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04-28-2011, 10:17 AM
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Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
I thing the dumbest thing I have done was cut up my glove box door about 15 years ago. I had the idea to use a glove box door for a gage cluster. I was going to cut holes and arrange gages similar to stock but with autometer gages. Why did I do it to the original door, I will never know.
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04-28-2011, 10:23 AM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
About 20 yrs ago I cut some A/C holes on my non A/C dash and never put A/C in it.
 I guess when the vehicle is not so old that you can easily get parts or find them in salvage yards, you don't think of them as valuable. |
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04-28-2011, 10:30 AM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
Dumbest thing- I bought it.
2nd Dumbest thing- fixing up a truck that really would not have made a good parts truck! 
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04-28-2011, 10:51 AM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
cut the dash for a radio about 15 years ago, would like an am/fm now and it is not possible
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04-28-2011, 11:18 AM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
Let it sit out in the rain for about 15 years when it was my daily driver, now i need to do rust repair..
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04-28-2011, 11:52 AM
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"the other guy"
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Olivehurst California 95961
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
hacked up my frame for headers, then i bought some that actually fit
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04-28-2011, 12:09 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
Started to fix a couple things, then a few more since I was already there. 7 years later she is still not together.
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04-28-2011, 12:12 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
Believed my painter when he said "just a few weeks..."
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04-28-2011, 12:37 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
I have done more than one for sure. I guess the dumbest one was to take a plain Jane '67 3/4 ton long step-side mostly unmolested truck apart to make a short bed stepper that is made up of at least 6 different year trucks.
I hope to be able to say some day that it is drivable again, everybody has to have a dream, lol.
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04-28-2011, 12:47 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
i didnt use a condom
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is it fast ? it has a lighting bolt donut? B___H please, I can remove 90% of your so called "beauty" with a kleenex |
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04-28-2011, 12:48 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
Thinking "clean it up a little, quickie paint job and I will be on the road for under a $1000" That was probably $6000 ago
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04-28-2011, 12:59 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
Right after i bought my 92, i cut the exhaust right off about 3 inches after the Y-pipe, thinking it wouldn't be so loud. my girlfriend hated it when i gave her rides home that week.
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04-28-2011, 01:06 PM
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Has more rust than truck...
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04-28-2011, 01:15 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
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dumbest thing for me. Buy a boat, now the truk gets used as a truck and doesn't have a warm or dry place to sleep. Dd in the rain and snow. You can hear the truck rusting.
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04-28-2011, 01:44 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
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 Oh Quentin... you should get a girlfriend!!I guess my dumbest thing was backing up with the pass. door open.  But it is much better now. 
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04-28-2011, 01:55 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
How about the dumbest thing you've done WITH your truck?
Last night I was pulling my boat dock up the hill in my backyard to I could get it lined up to push into the lake. I had nobody spotting for me. On the last pull I felt resistance and like an idiot I just pushed harder on the foot feed. When I got out the forward dock feet plowed a 20 foot long furrow through my grass. I've done less damage with a chisel plow. 
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04-28-2011, 02:01 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
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My truck came home with boxes...
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04-28-2011, 03:33 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
Sold it.
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04-28-2011, 03:36 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
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is it fast ? it has a lighting bolt donut? B___H please, I can remove 90% of your so called "beauty" with a kleenex |
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04-28-2011, 04:01 PM
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Devil's in the Details
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Southern Utah
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
Threw away the original rear A/C unit from my Suburban. It probably still worked too.
Luckily I didn't have enough experience or money to pull off the kind of modifications I wanted to do to it as a teenager so there is less to regret now. Back then I did neutral drop on accident once which snapped the transmission output shaft in two....
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04-28-2011, 04:12 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
put power windows in it. they didnt work well at all, now I have to weld up 8-10 hols to hide that fact I was stupid.
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04-28-2011, 06:01 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
i bought it
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04-28-2011, 06:52 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
I let mine sit for 12 years. It's almost back now.
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04-28-2011, 06:56 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
my truck came in boxes
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04-28-2011, 08:33 PM
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Re: Dumbest thing you have done to your truck
not doing the air ride when we had it all apart
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