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One big screw up!
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Fordworth, I didn't do quite as bad as you but I still didn't do too hot. Just pulled my truck out of the shop from a rebuild and brand new paint and drove it for a week with everything going good. Pulled in into the shop to do some carb tuning, reached in the door to fire it up...... and it was in gear. 
Didn't hurt the bumper but knocked out my park light, wiped out a fender, and wrinkled my grille shell pretty good. Luckily, I had a good fender laying around, leftover paint, and a buddy with an extra park light. And the wrinkle in the grille popped right out.
Didn't hurt the bumper but knocked out my park light, wiped out a fender, and wrinkled my grille shell pretty good. Luckily, I had a good fender laying around, leftover paint, and a buddy with an extra park light. And the wrinkle in the grille popped right out.
Laughing Gas
Joined: Dec 2007
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From: Alvarado, TX
The paint on mine is only six months old in the pics. I used the opportunity to do a custom build so all in all it worked out.
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Finally, a good day
Finally got my truck back, over 2 months in the shop (it's winter here so I wouldn't be driving it anyways!). They welded pins all the way down the side and eased it all out, able to keep all the original metal, lots of blocking and they did a beautiful paint match. Now it's time to finally pull the 360 and put the 416 in, it's been on a engine stand for 2 years. I'm getting older and these projects worry me a little more than they used too. I'll post my progress.
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About 2 years ago I picked up a 410 on Craigslist. It was at a machine shop in Ohio. All the work had been done, bored .030 over, new pistons, heads gone over with new valves, springs, all surfaces cleaned up, a real nice long block, minus cam. I think it was a "fail to pay" by original owner. I tore everything back down and took it to the shop I use, Baker Engineering. Had block and crank magnafluxed, everything rebalanced with new flywheel and dampner. Went with a crane cam (still in business then), stock intake (4V) with autolite 4100. Just came in from shop tonight. Have radiator out and starting to strip things down. I sure like Western Trucks, very little rust/corrosion, things come apart nicely.
Cargo Master
Joined: May 2009
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From: Eagle River, AK
Sweet, I have an autolite 4100 as well. I was was thinking about putting it on my truck until I was informed that they don't like the cold weather much. I'll save it for a summer vehicle project.
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box nuts???
Well.......all was going pretty good tonight, got down to the last exhaust manifold bolt and"snap", good thing this motor is coming out, should not be to hard to drill out. Read about someone just taking out a couple hood hinge bolts, leaving one in and rotating the hood back, laying the hood back on the truck, sounded good to me. First hinge bolt I tried to get out just spins, looked underneath and it looks like (for lack of a better term) a box bolt. The nut must be rounded off inside and just spins. I assume the only thing I can do now is cut the bolt and see if I can get underneath and cut the box off then just use a regular bolt/nut. Anyone else have this problem? Solutions? Looks like the hood will be coming off anyways. Hope that the nuts on the inside of the hood are in better shape than the hinges. All in all a pretty good night.
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