's gotta be a bunch of motivation right there to get the rest done....

1987 Shortwide · 10-09-2005, 08:07 PM

Adhered my filler panels to the firewall and started tinkering a little with the filler to finish it out.

Jebb1978 · 10-09-2005, 08:09 PM

I am on my 32nd worked hour since Friday. Short little sleep brakes at home in between. I did do 1 truck related thing however! I added brake fluid to my empty rear master cylinder on my way home last night.Where did it go you may be wondering, I am wondering too??? I could not find any evidence of a leak.... It was replaced when I did the engine 4 months ago??? I did drive it to work today and all seems to be fully functional? I guess I will look at it some more tomorrow when I am off.

**N2TRUX** · 10-09-2005, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Jebb1978

....I did do 1 truck related thing however! I added brake fluid to my empty rear master cylinder on my way home last night.Where did it go you may be wondering, I am wondering too??? .....

It sounds like you have a blown wheel cylinder. Check your rear wheels to see if it's leaking out of the drum. It could be a blown master cylinder too. Is there any trace of fluid below the master cylinder running down the booster?

Jebb1978 · 10-09-2005, 08:44 PM

Actually the first thing I did was crawl under the truck with a flash light?? Nothing....

Jebb1978 · 10-09-2005, 08:46 PM

I didn't see anything on the master cylinder it self.. I will keep looking tomorrow???

Jonboy · 10-09-2005, 09:08 PM

I actually worked on my trucks for a change. I stripped my 90 Blazer out and got it ready to go to Blazer heaven. I also traded my 78 Jimmy for a 91 Blazer. It has everything I was looking for, like power mirrors, and a couple things I wasn't, like a hideous body lift and electrical gremlins. I kept enough parts off of the 90 to make it right though.

bigblock73 · 10-09-2005, 10:28 PM

Greg & Steven...your progress looks awesome!!! I am soo jealous, because I didn't get squat done on my truck this week/weekend.

SCOTI · 10-09-2005, 10:37 PM

I looked up P/N's for everything needed to reassemble Ken's old 350. The internets a great tool, but sometimes too much information can cause headaches.

I placed an order w/Jegs to get everything on its way (oil pan gasket, intake gaskets, head gaskets, valve cover gaskets, dynomax shorty headers, Cloyes timing chain set, harmonic balancer puller/installer kit) plus a few other odds & ends. I'll re-use the old q-jet & HEI for now so that should get the project moving along.

My GF & I spent quality time together yesterday & went to see the flick '2 for the Money'. Pacino is a great actor but don't waste your $$ on this one . . .....

Slonaker · 10-09-2005, 11:07 PM

I made junkyard run Saturday. I found 2 sets of black seatbelts, but I left them there. I really need to get on ebay so I can start making some money off this stuff to put back in my truck.

I got a perfect dash bezel at the junkyard for $8.75. I have been looking for one forever because mine has an odd look, like it has water spots on it, but they won't come off. I washed the dust off the new in my kitchen sink with a cotton washcloth and some Dawn. Now it looks like my old one.

All I can figure is that it has a clear finish on it that gets brittle after 20 years. Next I'll try to see if I can scrub all of the stuff off of it and make it all uniform.

I also got a complete wing window to replace one that broke off in my hand at 70 mph last year when I was on a road trip. It cost me $17 for the complete assembly with glass, so I guess that isn't too bad.

I saw an interesting bucket seat conversion. It looked like someone put Suburban seats in a pickup by cutting the inside front tab out of the floor of a Suburban and screwing it to the floor with sheetmetal screws. They didn't just take the tab, though. The took enough of the floor with the tab attached so that they could recreate the shape of the suburban floor to match the seat slides. Everything else looked like it lined up without any modifications.

It was hard to describe. I'm thinking about going back and trying to pick them up, but I don't know if I would need just the tabs, the tabs and slides, or what. What I do know is that they did NOT look like the tabs that people here have posted pics of.

Slonaker

u2slow · 10-09-2005, 11:55 PM

Today I found a buyer for the 4.10 gears I have in a 10-bolt front axle. I'd only had the axle a week!

(I only got it for the 8-lug outers)

Spent the morning tearing it down. I had my 3-1/2 year old son out 'helping' me

He was spinning the rotors telling me thats where the wheels go on. Then after I took the diff cover off he instinctively grabbed the yoke and started turning it to watch the gears move.

koreric75 · 10-09-2005, 11:56 PM

I got the driver's side fender swapped out, refinished the wheel well while i was at it and did some cleaning and wire management. I painted the hood cowl and windshield wiper arms, will post pics of that tomorrow, here's the fender swap.

hobbz · 10-10-2005, 12:27 AM

well mine is a downer. two weeks ago my wife became a sister, but the baby was only 24 weeks along when born. this thursday she passed away. very sad. the funeral was saturday. me and my wife really haven't done anything besides sit at home and mope.

i did change the front brake pads on the truck just to get my mind off everything going on.

