So what did you do with your truck today?

[Rdnck84_03]

@IDIBRONCO sorry for your loss.

James

 

[IDIBRONCO]

Thanks. We weren't terribly close, but still... It wasn't a funeral. The blood kids are going to take her ashes to Michigan to bury her with her family.

 

[nelstomlinson]

Kbenz I'm not sure what I'll use for lines, might just go with rubber fuel hose on barbs. It lasts for years.

 

[Old Goat]

Sorry to hear about your loss IDI.
You may not have been close, but every one that passes through
our lives adds something to it one way or the other.



Goat

 

[12pilgrim]

About to respray my hood.. I'd left a little of the original paint underneath and it was too far gone to paint over. Should have stripped it all. Dang

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[DougBoy66]

Can't wait to see the after pictures. I have to paint some parts. Have the paint and the guns. Never done it before so I am procrastinating

 

[rreegg]

@12pilgrim what kind of primer you use? Ive had good luck with the HF self etching but it's often out of stock. not sure if it's quality for something like a vehicle, more use it for random steel stuff around

 

[klook]

Replaced the tach sensor, the old one was reading in the millions of ohms. It is shifting better and different? Will have to drive it more to figure it out. Pinching off the return line to the filter head made a big difference. Never see negative pressures now.
Cooked the small battery on the passenger side,(van) and replaced it with a new one. Almost didn't do it. It was only a year old. No warranty by a few weeks. So I changed the ground wires from the driver side battery to the passenger side. There were 2 grounds but the alternator fed the drivers side. Now it needs to go thru both to get to ground. We shall see.....

 

[onetonjohn]

Happy Easter everyone. Pulled the ford tailgate cover that kept coming loose. Pulled the cover underneath, blew out all the dirt and rocks in the end hardware. Spray some WD-40 and put one of the spring retainers back where it belonged. Exercised the HW with the WD-40 on it till it was pretty smooth. Put it back together and wha-la. The latch works much better (no fiddling to get it open and closed). It's a great day.

 

[Old Goat]

About to respray my hood.. I'd left a little of the original paint underneath and it was too far gone to paint over. Should have stripped it all. Dang

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They hardly put enough paint on these truck when they left the factory to cover them. It`s not even paper thin. GM and Chrysler were the same in those years.
I have an 87 4 x 4 with the same paint color. Rust Hood and top of
Cab.

You going to Rattle can it or spray with automotive paint
with a Paint Gun?
The paint shops can mix up the paint and put it Rattle cans, not
sure how doing a large panel with them will come out. Give them
the paint code and they take it from there.
Using say PPG paint, should use their Primers etc... so they are
compatable with ea other.

First vehicle I painted was my 82 Datsun 720 KC. Bought it new,
then the paint was falling apart a few years later, think it was 1990
I decided to paint it. This was before the Internet. I bought every
book I could find in the auto supplies, Library, etc.... Talked to the guys at the PPG Paint store etc...
Today with the internet, there is so much info out there now at
our finger tips.
A guy at Church was marketing a HVLP Paint gun, an Accu-Spray.
Had 100 lbs going to the regulator, then dial it down to something
like 6 - 8Lbs or something like that.

Bought PPG Paint, Primers, Sealer etc..... Single stage Deltron.
Used a 92 Mitsubishi red called Passion Red.
Had Fenders, Hood and bed off, painted it in pieces, and threw it
back together.
Gave it 4 or 5 coats, came out pretty good, just one lil Boo Boo
that I could see....and no Clear Coat.

made a paint Booth out of PVC Pipe and blue tarps.

Few years later painted my 85 Mercedes the Astral Silver metalic,
and clear coat...never again, next time will paint it a single stage
not sure the color.....but sure won`t be a metalic type paint
or that crappy Clear coat.

Maybe one of those vinal wraps...

To do it right is a lot of work and paint is crazy high in price.


EDIT: Reread this this morning...
The Accu-Spray guns back then had available, a turbine that supplied warm dry air to the gun. I think there was a 3 and
a 4 stage turbine. They were pricy. I did find one on E-Bay for
a great price, a 4 stage with a new gun and other supplies.

Now you are getting me all excited to paint something....


