Thanks and yes, I am having a great time with it. If your not then something is wrong. Besides that, I have become closer to my brother.
Speaking of him, here's a couple of shots from his shop. Check out the back ground Ford products as well as the wall in post # 116.

 

Bored at work so I thought I'd throw a few pics up of the truck cleaned up a bit after the drive to SoCal.
Truck **** r us.

 

Wow Marc, Your truck really looks great! What did you use to restore the shine?

 

I had some Meguires Paint restorer polishing compound just hangin around so threw it on the buffer and went to work.
I think I can get it a lot better but I'm going to wait until I get the hood repainted.

 

2x on your truck looking great! Funny what elbow grease will do....

 

Roger that.
Now I need to get it filthy again.
I find that first pic pretty amazing.

 

I love the way your truck sits. It's the perfect height and those wheels and tires look great!

 

X2 Love the way your truck sits.
Needs to be a little dirtier though.

 

I'm not sure but I think I found the answer to the valve tick that won't go away. Gee, aren't those things supposed to be straight?
It's amazing what you can do when you have your truck close to you and can go out before work and play.

 

Ahh come on Marc... five minutes with a hammer, it will be as good as new...uh sort of! Just beat it straight! Well you could always go get a new set.... but that would take the fun out of doing it yourself....

 

I do have a nice set of hammers.

 

I'm just curious why it bent in the first place.
For right now I'm just going to chock it up to snow plow abuse and replace it and see if it bends again.

 

I bent one on my drag boat once.. It had Hydraulicd a Cylinder...

 

Hold it! You had a drag boat?
I used to build drag boats in the 70s.

 

Really I still have my boat, sitting in storage... A 67 Cheetah 17 ft Jet, with blown 455 Olds it is a relic from the past now...