1987 Shortwide · 10-10-2005, 12:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hobbz

well mine is a downer. two weeks ago my wife became a sister, but the baby was only 24 weeks along when born. this thursday she passed away. very sad. the funeral was saturday. me and my wife really haven't done anything besides sit at home and mope.

i did change the front brake pads on the truck just to get my mind off everything going on.

That sucks to hear hobbz. I've had my fair share of bad news this week also, but I usually don't talk much about the crappy stuff, as it just depresses me.

Best wishes to the family.

84slopwaggin · 10-10-2005, 01:25 AM

I purchased my 350 crate engine along with a engine stand and hoist. Also, I purchased online a edelb eps intake, new H balancer, high vol. water pump, fuel pump, and a accel dizzy so far. I'm waiting on the wifes' digital cam to start cataloging my progress.

FLAGG · 10-10-2005, 01:43 AM

I've spent the last couple of days wiring in my MSD 6A. Tomorrow I hope to finish the wiring, then install a Crane adjustable vacuum advance (with my handy-dandy printout of Ervin's directions in the garage) while swapping out the module, cap, rotor, and coil for MSD parts.

Once that's done I'll start cleaning up my old truck up so I can put it up for sale.

Ric83 · 10-10-2005, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hobbz

well mine is a downer. two weeks ago my wife became a sister, but the baby was only 24 weeks along when born. this thursday she passed away. very sad. the funeral was saturday. me and my wife really haven't done anything besides sit at home and mope.

i did change the front brake pads on the truck just to get my mind off everything going on.

I am very sorry to hear that. It really hits home on that one, as I went thru the same with my son a few years ago. I know how devastating it is. Just remember that all things happen for a reason. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

86 GMG · 10-10-2005, 10:49 AM

not much at all and absolutly no truck stuff

but i spent a lot of time with my 1 yr old he is just a blessing other than that i set up time this week to complete the control arms and then i can assemble the front end components that are just sitting in the garage laughing at me every time i walk by. i will prolly get the frame up to a rolling chassy and leave it alone until after the move

Prerunner1982 · 10-10-2005, 11:08 AM

86 GMC where are you moving?

i changed the heater core... wasnt all that bad.. but did take me the better part of 4 hrs.... also cleaned up under the dash a bit.. stray wires and such.. wired up the light for my tach..

TexasJeff · 10-10-2005, 05:04 PM

Saturday did my lawn, and Sunday most of the day was spent at the swap meet here in town selling the extra parts from my truck. Sold the hub caps, all the extra tail light lenses, parking light lenses, one vent window assembly, window regulators, stock set of wheels and tires. Made about 200 bucks to put towards the new interior.

squint · 10-10-2005, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 454HO

I made the dogs bark and the little children cry...

Yep, I started up my engine for the first time!!!!!! Woo Hooooo!!!!

Something about a big block revving up thru open headers just brings a tear to my eye.

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Sorry.. but Can you tell me what plug wires you are using.. and are those heat sheilds part of the package.. or did you get them seperatly.. I have melted my plug wires twice now on my headers and its really getting quite anoying..

Thanks..

Ironclad454 · 10-10-2005, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jebb1978

Actually the first thing I did was crawl under the truck with a flash light?? Nothing....

I had the same problem with my truck last year, All the break fluid for the rear brakes bled off. There was no visible leak at the wheels or the Master cylinder. But when i took the rear wheels and drum off, you could see the slave cylinder had gone bad. What i think happened was that the break pads soaked up the fluid. So that would be my suggestion to check first.

10-09-2005, 07:54 PM	#1
N2TRUX Happy to be here Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Cypress, TX Posts: 39,023	What did you get done? I didn't get anything truck related done this week. I did talk to my buddy Keith and found out my Ram Horn manifolds are back from the coaters. He said they look like chrome, so I'm excited. Saturday morning I went to watch one of my daughters club volleyball team mates play in her middle school tournament. I also got to check out one of the new players that will be on her club team in action. Saturday night we took her club team to watch the Rice vs SMU volleyball match. They had a blast watching the big girls play. Saturday night I had a house full of 13 year old girls for a sleep over after the game. Today I ran some service calss, then watched the Astros game. It went to 18 innings. WOW! What a looooong game. What did you get done....? __________________ Follow me on Facebook and Instagram @N2trux.com Articles- "Jake" the 84 to 74 crewcab "Elwood" the77_Remix 85 GMC Sierra "Scarlett" "Refining Sierra"

10-09-2005, 07:59 PM	#2
454HO Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 1,224	I made the dogs bark and the little children cry... Yep, I started up my engine for the first time!!!!!! Woo Hooooo!!!! Something about a big block revving up thru open headers just brings a tear to my eye. __________________ - Greg

10-09-2005, 08:07 PM	#5
1987 Shortwide Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Wichita KS Posts: 610	Adhered my filler panels to the firewall and started tinkering a little with the filler to finish it out. __________________ ~Steve~ Friesen High Performance Auto and Graphics Toy: 87 Shortwide, 406 smallblock with a little boost My 87 buildup Daily Driver: 99 Sierra SLE 4X4. Black on Black and harder than hell to keep clean.

