bill give it a minute! you to old57, hey there is a show this weekend right around the corner, yours drives, if mine drives we should crash it
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Originally Posted by Advanced Design
It was good your wife was home so you could push the truck outside by yourself.
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she AND my daughter were BOTH home this morning, so I got the bed AND front clip off by myself.
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I got all the fender bolts out except the core side, because my dumb butt thought you could change the fender without changing the inner. even though I just put the other side together.
HUBRIS!
found a leaf spring bolt in my parts stash and thought I better change it out for that one I cut before I did something galactically stupid like try to drive it. the extension was to tap the old one out without losing the spring, but there was almost no tension on it.
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got the front sanded and painted right after lunch (missing the areas I had to weld) and the rear painted right before dinner.
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all the mounts are finish welded now.
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just need gussets, and a couple "cab-off" tasks (like fuel line hookups, driveshaft, exhaust fix and O2 wiring) and its ready for final assembly. plan is to drive this weekend, I have a new contract starting next tuesday, lets see how my luck holds out.