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:hmm: hey hey hey now! :exit: :haha: thanks man. Hey whenever you get bored with your truck, you can always head on out here to Oklahoma and work on mine. :lol:

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LOL i forgot to say good game.

and sorry john my wifes got dibs on the "if i get bored"! theres tile to lay, garden to water, dinner to make, on and on...

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Yeah my wife does too, and she reminds me of it frequently. :lol: New Kitchen, Pergola over the patio, Bigger patio, .......

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I've got way too many expenses and too much stuff I want done on my own things to deal with a woman right now. Maybe in a couple years I'll find the nerve to put up with one enough to get married and settle down into boring marriage. Until then, wreckless bachelor abandonment!

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:haha:

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Hey now, not to butt in, but marriage doesn't have to be boring. Sit back, drink a beer:barn:, and put her azz to work on your truck.:lol:

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um dude, ........... she looks like she's coming after you.......... :mm:

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No doubt!:devil:

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My plan is to get the gas tank and straps painted tomorrow, and get it installed either Friday or Monday when I'm off next. Probably going to get crazy with the spray paint on the underside as well while I'm there. Since I took the spare tire and bracket off there is a lot of open room to paint! :)

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right on! what color you painting the tank and straps?

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I think I decided to go aluminum on the tank, and black on the straps. I wanted to do a gray on the tank, but didn't really feel the choices I had at the store. I figured after I painted it if I didn't like it I could paint it again. :lol:

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My 86 had the same grill as what yours does now. Good to see you getting time in on it. Don't forget to take pics as you go.

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Yeah the grill that I have on there now is the 85-87 grille. I always liked it better than the 83-84 grill. I'm not a big picture taking person so I'll try. :) I'm real bad about thinking back, and saying "I should have taken a picture of that" or "I wish I had a picture of that" :lol:

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:lol: i'm on the fence about the tank. thinking about black like the frame and silver straps or like your doin yours

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Yeah I know what you mean. I didn't really want to draw a lot of attention to the tank, but if I lower it more you wouldn't see it much anyway. I also have some of the dark gray metallic from Dupli Color that I may spray on there to kind of take the brightness out of the aluminum. I never thought about painting the straps silver and the tank black though. That might look pretty cool. I may steal that idea from you. :lol:

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lol you could be the test dum... you could do it 1st and post pics so i could get an idea on how it looks. :lol:

seriously though most people do the tank aluminum and the straps black.

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The last truck I had I painted the tank a dove gray and the straps black. The only reason I was thinking alum is because I have a can sitting in the garage. Now that you have me thinking though. I may paint it black, mist it a little with alum, but not too much. Then paint the straps alum, and the main brackets black to blend with the frame. Well when I get around to painting the frame! :lol:

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I would do the tank blue and the straps yellow. Support your local school! :lol:

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I'm an alumni, but not that devoted! :lol: Thanks for the input though! :lol:

Got the tank primed this morning. Gonna start painting here in a bit, if the heat and the paint will cooperate. If not this evening when it cools down.

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How about getting your wife to take some action shots?

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She's at work. I'll get a shot of it before I start painting. Then maybe some during depending on what colors I use. Still up in the air on what I want to do. Just going to start painting and see where it leads. :lol:

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Here are a few pics of the progress. I decided to go with a black tank, and aluminum straps like menace stated. I think I am going to mist the aluminum with the black though so it's not so bold. I haven't gotten to the aluminum color yet so they aren't painted.
Here they are primed.
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Here are my onlookers! :lol:
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Here they are painted with Semi-Flat Black. Satin or Semi-Flat seem to be what I like best here lately.
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Friend of mine called me the other day and said he found something I may be interested in. So I went over there today and this is what he had.
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The door is supposedly off a 76 truck with elec windows. I probably won't be using it, but it was free so I couldn't pass it up. :thumbs: If anyone does need one of these, or both just let me know. I'm willing to share in my good fortune.

Now off to paint! :bling2: I may be seeing these by the time I'm done. :ele: :lol:

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I have a helper that thinks alot like you..................:uhmk:

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Hush.