10-09-2005, 09:08 PM	#10
Jonboy Slots go on anything! Join Date: May 2003 Location: Richardson, TX Posts: 5,957	I actually worked on my trucks for a change. I stripped my 90 Blazer out and got it ready to go to Blazer heaven. I also traded my 78 Jimmy for a 91 Blazer. It has everything I was looking for, like power mirrors, and a couple things I wasn't, like a hideous body lift and electrical gremlins. I kept enough parts off of the 90 to make it right though. __________________ 1974 Jimmy- 5.3/4L80e/NP241

10-09-2005, 10:28 PM	#11
bigblock73 yeller Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Twin Cities Posts: 13,826	Greg & Steven...your progress looks awesome!!! I am soo jealous, because I didn't get squat done on my truck this week/weekend. __________________ Jeff 73-87.com 73-87.com Facebook page 73-87 cab corner 6x9 speaker brackets for sale 67-72 cab corner speaker brackets for sale 47-54 cab corner speaker brackets for sale

10-09-2005, 08:01 PM	#3
iceman7329 Account Suspended Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 453	Im going to pickup my new truck in the morning, I went and cleaned it off today, its was full of crap. Ill get pictures once I get it home.

10-09-2005, 08:09 PM	#6
Jebb1978 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Mesa,Az Posts: 3,713	I am on my 32nd worked hour since Friday. Short little sleep brakes at home in between. I did do 1 truck related thing however! I added brake fluid to my empty rear master cylinder on my way home last night.Where did it go you may be wondering, I am wondering too??? I could not find any evidence of a leak.... It was replaced when I did the engine 4 months ago??? I did drive it to work today and all seems to be fully functional? I guess I will look at it some more tomorrow when I am off.

10-09-2005, 08:44 PM	#8
Jebb1978 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Mesa,Az Posts: 3,713	Actually the first thing I did was crawl under the truck with a flash light?? Nothing....

10-09-2005, 08:46 PM	#9
Jebb1978 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Mesa,Az Posts: 3,713	I didn't see anything on the master cylinder it self.. I will keep looking tomorrow???

10-09-2005, 10:37 PM	#12
SCOTI Registered User Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: DALLAS,TX Posts: 21,942	I looked up P/N's for everything needed to reassemble Ken's old 350. The internets a great tool, but sometimes too much information can cause headaches. I placed an order w/Jegs to get everything on its way (oil pan gasket, intake gaskets, head gaskets, valve cover gaskets, dynomax shorty headers, Cloyes timing chain set, harmonic balancer puller/installer kit) plus a few other odds & ends. I'll re-use the old q-jet & HEI for now so that should get the project moving along. My GF & I spent quality time together yesterday & went to see the flick '2 for the Money'. Pacino is a great actor but don't waste your $$ on this one . . ..... __________________ 67SWB-B.B.RetroRod 64SWB-Recycle 89CCDually-Driver/Tow Truck 99CCSWB Driver All Fleetsides @rattlecankustoms in IG Building a small, high rpm engine with the perfect bore, stroke and rod ratio is very impressive. It's like a highly skilled Morrocan sword fighter with a Damascus Steel Scimitar..... *Cubic inches is like Indiana Jones with a cheap pistol.*

10-09-2005, 11:07 PM	#13
Slonaker Insert Witty Text Here Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 3,415	I made junkyard run Saturday. I found 2 sets of black seatbelts, but I left them there. I really need to get on ebay so I can start making some money off this stuff to put back in my truck. I got a perfect dash bezel at the junkyard for $8.75. I have been looking for one forever because mine has an odd look, like it has water spots on it, but they won't come off. I washed the dust off the new in my kitchen sink with a cotton washcloth and some Dawn. Now it looks like my old one. All I can figure is that it has a clear finish on it that gets brittle after 20 years. Next I'll try to see if I can scrub all of the stuff off of it and make it all uniform. I also got a complete wing window to replace one that broke off in my hand at 70 mph last year when I was on a road trip. It cost me $17 for the complete assembly with glass, so I guess that isn't too bad. I saw an interesting bucket seat conversion. It looked like someone put Suburban seats in a pickup by cutting the inside front tab out of the floor of a Suburban and screwing it to the floor with sheetmetal screws. They didn't just take the tab, though. The took enough of the floor with the tab attached so that they could recreate the shape of the suburban floor to match the seat slides. Everything else looked like it lined up without any modifications. It was hard to describe. I'm thinking about going back and trying to pick them up, but I don't know if I would need just the tabs, the tabs and slides, or what. What I do know is that they did NOT look like the tabs that people here have posted pics of. Slonaker __________________ '86 Chevy C10 (Sold 04/19/13 ) Stock '01 Silverado

