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  1. hey mister

    Dome light upgrade

    Has anyone ever made a replacement dome light housing? Maybe with LEDs? And I don't mean one of those out of a catelog. I mean, one that you made from scratch? Wood, plastic, metal, doesn't matter.
  2. hey mister

    Cardboard utility box upgrade.

    I thought about using metal but considering speakers sound better in wood and the entire cab is mostly metal, so I wanted to mellow out the tone as much as possible. I am eager to see what you come up with.
  3. hey mister

    Freak Injury Upon Another Freak Injury To Hand Requiring Emergency Surgery (Tool Safety)

    In a machine shop I worked with a guy who shared a horror story. He was supervisor and off in a corner of the shop, a mold maker was using a chisel to detail out a mold's shape. After a bit this supervisor noticed that the guy had been too quite for too long, so he went back to see what was up...
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    Made a new tool

    You guys have done a great job making the tools you need. It is such a great satisfaction knowing "you made it". It makes me so glad to see others making things. Keep up the great work.
  5. hey mister

    Cardboard utility box upgrade.

  6. hey mister

    Cardboard utility box upgrade.

  7. hey mister

    Cardboard utility box upgrade.

    The original cardboard utility box (behind bench seat) needed to go. The cardboard material it was made from, crumbled apart anytime I moved it. It had served well. So as per SOP, out came the ol'CAD system. Using the basic measurements from the cab, cardboard was squared up and cut to the...
  8. hey mister

    What did we do before cup holders?

    Here it is.
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    What did we do before cup holders?

    Or drive slower....
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    Thin stripe, then thick or visa-versa

    That's what I'm look'n for. Thanks guys.
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    Thin stripe, then thick or visa-versa

    Repainted the rims (that was an adventure) (check my other post for that story) Anywho, I was thinking on putting a stripe or two on the rim....actually stripe tape. I know it ain't stock, but that's ok, neither is the Moons I'm putting on. So the question is: Which way does the stripe go and where?
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    How to balance a wheel with....

    ...46 year old undercoating, puddled on it? You can not make this up... Today I pulled the wheels to paint the rims. And before you ask, No, I did not take the tires off. And No, I did not take the weights off either. So, somebody had painted the rims white, but just painted the show side. I...
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    Pre & Post Thermal Exchanger swap

    Thank you, sir. My goal for posting the projects is to inspire others. The kudos are nice but not really the goal.
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    Dome light switch snafu

    Oh, I was almost hating life there. Switch was out, wire was off and some little monkey was inside the panel tugging on that wire. Whooa! Wait a minute... Grabbed the switch and plugged it back in. Then went for the string. I keep a couple old shoe laces in the toolbox for just such occasions...
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    Dome light switch snafu

    Shortly after getting the truck, I was tinkering around and cleaning up inside the cab. Opened the passenger door and noticed no dome light action. Fiddled with the switch and found it to be rusted solid. Considering all the undercoating and finding that rusted solid, made no sense, then it hit...
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    Pre & Post Thermal Exchanger swap

    I can rrmember in 1978 or 79. An uncle bought a new car. I want to say a big LTD or similiar. He popped the hood and all ya seen was a breather in an ocean of hoses. Holy spaghetti Batman! You could toss a dime anywhere in there and it would never fall thru...even with the engine running. I had...
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    I got the green light.

    I was going to do red because red lighting was supposed to be better in dark situatuons, but I always found red annoying. Then I had heard some info on greem lighting. I've used green illumi ation for night shooting and found it better to work with. I have a couple green minimag led lights and...
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    I got the green light.

    I am partial to green, but I have to say some shades of green just gag me and other shades just get the juices going. And as I get older some of the lights at night are annoying. The dash lights in the wife's car are too many, too bright, the wrong color and distracting. I prefer to have the...
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    Greeting from the, X-tire capitol of the world.

    Ok. I have hung up a couple of project posts in the "garage". The console build. The radiator/heater core/damper box refirb. A green dash light swap will be up in a few minutes. And I'm currently building a behind the bench seat cubby to replace the original black cardboard "feeding trough". But...
  20. hey mister

    Greeting from the, X-tire capitol of the world.

    Our eastern neighbor is the birthplace of steel for this country. Our N.W. neighbor is the automotive capital of the contenient. And since we could not crash them fast enough to make a huge profit, let there be salt. May they rust in pieces.
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    Greeting from the, X-tire capitol of the world.

    Well, we might be the X-rubber capital of the world but we are still the salt capital of the world. And there's big money in mining it out from under Lake Erie. And as long as someone is pulling it out, somebody else has to spread it around. We had so little snow here last winter but yet they...
  22. hey mister

    Pre & Post Thermal Exchanger swap

    Ok...this is just a radiator and heater core swap post. Original radiator and heater core was not leaking...yet, but the foam inside the heater bow was coming out ever orfice. I mean, it looked like the poor thing was puking up lung chunks. And just touching them in efforts to pick them up only...
  23. hey mister

    What did we do before cup holders?

    The wife used that g/b door at drive-ins until I built the box. I could never reach it.
  24. hey mister

    What did we do before cup holders?

    That is perfect. Nice job! Average minds think alike...lol
  25. hey mister

    Greeting from the, X-tire capitol of the world.

    Ziebart is a company that provides coatings to protect metaland paint. Tuff Coat is/was another company. There were a few others. The undercoating stuff is like cosomoline on steroids, Redbull and Mountian Dew. Funny thing, my other truck, 01" Tacoma was part of a recall for frame failures due...

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