HOOD PAINTING

Once we cleaned the truck I thought it almost looked as bad is it did before with all the discoloration, who knows how long that dirt and grime was building up under the hood almost scares me " I wounder what all fell in the carb over the years. What needed to be done was Simple PAINT IT. I knew I had to take my time to make it look decent. Started off with one LIGHT coat of cheep Wall Mart spray paint FLAT BLACK let it dry for about one hour and then went back and could still see a lot of the blue threw the new black paint so I did another layer. then waited about 2 or three more hours and it was ready for a nice Gloss Finish Turned out great compared to before! I was going to just flat black it but Sabrina talked me into getting a gloss paint.

DIRTY

DIRTY

DIRTY

CLEAN

CLEAN

CLEAN

FIRST COAT 

FIRST COAT 

ALL DONE

FROM BEFORE TO AFTER

WHAT A CHANGE

LOOKS REAL NICE

IT TURNED OUT NICE

LOOKIN GOOD

FAR SHOT

STARTING TO SHAPE UP

HOOD CLEANING

Well I don't know if you remember the inside of the truck before and after Sabrina and I cleaned it "IF not scroll down and LOOK" but the hood was WAY WAY WORSE. caked on dirt and grime from I don't know how long, as you know the truck didn't have a air cleaner on top the carburetor which mad it WAY worse. Well Tab and Sabrina where bored one afternoon and I had already planed on cleaning it so I did what any reasonable person would do I LET THEM DO IT!! Now don't get me wrong I was there and I did too work but I did more of the supervising. Turned out a lot better than I thought

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SABRINA MADE IT A CHALLENGE 

TO CLEAN THIS

WOW DIRTY

GOOD LUCK BABY

ALOT OF DIRT UNDER THE BUG DEFLECTOR 

GETTING SOME WORK DONE 

SOME RUST UNCOVERED FROM UNDER THE 

BUG DEFLECTOR 

DRIVERS SIDE

CLEANED UP REAL NICE 

GOOD JOB SABRINA

THESE ARE MY EMPLOYEES THEY WORK SLOW 

BUT GOT THE JOB DONE HAHA

CLEANED UP REAL NICE

LOOKIN GOOD

ALL CLEANED UP

OIL PRESSURE SENDING UNIT

Well This one right here has been a PAIN IN MY ASS for about 2 weeks or so pin pointing the problem and actually having the time and money to do it at the same time. So once I found out what I needed and what all had to be done I began to work........ That was in till (While taking the sending unit off) I BROKE the Oil pressure sending unit ADAPTER off flush with the manifold, I'm guessing I had about 5 to 10 threads deep in the manifold
I eventually got the rest of the bolt out and then you'll never guess!!! No One had the part, I guess its not even a part, ended up having to go to Home Depot to piece together the adapter. Well once I got all the parts and pieces I needed it went together very easy and quick "TOO QUICK" Went to Fire the truck up to check for oil leaks and the damn thing wasn't getting any spark, a few days went by getting parts that I thought would solve the problem! Distributor cap " Could be cracked and letting spark out that way" Rotter " Just as possible as the distributor cap", and finally the Coil. A few days went by of me racking my brain and calling around to everyone that may know something I didn't, HA I'm sure I called my dad 5000 times in these few days Then while getting the mail it hit me " WAIT I NEVER HOOKED THE CAP WITH BOTH OF THE WIRES I TOOK OFF" So I hooked it all up RIGHT this time and then....................... THE BATTERY WAS DEAD jumped it and it fired right up  

            So about a week and a half and a lot of head aches and frustration I got it and I'm VERY happy to say I have not leaked a drop of oil sense

Just took it off 

Trying to get the broken threads out 

I NEED A CORDLESS DRILL

It took me a while to get it but they finally came loose 

About to put the new in 

THE NEW OIL PRESSURE SENDING UNIT

put back together 

DIRTY HANDS

OH AND LEGS