What have you done to your square lately??

[StickyLifter]

Love the blankets, that's true love there LOL. Tucking them in.

Yeah, my daughter's cat has a bad habit of jumping up on my vehicle. Trying to avoid scratches. Nova is going to be repainted, but don't want to paint the truck.

 

[justhorns]

New Stainless mirrors on a cruddy old truck! $90 from LMC (with shipping)

 

[85 Squarebody76]

I just replaced the fuel pump on the old girl... cheap American parts... it only lasted 37 years....

 

[Grit dog]

Got her back from the paint shop yesterday. Now to finish building the engine and get all the interior wiring, audio, and carpet back in it.

Love that color!

 

[Grit dog]

New Stainless mirrors on a cruddy old truck! $90 from LMC (with shipping)

Nice! There's something about "new parts" on a nice original looking truck like yours or vice versa, that I like.

 

[BRetty]

Later 70's and early 80's trucks with carburetors had on the passenger side, in between the exhaust manifold and head pipe, a flap or a valve to force the exhaust through the cross over in the intake manifold for the EGR valve to warm it up when cold to help with atomization of the fuel. Somebody eliminated it.

Aha! That is what the rattl-ey little flap/valve there is! I just discovered it when wrangling all my extra a/c and blower wiring. Good to know, thanks.

 

[okie78C20]

Love that color!

Thanks!! It’s meteor grey metallic from Eastwood. Can’t wait to have it all back together!

 

[PrairieDrifter]

Haven't put it on yet, just got it tonight. Also believe my 2/0 cable showed up as well. Super pumped. Been having some dimming issues since getting the fogs and light bars on. I also believe my battery gauge wasnt working properly till now somehow? Well mostly working, it hovers a couple needle widths from the red zone line. But multimeter says 14.4ish, which I would expect to be lower on the gauge.

It would dip voltage on the gauge but it would only blip it. I also finally got my choke and idle fine tuned so it's idling lower, where it's supposed to, also part of what's going on.

Anyways, this will last a long long time I'm sure. Made in USA, brand new, only a tiny bit overkill. But that will help with longevity and of course my voltage issues. With my off-road lights, my sound system is pretty hefty, running the blower motor because winter, and it being dark early now.

Mechman 170 amp black. Comes with v belt pulley installed and an extra serpentine pulley. Slick unit, wish I could get one with those cool billet cuts, but would have to upgrade to the 90's serpentine system, which I'm not much of a fan of.

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[ebodell08]

Powerwashed all the mud off of it from the summer and rubbed some linseed oil into the paint. Putting her into the barn this weekend for the winter. I will change the oil and lube it this weekend as well. The salt and material they put on the roads here would just hasten the rust and decline so it gets put up for 4 months a year. Trying to just preserve it for my wife's boys to use. Will switch to the Ranger (Polaris) for chores.

 

[Tank6x2]

After two years of waiting I was able finish my Motivators and getting their long awaited rubbers on.

 

[Grit dog]

After two years of waiting I was able finish my Motivators and getting their long awaited rubbers on.

Haha, holy ****! Wow! Nice dubs!
Detroits or is there a Canadian wheel mfg up there?

 

[Tank6x2]

Haha, holy ****! Wow! Nice dubs!
Detroits or is there a Canadian wheel mfg up there?

DSW all the way, beauty rings and centre caps too

 

[JM in KY]

Replaced the switch on the transfer case that controls the 4WD light in the dash. It’s was a little hard to find because it’s hidden up on top the transfer case. But now my 4WD light works when in shift into 4-wheel!

 

[Grit dog]

Replaced the switch on the transfer case that controls the 4WD light in the dash. It’s was a little hard to find because it’s hidden up on top the transfer case. But now my 4WD light works when in shift into 4-wheel!

There’s a 4wd light in the dash?
Been a while but I thought that was only in the 70s models. Possibly only the full time 4wd/ 203 t case trucks.
Is it just a light that’s still built in to the cluster on the newer trucks (80s models) although unused and you’re trying to pin it out to make it work?

Or maybe other than the test drive over 2 years ago, I haven’t shifted a squarebody into 4wd in aboot 30 years and am just forgetful?

 

[Blue Ox]

The switches just suck. The factory one on my '85 failed, and I changed it when I rebuilt the Xfer case. It doesn't work anymore either.

I like having everything working correctly, but changing a switch every other year to turn on a light that tells me something I already know isn't worth my time.