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Agree from the engineering perspective, totally disagree from the user perspective, ha ha! troubleshooting this was a nightmare!

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194 168 are the same size glass envelope peanut bulb.
168 is actually higher wattage more light. I assumed that was the bulb in use in that socket.
I'd have to look at a 73-86 CK bulb chart to be sure which one is used there.

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Well dang! The do alternate with the parking lights on. Whew, I thought I was losing it.

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What's going on in Rusty's world?

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ha ha thanks for checking up on the green machine, he's getting new shoes tomorrow!

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I was wondering the same thing. Seems Busty is taking up all the spotlight lately.

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Indeed and it will be so nice to have two out of three trucks with LS drive trains, and wait till you see what I have in store for Dusty aka the third one!

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Twin turbo 496 stroker??

On a side note...how is the side of your house not black??? ��

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I don't get it, please alaborate?

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You have a full on fabrication shop on the side of your house yet the pavers and house look like there’s nothing to see there move along.

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Oh and a paint booth!

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ha ha you mean my single angle grinder, a hand drill, and a BFH? and I do vacuum about 1/8th of metal dust off the concrete once in a while and just got a pressure washer so may actually try and clean the patio

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Don’t forget the tumbler.

I’m not sure which is more impressive - the fabrication or the clean up.

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thanks mate, it's definitely not the welding

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"L8T" 6.6 liter gen-V out of a 2020 Silverado 2500?!?

That's going to be da' bomb! Can't wait to see it!

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I absolutely love the specifics, but nope!

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so we almost made it one year without a true LS related issue

however yesterday I replaced this little guy (pronounced: "expensive" $73) aka the fuel pressure regular

the problem started right after I replaced that front driver side turn signal light bulb, so of course I went chasing electrical problem, ha ha

the issue was that the truck went from starting on the very first try each and every time to never wanting to start on the first try but always 100% of the time simply starting on the second try

after checking all my electrical connections (grounds, grounds, and more grounds, ha ha) checking every fuse and every relay, I really dreaded having to drop the fuel tank to replace my brand new Spectra fuel pump which everyone talks bad about yet it has been wonderful for me - so I said well the fuel pressure regulator is expensive but at least it's really easy to get to, ha ha

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Rusty took us kayakin' taday, ranned like a champ

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That’s cool. Glad he’s finally able to get out and about.

Are you experiencing some weird gravitational issue?

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ha ha, I noticed that right after I uploaded it from my silly iPhone (sometimes it has a mind of it's own)

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Good work, both you and Rusty. Where did you guys go with the kayak?

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Lake Natoma it is a small lake right below Folsom Lake by highway 50 and Hazel Ave (I forget you know these parts!) I like it cause its sailboats only no motorized idiots

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I can't wait to follow Dusty's progress!!!

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well then get down here and help me finish Busty, ha ha (FYI: Dusty was going to be my Mother / Son Project but we lost all the pics in a house move, hard drive failure)

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Is that project your mother and you or your wife and your son?

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Never mind. I see the picture now.

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sorry, just added a pic that would have answered that, it's my retired 70 year old mom, I bought the truck and towed it to her house cause I didn't have enough room at my house and that's where I take all my strays, and it forced me to visit her every weekend, she lives alone (divorced) she took to it like a duck to water, removed the cylinder heads by herself and was amazing in finding all of my displaced/lost wrenches, ha ha (we nick named her, "Supervisor")

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That's awesome. Cherish this time with her.

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:lol:

So she’s in management...
does that mean you’re just a lowly union worker??

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means she has no clue what she's doing but still tells me what to do, ha ha

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:haha:

Yep that’s what I’m talking about

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next up for Rusty... get the stock bench seat reupholstered professionally ($550) with new replacement foams from a junk yard I scored a few years back (cause knew these are monster EXPENSIVE!), going with black, vinyl back and sides and cloth sit down parts and back rests I think that's what Dale the seat dude said

thank you all for offering advice on how to DIY this but I refuse to do it myself, ha ha, too old and grumpy and I want this done right, I did a seat or two in the past and it's just not my cup of tea (hope you all understand and won't hold it against me in the Court of Trucks)

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I believe you've earned a free pass by now.

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can you spot Rusty?

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Haha, motorized idiots. I see an orange boat in the picture above. Other than that, hard to say. Looks like a cool spot and that you could paddle around forever. Can you row upstream to the big lake if you want?

Is that a seat out of a 81-87? Not that it matters necessarily. I have a 73-80 I could swap you (PT-3) if it ever becomes reasonable to travel around again. How are you guys doing down there? Most of the numbers are coming out of LA, yeah?

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The San Francisco bay area is likely just as bad.
Living in high population density areas increases your risk.

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Rusty is looking good out there.

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thanks, man that little 4.8L pulled so good up the hills with two in the cab and totally loaded up and that aero dynamic orange brick on the roof, luv it when the truck runs good, hopefully next year we're out there in the '54

plus round trip on one tank of gas! - Bonus!

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Would seem to make sense, but look at LA County vs. SF County.

https://www.worldometers.info/corona...sa/california/

Gski, sorry about the hijack. We're just discussing your safety and wellbeing.

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It's all about perspective.
Comparing SF county to LA county is apples to oranges...

LA county is huge. I've driven all over that county for work in the 1990s. It's easily twice the land area of Rhode Island or Delaware and then some. At 10x plus more population it's far more densely populated than either of those Eastern seaboard states... LA county has almost the population of the state of Ohio packed into a land area around twice the size of RI.

The SF Bay Area is Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Solano Counties.
Of those SF Bay Area counties San Francisco is tiny tiny tiny... literally almost just a tiny little bit bigger than the city of San Francisco. Considering that fact... the infection rate for that tiny high population density area is insane.
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Enough of that lets talk about trucks some more.