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Post by WILLYNILLY on Oct 7, 2008 0:01:12 GMT -5
good old chevy orange! nice lookin motor!
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Post by Leeland on Oct 7, 2008 23:59:01 GMT -5
Well I fly back to 29 Palms tomorrow morning. I really didn't get as much as I wanted to get done on the truck but o-well. I'm going to miss 3 things, my new wife, my truck, and Oregon trees. Might sound silly but I hate the desert, it's depressing to see nothing but sage brush and joshua trees.
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Post by chevtech on Oct 8, 2008 0:03:19 GMT -5
Nice work, you guys work quit.
Josh
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Post by Leeland on Oct 8, 2008 0:19:04 GMT -5
I was home on leave (paid vacation) and Kory took some days off to help me get my truck going and my dad helped out a bit too. The rear end is still sitting in the bed. My step dad might drive the truck while I'm gone any one feel free to decorate it with pb stickers.
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Post by WILLYNILLY on Oct 8, 2008 0:36:58 GMT -5
do you have a tenative plan to when you hope to have it all done?
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Post by Leeland on Oct 8, 2008 0:56:25 GMT -5
Not really, I was trying to get every thing done so next time I come up I would be able drive it down to southern cali. It didn't work that way. I'm looking at getting it shipped to and the cheapest quote I've gotten is 550$ so I'm leaning towards doing that now since that won't cover the gas to drive the truck down there. I just talked to my dad too, thinking about picking up his 73 from him and scrapping this truck. His is a long bed and a couple times now I've wished my bed was longer. It has some rust in the fenders but is straight, even has the factory jack on the fender well. I am tired of the bad Karma on this one.
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Post by WILLYNILLY on Oct 8, 2008 19:57:34 GMT -5
ya never know but gas is dropin, your change may get you a bit further than you think by the time hits...
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Post by Leeland on Oct 8, 2008 22:56:02 GMT -5
The truck is under 10 mpg, there's no way around it. It'll be cheaper to have it hauled down there vrs driving, I guess it's the price I pay for wanting my 6,000 lbs plus truck to act like a muscle car light to light. My dads 73' is probably going to be mine, just waitin for him to get another 4x4 so I can go get it.
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Post by Leeland on Oct 11, 2008 20:58:07 GMT -5
It's already bugging me not having my wife and truck down here.
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Post by Leeland on Oct 11, 2008 21:08:02 GMT -5
One of the guys down here has a 77 short bed just nicer body wise and he put the exact same lift as what I have collected up under his truck. 3" body 8' spring, making me rethink putting all of it under my truck. He has 37's from a hmmwv and they are tiny in the wheel wells and I don't think I wanna go that high so I might leave the body lift out.
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Post by Leeland on Oct 30, 2008 21:00:25 GMT -5
Even though my trucks in a different state I still picked up a part for it down here. Didn't need it at the shop so I got a new power steering pump for free. I haven't looked up what the three lines are yet but I will eventualy, it's for a hmmwv 6.5 (gm). Not sure if the shafts the same size but I'll figure some thing out.
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Post by poorboy1 on Oct 30, 2008 21:23:29 GMT -5
its for a hydroboost set up.
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Post by Leeland on Oct 30, 2008 21:51:08 GMT -5
I know what I have, I work on em ............. Just never paid attention if it was 2 inlet 1 outlet or 2 outlet 1 inlet etc, they don't go out too often so I don't mess with them. I was hopeing for the newer design with the remote resivior for how compact it is. My concern with the shaft diameter tho is I'm not sure if gm changed it at all over the years, I assume so but I have never checked and if they did would it force me to go to a serpetine set up before I'm ready for it.
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Post by Leeland on Dec 3, 2008 20:56:33 GMT -5
Sigh pretty soon I'll have to work on this beast again. I think my transfer is on it's way out. It's the only thing that hasn't been replaced on the drivetrain.......
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Post by Leeland on Dec 4, 2008 18:02:57 GMT -5
I think my dad finally got a different truck so hopefully the only work I do to this thing when I come home is stripp what I want off it and scrap it out................ I want that darn long bed.............
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