What did you do to your truck today.The 3rd chapter

[zicc1835]

well I WOKE this motor today been years sitting waiting to fire up

https://youtube.com/shorts/QQH4x6e0i...7eDYgVTn42Rq1f

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by zicc1835

well I WOKE this motor today been years sitting waiting to fire up

https://youtube.com/shorts/QQH4x6e0i...7eDYgVTn42Rq1f

Nice tone

[zicc1835]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

Nice tone

Thanks

[hdrolling]

Cleaned up and hit a couple cars and coffee and cruise ins, while Fall and winter is when half of you put your trucks away its the best time to get out here in NC.

I do have a couple projects ready to start in the garage, new cowl hood I need to paint with billet hinges and a freshly built stage 2 2004R 4 speed trans to replace my TH350. Before next summer I need to order and install a Vintage Air, having no AC this summer and no heat for this winter is getting old.

[72c20customcamper]

Nice weather today for the show . I didn’t walk around much so no pictures other than my truck . Tomorrow will be just as nice so it should be a great turnout . Trucks keep rolling into the camping area tonight .

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by hdrolling

Cleaned up and hit a couple cars and coffee and cruise ins, while Fall and winter is when half of you put your trucks away its the best time to get out here in NC.

I do have a couple projects ready to start in the garage, new cowl hood I need to paint with billet hinges and a freshly built stage 2 2004R 4 speed trans to replace my TH350. Before next summer I need to order and install a Vintage Air, having no AC this summer and no heat for this winter is getting old.

Is that an extra driving light behind the grille on the passenger side?

[ohboy321]

Finished getting my disk brake D44 axle ready for paint, which will be applied tomorrow based on the weather forecast. My goal is to have all the painted parts finished before the snow comes and start assembly over the winter.

[hdrolling]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

Is that an extra driving light behind the grille on the passenger side?

No its the overflow for the radiator, that's how the previous owner had it and I wasn't sure if it was suppose to be like that or not.
Now its grown on me so I don't even notice it.

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by hdrolling

No its the overflow for the radiator, that's how the previous owner had it and I wasn't sure if it was suppose to be like that or not.
Now its grown on me so I don't even notice it.

OK, thanks. I wondered why it was only on one side. Auxiliary lights are usually symetrical.

[72c20customcamper]

Bought a USA-1 seat cover . I’m going to recover the 72 seat it has white and black houndstooth now. Little boring if you ask me . This should make it pop , I couldn’t pass it up for $75 .

[Rust_never_sleeps]

Bolted the head back on my son's Jeep, and now I'm going to do it again...
This time with lifters installed ;-)

[zicc1835]

played with the throttle cable and kick down/detent bracket I like the way it turned out all aftermarket stuff except the accelerator cable so much easier with no fenders to lean over.....with my abused and old back

[zicc1835]

tonight I layed out the cross sills and the bed strips so I could determine where the fuel fill will line up .....I want to put a round stainless fuel access hatch over the fuel cap IS 2.5 ROUND so I need like 4 inch access hole
ANY SUGGESTIONS ?
I bought this Boyd welding fuel tank years ago used... never had fuel in it couldn't pass up the deal so I will make it work

[TxGary]

Finally got around to getting the seat new foam and cover. Fixed broken springs. What a difference in the ride.

[3757chevy]

Originally Posted by TxGary

Finally got around to getting the seat new foam and cover. Fixed broken springs. What a difference in the ride.

Looks nice.

[ohboy321]

I installed a new ignition switch this morning. The old one all of a sudden would not engage the starter solenoid. Voltage check showed it was only getting an intermittent 7-8 volts on the purple wire.

Based on a lot of forum comments about the reproduced versions of the switch, I bought a NOS Delco Remy. Glad that the failure happened while the truck was in the garage.

[72c20customcamper]

Driving the 68 home last night and it started to buck and stumble . I removed some plugs and found this on number 1 and 3 rest were great little stumped . I put two new plugs in checked the timing which was dead on . Truck burns oil but that shouldn’t cause this .

Plugs have about 1000 miles

[hdrolling]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Driving the 68 home last night and it started to buck and stumble . I removed some plugs and found this on number 1 and 3 rest were great little stumped . I put two new plugs in checked the timing which was dead on . Truck burns oil but that shouldn’t cause this .

Plugs have about 1000 miles

That was a hard 1000 miles, they look about 30 years old. I bet the truck is running great with new plugs!

Do you keep your truck parked outside?

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by hdrolling

That was a hard 1000 miles, they look about 30 years old. I bet the truck is running great with new plugs!

Do you keep your truck parked outside?

Truck is inside . I put them in this spring and haven’t really driven it much but everything flash rusts here almost immediately.

Runs good now but I’m a little concerned if it happens again . They don’t look overheated or like they ran lean

[Steeveedee]

Do you have a bore scope? I'd be for checking all cylinders for detonation damage. But it could just be poorly manufactured spark plugs?

['68OrangeSunshine]

What's the Black Knob outboard left of the Dash for?
I had to replace the Headlight Switch on my '68 C/10 Stepside last year. The rheostat controlling Instrument Lights had gaps in its dimming range. I noticed the ersatz switch was a lot balkier when pulling it On/Off. Seems to catch midway.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

What's the Black Knob outboard left of the Dash for?
I had to replace the Headlight Switch on my '68 C/10 Stepside last year. The rheostat controlling Instrument Lights had gaps in its dimming range. I noticed the ersatz switch was a lot balkier when pulling it On/Off. Seems to catch midway.

Fog lights I have yet to rebuild them . The ones that came on the truck when I bought it are from a Mack .

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Fog lights I have yet to rebuild them . The ones that came on the truck when I bought it are from a Mack .

Cool.
I had a chrome shop cut Fog Light Holes out of a 67-68 front bumper so I could mount rectangular fog lights inside the bumper, like parking lights on 71-72s. It's on my '67 K/10 Suburban now. The later model bumper didn't fit my '68. Pix are on my old computer.

['68OrangeSunshine]

Today I had a couple of my good buddies from work over to help with my ''Truck Rodeo''.
My '71 GMC Jimmy K/1500 has been sitting on a slope in my driveway with a dead starter since September.
I thought of deadsticking it backwards into the intersection and trying to pop the clutch in reverse. With Power Steering and Power Disc Brakes, ''Deadsticking'' is the operative work. These systems don't work without the engine running.
So I ran a 10 foot chain from the hitchball on my '68 C/10 Stepside to the D/S spring shackle on the Jimmy. My larger friend steered the dead Jimmy, while my younger friend acted as Road Guard. We towed it 100 feet to myb upper driveway, just off the street and disconnected the chain. Then I glided downhill into my repair pad in front on the engine shed.
Good enough for today.
To get at the Starter or Solenoid, I have to pull my Hedman headers. They also need burned out gaskets replaced. And the last time we worked on the Hedders, we forgot to hook up the oil dipstick bracket.
Then I want to paint the Hedders with White stovepaint, like Smokey Yunick.
Mission creep. I know.
At least it's in a safe place to work on, and the scorching sun of September is gone.
Sorry, I got too involved for pix.

A Truck Rodeo, is any time you need to move one or more non-working trucks around the lot, with one that does run.

[tim_mc]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

A Truck Rodeo, is any time you need to move one or more non-working trucks around the lot, with one that does run.

Love it. Also like the nod to Smokey Yunick. Here's one of his innovations that mostly went with him to his grave:

https://www.hotrod.com/how-to/hrdp-1...-vapor-engine/