Thanks again, everybody. I'm learning more each time I check back here.

HandyAndy- nothing done yet. Although this has been my daily driver since I bought it 6-7 years ago, I have an '05 1 ton Silverado 4x4 that I'm using. The main reason I haven't gotten any further is that we are working on some property that lies 30 miles south of us, and we've been trying to get ready to build a house and shop on it. Not to mention I've been helping my daughter and her kids get their house together since they moved in to it. Nearly every day I tell my wife, "I've got to get the truck into the shop and get that fixed!", and then the next project on the list comes up and it's put off again. I need to also pull the hood and get it sanded down and painted, due to some surface rust that's starting to pop out. I figure I could just pull the hood and grill and send it via AAA to the shop, to make it easier on them, and have the hood re-worked and then buy the chrome grill I've been wanting to get anyway, and kill 3 birds with one stone. But as of this moment, it's still sitting patiently on the curb in front of our house, waiting. I changed a water pump and thermostat yesterday on my wife's jeep grand Cherokee, which also needs the oil filter 90* adapter's seals changed (damned engineers!), and today we are going to the property to work on burning a brush pile and putting in a new key switch and pulling two wheels/tires off our Polaris ranger in order to put new tires on it this week. Not to mention cutting some trees down, grading the road, hanging a new gate at the entrance, fixing some wires on the 5th wheel that mice have chewed in half, yada, yada, yada. I work harder since I've retired than I did before, it seems like! smile


"When I rest, I rust"
1951 3100 5 window w/ '56 235