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Old 10-14-2009, 07:50 PM   #1
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What I did this summer.

As a teacher with no garage in the middle of the "greatest snow on earth" (at least that's what the tourist brochures say), I have to do most of my work on my truck in the summer. This summer I removed the tired old 327 the previous owner of my truck had in it and replaced it with a 350. At the same time I took out the old truck 4 speed with the Granny first gear and replaced it with a sweet shifting 5 speed overdrive transmission.

First picture is the before. I painted the front part of the frame with PUR 15 along with the inner fenders and the fire wall. I'm still working on figuring out how to best route the wires and hoses to make the engine compartment not look so cluttered, but she runs sweet and shifts sweet. I'm getting the rear end rebuilt in the next few weeks then the drive train will be new from fan to axles.

The rest of the truck still looks kinda ugly, but I'll get there.

Stan
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Old 10-20-2009, 08:14 PM   #2
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looks great. congrats.
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Old 11-03-2009, 12:25 PM   #3
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Very nice Indeed. Keep it up and keep everyone here posted on progress.
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