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Thats great! The truck looks incredible in that color. I like the pic in your gallery of the parts in the dining room. My wife was a little confused also when I carried a transmission through the door the other day. Thank god for understanding wives!
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Cab for sale
I have a perfect 51-52 cab for sale. No cancer, it was a former fire truck. Cab and doors all perfect. $800.00 Thanks Dorsey
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Great job on your truck Tim!
I know that "light at the end of the tunnel" feeling, having just reached it this summer after 7 long years. I hope everything stays on schedule.
What color is it? I ask because it looks similar to what I chose, although I know that the color can come out different on the monitors. It looks really beautiful on my monitor!
I know that "light at the end of the tunnel" feeling, having just reached it this summer after 7 long years. I hope everything stays on schedule.
What color is it? I ask because it looks similar to what I chose, although I know that the color can come out different on the monitors. It looks really beautiful on my monitor!
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Originally Posted by B/B ford
Great job on your truck Tim!
I know that "light at the end of the tunnel" feeling, having just reached it this summer after 7 long years. I hope everything stays on schedule.
What color is it? I ask because it looks similar to what I chose, although I know that the color can come out different on the monitors. It looks really beautiful on my monitor!
I know that "light at the end of the tunnel" feeling, having just reached it this summer after 7 long years. I hope everything stays on schedule.
What color is it? I ask because it looks similar to what I chose, although I know that the color can come out different on the monitors. It looks really beautiful on my monitor!
A couple of years ago Ford had a color called Laser Red, Metallic, Clearcoat, tinted that they used on Expeditions and Explorers. I just loved the color. It was what I call a "sun" color because when the sun hit it it was just gorgeous. I started checking in to it and discovered it was a three step paint (the tinted part). This was going to add right at $1,000 to the paint job! Not to mention that touchup would be next to impossible.
So, I went down to the local Glasurit paint distributor and took a chip from a Ford brochure and found the closest match I could find in a two step paint.
It turned out real nice and i think will look great with a light color tan interior.
As for the schedule, it's already blown! Been raining on and off for 6 days now and they say it's supposed to stay that way till next Tuesday.
If it's not one thing it's another. Rain in Central Texas on the Fourth of July? Who would have thunk it!
Tim
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I now have turn signals!!!
Spent the day wiring up the harness on a rough in basis. My son is going to borrow a good set of ratcheting cripmers and get us some high tech shuttle rated loom but I couldn't resist:
Hooked up the battery charger to the main harness power got a good ground, hooked up the turn signals and---THEY WORKED!!!!!!! Thru the column no less!
Just had to share.
Tim
Spent the day wiring up the harness on a rough in basis. My son is going to borrow a good set of ratcheting cripmers and get us some high tech shuttle rated loom but I couldn't resist:
Hooked up the battery charger to the main harness power got a good ground, hooked up the turn signals and---THEY WORKED!!!!!!! Thru the column no less!
Just had to share.
Tim
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Its a little nerve wrackign to finally put the juice to it isn't it? Thats cool that it all worked and smoke didn't come rolling out of it(its hard to put the smoke back into electrical parts)
Get that wiring finished so that you can light the engine up!! That will put a smile on your face that won't wash off easily
Congrats
Bobby
Get that wiring finished so that you can light the engine up!! That will put a smile on your face that won't wash off easily
Congrats
Bobby
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Smoke? Bite your tongue!
Put the battery charger on 3 amps and checked all the loose ends to make sure we weren't grounded. Piece of cake so far.
The harness is a Painless universal for a GM column. The column wires are already terminated so hooking up the column took about 5 minutes.
Actually this is a much easier process then I had anticipated. The time consuming part is making it look good and not a rats nest.
Tim
Put the battery charger on 3 amps and checked all the loose ends to make sure we weren't grounded. Piece of cake so far.
The harness is a Painless universal for a GM column. The column wires are already terminated so hooking up the column took about 5 minutes.
Actually this is a much easier process then I had anticipated. The time consuming part is making it look good and not a rats nest.
Tim