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Here's some pictures from the weekend at Rene's Ranch awesome event loved it
The crew cruising down to the event
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Posted in the backyard with the boys
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and the best quote I heard all weekend
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and a overview of the event
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Also had some last minute upgrades involving the robbed OEM Trico wipers and the EM brake pedal and trim from the spare cab
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Alrighty men of men I'm looking for some solid advice I'm finally back on track finacially I'm grabbing up a set of new tools and have a 200$ Ford 9" rear end in sight will be picking it up next saturday supposedly it is the shorter (width wise) of the rear ends and supposedly there are some disc brake axle setups that can fit my Chevy 5 x 5 bolt pattern is there any truth to this?? If not I can spend the extra but it would be sweet if it was ready to roll. Now what am I looking into for swapping from my 12 bolt to the ford 9" I know I'll need to re weld some new saddles to position it correctly and this is where the rest of this new setup requires further planning soooooo....

I plan on also salvaging a nice shell of 700r4 from the local junkyard gutting all the old innards and having all brand new high end innards installed by my family's long time tranny guy he's a solid mechanic so I guess the question is...

I'm sticking with a SB 350 for present and future (possibly ZZ4 next spring) I need to know what year 700r I am looking for in particular so that everything can mesh smoothly together this truck will be completely a daily driver and potentially a long haul runner so what else could I be running into? with linkages gear selection tubular crossmember for tranny driveline???

thanks in advance for any advice or directions to go

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Any suggestions?

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what did you use to polish the wiper arms??

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not sure what kind of product my in-house polisher used probably ran a clay bar on a buffing wheel, roughed it then, used a soft buffing wheel to shine it up

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oh ok i would like to shine mine up a bit.

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definitely take the time and put some hard elbow grease into em and they'll be blindingly shiny trust me. I'll see if I can find out what he used and I'll let you know. Good seein ya at the show didn't get to speak in person but I saw Del admiring your truck

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yeah i wished i could have met everybody in person and it was good to at least see the truck behind the cameras.... you havent said anything so i guess that means i wiped the drool off your truck good enough lol, awesoem truck though. looks really good, the pictures dont do it justice.
i was suprised somebody like del was actually checking out my 100 footer lol

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:lol: I was wondering how the faucet behind my truck got my hood wet
and thank you it's alot of hard work to get it here I'm sure you know what Im talking about after I looked through your build the ole 67 is comin together really well man and hell I'm sure he saw your Sancho's Pool Service idea the ideas are swirling constantly for him :uhmk:

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hahaha yeah mysterious things happen at Rene's.... haha. I would like to put a door logo on the 67 but what to put i dont know and the fact that im going to paint it sometime soon doesnt help! dont want to waste the logo just to sand it off in a month or 2

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complete truth there well all the more time to research a design for it now put in a little bit of Tootsie's amazing door logo and Sancho's heritage and viola a door logo you'll have

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the equal of those 2 combos whatever it may be is probably killer! ive got 2 or 3 ideas already, but still looking for more, hopefully i can combine all my ideas into one awesome logo.

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throw me a pm on how you'd like to do it maybe I can sketch it out or bounce some ideas back at ya

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Not sure about the tranny and engine setup, but they do make a disc brake kit for the 9" that will fit the 5x5.I dont remember who made it but I know it is was still made as of 6 months ago, as I was looking at one for a customer in Alabama. I will see if I can track it down.

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In the final of this truck I'll be Looking at a 350 HP 350 SBC with that overdrive 700r4 supposedly they can stillage around 15-17 mpg's with the right gearing. And rumor On the rear end I'm looking at is that it's already disc brake.
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So Would I be going backwards trying to slap a powertrax and taller gearing into my old 12 bolt? I'm still going to have to do a big brake disc conversion later on but I plan on at least 18" custom wheels in the future so I'll have to wait on that till after the wheels

With the ford 9" I was liking the idea of already getting disc along with posi and not sure of the gearing this 3rd member has yet but to be announced

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Leaning towards the 12 bolt staying put and installing some brand of posi and keeping her a 3:73 for gearing as well as doing some base model disc brakes for the time being (I wouldn't be doing them unless my rear drums were wore out and they are so in discs go)

also will for sure be doing the 700r4 and I am looking at this product just posted has anybody ever used this? I'm imagining this crossmember looking like a sway bar for a tranny mount

http://bowlertransmissions.com/p/97/...r4-crossmember

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let me know which brand you go with for a posi. i want a posi with 3:73 gears for my 67

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Most likey eaton price is about half of a brute and the brute is overkill for what I'm looking for.
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I have an Auburn Posi, with 3.42's and the McGaughy 13" Big Brake kit that I had under my '76 Blazer that worked great. I've now put it under my '70 GMC trailing arm truck...I can say that the Auburn has been great for pulling the boat out of the water on a wet ramp, and grunting up a few wet hills here and there. And the price was really competitive.

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I'll look into auburn then good to hear of new brands to look at though thanks for the input
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Auburn's have been around a long time. The mustang crowd has been using them for 25+ yrs with great success.