10-09-2005, 11:55 PM	#14
u2slow Web Wheeler Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: BC, Canada, eh? Posts: 388	Today I found a buyer for the 4.10 gears I have in a 10-bolt front axle. I'd only had the axle a week! (I only got it for the 8-lug outers) Spent the morning tearing it down. I had my 3-1/2 year old son out 'helping' me He was spinning the rotors telling me thats where the wheels go on. Then after I took the diff cover off he instinctively grabbed the yoke and started turning it to watch the gears move. __________________ '66 C10 longstep - Clifford equiped '84 C20 Suburban 6.2L - awaiting 4x4 conversion '91 V3500 Crewcab - awaiting diesel swap Last edited by u2slow; 10-09-2005 at 11:58 PM.

10-09-2005, 11:56 PM	#15
koreric75 83C10SWB Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bossier City, Louisiana Posts: 69	I got the driver's side fender swapped out, refinished the wheel well while i was at it and did some cleaning and wire management. I painted the hood cowl and windshield wiper arms, will post pics of that tomorrow, here's the fender swap. Attached Images __________________ Koreric75 2003 Suburban Z-71 4x4 5.3L 83 C10 SWB FOR SALE 350ci/700Raptor Jr Picture&Progress Page

10-10-2005, 12:27 AM	#16
hobbz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: ashland, ky Posts: 632	well mine is a downer. two weeks ago my wife became a sister, but the baby was only 24 weeks along when born. this thursday she passed away. very sad. the funeral was saturday. me and my wife really haven't done anything besides sit at home and mope. i did change the front brake pads on the truck just to get my mind off everything going on. __________________ Hobbz-Garage 1987 Short Step 350/350

10-10-2005, 01:25 AM	#18
84slopwaggin Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Ar Posts: 558	I purchased my 350 crate engine along with a engine stand and hoist. Also, I purchased online a edelb eps intake, new H balancer, high vol. water pump, fuel pump, and a accel dizzy so far. I'm waiting on the wifes' digital cam to start cataloging my progress.



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10-10-2005, 01:43 AM	#19
FLAGG Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: St. Albert, Alberta, Canada Posts: 89	I've spent the last couple of days wiring in my MSD 6A. Tomorrow I hope to finish the wiring, then install a Crane adjustable vacuum advance (with my handy-dandy printout of Ervin's directions in the garage) while swapping out the module, cap, rotor, and coil for MSD parts. Once that's done I'll start cleaning up my old truck up so I can put it up for sale.

10-10-2005, 10:49 AM	#21
86 GMG Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Tulsa Oklahoma Posts: 943	not much at all and absolutly no truck stuff but i spent a lot of time with my 1 yr old he is just a blessing other than that i set up time this week to complete the control arms and then i can assemble the front end components that are just sitting in the garage laughing at me every time i walk by. i will prolly get the frame up to a rolling chassy and leave it alone until after the move __________________ square body trucks an addiction or an investment either way they consume all my extra time and money

10-10-2005, 11:08 AM	#22
Prerunner1982 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Edmond, OK Posts: 5,906	86 GMC where are you moving? i changed the heater core... wasnt all that bad.. but did take me the better part of 4 hrs.... also cleaned up under the dash a bit.. stray wires and such.. wired up the light for my tach.. __________________ Jon 1982 Chevy Silverado 350/th350.... RETIRED 1993 Jeep XJ 2 door(Cherokee) 4wd 4.0ltr/AX-15 (5spd)/NP231 .... Oklahoma Roll Call

10-10-2005, 05:04 PM	#23
TexasJeff Don't Crush em Restore em Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Pinehurst, Texas Posts: 764	Swap Meet Saturday did my lawn, and Sunday most of the day was spent at the swap meet here in town selling the extra parts from my truck. Sold the hub caps, all the extra tail light lenses, parking light lenses, one vent window assembly, window regulators, stock set of wheels and tires. Made about 200 bucks to put towards the new interior. __________________ TexasJeff 2009 Silver with Linen Interior Cadillac DTS 1990 Red with White Top and Interior Ford Mustang GT convertible 1998 Red with Gray Interior, C3500 Chevy Crew Cab Dually

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