What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II

[EARNHARDT#3]

This weekend I installed the following items on my truck: flex plate, powerglide transmission, tubular crossmember, driveshaft, rear shocks, lokar floor shifter, starter, trans cooler lines, lots of other small things associated with my automatic swap. Got it to the point where I could fire it up and get it topped off with ATF. What's left? New exhaust to be put on, longer speedo cable, remove clutch pedal, put new shift boot on when it comes.

[Synestran]

I rebuilt the carb, changed spark plug wires and spark plugs, new vacuum advance, adjusted the timing a little bit and then drove it around the neighborhood a couple of times to make sure she is running properly. Still not 100% perfect, but enough to drive without any worries.

[72c105speed]

Today I removed more interior parts, radio, climate control etc. unbolted the bed and got rid of extra wiring... Need a few extra hands to pull it off

[jdalexa84]

I started on the install of a used gear set. I think my pinion might be in to deep but not real certain. Got to dark to mess around with it. This is my first differential setup. Backlash was easy enough to set, I have it at .007 and pinion preload at 16 in/lbs

[gmebey]

I check off one more task in this long project..... Replaced a shot distributor!

[88Stanger]

lets see, made a custom alt. bracket since i have tall custom aluminum valve covers. Then i started the fill in the fan hole and wire junction box on the firewall, and start work on the rebuilding of the gauge cluster to white faced gauges with red leds for standard background along with amber, green and blue for standard color replacement.

[73737373]

Buff (Wizard products) and wax; over and over and over. Took the cowl off and buffed/waxed all of that area, including the windshield wiper arms on Sat. Was kind of cool and damp here (OK) on Sunday, so started a fire in the barn and sat there and worked the actual cowl in a nice warm and dry place. Paint is awfully thin in some spots, but where there's paint, it looks great. Straightened out a couple of the lower bedside trim pieces and attached new woodgrain tape. Took off Sierra Grande emblem and used Barkeeper's Friend and a toothbrush and got 45 years of crud off of it; looks brand new. Lots and lots of time and detail work, but much cheaper than hiring a painter and/or buying new chrome and emblems. And put on my new whitewalls, factory steelies and PO1 hubcaps (not the full wheel cover)...Sweet. Yeah, I know, everyone wants a pic....... These are the before.......

[eric67c10]

Installed stereo and a ground strap

[tommy3horse]

Got a small load of firewood cut. Had to climb a hill with terraces on gravel, she did great.

[powerhaulic]

Put mine in storage for the winter

[Sicklajoie]

Ditched bed cover and took out lifting blocks in rear. Back to stock height all the way around. Next week it'll be in paint jail to repaint inside of bed and bedcaps.

[Steeveedee]

Properly wired up the HEI and removed a bunch of wires that started somewhere and ended nowhere. Fortunately none of them had power. It used to be my FIL's truck, and he did all kinds of strange stuff to it. It's getting new shoes tomorrow.

[9teen69]

Rebuilt my column...a couple weeks ago

[74baggedbug]

Got the 3rd billet knob in the mail today.. May sound cheesy but I had my 3 kids names put on them so they know they are also apart of the truck

[9teen69]

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[blake's first]

Engine

[midniteblues]

Been playin with the kids truck.
Did some tidy ing up under his hood lengthend his alt harness and cleaned up a bunch of the other wires.
Next I'm replacing the under dash harness his is pretty hacked up.
I allreay have a uncut oe one to go in.
Here's a shot of the engine bay right before I replaced the flex rad hose with a gm peice(almost forgot to do that).
Before and after pics don't show much but it's all the small things the pic don't show.
I gotta get him to paint that ugly chrome water neck

[88Stanger]

painted the fire wall and rebuild the stock gauges to white faced

[In The Ten Ring]

Started on painting the black around the headlights on the outer grill.

[doo142]

Moved the trash can so I could admire Cheyennes beauty while frying a turkey!!

[73737373]

Agree w/doo142. As sad as this may sound to some, many of the most peaceful moments in my life are when I sit w/a cold beer and a good cigar and look at my "toys".

[In The Ten Ring]

I got something done for a change and even better, it didn't involve crashing into a bear.

I taped off around my outer grill's headlights, hit it with a scrotchbrite pad, and put on 3 coats of primer.

I also drilled holes in my male piece for the "D ring" tow hitch.

[Possmguts]

Master Coated the under cab. Tomorrow I hope to find enough strong backs to set it on frame...

[R.L.]

Scored on a junk yard find, a Offenhouser intake and a rebuildable 2g core for 100$ and dropped the carb off with a great carb man for a rebuild.

[midniteblues]

Finally got this exhaust wrapped up. I needed to mount some hangers and I cut and polished the ss tips. Then welded everything up.
After that was done I relocated my ece relocators outwards and remounted my shocks.
Glad that is done it's getting too cold too lay on concrete.

But we did have a nice day today.