What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II

[mud.man.rj]

I like the Batmo/Chevy truck pic.

[OregonNed]

Took it to a local car show

[RodnRudy]

Sat down and added up two years worth of build receipts for my 68. She's truly a money pit!

[66clow]

Originally Posted by RodnRudy

Sat down and added up two years worth of build receipts for my 68. She's truly a money pit!

Now you gotta tell us the total

[kilrcady]

I have 4 projects.multiply by 4

[Possmguts]

Originally Posted by RodnRudy

Sat down and added up two years worth of build receipts for my 68. She's truly a money pit!

Never ever calculate that man... It can make a grown man cry

[RodnRudy]

Eighty eight hundred buckos, and we're not finished yet. Lots of new parts though.

[Deer_hunter_088]

I took a starter off, said a few swear words, peeled a sticker off, and yeah lol

[mud.man.rj]

Man I put $35k into my last 81 Chevy 1 ton, front Currie diff was $8k by the time it was installed, try really hard not to think about it and enjoy you ride that has personality that no new truck does.

[TwoFiftyShifter]

My "budget" 71 is costing quite a bit - but I get enjoyment from it. So who cares? At least the value isn't depreciating like a late model car.

It's only money.

[mud.man.rj]

Plus it's nice to see old iron cruising down the road, people just appreciate the old trucks, as for the new over priced trucks even lifted or lowered just don't have it in comparison plus a lot more of them on the road.

[Metaldoc]

Originally Posted by kilrcady

ground out leaky drip rail and resealed it.i'm not impressed with my caulking.may grind it out again

I used seam sealer, Then dipped a brush in thinners and blended it in.

[Metaldoc]

Took it out to a local show

[wpavlis]

Climbed all up inside the engine compartment to change the spark plugs. Passenger side was easy because I still have the inner fender removed. Just stradled the suspension. Drivers side made me glad I don't have headers.

[snipescastle2]

Well, I didn't really get anything done except re-attach the wedge base for my rear view mirror to the windshield....seems this 700R4 my brother-in-law built for me hits second so hard, the rear view mirror keeps coming off the windshield! seriously, it does.....any way's, I had posted before that I found an unusual noise in my front end while turning left or right, come to find out, the pinch bolt that clamps the steering shaft to the rag joint was too long ( I used the pinch bolt that came with the Van Tilt column I bought) any way's, I was trying to find the noise and when I had finished checking the front end, I grabbed the steering wheel, and Voila! there it was....the pinch bolt was rubbing the sheath of the emergency brake cable so, I relocated the clamp that holds the cable to the inner fender, noise gone.....

Now, I had a noise coming from the rear end while making turns, and I believe I have figured that out too. when I rebuilt my 12 bolt rear end, I added the gear lube with limited slip additive in the oil, never thought I had to add the posi additive in addition to the gear oil that had it blended in it, well, to make a long story short, when I made my turns, it felt like something "Ratcheting/grabbing" and the noise/vibration, was probably my posi unit not agreeing with the gear lube I was running. I bought the regular 80w 90 gear lube and a bottle of the GM posi additive, and I'm planning on doing that tonight, hopefully, that will handle it. I read a few horror stories about people running synthetic gear oil ruining their posi carrier....an ounce of prevention........
Have a Great Day!
Ben

[In The Ten Ring]

This is really for yesterday, because I got in at midnight and was too tired to post anything.

Big day yesterday: I picked up the front fender from "paint jail" and OMGosh it is amazing! I wish I had a pic. I think the painter missed the shade but is probably closer to what the truck was originally (it was repainted in 1990). The fender is just amazing. I put that into parents' garage as mine is too small and it was still out-gassing so I was fearful to put it into my house.

I hit the ring of the fuel nozzle with NAPA Rust Treatment to handle the rust there and that seems to have gone well. The inside of the nozzle is rubber now ("renewed") so to protect that I tied a string around a rag, stuffed that down the nozzle, and taped off the outside. After spraying, I pulled out the rag.

When the painter got home from his chores, I picked up the two cowls. He used one to figure out the paint shade and the other is my replacement, again making the color ochre an amazing color. No wonder my dad fell in love with this truck when he saw it on the car lot.

I also ordered the radiator roboticjunky suggested yesterday morning. Hopefully it is actually copper and brass.

[matthamby]

The blasted starter wire has been the proverbial thorn in my side! 2 weeks ago I took the C10 to my buddy to use his lift to change the U-joint in the rear. The first one was too large - if you look back far enough you will see where I burned my arm on the muffler while trying to check the size. Anyway, with the truck on the lift, the U-joint was no trouble at all, we "fixed" the exhaust with some good tubing laying around his shop (just temporary until I can find some headers and re-work it all, properly - we just removed some really bent up and thin pipe up close to the "Y"). We started her up and backed her out, turned her off, cleaned up everything, got ready to leave, click & nothing! We moved the leas going to the battery from the starter - Bam! she was running. 2 nights later I was going to a Men's meeting at the church, decided to take the old girl out, got to the gas station and same thing, fortunately I was able to roll start her. Got to the church and parked such that if I had to I could roll start again, made several comments to the Ford guys there about even having to roll start her it's still better than any of their stuff etc... Well, roll starting in the rain was no fun, but I got her home in the monsoon (talk about those Ford comments biting me right then)!

Last night I checked all of the wires and found what I thought was the culprit - whoever did the engine swap for my grandpa needs never to touch another vehicle! This is the same wire that I tried to couple together and just couldn't get leverage on it. I had to loosen the starter from the engine to get to the connections, this same wire was barely on the starter, I pulled the wire back out far enough I could get to it and get enough leverage to get a good crimp on it, tightened everything up good and replaced the starter on the engine and let it rip!

I drove it to pick up my daughter from cheer, she was happy to see that she was going to be able to ride in it! She likes it almost as much as I do!

[kilrcady]

Believe it or not go with a ford starter solinoid.

[matthamby]

Well, irony is not lost on me. I fixed the loose wire to the starter on my truck last night, took it out for a spin. Had to take my youngest daughter to open house tonight, she likes riding in the truck, so we got in, I noticed that I had left the key turned to the accessory position (old truck with no auto cut off = dead battery) so I had to roll start it 3 times tonight, it was so worth it, we had fun! She got out and acted like she was pushing - all 100 pounds of her, she was laughing so hard because she knew she wasn't really helping. She said she may have been helping at 1%.

[1957 Chief]

I finally got to the point that I took some pics and cleaned it up...

[Boog]

Hey neighbor. Truck looks good.

[1957 Chief]

Originally Posted by Boog

Hey neighbor. Truck looks good.

Thanks brother. Maybe I need to ease up your way and meet you. You know Ole Chird? And Mr Doyle? They live up your way.

Bubba

[Boog]

I've heard of Chird. I do know Mr Doyle, bought some parts from him.

[66clow]

Replaced lamp wire going into heater controls and painted the brake and accelerator pedals. It is a good day when you accomplish at least a little something. . One step closer to the goal.

[BugzC10]

Took the tip from OregonNed and bought a Forever Sharp steering wheel....15" Installed it today.