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I'm already going Richmond gear replacement anyway so I found this package with a posi will probably have to pick up a few parts to finish this package off BUUUUUTT it would all match and mesh with eachother perfectly or it should

http://www.ronsmachiningservice.com/...HEVY-12/Detail

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Starting the rear end rebuild fund on my truck already have about 350$ for sure saved

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Going to be checking out that ford 9" rear end saturday sometime kinda scared it'll change my mind luckily i have no money to really do anything yet :lol:

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new idea save a big chunk of money and not go posi just do the rebuild on the 12 bolt and swap for some disc rear brakes just GM ones nothin fancy. This way I'll be closer to the tranny getting done as well

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Well I wasn't able to check out the Ford 9" rear end Saturday but I did get some great news from my audio sponsor in that I will be attending this coming February's Sacramento Ca, Autorama http://www.rodshows.com/sa/index.html

I will be displaying the truck to the best of my abilities to make my spot worth being chosen by them so a big thank you to Big D and family for the invite swing by the coolest site around to check into some great audio equipment I love buying and dealing through them because of their hospitality and great overall nature in the business world
http://www.arcaudio.com/index2.asp

So with that announced I will now be going into double overtime to get this truck ready for the event plans include major and small tasks to make it that much nicer and maybe even a possible contender in my class so here goes

Exterior:
..Finish body work on tailgate and paint white and red to match the truck
..Install trim moldings around tail lights and upper body line of tail gate
..Possibly install the Chevrolet trim band along the bottom
..If not go with White Chevrolet embossed letters
..Pull out original wood re sand down to bare and re-tone and clear or stain for a better longer lasting look (is chipping)
..Pull off inner/outer Grill and have the outer polished and coated correctly and re spray the inner the OEM silver (possibly metallic like bed strips)to enhance the look (little dull)
..Possibly swap to my old (non warped hood) and sand blast that then spray it with the sealer White to replace warped one
..CLEAR ENTIRE TRUCK to have that show stopping sheen

Interior:
..Possibly repair an OEM steering wheel from my spare cab and install that (Black)
..Get all courtesy and dome/cargo turn signal lights working
..Paint steering column black to freshen the look
..Recover Bench seat with cloth black and vinyl like OEM OR go with Truckseats and do a /black white Houndstooth seat cover for that Cheyenne flavor (FAN VOTE)
..Build custom wood and carpeted kick panels that will allow my air vents to function still
..Install my already paid for 2 6" speakers/tweeters as well as new 5-channel amp I have
..Possibly do a custom built Center "two piece" console

Motor compartment:
..Dress up any showing wires
..FIX ALL LEAKS
..Nick nack stuff

Oh one more thing do some custom 18-20" one off wheels from my work ;) how could I forget :rolleyes:

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Got a few pictures in including a whole new aluminum surface plate for my CNC machine, some awesome beading from the wax job on the truck, the gunk leaking from my valve covers on both sides (black showing the really bad areas mostly in the back so I siliconed that and let it set for today hopefully I'll leak alot less than before tmrw shall tell me the improvement.) and finally a little fun with a velocity stack I had laying around (no it doesn't fit and no I'm not keeping it :lol:) ALSO who knows of the company that provides a product to coat my master cylinder so it stops rusting looking for a silver/gray instead of black just to match the Alternator thanks

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Eastwood has a cool product that is made for coating cast iron headers that really works well for any cast product. It uses the heat from the exhaust to cure it but I had it on my headers for months before I was able to fire up my engine and it dried fine. I would get a little gray on my hands when handling them but it was not too bad. The instructions say to apply with a rag but a real time saver is an old tooth brush. There is enough in the little container to do my ram horn headers multiple times. It has been on for about 6 months and about 2000 miles and still looks like the day I fired it up.
These are the original 1969 headers that came on the truck they were pretty rusty and old looking but they look almost new now.

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Perfect I knew it was a company something like Eastwood so I'll have to round some up I'll be doing my mast. Cylinder ad maybe even the alternator as well to
Give them the same look. Thanks Mike
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Looking good in the oil leak department so far just a tiny drip on the driver side rear buuuut that's most likely from any old oil still clinging to the motor but I'm looking pretty darn clean as for tonight

for an update on gathering parts I will be seriously considering going through Truckseats to order some black and white houndstooth to freshen up my ripped all black seat here's a better reference for my idea.. was wondering if anyone knew about the best place to get cushion/foam from to replace the used current one and if there were any sweet "bucket" influenced bench seats to help keep me in the seat a little better any ideas to that?

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very classy! I would be afraid to get the white in the plaid dirty.

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And that's exactly what's holding me back from buying it at this point since I still get really dirty at work even with being a machinist oh well maybe in a couple months I'll justify it and buy a nice cover towel to sit on when not at shows :lol:
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Alright everybody this issue has been kinda nagging me for a bit but I'd like to know from everybody's experience with these trucks have any of you had a collapsed rear spring?? This is my only conclusion to a possible answer on why my pass. side is 1" 1/4 higher than my driver side as seen in the photo. Anyone know what it could be and why?

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Great build Man ! Truck is looking Good ! I'm no expert, but the rear of the truck down on one side like that, seems like it could only be a spring, shock, or mounting point. :chevy:

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Thank you, I was thinking most of that too so we swapped for brand new gas shocks and it didn't fix it but the rear springs are a lowered set from early classics and seem fairly new they can't twist and get out of alignment like the front getting of of the pocket can they?
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Not sure on the spring. I think the end of the coil fits in a notch on the keeper. could it be the bed itself? I see in the pic the tailgate looks a little tweaked.

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We wondered that as well but ever since we took the bed off and wood out to repaint we've noticed it was way off but it could have been like that before too and other than the shocks I've never taken the rear end apart guess my next step it to drop the rear down a bit and pull the springs to see if they're the same or not I hope its just that and not a frame issue
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Alright so I just went out and measured the back of the frame and to the tip of the tailgate on each side is at least 1" off driver being lower and passenger being higher.

So then I went to my springs and measured just their distance and the driver was at 7 1/4-1/2 tall and the passenger was a solid 8" tall.

One other curious idea was that my springs have a small to tall opening between the coils every time it wraps around if you can follow my ill knowledge on wording this sort of thing and it appears either my driver or passenger side has been flipped from top to bottom one having a short distance for the base the other having a long distance for the base could this be an issue in the p.o. Just putting them in upside down??
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