I have tinkered with a few things on the truck. (And I apologize again for the photos being sideways, still cannot figure out why they do that, even after being told more than once
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started by painting the Vortec lettering on the engine cover orange. The Silver that was on it just never quite fit the truck.
The Lower ball joints I put in the truck when I built it wore out. Supposedly there was a bad run of them at the time. The ones I replaced them with are much nicer. Hopefully, they last more than 5,000 miles
Then while I was in there replacing the ball joints, I put some KYB shocks in there. These were quite a bit more money, but well worth it for the ride quality change.
continuing on with my 5 lug project, we cut a replacement factory rotor for a 71-72, to make that into our hub. Swapped it on the passenger side at the same time as the ball joints, to take some measurements. Looks like some Jeep Cherokee Rotors will work perfectly. They are 5x5 bolt pattern, and we can use our same calipers, on the same bracket I built. Now we just need to machine the hub, so it looks like a hub, and not a hat cut off a rotor
The whole time I have been driving this truck the reverse lights never came on in Reverse, they came on in Neutral. Finally got around to adjusting the neutral safety switch (always started in Park, so it was not that high on my to-do list). While I was working on that I threw some super bright LED lights in the housings. Now I can see just about anything while backing up!
