47-55.1 Really any year, keeping log of where your parts are. YES it's worth the time!

[MARTINSR]

I have maybe posted about this before. But damn it's valuable! Yesterday I started getting a few parts together for my chassis build that will be coming this week. One thing I was a bit concerned about was if I had nuts for the front axle U bolts. I have MANY boxes of stuff in a few locations and I went to my parts location binder and WHAM, box number 26 in the shed. Went out there opened it, bam, there are the U bolts with nuts on them.

This has really helped me BIG TIME being an old dude and all but even as a young dude the few minutes spent on this every once in a while saves a bunch of time and frustration.

I simply got a binder (in my case one of my dad's from a Fiat dealership he worked at in the seventies) and just started doing it, done deal. I have an "index" with the location of the boxes first page. Then each page is a section of the truck. And yes, many overlap so I will put the same thing on a few pages like inner windshield moulding may be in "cab" "dash" and "windows" just to be sure I find it easily.

Honestly, before I did this I had a number of goofy things happen where I bought things twice and just simply forget something existed. The binder is now right next to my desk as I post this and I can look anytime I want to see where something is or if I even have it.

I also started keeping receipts in this binder too.

I HIGHLY recommend doing this guys!

Brian