What did you do to YOUR bump today?

[abe]

My truck has been starting hard lately. I popped the hood and jiggled the coil wire and it started. Then I remembered I have not replaced the coil wire and spark plugs wires since I got it in 2012.

Bought a set yesterday and since it was 64 degrees on Christmas Eve I decided to put them on today.

So there I was in a shortsleeve T-shirt on Christmas Eve in Central PA replacing plug wires!

It started right up with just a turn of the key! Should done this a long time ago!

[spacecadet]

New upper/lower radiator hoses and new PCV intake filter.

[Jacksdad]

Finally got tired of constantly charging a battery that doesn't want to hold a charge and sprung for a new 700 CCA one. Between the new starter and fuel pump, and the rebuilt 2bbl, she's starting like a charm now - although cold starts are fun with the manual choke cable not connected yet. I'm planning on using one I scored at the wrecking yard from a 1959 Edsel (I couldn't leave without scavenging something, and the grille was already missing) but the bezel is angled so it'll take a little tweaking to make it fit the dash.

[abe]

You have cold starts in Dan Diego?

I wish I had a manual choke rather than my choke on my 70 F-350.

How do you get those automatic chokes to work right anyhow?

[Ranchero50]

You have cold starts in Dan Diego?

I wish I had a manual choke rather than my choke on my 70 F-350.

How do you get those automatic chokes to work right anyhow?

Make sure the choke stove to the exhaust manifold is working correctly. I've been know to wrap some copper tubing around the head pipe and up to the choke port. Makes a world of difference.

[Jacksdad]

You have cold starts in Dan Diego?

I wish I had a manual choke rather than my choke on my 70 F-350.

Well, cool enough that I'm constantly having to tap dance on the gas pedal so the accelerator pump will keep it running first thing in the morning
My automatic choke has always been problematic so I ditched it a while ago. Unfortunately I picked a generic kit with a wet noodle bracket and crappy cable that would never fully close the choke when the motor was warm without me pulling the air cleaner, so that's why I'm going with the Edsel assembly this time around (well, that and it looks pretty cool). The part that bolted on to the carb in place of the automatic choke mechanism worked well enough though, so I'll be keeping that.

[Jacksdad]

Pretty good day - I just scored a beautiful gas tank from a '71 F250 at the wrecking yard, and I'm going back on my next day off with a breaker bar to pull some later wheels I saw elsewhere in the yard to replace the last of the lock ring ones I have. The F250's bench seat (which I need) was trashed and the tank was missing the sender unit, but I'm not too worried about that - it was the tank that I really needed right now.
While I was there, I popped the rear window and took some measurements to verify that the opening in my cab is correct. I had to do a lot of welding/sheet metal work above and below the window, and just when I needed to check that the opening was correct all the bumps disappeared from the boneyards (typical). Haven't had a chance to check, but hopefully it's right because it's all welded up now...

Edit - just measured my cab and everything looks good. Phew...

[BadApp13]

Cleaned up the garage so i now have room to work around the truck, changed the plugs and installed a Sunpro tach today. Productive day

[70short4x4]

Cleaned up the garage so i now have room to work around the truck, changed the plugs and installed a Sunpro tach today. Productive day

How did the tach install go? Got the same one sitting in the garage waiting to be installed.

[PhilsBumps]

Took hopefully the last trip to my mother-in-law's old house and gathered up everything else I could find that she may need. The old truck ran awesome, but now it's looking pretty filthy again... gonna wait for a dry day above freezing to run up to the car wash... until then she'll be tucked back into the garage.

[BadApp13]

Cleaned up the garage so i now have room to work around the truck, changed the plugs and installed a Sunpro tach today. Productive day

How did the tach install go? Got the same one sitting in the garage waiting to be installed.

Surprisingly easy. Nothing to it!

[hot-rod]

Today i started to clean Crusty from a lot of mud, oil, grease and rust

before:

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now:

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[Jacksdad]

Wow, that came out beautiful - especially the chassis

[70short4x4]

Cleaned up the garage so i now have room to work around the truck, changed the plugs and installed a Sunpro tach today. Productive day

How did the tach install go? Got the same one sitting in the garage waiting to be installed.

Surprisingly easy. Nothing to it!

Good to hear!

[hedz]

I have been working on my f250 again. it was down for 6 months while i tried to repair the steering column with a discontinued 80 cent part to regain the tilt function. that drove me insane.

so today i hammered out the roof enough to remove the bow because some idiot thought they could stand on it i'm sure... so after i did that i made a wood jig and set a car jack inside the cab and jacked up the farthest rear support brace on the roof and re glued it with some loctite caulking. worked fine. sure it's not 3m seam sealer but i'm not going to spend over 100 dollars to fix one support brace. then i spent all day finishing the sound matt. then i installed the carpet. then i rewashed all my interior parts with a pump sprayer full of hydrogen peroxide baking soda and dish soap. Then i scrubbed with hot water and dish soap and all the parts should be done drying for tomorrow.

Hopefully i can get all my leftover padding from the prius installed on the backs of my interior panels and have the majority of the panels installed tomorrow.

it's been a long time coming! i can't wait to sell this thing!