Blasted, primed, painted: tailgate straps, door strikers, door striker backing plates, brake pedal mount and pedal. I bought a little Oneida dust cyclone and a new shop vac to help pull dust from the cabinet. It works quite well, but does not remove 99% of the dust as advertised. But it is still a huge improvement over the shop vac doing it by itself and then plugging up the filter, and eventually burning out.
I also purchased a 2002 Avalanche for the 5.3 and 4l60e with 200,00km. It was crunched on the front left a little but was a write off. I got the whole truck for $900, minus the t-case, alternator (I have a brand new one in the box), power pump and bracket, and front seats. It ran very well when I picked it up. Oil pressure was good and clean, but I will be going through the whole thing anyways. It is a 4x4 so I will have to get a new output shaft/tail end to make it into a 2wd tranny. Then do something with the computer likely? New guy here, remember? I have spent the last week pulling it out. With my kids I have to jump at moments to wrench and it took a lot longer than I anticipated. Also, those things are a PITA to remove. I removed the whole front clip, the trans x-member, the lines, wiring, dropped the front differential housing, etc, and it still wouldn't come out! In the end removing the intake helped give me more clearance on the firewall and it moved much easier afterwards. I figured better that than trying to split the tranny at this point. Sensors everywhere, wires everywhere, no room like an old 60’s pickup to stick your hands, I won't do this again methinks. I'll buy 1 already removed. However, I have removed it so I could make sure I had all the plugs, etc just in case I need them. I am in over my head on this stuff and hope to learn much.
The massacre....fluids all over the pad. It looks like I slaughtered something. The tranny still had some oil in her heart and the A/C compressor spilled some blood too.
It was also Canada Day on July 1st and the town had a "reverse parade" where people could walk or drive past your yard to see your display. My wife and I decorated the garage and then parked the 1 ton and 1/2 ton on the gravel pad. Everett just had to have his little blue truck in there too! My father in law and his buddy brought their trucks and we proudly displayed our yard in the POURING RAIN. In the end, the judges liked things and we won a pizza gift certificate. Pretty sweet.
By the way it finally quit raining. We had 3.25" of rain over 36 hours from Monday to Wednesday this week. Plus it had been raining many days before that too. Today is July 11. We have had 9 days of rain in July so far here. Some steady, others pour, some drizzle, on/off, but no sun. Today was finally a beauty.
Here is the creek at the farm. This is the truck crossing. The depth is well over the truck's roof height. It is normally 1/2 way up your knees at the crossing where the rocks sit. The creek was rocking on it. The flood of '86 was over twice as high. The whole grassland area in the pictures was raging and moving stands of trees down the valley. Unreal what nature can do.
Finally smiling after wrestling that engine for 4 days on and off.
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1970 Chevrolet C10 Grandpa's -- My first truck -- In progress to shiny Follow the build in the Project Journal 1950 Chevrolet 1-Ton Dually "Ole Red Girl" In the Stovebolt Gallery More pictures here 1951 GMC 9430 1 ton dually--Shiny! | 1972 Chevrolet C20- Rusty- the puzzle box lid for the C10 | 1962 AMC Rambler American- my wife's Parts trucks- 1951 GMC 9300 | 1951-GMC 9430 | 1951- Chevrolet 1300
