What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2022]

[joesregalproject]

They got the sewer main opened up last night. They brought in a jetter truck and fed it in from the manhole at the bottom of the street. They fed it about 300 feet uphill and hit something that wouldn't let them go any farther. So they had to go from the top of the street down and were able to clear it. Kinda looked like this scene-

 

[joesregalproject]

New trucks good, too.

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I like the Gladiators.

 

[ck80]

As for a square body, if you got the best drive train combo possible you would still only be able to tow 6,000 pounds while getting a whopping 6-10 mpg.

For the sake of debate, two problems with your statement...

1) at the prices I was talking in a fully restored zero mile drivetrain truck, you don't need to run a smogger 454. You can use a modern engine/trans and get much improved, likely comparable mileage. (Also, cucv trucks, particularly the m1009s, got 20s mpgs with removable tops using flawed 1980s technology.) Add in a double OD unit for a couple grand, I'd bet you get better mileage out of thee built truck than the bought one.

2) plenty of square bodies were rated to tow more than 6000#. Heck, plenty of square body trucks had payload over 6000#.

I've driven plenty of late model trucks. Even owned f150 4x4s new in '18. Comparatively, the squares drive better and are more comfortable, plus they don't dent if you look at them funny. It's not nostalgia. It's about capability, comfort, and mechanical simplicity/reliability.

 

[joesregalproject]

Ford ceased building trucks when they eliminated twin I-beams. We used to drive those everywhere, fields, curbs, street.

The twin beam suspensions held up well, they never seemed to keep their alignment though.

 

[Northernregal]

For the sake of debate, two problems with your statement...

1) at the prices I was talking in a fully restored zero mile drivetrain truck, you don't need to run a smogger 454. You can use a modern engine/trans and get much improved, likely comparable mileage. (Also, cucv trucks, particularly the m1009s, got 20s mpgs with removable tops using flawed 1980s technology.) Add in a double OD unit for a couple grand, I'd bet you get better mileage out of thee built truck than the bought one.

2) plenty of square bodies were rated to tow more than 6000#. Heck, plenty of square body trucks had payload over 6000#.

I've driven plenty of late model trucks. Even owned f150 4x4s new in '18. Comparatively, the squares drive better and are more comfortable, plus they don't dent if you look at them funny. It's not nostalgia. It's about capability, comfort, and mechanical simplicity/reliability.

If you could get a Square with an extended cab..... or a 3+3 shortbox ...

Absolutely agree. My old 86 k10 was awesome, but the cab size offends my need for comfort now.

 

[joesregalproject]

Officially have owned this thing for one year, bought it 2/6/21.

Made up a 2x6 bed divider to celebrate the occasion. Just to keep my toolboxes, ice scraper, and gas cans and groceries, etc. from sliding. Packout boxes fit perfectly between it and the tailgate.

 

[Wraith]

Back to work on the 69 Camaro, last time out it overheated in traffic. Logging into the the Holley HP it showed the fans to be PWM, fans currently installed are definitely not PWM(replaced along with the radiator after slight accident). Unfortunately the outputs used on the HP were not the "designated" fan outputs which required tracing the wiring which had been crammed under the dash. 😒 Now I can go back in and reprogram the outputs for -12v and make them work again. Also spent some time on the warm up tables which were off, not enough warm up time by temp, but uncovered that the dash gauge and temp seen by HP were about 30 degrees off from each other. Hopefully a new sensor to replace the obviously(siliconed together) broken sensor helps this disparity.

 

[Supercharged111]

Copy/paste from LS1Tech.

Laaaaaame. Images used to follow.

Yanked the motor today. Finally.

Decided I needed the pan under the motor that was occupied by transmission guts.

Got it mostly back together, but remembered how hammered the reverse hub was so gonna get one of those before buttoning this up for good.

So now the pan is under the barely disassembled motor, should have it scattered tomorrow. Going to slap on fresh heads and change over to an OBDII timing cover finally. From there I can sit on it until I get the time/gumption to 411 swap this thing. I think freshening up the body will take precedence over that though.

I had to yank the nose off to squeak the motor out. No wonder folks drop it out the bottom. I was trying to avoid an alignment, the car works well as is and doing it manually is a ton of work.

I intend to scrub this thing head to toe and also repaint those hammered looking shock towers to freshen it up a bit. Debating really hard on sending it to the frame shop. I know it's been tweaked, but it works so not sure if I'm giving anything up?

 

[81cutlass]

Quick weekend trip to St Louis to deliver some model builds to a customer

Trying to wear the rings in on the lm4

 

[Built6spdMCSS]

Finally found the proper Front Sight for this one here, been looking for it for a bit.. 🙂