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cakesmith handyman posted:Awesome truck, more awesome that you bought it to do truck things. This. I know these are worth a small fortune restored (or even rough), but it's awesome to see someone (planning on) using an old truck for actual truck stuff. Even 80s and early 90s trucks are rare to see being used for truck stuff these days - around here, they're all either parked and left to rot, or turned into some kind of "show truck" (loose definition of "show vehicle" used since to some people, that means bass boat paint and 50 inch rubber bands, to others it means chopped up with magnesium blocks under them).
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PainterofCrap posted:Nothing electrical in the instrument cluster works. The speedo runs away & all over the place. I’ll try to repair it since (all together now) they’re NLA. I'm sure you know this, but the speedo is cable driven, and when they go whacky wild speed racers on you, the cable is usually binding up. Pull the cable and generously lube it with lithium grease (you may need to even pull it out of its sleeve).
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$7k is nothing to sneeze at, but you're essentially doing a custom paint job from scratch - two tone, with metallic and pearl, even. I'd call that "not bad". I assume the tailgate will get painted with the same batch of paint?
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Mar 18, 2023 08:00
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Holy poo poo, they're quick!
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Mar 19, 2023 08:00
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Holy poo poo. They knocked it out of the park with that one!
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Apr 4, 2023 00:41
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I'm gonna vote for satin white.
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Cadillac pulled the water cooled alternator bit for a few years on some Northstars. Though their engine bays are tight enough that you're pulling the intake manifold to get to, uh, anything. They used a lot of lube and shoehorns to get that fucker in there, it's like CSB's F550.
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