What have you done to your square lately??

silverscottsk10 · Mar 28, 2018

I need some motivation to decide on the 80 I'm looking at, 300$ at least in metal, and I started looking at some paint colors, each of these is a two tone, I think these would work with black or chrome wheels, painted like the one pictured, the brighter color where it's orange and top and back of cab, the maroon would be the base color with the grey metallic as the orange and cab, I need to get a project started and finished for once

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Blue Ox · Mar 28, 2018

Replaced the headliner a couple of weeks ago. This is the third one the truck has had, the first two were GM. This one was an Acme from Rock auto. Now I finally know where the coyote gets his stuff.

Old: visor is turned around to keep the sagging fabric from wearing out my hair.

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New one seemed to be decent quality, although I did have to take the Dremel to the visor cutouts to get it to fit correctly. I also treated her to an LED bulb for the dome light:

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Considering that it's not in direct sunlight, it is amazing how much these things fade. Now the question is, since it's the foam under the fabric that fails, do I keep the previous GM headliner as a core to have it reupholstered when this one inevitably quits or do I just buy another one when it's time?

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4WDKC · Mar 28, 2018

Found another, trying to decide which brand to buy new.

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bucket · Mar 28, 2018

Blue Ox said:
Replaced the headliner a couple of weeks ago. This is the third one the truck has had, the first two were GM. This one was an Acme from Rock auto. Now I finally know where they coyote gets his stuff.

Old: visor is turned around to keep the sagging fabric from wearing out my hair.

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New one seemed to be decent quality, although I did have to take the Dremel to the visor cutouts to get it to fit correctly. I also treated her to an LED bulb for the dome light:

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Considering that it's not in direct sunlight, it is amazing how much these things fade. Now the question is, since it's the foam under the fabric that fails, do I keep the previous GM headliner as a core to have it reupholstered when this one inevitably quits or do I just buy another one when it's time?

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Personally, I'd save that one to recover.

Blue Ox · Mar 28, 2018

bucket said:
Personally, I'd save that one to recover.

Sure,... keep feeding my inner hoarder.

theblindchicken · Mar 28, 2018

Blue Ox said:
Replaced the headliner a couple of weeks ago. This is the third one the truck has had, the first two were GM. This one was an Acme from Rock auto. Now I finally know where they coyote gets his stuff.

Old: visor is turned around to keep the sagging fabric from wearing out my hair.

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New one seemed to be decent quality, although I did have to take the Dremel to the visor cutouts to get it to fit correctly. I also treated her to an LED bulb for the dome light:

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Considering that it's not in direct sunlight, it is amazing how much these things fade. Now the question is, since it's the foam under the fabric that fails, do I keep the previous GM headliner as a core to have it reupholstered when this one inevitably quits or do I just buy another one when it's time?

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I'd keep it as well. Got mine redone by a local shop when I first started driving her. Went from the perforated vinyl to a soft fabric. Was less than $100 for them redo the foam backing since it was falling apart at the visor corners.

Only material they could have gotten thatwas similar to oem was a perforated vinyl that mercedes used at like 2-3x the cost. Needless to say, opted out of that at the time and been happy with it since.

theblindchicken · Mar 28, 2018

Currently painting up the heads, intake manifold and doing some touch up spots on the block that got missed. Should be all good to go soon!

Gonna pressure wash the engine bay and wheel down the light rust on the frame and spray her up a rustoleum gloss black.

Painted almost all the brackets yesterday the same black.

86suburbanNJ609 · Mar 28, 2018

HotRodPC said:
Depends on that Scat crank. It's very possible it has a 350, 5.7 rods and those the better ones to have with a 383 stroker rather than the shorter 400 engine rods. Use the longer rod so long as the pistons have the wrist pin in the correct compression height. The longer rods take alot less strain and more apt to run a bit higher rpm without problems. If all that is said that was done, that looks like a good build. Rods were resized, line hone was done etc. They did some good things that alot of people seem to skimp on.

If the engine is that low of mileage still, and if not done properly, the rings may not even be seated yet. Those plasma moly rings are hard to get seated, they take awhile. If it were me, I'd probably just start over with a new break in proecdure. Put a 195 thermostat in it for awhile so it runs a tad hotter, use standard 30 weight NON DETERGENT motor oil. You don't need detergent in a new clean engine anyway. But you don't want something so slick the rings aren't scrubbing the cylinder walls. Do a cam break in or Zinc addative too. Warmer engine, let them rings scrub the cylinders walls for about 500-800 miles and they should find a happy home and last a good long time.[/QUOTE
I used the GTX 10/30 oil AC Delco filter and the truck idles at 190 and drives at 170 also added the zinc additive too. Thanks for the reply

84 C20 · Mar 29, 2018

Took the intake off to replace gaskets and found this.

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So while the intake is off, thought i'd make the engine run better by painting the manifold

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Crispy · Mar 29, 2018

Not much here, just buttoned the interior back up in an admission of defeat with the wiper delay. I have been doing more local trips with it lately and as its been warming up the starts have been better and the overall feel has been better. Thats a plus. Almost decided to stay with the TBI instead of LM7...not!

bucket · Mar 29, 2018

84 C20 said:
Took the intake off to replace gaskets and found this.

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So while the intake is off, thought i'd make the engine run better by painting the manifold

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So, what's the roller look like on that turned lifter?

Blue Ox · Mar 29, 2018

...and the cam. And while we're at it, where's the missing guide piece?

84 C20 · Mar 30, 2018

I'm a little scared to pull the lifter, honestly. Last night I rotated it back around and didn't feel any indexing, so I'm hoping it's not bad. I'll probably pull them tonight if I man-up.

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Here's the bit that broke off. Found it in the well for the oil pump shaft. It's the dime looking round bit. By the way, this is a pic from the scope I got off of Amazon. It connects to the phone via wifi.

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I got it out with my $35 scope with the magnet attachment. It's paid for itself on the first use as far as I'm concerned.

smoothandlow84 · Mar 30, 2018

I drove the square down to So-Cal Speedshop..one of our local hotrod shops aka candystore. I ended up buying a bag full of goodies for my 1964 c10 project truck. Damnit. ...I can never leave that place without spending serious cash. If they had strippers and firearms, I would never be able to leave and be broke!

84 C20 · Mar 30, 2018

strippers, guns and Lucas.....be still my beating heart!

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