My dad and I entered in or first car show last weekend. We didn't win any awards, but didn't go expecting to either. There are lots of guys there that travel quite a ways with very nice and rare cars and get there early to get the right spot. We did meet a local guy that's into C10's and also talked to a couple guys that needed a little inspiration to work on their own projects which is more important than winning a trophy.
It's a mystery how sometimes things happen when they do. A few days before the show, I walk out to the garage and there's a puddle of ATF under my truck. The first though that comes to my head is tailshaft seal. Then I go down the rabbit hole on the internet about that, or the tailshaft bushing, is it right seal in the first place, and eventually I find a post about a "welch plug" that sometimes exist in transmission yokes. So I slid my body under the truck (I don't have a jack at my house-I think that's what I'll ask for Christmas) and did some investigating and found that there is a pinhole in the center of the yoke and the ATF is seeping out of it. So I cleaned it up and applied some RTV and it seems to be fixed. I don't know why after so many months it started to leak. I hadn't driven it in about three weeks - maybe the fluid slowly crept towards the tail shaft? Regardless, it was an easy fix.
Still happy with the truck. There are things I want to do to it, but nothing that's actually important. I would like to convert to coils in the rear to get it a little lower and to ride better, convert to 5 lug so I can get the wheels I want, get A/C, and reclear the hood. Just not a priority for the foreseeable future.
