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The relay rods showed up today.

The LV has a saganaw. It fits fine, although the pitman arm has too much drop.

The SWB has a Scout and flat pitman. The relay rod is about a foot too short and the hole is the wrong size in the pitman, so that one will need a new pitman too.
 
Gumby said:
The relay rods showed up today.

The LV has a saganaw. It fits fine, although the pitman arm has too much drop.

The SWB has a Scout and flat pitman. The relay rod is about a foot too short and the hole is the wrong size in the pitman, so that one will need a new pitman too.
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The Pitman arm on the SWB was re-tapered for GM 1 ton TREs. Sorry, should have told you that to save you some trouble.
 
Went to the U-Pull-It today.

Picked up the spool valve and springs that were lost for the hydroboost and grabbed a hydroboost master as well. It cleaned up OK.

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Got in touch with Kurt today. There was a mispackaging from Fugijoint apparently. Every other box he checked was fine. So he's got new TREs on the way.

So we'll be good to roll before we know it.
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That's good to hear.
That kind of a mixup seemed unlike Kurt.
 
Thursday I made a relay rod and hooked everything up. The relay rod end won't go in the tie rod end hole all the way. I'll have to shuffle ends around to make sure I don't have something switched.

It does steer with the steering wheel now. Have to like that.
 
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Drove up to Kenosha to pick up a top today.

Big thanks to Whitey for the top and Woody for bringing it to me.
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Gumby- just so you know... what came off that truck (and went to Tornado Alley Cruisers) wasn't ribbed for her pleasure.
 
SWb got all my attention today.

Lots of hammer and dolly work. The fenders are to the final skim coat of filler. They were pretty rough, but they were free, so can't beat the price.

The hood had a forgot-to-latch-it crease that took a while to get clean enough to put filler on. I hate putting filler on a hood with the flexing and heat so I spent some time getting it as close as I could.

All of the filler work took forever because they turned the heat off in my shop for the weekend. It was cold in there.

I spent the rest of the time stripping and bumping the roof panel. It looked like it had 50 years of hard work. It looks like the Fixed Top was hand built. It has the same pieced together roof as the LV.

John spent a few hours fitting the flange to the bottom of the cab rear panel. I think it's all going to fit together pretty well.
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Spent most of the time in the shop today fixing a kids pontiac canned ham.
hooked up some yamaha speakers for the shop tunes. The stereo is hooked up to pandora and I needed better tunes.
Worked on the top for a little while.
sandblasted the gutters and top flange.
Welded up the holes and started filling the dents.
Did a little bit to the right fender.
Found the shock towers and a pair of ranchos and started mocking then up.
Tried welding nuts on the broken off bolts on the top, but no luck. Got about eight to drill out.
 
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Both fenders are about done.

The left side is perfect, but the right side should probably just get a new fender at some point. I got this one close as it's gonna get.

Hood is done. Should have the front clip in primer tomorrow.

Roof is coming along.
 
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So wait, the top cap is metal, not fiberglass? Was that standard?
 
Gumby said:
Yep. I know the fixed ones at least are metal.
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I've always thought they were all metal, both fixed and removable tops.
 
They are both metal...
For right side fender get OEM from toyota.. All the foreign crap you have to redrill the mount to assist with getting it to line up. Not worth the hassle.
 
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