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Something I do too often.... drank a beer and looked at it....:ito:
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I received the two door handles I bought off the forum. THANKS GUYS!
Both are very nice and exactly as advertized. I'll have to get some rubber weatherstripping for those and one handle lacks the bolts but I might can use my old ones. |
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Ordered a new gas tank, sending unit, cap, and adapter plate for my new edelbrock carb
Peeked inside my old tank which I hadn't opened since purchase of the truck( wasnt running when purchased), rusted out real bad. Dropped off the 2 chamber flowmasters , now they can install the dual 2.5" exhaust once the tank is in |
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So heres the end result after ten hours of trying different compounds, rouges,polishes,and everything under the kitchen sink. Was about to give up when i found out about "blue magic", got more done in an hour with that than everything else combined. Could have saved my elbow grease for something else...lol. hindsight is always 20/20! Gotta give my good friend Aaron a shout out becauase he was with me the whole time. The proof is in finish.
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Nice!
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Nice!
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When I was attached to L.A.P.D.'s Air Support , I discovered " Met All Metal Polish " ~ a pink creme in a can , it's mildly abrasive and wonderful on corroded old alloys , best of all : it works better the less you use .
Interstingly it is also great to bring back old Perspex canopies that are dead & yellow and obviously trash , pink taillight lenses etc. Recently the druggies across the street sideswiped my old Mercedes leaving thick black crud ground into the original paint , rubbing compound etc. didn't touch it but Met All cleaned it right off and didn't damage my original paint . Consider it the next time you're trying to salvage some nice alloy rockerboxes like those , or want to have a shiny alternator on your truck . |
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Installed trim rings
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It wasn't today - it was a couple of days ago, but this has been my first chance to post a picture...I entered Maxine in an Army fundraising car show - won the Commanding General's trophy and a trophy for the highest mileage (which doesn't make much sense for a vehicle with 115,000 miles - I figured someone would show up in a rusty and smoking '60's VW bug with 300K plus miles - heck, my other two late model vehicles have more miles on them than that!)
The competition wasn't too fierce, but hey, a win is a win!! |
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Still nice to win a trophy, I won a first for nicest truck one time and was only 2 trucks, 50/50 chance to win:lol:
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Finshed refurbishing my rallys. Now I have to buy tires next month.
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Nothing directly done to the truck but did beef up the garage's structural security. My neighbor's kitchen door got kicked in 3 weeks ago and some stuff was taken (including a loaded Beretta!) so I've been dumping some brain power into making my junk safer.
This is a pic of EZ Armor going into my house's back door frame but it isn't much different for the garage. I did manage to break a drill bit off getting over zealous with how deep I was drilling my pilot holes but the screw I wanted to use still fit fine. http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/...pscf584d27.jpg |
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Bugz,
Those are some nice looking rims. Good job. |
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Stripped all the limo tint off my 71 c10 swb put on by the PO:crazy: it looks alot cleaner and I'm able to see at night while driving:lol:
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Sometimes I wonder if we should have a "What did your truck do to you today?" thread.
Having recently setup a one piece oil pan gasket in my '78, I picked up a one piece fel pro oil pan gasket for my '72. It was either that, or start putting a mini-pad under my truck, as it was getting progressively worse. Thought it would be a simple process. Jacked the front end up, jack stands, remove the oil pan bolts and slide the pan out, right? Heh! After an hour of fighting with the oil pan, it won. Came inside and did a search on the forum to learn it's not as straight forward as on my '78. Back out to remove the engine mount bolts. First one was out after fifteen minutes of one-to-two clicks at a time on the ratchet. Move to the other side only to encounter a fuel pump with no other way. Three fuel pump bolts later, I was educated on that top bolt under the AC compressor that was next to impossible to get. Thirty minutes later, I had a fuel pump free and started on the passenger side motor mount. Jacked the engine up a few inches at most, and the oil pan fell free on it's own. Quickly discovered I had picked up the wrong fel pro kit. Wife is out of town, so my truck was only transportation. Son stopped by and I used his truck to go back up to AutoZone with oil pan in hand (GM Crate motor). By that time, it was dark. Truck still on stands, brought everything else inside. Get to reverse it all for even more fun in the morning! Would have never imagined something that *should* be so simple, would require a partial frame off restoration to just to accomplish. |
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I live in one of the wettest places in the country and I finally got rid of that wore out sloppy wind shield wiper linkage today!!!
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Finally got my new tires friday,so went and had them mounted on the wheels saturday. 335/30/18 on 11" rims for the rear,and 225/45/18 on 8" rims for the front. Still need to finish the hubcaps and get the rims painted.
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Those wheels and tires are sweet.. I let my truck see daylight for the 1st time in months...
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Here is my poor truck, we had 7" plus of snow, cleaned the driveway twice already and it is -19 celcius with a -30 c wind chill, yep..winter is here, at least I have a 4x4 so can still use it.:lol:
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Today I took pics of my spare tire mount and went on and installed the "hinge shields" to my side garage door (EZ Armor). Whatever I can do to better secure my truck.
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