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Thanks took the whole last half of the day lol today ( I'm at school) when I get home I'm going to touch up some spots paint the rest of the splash apron an then install it... So with lots of finess and masking tape hopefully It goes on all right and no scratches lol.:metal:
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The grill is on and it looks great. I still need to install he splash apron and the passer side parking light so we will see how that goes today. Afte that is done it's time to work on the hood... I'm going to start looking for a suitable gold that matches best to
The original 50th anniversary color and I'll do the front clip that color. So pictures this weekend or sooner if I can :)
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well grille and new hood are on!

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very nice!

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Thanks cameron! Installed the splash apron Monday and I wet sanded the hood.. Made itnlook a Little
Better, some of the blue came back! Lol so I'll have to
Do some body work to it an primer it.


I did also fix the passenger side sun visor screw hole, one of the PO's put to big up a screw and it stretched the hole, so I took a center punch and beat the hole back small
Again, now the screw fits and the sun visor hook is on! Finally
Lol.
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not much......but sun visor hook pics! lol

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well this weekend we are going to see if we cant get a 77 front axle and all the brake lines and proportioning valve so we can upgrade this truck to disc! lets see.... we want to put his outer locking hub and gears inplace of the gears and hub on the 77 axle... since 77 has it in the cab correct? just ewant to see if im on the right page.... thanks guys

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Not sure if this is what you are after, the manual locking hubs on the 77 alxe are the same as yours on the 68.

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OK, i think i figured this stuffs out lol.....

77 4wd system: axle is always engaged but transfer case is not until you shift it.
67 72 4wd system: you can select weather the axle is free or locked and transfer case is not locked until you shift it.


correct??????


if so then all i have to do is remove the caps and install all my dads gears and manually locking hubcaps on the axle and we are good correct????

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well ive been cleaning up the new axle and its components.... here are some pictures of the hubs rotors and brak sheilds, i will get pictures of the axle tomorrow. the axle is in primer and im waiting to get paint to paint and clear coat.... just been cleaning all the old grease out fo the hubs rotors and bearings.

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more pictures

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and the last one....

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just the lock outs on the hubs if the gears are the same ratio.

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oh ok thanks! that was our plan!

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got some pictures! the first one is the rims and hubcaps we want to rol with...

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and more.. these are mostly a "before" on the front axle and the front suspension...

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and some of the axle

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and the grease and paint im using..

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Well I posted this truck in the truck of the month, I don't have any intentions of winning. Turns out she's to ugly for the contest for ugly trucks lol
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well i took apart the A/C boxes under the dash and put them back in the best i could and got them all butted up against each other so i wouldnt be losing any air around the boxes. then i put all the hoses back in cleaned. also when we got the truck there were after market speakers and radio in the truck, i took the radio and pseakers out last year..... i finally took all the uneeded wires that went to that radio and those speakers.... there was a bunch! much better under the dash now.... i got an original AM radio for it and finally was able to plug it in with the original wires into the radio plug on the fuse box( the aftermarket radio was using that spot) so here are pictures of how it all cleaned up and one of all the wires i took out

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and the pictures of the axle in, also a picture of the old axle out. i also installed a middle seat belt female end and male end so now 3 persons can sit legally :lol: then installed the trim on the new door and pulled the dent out of the door. i adjusted the door to the cab better.. still need to bring the door out and it should shut beautifully... anyways heres the pics

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and more

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pic

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???
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heres some pics of the truck now and the hub caps i painted. i did some work to the tailgate... it wants to "make like a tree and split" but me and my millermatic 200 say other wise... still gotta do the passenger side.