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Hey, It's been a few years since i seriously worked on my truck (life got in the way) and I never posted much but spent hours reading this forum and some of you felt like old friends. I decided to mess with the truck again and popped on here for direction and re-reading old posts felt again...

Hi guys, It's been quite awhile since I seriously fooled with the old truck, life getting in the way. My trusty Sonoma finally died so I'm looking at the '54 as an alternate means of transportation. I've just about finished replacing all the brake lines and rebuilding wheel cylinders so I...

Hey y'all, I'm spending a few days down near Whitney, TX before heading back to Maryland. Anyone know of any good junkyards with old iron to check out? I'm looking to wander around and maybe pick up a few rear fenders and/or running boards. Thanks, Josh

Hey guys, I gotta a kinda dumb question here. I bought the SS brake line kit froim JC a couple of months ago. I went to do some work last night and it appears that the original brake lines are 3/16" and the new set is 1/4" so the line doesn't fit the junction block. Has anyone else had this...

Figured you guys will know these answers (although some are not AD related). 1) Were the high and low note horns on cars from the 40's up the same notes as our trucks? 2) Did deluxe interior not necessarily mean deluxe heater included? (My deluxe parts truck had a recirculating heater, don't...

Digging under the seat of my donor/next project '54 truck I found almost all of the pieces to the parking brake assembly. I also found sundry other things but this seems to fit real well on the parking brake lever and I think resembles an "anti-rattle bracket" that I thought I saw on Ebay a...

I have a 2000 F@#d Super Duty, a 1994 GMC Sonoma and my 1954 3100. The F@#d, although the diesel engine runs great at 250,000 miles always has something nickel and diming me to death. The Sonoma has had very few problems in the past 8 or so years that I have owned it. However, twice in the...

I had my brakes in my '54 go out on me in my driveway (luckily) on Thursday. I had one of those slow motion moments when the pedal went to floor and time stopped just before the truck went rolling back into my '87 F150 lawn sculpture. In that time I had a chance to look around for Wiley Coyote...

Today, I was in the only fairly local junkyard that has anything that may be considered classic and will actually let you walk around. In my exploration I ran across a reasonably well preserved metal box labelled "Anthes" in the corner of a Chevy 4400 dump truck, 1953 vintage. In the box were...

After checking the threads I haven't found the answer to my probably dumb question. After breaking the cheap repop throttle cable once (and then fixed with a hydraulic compression tool, try coming off now sucker!!), I still can't see what makes the cable stay pulled out overcoming spring...

I picked up a polishing system by Walter Inc. a while ago because I heard good things about it. After trying chrome powdercoat as a low cost alternative to the real thing I figured to give this a shot. My results aren't perfect but I am pleased nonetheless and thought it might be worth telling...

I've been thinking about powder coating the valve cover on my 235. Does anybody know where to find powder close to the Chevy blue color or have any other suggestions? Thanks, Josh

Hey y'all, I've read in a couple of different places that Chevy kept the same style bed from the change in '54 up into the '80s. Somewhere along the line there must have been some changes, but would the bed on a Task Force truck be the same as the '54? Thanks, Josh

Hey folks, I've been putzing around with my Frankenstein '54 truck trying to figure out why it seems to have a dead spot when depressing the gas pedal when a new problem reared its ugly head. I had just tried changing the coil when ole Bessie decided that instead of starting she would just...

Hi, there. I'm new to the site and the AD world, having just purchased a 1954 5 window. I 've been looking through the posts here and on the Stovebolt page and have seen lots of info on paint codes. Where on the truck would one find these codes? Perhaps (rather probably) it has already been...