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July 1 was fun. I had a bunch of family over after the parade and festivities, and we had a campfire and wiener roast. I haven’t seen some of my aunts/uncles for 3 years, so it was nice to catch up. I showed them the truck and they were all happy to see and sit on the tailgate bench. They also gave me opinions on the bed wood samples for colours and I think we have a consensus. Not exactly as I imagined but still going to be pretty nice. I just couldn’t get exactly what I was looking for, and was scared of destroying expensive bed wood. This will look pretty darn sharp though as well. Stay tuned.


I’ve been working on the gas pedal setup. ‘02 5.3L, ‘70 cab, ‘72 gas pedal, all trying to jive together. I cut out the original mount area, cut a plate to fit and began welding it in, then I ran out of argon/co2. So I notched the original gas pedal to accommodate the ls style pull cable. I mocked up the travel and I believe this is going to work beautifully. Full travel, space for the carpeting, looks good. I did have to heat and bend the top arm to the left about 1.5” to make it line up better, but it wasn’t a hard task.

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All done for now. I will see later if the carpet interferes. If it does, I will simply remove the bracket and tweak it slightly so it gets full travel. So far so good.


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