What Have YOU Done To Your Truck Today?
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Put in my mid 80's Econoline gauge cluster into Burt, everything works and has LED's and promptly after that lost my blower motor for whatever reason...lol
Finally started getting the lights fixed in my garage, LED's again soon i will have 10 34w led bulbs lighting the whole thing
Got 2 new keys made for Burt and they work great.
Picked up a bunch of supplies for doing the thermo change, tune up etc this coming week.
Found i have more rust on my pass floor than i expected.
I have new metal for the floors cab corners bedside but i cant weld/etc and no one close to me can do it so i may have to improvise :/
Put in my mid 80's Econoline gauge cluster into Burt, everything works and has LED's and promptly after that lost my blower motor for whatever reason...lol
Finally started getting the lights fixed in my garage, LED's again soon i will have 10 34w led bulbs lighting the whole thing
Got 2 new keys made for Burt and they work great.
Picked up a bunch of supplies for doing the thermo change, tune up etc this coming week.
Found i have more rust on my pass floor than i expected.
I have new metal for the floors cab corners bedside but i cant weld/etc and no one close to me can do it so i may have to improvise :/
Changed the rear diff fluid. Took the opportunity while I was there to clean up and re-paint the differential cover.
After letting the truck sit out back on the farm for the last 3(!) years, it's time to get working on her again. Took a bit to get it fired up again, but it starts up right away again.
Still has a long way to go:
If I had actually worked on her the last few years, I'd have a lot less on the to do list and more on the done list
After letting the truck sit out back on the farm for the last 3(!) years, it's time to get working on her again. Took a bit to get it fired up again, but it starts up right away again.
Still has a long way to go:
- Plumb fuel system
- Go through rest of rear axle (wheel bearings, seals/gaskets, and brakes)
- U-joints
- Center bearing replacement
- New shocks
- New suspension bushings
- New body mounts
- Rebuild steering
- Front brakes
- Miscellaneous rewiring
- 3G alternator install
- Electric cooling fans
- Interior work
- Body/paint work
If I had actually worked on her the last few years, I'd have a lot less on the to do list and more on the done list
Found this and found it interesting. https://www.macscustomtiedowns.com/b...4wd-conversion
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Found this and found it interesting. https://www.macscustomtiedowns.com/b...4wd-conversion
I covered the bare bed liner covered floor hump with a carpeted tray I made this week, I had already put the nut-serts in place so all I needed to do today was install it and attach two carpeted "side curtains". This stuff is a verigated carpet square 2 feet x 2 feet with a 1/8+" thick rubber base, it's used in commercial application, was made at a local plant. They wove the carpet, then molded or "vulcanized" the rubber base onto the backing. I have a stack of it, different colors. A few years ago I had covered the floor with it.
Maybe it's still ugly, but now it's a useful ugly.
A place to set my lunch down if need be. It's straight, camera "perspective" makes it look skewed.
I see that I missed the scratch or gouge in the plastic beside the TC lever. I cut it from old bed liner piece, might redo it in polished aluminum. I did put two screws in line with 2H.
I'm not sure, I might just leave as is or slip a piece in just above the gas pedal.
Maybe it's still ugly, but now it's a useful ugly.
A place to set my lunch down if need be. It's straight, camera "perspective" makes it look skewed.
I see that I missed the scratch or gouge in the plastic beside the TC lever. I cut it from old bed liner piece, might redo it in polished aluminum. I did put two screws in line with 2H.
I'm not sure, I might just leave as is or slip a piece in just above the gas pedal.
I set the idle mixture using a Gunsons CO meter. Went from 9+% CO at idle to 3.5%, this was the lowest I could go and still have a smooth idle. I also set timing to 14° from the 10° I had it set to on initial start up after the rebuild. I then replaced the coil. It has always had an intermittent miss or stumble at idle. Not too bad but enough that I tended to run rich and a high idle speed to cover it up. Replacing the coil seems to have fixed the miss. Gone is the flat spot off idle and it seems to run better over all. I've driven 400 miles since the rebuild and it's running like a champ! It did die last week but that was due to crap in the aux tank plugging up both tank switching solenoid valves.
Michael
Michael
Today's adventure was replacing the turn signal switch for the famous "The left brake light doesn't work but the turn signal does". One of the contacts was iffy and required holding the stalk up just a tad to complete the circuit. I then installed a fuel pressure regulator to bring the pressure down form 8 PSI to the 5 PSI that Edelbrock carbs prefer. That brought the CO at idle down from the 3.5% from yesterday to 2.1% with no other changes. I then had to bring the idle down as it would run on after shutting the ignition off. I'm expecting better mileage, I've been running around 6 MPG for years.
Michael
Michael