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I spent the first 15 years of my life in Oak Forest, IL, I'm not jealous of ya.

 

Water pump successfully installed! Now she don't leak much but a few drops of oil every now and then. Still trying to figure out if I want to keep her as is or, swap the axles over to my dd...

Such a dilemma.

 

Finished upgrading my instrument cluster to now include a factory tach, and speedo with trip odometer.

 

Well today was a strange day, weather in the mid 50's but a tornado came through town. Weee! Sat in my basement and tore into my left I-beam. Just about to head out to check out a '80 F-100 that a guy is parting out.

 

Attempting to get my tail/marker/plate/instrument lights to work, again. Put in a new headlight switch (the old one had damage and a short on the rheostat) and taped up some mouse chewed wires. Still blowing the fuse, and now that I have the bezel off I can see that it is smoking from somewhere down in the main loom, where I can't see anything. Gonna have to take my manual with me tomorrow and see if the wiring diagram sheds any light, but this is really pissing me off now.

 

Cleaned up my air cleaner while I pondered over my horn issues. Maybe she'll blow tomorrow...

Happy Turkey Day!

 

Didn't get squat done today, mostly enjoyed my turkey day and shopped around online for some gaskets/seals for my upcoming project. Got the motor/trans out of my parts truck a couple days back so now I gotta seperate the trans and get started pulling my truck down so that I can start the build.

...And quit posting "nothing yet"...here.

 

Right before i took off I installed a new door. Now Im back I just tore apart my instruments to do a tach/trip odo upgrade still puttin her back together Ill get picks up wen she is.

 

Did nothing with my 80-86 trucks, but installed a coil pack on my '00 F-150. Still have to get a battery in it to see how it runs. If the engine is as good as the P.O. stated, it'll get the trans it always wanted for Christmas.

 

Got my horns working today. They haven't worked since I've owned the truck, a little over two years.

While I was up under the dash, I changed both floorboard courtesy light bulbs. Both were blown. Also finally put a bulb in the dome light.

Busy day...

 

Worked on running the tailpipes on my truck, as of now the exhaust ends right behind the cab, so it is terrible sounding and drones so badly stuff is starting to rattle loose in the interior. Going to be true duals, so I have to fab the pipes from scratch, since they don't make anything for the I6. Also found out that trying to use a stick welder for exhaust work is a bitch , going to have to wait to use a decent MIG or TIG in school Monday.

 

So my last post in this thread was too early as I never got around to changing the fouled plugs in my truck that day.

The truck refused to start after rebuilding the carb. I just replaced the spark plugs today... and WOW! It fires up quicker than my 2006 Infiniti.

Evidently the carb rebuild "calmed" the engine down. It's idling MUCH smoother, not shaking the entire cab to death, and the engine no longer looks like it's gonna rock off of the mounting blocks.

Thanks FTE!

 

rebuilt the carb on my truck today and boy did it help a ton!turns out all my troubles where from a pin hole in the accelerator pump diaphram

 

took out the broken 3 on the tree and installed a steering column from a 4 speed truck.