Goat

 

[FrozenMerc]

Took a long weekend and went on a road trip. Pulled the enclosed trailer up to Central Minnesota to get a 1960 Ford T-Bird that I am going to be doing some work on for the owner. A bit over 1500 miles round trip. Lot's of rain, storms and a bit of wind and sun thrown in for good measure.

The truck did fine, no real issues, but I will spend the rest of this week fixing some minor annoyances that crop up after spending a good 25+ hours behind the wheel, lugging a box shaped parachute around the country..

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[IDIBOBS]

They hardly put enough paint on these truck when they left the factory to cover them. It`s not even paper thin. GM and Chrysler were the same in those years.
I have an 87 4 x 4 with the same paint color. Rust Hood and top of
Cab.

You going to Rattle can it or spray with automotive paint
with a Paint Gun?
The paint shops can mix up the paint and put it Rattle cans, not
sure how doing a large panel with them will come out. Give them
the paint code and they take it from there.
Using say PPG paint, should use their Primers etc... so they are
compatable with ea other.

First vehicle I painted was my 82 Datsun 720 KC. Bought it new,
then the paint was falling apart a few years later, think it was 1990
I decided to paint it. This was before the Internet. I bought every
book I could find in the auto supplies, Library, etc.... Talked to the guys at the PPG Paint store etc...
Today with the internet, there is so much info out there now at
our finger tips.
A guy at Church was marketing a HVLP Paint gun, an Accu-Spray.
Had 100 lbs going to the regulator, then dial it down to something
like 6 - 8Lbs or something like that.

Bought PPG Paint, Primers, Sealer etc..... Single stage Deltron.
Used a 92 Mitsubishi red called Passion Red.
Had Fenders, Hood and bed off, painted it in pieces, and threw it
back together.
Gave it 4 or 5 coats, came out pretty good, just one lil Boo Boo
that I could see....and no Clear Coat.

made a paint Booth out of PVC Pipe and blue tarps.

Few years later painted my 85 Mercedes the Astral Silver metalic,
and clear coat...never again, next time will paint it a single stage
not sure the color.....but sure won`t be a metalic type paint
or that crappy Clear coat.

Maybe one of those vinal wraps...

To do it right is a lot of work and paint is crazy high in price.


EDIT: Reread this this morning...
The Accu-Spray guns back then had available, a turbine that supplied warm dry air to the gun. I think there was a 3 and
a 4 stage turbine. They were pricy. I did find one on E-Bay for
a great price, a 4 stage with a new gun and other supplies.

Now you are getting me all excited to paint something....


Goat

This is why I think my truck will finally be getting bed lined. I can’t justify the amount of time and money to have a good paint job on a ranch truck and I can’t justify the amount of work to lay down crappy cheap paint. So here comes the very little body work and some 2 tone bed liner.

 

[IDIBOBS]

Took a long weekend and went on a road trip. Pulled the enclosed trailer up to Central Minnesota to get a 1960 Ford T-Bird that I am going to be doing some work on for the owner. A bit over 1500 miles round trip. Lot's of rain, storms and a bit of wind and sun thrown in for good measure.

The truck did fine, no real issues, but I will spend the rest of this week fixing some minor annoyances that crop up after spending a good 25+ hours behind the wheel, lugging a box shaped parachute around the country..

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Fun times.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

No pictures but I hauled a wood burning stove to a guy's house today.
Then I found out that the day wasn't really over. About 8:30, a friend called to ask if I had any chains. I did so I headed out to our city lake (more like city pond). He had gotten his SxS stuck while trying to drive across the now dry end of the lake. Yes, it was only dry on top, and, yes, there was copious amounts of alcohol involved. After I pulled him out, he insisted that I stick around and have a beer. I was only about halfway done and he practically forced another one into my hand. Since I don't drink, that one is still in my......CUP HOLDER in the truck!

 

[klook]

After driving around for a couple hundred miles I can report that the new tach sensor and pinching off the return line on the filter head have made dramatic differences. Hopefully I can move on to other issues I want to address. Still going to pull the sending unit/pickup as I only have one tank and I want to know if there is debris in there and a pickup.

I do have a question however. I do not have a functioning OD light, nothing. It still works but no light. I had hoped it was the tach sensor. Any ideas?