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The holidays and wet weather are gone so back to working on the truck.

I figured it was about time to get rid of that blue tape and patch the old gas filler neck hole. Done!

To enhance the usefulness of the bed, I attached some stake pockets and made side boards. Been doing a lot of hauling and test drives to accumulate miles. 662 miles now showing and no catastrophes yet.

In an effort to decrease the gear whine from the overdrive I drained the GL-5 75-90 oil and re-filled with Red-Line GL-4 MT-90. Noticeably less whine in 4th gear overdrive on the highway. It could still be very annoying on long trips however. We'll see how it goes.

With the bed deck, side boards and tie down gear in the drivers side storage box, the weight is now up to 5860 lbs.