Took a couple hours, but I got it titled and registered!

 

Replaced vacuum and fuel lines on the ol girl. Enjoyed a swisher sweet while smoke testing for other leaks. Also removed the door panels and lubed up the regulators so I can roll down the windows with only one hand. . Threw a wash on 'er for grins. A good day.

 

Painted the old girl in my state of the art spray booth.

 

Looks pretty good!

Unk Bob

 

Ya that looks good from where I,m sitting.. Nice job.

 

Looks good! Got any before pictures?

 

Used my 78 to bring home a new toy, a 48 F1. It was my Great Uncles and was sold to a neighbor. It found its way back to the farm!

 

Nice trucks! My wife has been wanting a 48-50 f100 so I've been keeping my eye out

 

A few little things yesterday:

Yelllow truck...primary battery failed. DuraLast Gold 27F under a year old. Very disappointed. Anyway, pulled that sucker out, swapped-in another from the copper truck and got the truck going. Drove it to AutoZone to get it the battery replaced.

I like to have the radio on when I'm working outside, and while I doubt running the XM Radio power adapter off the cigarette lighter killed the battery, it's possible that it contributed. So in the afternoon, I unplugged the lighter from the harness, and wired it into the auxiliary fuse panel. Now it runs off the auxiliary battery

Copper truck: finished the install of the new intake manifold. Runs like a beast!

Installed the new battery from AutoZone to replace the one I had put in the yellow truck.

The headliner was still out from the cab light project, and I had bought more of the seat fabric to cover it. Had the kids help me. Used a roller to apply the contact cement to the back of the fabric and the headliner. Reinstalled the headliner, and it came out pretty good:



Fixed the broken cigarette lighter. It was already run to the auxiliary fuse block. Drilled a small hole in the frame that latches the two halves of the sliding rear window, just large enough for it to compress the antenna wire for the XM Radio without pinching. Put the base on the roof. Now the antenna is outside and the wire is unobtrusive.

Had the kids help me reinstall the camper shell. Found all the j-bolts and bolted down all four corners-previously, only the front two were installed. Reinstalled the rear hatch, and secured into the shell. It's not a perfect fit, as the truck is a bit wider than the shell was designed for. But it's good enough.

Maybe I'll wash one of them...

 

Washed the 79:



Washed the 77 also:

 

Replaced the leaking master cylinder and brake booster, wheel cylinder I broke trying to bleed brakes, removed cleaned up and repainted my diff cover and put in new fluid. Not happy with the brakes yet, need to bleed again but they at least work for now. First time doing brakes that was a learning experience.

K

 

Installed the NOS dash pad I scored over the weekend..Not sure I have ever had a crack free dash.....

 

You have the same exact spray booth as me!

 

if if you're not happy with your brakes then bleed them again and adjust the shoes.... you can't rely on the self adjusters to work if the shoes aren't properly adjusted to start with

 

Snapped driver side timing chain so ya dealing with that I guess some idiot threaded a guide bolt in wrong and it came out and the chain tore up the guides snapped the chain and destroyed the driver side guide .. it has 281,000 miles and was running strong I expect if there was no valve damage and I get everything back together it should last quite awhile but being my first time actually inside an engine it's kinda confusing I didn't know about valves or heads or the clearance anything really I changed oil have done various little things like intake manifold gaskets and changed plugs did fuel filters I'm self taught