Radim Posted June 25, 2011 Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 Cleaned the carb, took off all the stickers i had on the lip and test fitted fender flares again, little brother took a pic of me installing the carb back on. :P Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted June 25, 2011 Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 just finished washing my truck Quote Link to comment
albyneau Posted June 25, 2011 Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 In a flaming lack of patience and utter frustration~ I peed on a tire....:P Quote Link to comment
Skib Posted June 25, 2011 Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 i do indeed, trade ya ur drill for my dremel and we will get both of em on! deal :cool: Quote Link to comment
Radim Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 Put the L20B w/ 40MM DCOMs and a hooker header in my 73 620. Note the missing velocity stack? Didn't clear brake booster... Lynx manifold TWM Velocity Stacks. Quote Link to comment
wildmaninid Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Been working on the truck lately.....interior is still getting re done, so I have been talking care of some of the biggest issues with the truck. In this installment, you will see my electric fan upgrade. I cut the clutch off of my water pump, and determined that a dodge dakota/durango (01 and up) electric helper fan was the right thickness, as their isn't much room to work with ....around 3 inches anyways. Also the only rust through that I had on the whole truck was on the front fenders.....I found a new pair, mounted them on the truck and have been knocking out the bodywork. Plan is to have them primed tomorrow night, block, prime again, block and wetsand and squirt them sometime over the holiday weekend.......I have many more things going on, but no oics yet.....wait till you see my 7$ carpet installed! Quote Link to comment
jon521 Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 i put a new oil pressure sending unit on and that fixed my oil leak :) Quote Link to comment
]2eDeYe Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Killed my battery by leaving the headlights on all day. For some reason, after the jump my fusible link decided to un-link. Battery died again and for the first time in a long time I was on the side of the road broken. :angry: Called the boy, luckily he was in Everott, so it was a quick trip to me. Swapped batteries with the Terra, shoved some heaver gauge wire in the fusible link plugs and made it home. Trucks going in the garage tomorrow and won't be coming out til Tuesday for a few more repairs and upgrades :cool: wildmaninid....build thread man c'mon :D Quote Link to comment
ZackTheImpaler Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 New U-joints,shocks, 3" lowering blocks makes dottie happy Quote Link to comment
wildmaninid Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 2eDeYe' date='29 June 2011 - 05:48 PM' timestamp='1309394910' post='503322']Killed my battery by leaving the headlights on all day. For some reason, after the jump my fusible link decided to un-link. Battery died again and for the first time in a long time I was on the side of the road broken. :angry: Called the boy, luckily he was in Everott, so it was a quick trip to me. Swapped batteries with the Terra, shoved some heaver gauge wire in the fusible link plugs and made it home. Trucks going in the garage tomorrow and won't be coming out til Tuesday for a few more repairs and upgrades :cool: wildmaninid....build thread man c'mon :D Yea i should migrate all this shit to one thread.........i guess i have a prelim thread over in the 620 section ...........yea i need tons more oics too........... Quote Link to comment
]2eDeYe Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Well get on it :P Quote Link to comment
datsunaholic Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Brakes. Again. Noticed a large puddle under the passenger side front tire, and the tire was soaked. Wheel cyl had dumped the entire contents of the master cyl reservoir on the driveway. Pulled the drum (at this rate they'll never get stuck) and the brake shoes had disintegrated for an inch or so on each end. Drum was full of mushy ex brake shoe. So, went to my parts stash, grabbed a 13/16ths wheel cyl. Got all the way to putting the install bolt in... wrong thread size. Bugger is STANDARD. The truck, of course, is metric, being a '76 620. I check the set I have for the '74 (3/4") and sure enough the threads are metric. Well, crap. I guess it's good that I actually HAVE a set of SAE front wheel cyls, but I was positive that the 320 and 520s used 3/4" wheel cyls. These are clearly marked 13/16ths. Well, now I'm up a creek. I thought I had more spare wheel cyls but I have like 5 sets of REAR cyls, a pair of 3/4s that I don't want to use on a '76, and a set of SAE ones that won't fit. Dig through boxes. I gotta have more. Realize I'm on my last set of front shoes, too. I now remember where my brake parts went- the parts truck I got rid of last year had all new brake parts on it. Crap. In checking every box of rear cyls to be sure, I find a unboxed but new wheel cyl. No size marked on it, but it's metric. Well, it'll have to do. Replaced driver's side shoes (which were hardly worn, I never wear out brakes as much as have them fall apart. These shoes were on the truck when I got it, 40,000 miles ago, and weren't new then) as well, and then spent over an hour bleeding and adjusting. They'd feel right, but go for a road test and have no front brakes. Turned out the pass. side shoes FELT adjusted but then I turned the adjuster 20 clicks and it didn't lock up- finally adjusted to full lock, backed off till it turned, and now they work again. Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 320 pickup cylinders have SAE fasteners 620 pickup cylinder have metric fasteners They switched around Jan 1968, some model & parts later than others. Bore sizes are still non-metric Quote Link to comment
Nas Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 woke up early and washed it real well. detailed the engine bay too. took it for a ride...then ended up having to get a tow home. http://community.ratsun.net/topic/33287-l18b-radiator-blew-its-top/ Quote Link to comment
jon521 Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 Ordered valve seals Quote Link to comment
izzo Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 cleaned and organized the truck box vacuumed the interior Fixed rattling windows test fitted the new center console and just for a teaser: :P :cool: Damn, that looks like the place i picked up my wagon from. Quote Link to comment
Skib Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 Damn, that looks like the place i picked up my wagon from. lol it almost is. Quote Link to comment
Skib Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 someone buy mah 620 2k if I got monies in my pocket before Wed. Quote Link to comment
jon521 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 picking up clutch kit tomorrow, then going to a friends shop to drop the rear 3in for the high school car show on sunday :) Quote Link to comment
Wide14u Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 i went and looked at mine Quote Link to comment
jon521 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 i went and looked at mine :thumbup: my favorite thing to do :thumbup: Quote Link to comment
jon521 Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 lowered it 3 inches in the rear before after Quote Link to comment
420n620 Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 not mine but this what I've been working on for the last 2 wks. dropped 3 in the rear, 2 in the front. cleaned the engine bay. Quote Link to comment
jon521 Posted July 10, 2011 Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 took the best truck award at the High School Car Show Quote Link to comment
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