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I thought about a yr and a half ago that we would be done before now. Seems we have hit all sorts of roadblocks in getting it back together. We sit here now within inches of the end and still cant get out of the tunnel. We had a lot of trouble getting the fornt end parts the line up correctly. Had to end up raising the ebtire clip up 3/4" to make the hood to fender tops meet properly. Lo and behold this made the radiator hit the fan at the top, so we had to remove it and change the mounts. Got it all back in today and drove around town a few blocks. Tonite I remembered we were short 3 lug nuts on the back wheels. I decided to put them on and lo/behold one of the studs went missing down inside the drum. This only means having to pull, the axil, the wheels, the hub and drum, finding out why this happened, and what the stud did while floating around inside the brake drum. Still got a lot of little parts to get on, like mirrors, parking brake lever, heater unit, and i still cant a horns to work right. Hopefully we will get this truck all together before the 4th of july...........someday :p

I know what you are feeling ,Jeff. We finally got ours running last week after almost 3 years. Now the carb is acting up. I took it off yessterday. Can't seem to get it to run properly. Might even break down and take it to our friendly mechanic.

yes i have the tendency to "set dates" on when things should be also. Its kind of a down feeling when you don't. i was 18 months on my 49 3600 and now i'm a year and a half on my 63 k10, and i though i would have it painted by last March- well i'm still finshing little bits of body work. just hang in there you get it done

If you are like me it will never be done.I have had mine up and running and taking it to cruisins for about 3 yrs.now.However every year I think of another improvement to do to it.This year its a Dakota Digital Dash,next year,who knows??

i quit settin deadlines to have things done.i've been 12 yrs on my 49.it set for 9 yrs. after a divorce. so now i have so little time to work on it,i do what i can when i can.i've decided to put it together and work on it as i go. so maybe one day.......dave

It does seem like 2 steps forward, one step back at times. I am installing 400 sbc in my 66 and it has been a ton of little things that are just different enough to keep me from getting it going. it did fire up on sat but now I am out of town for a week. Hope you drive yours to KC this summer. How's that 60 doing ?

When I get down and out about the progress, or lack thereof, I am making on one of my projects, I remind myself of this little saying. "Inch by inch, the project is a cinch and yard by yard, the project is hard!"

Keep your chin up and shot for the finish line. Good luck with your project.

Tony