What did you do to your truck today!

[Boog]

Originally Posted by Gor77

frame handpaint

the rest -powder

Finding good parts for American made vehicles in your neighborhood has to be difficult at best. You are doing a fine job with your truck. I applaud you Gor.
It looks like you also have several American cars in that shop too.

[Gor77]

Originally Posted by Boog

Finding good parts for American made vehicles in your neighborhood has to be difficult at best. You are doing a fine job with your truck. I applaud you Gor.
It looks like you also have several American cars in that shop too.

Thanks Boog! Yeah there are problems with spare parts. Rokauto ...Summit helps us . It is the home garage of my friend, he repair US cars prefer Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, but for me with my Chevy made ​​an exception . he has a few American cars.

[OregonNed]

I had this bench seat restored and reupholstered to go into my '68 - replacing some off the wall buckets the previous owner installed. Also decided to remove the majority of blue interior components and go with a mostly black interior (other than the cab paint, glove box, ash tray and steering column).



Here it is in the garage with the interior stripped ready for the new parts. The whole floor pan is pleasantly rust-free.

[VWNate1]

JEALOUS !! .

Looks like someone did the hard work of rust repair already ! .

[magwakeenercew2jh]

Another naaaasty job.

But, thanks to good info from Tom and some other Forum Members, I threw away the new, but saturated brake shoes
in the right rear. Cleaned everything up with a can and a half of brake cleaner and some elbow grease, and put some
new shoes in.

Test drive. No more lock-up.

This pic is after the clean up and the test drive. Looks like I didn't get all the now-powdered brake gunk off of the garage floor.
You should see the Levis.

[Boog]

I'm glad you got it fixed Bill. Enjoy it more now.

[magwakeenercew2jh]

Originally Posted by Boog

I'm glad you got it fixed Bill. Enjoy it more now.

Thanks, Boog.

One of those things. As much as I love my truck, I sometimes run hot and cold....Or maybe energetic or lazy.... on climbing under her.

Recently, I've looked out on these sunny December days and say, "Good day to take RAT for a ride."

Since she locked up on me in the right rear pretty seriously a couple of months ago, I think, "First, I gotta fix that brake shoe issue." And then,
next thing I know, I'm back doing something else not truck-related. LIke fixing freeze-related broken water pipes.

Today it was so nice. I was headed out to pick up a pal that had given me a hand during the RAT build. He hasn't ridden in the truck yet. I
thought it was a perfect day to surprise him with a ride. Then I thought, "Nice surprise it would be for him.... to go into a brake-infested fishtail
into a ditch...on *his* side." I took the car.

For the last several weeks, I've even had a set of new shoes sitting on the workbench. So I smacked myself on the forehead with my palm, and
got down to the task at hand.

Now, like you say Boog, next time I'm out, I'll be ready to enjoy a ride in the California sunshine.....And, next time I pick up Jack, it'll be in the truck!!!!

My 062 heads are in the shop...got some other parts coming, too. Since the trusty 350's running very well now, it's time to make some more messes and
drain my paltry stash some more. And maybe make a little more torque and horsepower.