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not everything on my truck is NOS, but where I find a good deal, I'll take it! Found a perfectly good used Unity spotlight for a 1/4 the price of NOS. I'm trying to make my truck look like it might have survived 40 years, so I can't have to much shiny stuff on it 
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02-13-2011, 05:27 PM
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Re: PO has me PO'd
got a couple hours to play with solenoids, mounted them on the side of the battery tray
   
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02-14-2011, 12:21 PM
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02-14-2011, 07:21 PM
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02-14-2011, 07:57 PM
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Re: PO has me PO'd
Looking forward to the pics
 I have some cut to fit plug wires that would look sweet with this!
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02-20-2011, 06:07 AM
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Re: PO has me PO'd
any more progress?
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02-21-2011, 09:46 AM
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02-21-2011, 10:28 AM
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02-21-2011, 10:29 PM
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Re: PO has me PO'd
well that is a bummer......glad you caught somthin i am just 15 but i havent caught anything yet i only have been fishin about 3 times
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02-22-2011, 10:04 PM
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Another fishing pic?!?
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02-24-2011, 02:55 PM
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Re: PO has me PO'd
got the intake gaskets on...felpro 1255. Bolts sealed and torqued to 11 ft. lbs. Black RTV used top and bottom, 4 corners got an extra portion at the block
now, on to the cooling, see if the electric water pump works  
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03-25-2011, 06:48 PM
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Re: PO has me PO'd
A month since your last update...what gives old man?
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03-25-2011, 07:36 PM
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Good to see you back here VT!
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03-25-2011, 08:06 PM
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03-25-2011, 08:12 PM
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03-25-2011, 08:44 PM
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The Garage: 1968 K-10 SWB - "Project Money Pit" 1996 Z-71 - "huntin rig" 1969 C-10 LWB (SOLD) "Project flip that truck or else" 1993 Passport, F@rd 1-ton (SOLD)"Project Cousin Eddie" My Garage Build "The 1,000 footer" Last edited by msgross; 03-25-2011 at 08:44 PM. |
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03-25-2011, 10:31 PM
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2 sets of Vortec intake gaskets....................100 brand new vortec intake..............................177 GMPP vortec intake, B/C I broke the edlebrock 300 ------------------------------------------------ plus 500 of my money that I didn't get to spend B/C I had to replace the broken parts 1,000 Wifey says to me this morning, thank goodness you don't screw up very often  SNAFU/ almost FUBAR...all because of galling Spiral easy out  hairline crack due to force on the intake from the easy out 
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03-25-2011, 10:55 PM
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03-25-2011, 11:09 PM
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Re: PO has me PO'd
Man, sorry to see that.
but I was picturing the truck rolling down a hill out of the garage or something so it's not as bad as my imagination 
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03-26-2011, 01:51 AM
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NO, not that bad, but money is a hard thing to come by these days...and the fact that I did something stupid, I should have gone with plan 'B'BTW, I have something very similiar to that happen to me, another story for another day, maybe around a campfire with a beer
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03-26-2011, 01:53 AM
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Re: PO has me PO'd
you can send the story to me in a pm if you want?
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03-26-2011, 09:01 PM
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Oh damn! Man that stinks Jim. I know all about setbacks...
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03-28-2011, 06:04 PM
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Are you into your new budget yet?
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03-28-2011, 06:36 PM
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Re: PO has me PO'd
I have a guy out here that could TIG it for you, but that's still a 1.5 hour trip.... that sucks.
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plus I have in-laws out there...
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