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chevy orange with headers would be awesome. I should paint mine that color.

My old man has his house numbers spray painted on his house with chevy orange engine enamel LOL.
 

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new pics.. front end is back together, 4 corner mod done, 4 hi mod wouldn't work so I said forget it, tried 3 relays none worked right, worked on my bumper brackets and all that crap.

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you can see the 4 corner mod and the chrome bulbs in those pics.

retro's old shifter put to good use he sent me for free, thanks again, great guy, or gal LOL.
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painted this stuff awhile back, so yea it's dirty.
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Lookin good bro.
 

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thanks, will be alot better once I get er painted.
 

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Normally, I don't like clear markers on those trucks, but you pulled it off. The little orange reflectors look good in there, and the chrome bulbs REALLY help. I can't stand seeing clear lenses and the orange bulb is plainly visible.
 

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yea I haven't changed the parklight bulbs yet but I have them and they match. I was afraid of the po-po giving me trouble oiver no reflector so I got them off ebay.
 

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That front end is looking clean! Looks like you need to adjust your headlights a little bit but I've always loved the billet/chrome front ends on a GMT400 :) I've done similar mods to my GMT400's I've had in the past :) I miss those trucks badly :sad72:
 

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yea I haven't fully tweaked them yet, just got them fitting in the grille good, old cheap ebay lights.
 

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this is more like it, cleaned up and tires shined..

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I also took the factory paint off the top of the grille too..

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Love the polished wheels too. Truck is looking great!
 

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thanks bucket.

they look better and better everytime I polish them.

I need to break down and buy a kit with the sticks and bonnets and really do them right.
 

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more work done.

I sanded and primed the upper shroud, gotta do the bottom, wet sand and paint em, reloacvted some things also. I moved the water tank for the squirters, wiring and hood latch cable. thinking of smoothing the backside of the fender, fill in all the holes and the grooves in it before I paint them.

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more reloation and wire hiding
I'm actually thinking of trying to use a square body overflow jug since the 81-87's mount down low under the battery trey basically. I don't like the look sof mine sticking out in the middle of nowhere. I also would like to make a cover or something to hide the wiring I moved down lower on the firewall.
 
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more reloation and wire hiding
I'm actually thinking of trying to use a square body overflow jug since the 81-87's mount down low under the battery trey basically. I don't like the look sof mine sticking out in the middle of nowhere. I also would like to make a cover or something to hide the wiring I moved down lower on the firewall.

That cleaned up really nice, I got to do that with mine.
 

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thanks I like it alot. Had somebody say oh and now if you need to get to the wires you gotta do this and do that.

SO WHAT????? if I have to remove em to work on them I will. No big deal to me I like how it looks and I have to remove it all to get the fender off to prep for paint anyways.
 

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