What have you done to your square lately??

[82sbshortbed]

What does the plaque on the bandsaw say?

Funny you mentioned that. It's a wind chime sorta that I'm making. I was just looking at it today thinking about how I'm gonna get the 9mm shells to hang from it. Then I thought tomorrow during fireworks popping I'll get them and nobody will ever know I was shooting my 9mm into the dirt. Lol

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[82sbshortbed]

The new quadrajet and Hookers showed up. The list of parts includes bearings, seals, drums, rotors, front end parts, shifter seal, pan gasket, trans filter, blah, blah, blah.

I will see the truck in person for the first time Thursday afternoon. It goes to the exhaust shop on Friday for the 3"/oval tips.

Again, factory 454, Auto, 4:11, 2wd.

You'll be happy with the new quadrajet on that 454. I got one on mine with intake and lt hedders. I love it. Throttle response is great and love the sound when you open the large back barrels. Lol

Also have a rv cam in it too. So you can feel free to add an intake and cam on there and that quadrajet will be able to handle it for you. GM made them for a reason and a good working one is the best carb for these trucks imo.

 

[squaredeal91]

Funny you mentioned that. It's a wind chime sorta that I'm making. I was just looking at it today thinking about how I'm gonna get the 9mm shells to hang from it. Then I thought tomorrow during fireworks popping I'll get them and nobody will ever know I was shooting my 9mm into the dirt. Lol

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Good idea lol. You can drill tiny holes in them and string them with small wire strands.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Cleaned up the side post on positive battery cable. Stripped back new wire greased it up and put back on.

I hate side posts. When this battery goes out I'm buying a top post battery and new cables. The screws aren't long enough and can strip easy. Does anyone know where I could get some lower ones? Where more threads screw into the battery.

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there are longer ones available, I used some on my OBS trucks. I think I got them at O'Reilly's, and they are this brand(one of their house brands?) and they cost about $4-$5.

 

[ChuckN]

That's a Firethorne Red original car. This is what it looked like when I bought it.

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My ‘76 Nova was Firethorne Red! I loved that color. In Discount Tire, on the close out rack they had a set of Keystone Klassics with gold inlays instead of black. Really made that car pop. I was in high school at the time and didn’t have the money for them, so my mom loaned me the cash until I paid her back. They were cheap, even my 1991 standards. Now they’re in the hundreds a piece.

Thanks for posting that, took me on a trip down memory lane.

 

[Blue Ox]

Good idea lol. You can drill tiny holes in them and string them with small wire strands.

Most of the ones I've seen have the primers knocked out and a string run through there. Although, having the bases at the bottom may be effective too.

Frankly, 9mm is going to be a pretty quiet wind chime.

 

[etc86]

Converted to power steering. I live in Australia so the big girl is factory RHD. That and the 4bd1t conversion meant it was all custom fab work. Well worth the effort though, I no longer sweat while parking.

 

[ChuckN]

The wife and kid are out of town for the 4th, so took the truck to the trailhead to go riding this morning. Happy 4th of July!

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[HotWheelsBurban]

Converted to power steering. I live in Australia so the big girl is factory RHD. That and the 4bd1t conversion meant it was all custom fab work. Well worth the effort though, I no longer sweat while parking.

Sounds interesting, a factory RHD square body! Got pictures?

 

[etc86]

I’ve been meaning to take some more but here it is at the moment. Got some different mirrors to put on as well. Inside is basically the same as a LHD but mirrored

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Thanks, would love to see that interior! I've seen a few of the Holden Suburban that y'all got, and a couple guys on the GMT400 forum have converted to RHD trucks that were ambulances originally. Maybe I'm weird but I like the unusual and different looking variations of the '70s-90s GM trucks.

 

[Cyrillious]

Im in CA the Ethanol content is high I had to replace the accelerator pump (viton) to handle it I use a bit of stabil hard to get ethanol free gas here it really gunk's everything up

I'm surprised you don't have ethanol free fuel at various gas stations due to the amount of classic cars CA has! Go to this website posted below. Here people list what stations has ethanol free fuel.

Pure-gas.org - ethanol-free gasoline in the U.S. and Canada

Pure-gas.org is the definitive web site listing stations that sell pure gasoline in the U.S. and Canada.

www.pure-gas.org

 

[etc86]

Thanks, would love to see that interior! I've seen a few of the Holden Suburban that y'all got, and a couple guys on the GMT400 forum have converted to RHD trucks that were ambulances originally. Maybe I'm weird but I like the unusual and different looking variations of the '70s-90s GM trucks.

I’ll take some photos for you. Yeah, my neighbour had one of the Suburbans. I didn’t even know they did them until I saw his. Na, definitely not weird, they had such a great style. And thankfully you guys have such a great aftermarket and reproduction selection that it makes owning one relatively simple if anything needs replacing.

 

[82sbshortbed]

Took the 82 down to the store for beer, hot dogs and hamburgers. You know the staples for the 4th! Happy 4th of July!

 

[TotalyHucked]

Dropped mine off at Level 7 Motorsports yesterday on our way from TX to OH. I’d already ordered everything for the stick conversion from them but their pedal setups weren’t ready yet. Now they’ve got the first one done so Jesse offered to do the install for me if I’d let him use my truck for installation pictures for his instructions.

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