WHYDTYTT: What Have You Done To Your Truck Today?

[Gary Lewis]

Motor and trans are sold. Also sold the entire wiring harness to a fellow in NYC. All sheetmetal is too rusty to reuse, but trim is in good shape. Will be using that on my projects. Strange how the sheetmetal decays, but the wiring holds up. Must be something about our cold dry climate.

This truck was a good runner/driver save for the rust. Chassis looks to be in good shape as well. 166K kilometers on it, so probably could use freshening up, but I am tempted to throw a good cab back on it. 9" diff in the back.

The Lightning style exhaust and headers will find their way onto my Frankentruck. Will need to add an O2 bung. Rad support is remarkably solid, so that will get reused as well.

Been getting pretty cold up here the last few days, hope it will let up by the weekend.

Amazing how there's always a need for the parts.

[scbill]

SCBill, looks good!

I think the boards are good where they are, I like them.

grumpin...Got the boards off ebay $99, free shipping.

 

[grumpin]

grumpin...Got the boards off ebay $99, free shipping.

Cool! I have Hoop Steps on my truck which I like.

And boards that go between the wheel wells on my Bronco, sometimes I like those and sometimes I don't.

They're a little tight, as in close to the body. I think if they were lower it would be easier for me to get in.

[Angelo Voltura]

Angelo - That's going to look good. I prefer old-school light on a headache-bar mount over the new light bars of LED's, even though the LED's pull less current and may create more light.

Bill - I plan to box this stuff up tomorrow (Janey and I are running errands today) and get it off to you Thursday/Friday. And, there's a lot of the powder left so I'll include it.

@Gary

There is no doubt the new LED bars produce absurd amounts of light....they work fantastically in clear conditions. In snow, as expected, they suck due to the reflection off the snow. But I will say the 30" bar I have will light up a 80 acre field and the tops of the trees that line it like nobodies business.

But, I love the old school cool too. My covers arrived yesterday. The lights have arrived today but are not mounted. But I just couldn't resist a teaser peak at the covers...

[Gary Lewis]

@Gary

There is no doubt the new LED bars produce absurd amounts of light....they work fantastically in clear conditions. In snow, as expected, they suck due to the reflection off the snow. But I will say the 30" bar I have will light up a 80 acre field and the tops of the trees that line it like nobodies business.

But, I love the old school cool too. My covers arrived yesterday. The lights have arrived today but are not mounted. But I just couldn't resist a teaser peak at the covers...

I like the covers! And I'm sure the lights will look great.

[Angelo Voltura]

I like the covers! And I'm sure the lights will look great.

Definitely old school! I was actually looking around for some super old covers that were blacked out with a Trojan head on it, but couldn't locate any. They are all probably long gone.

These, more specifically.

I probably wouldnt run them for the fear of them getting ruined due to scarcity, but they would be cool to hang onto. I like old oddball stuff like that. I can't tell you how many sets of wire cages I have for headlights.

[Gary Lewis]

Definitely old school! I was actually looking around for some super old covers that were blacked out with a Trojan head on it, but couldn't locate any. They are all probably long gone.

These, more specifically.

I probably wouldnt run them for the fear of them getting ruined due to scarcity, but they would be cool to hang onto. I like old oddball stuff like that. I can't tell you how many sets of wire cages I have for headlights.

Those are interesting. Are they mounted on the factory push bar? I have one of those, but haven't used it.

[Angelo Voltura]

Those are interesting. Are they mounted on the factory push bar? I have one of those, but haven't used it.

That push bar is an aftermarket push bar made by Rallye, made specifically for 80-86 trucks and was purchased from National Auto Parts (when they were still around) circa 1988 or 1989. The lights are mounted on tabs welded to the lower bar.

This is the same push bar today, 30 years later. It sat in storage for quite some time and rusted up, but minus the one section that you can clearly see the chrome is gone, some Brillo pads and water cleaned most of it up.

I am not sure when my father changed those covers, but he went to the black and red style KC covers as seen below sometime in the early 1990s and they have been one there every since...in fact so long they faded to orange and got replaced.

Now, these old Blazer Baja covers are ones I'd like to find. They still make them as plastic rectangular lights...but not round for 6" Daylighters.

Also, hows this for old school. Check out those wiper blades.

[Gary Lewis]

That push bar is an aftermarket push bar made by Rallye, made specifically for 80-86 trucks and was purchased from National Auto Parts (when they were still around) circa 1988 or 1989. The lights are mounted on tabs welded to the lower bar.

This is the same push bar today, 30 years later. It sat in storage for quite some time and rusted up, but minus the one section that you can clearly see the chrome is gone, some Brillo pads and water cleaned most of it up.

I am not sure when my father changed those covers, but he went to the black and red style KC covers as seen below sometime in the early 1990s and they have been one there every since...in fact so long they faded to orange and got replaced.

Now, these old Blazer Baja covers are ones I'd like to find. They still make them as plastic rectangular lights...but not round for 6" Daylighters.

Also, hows this for old school. Check out those wiper blades.

My push bar says FORD in it, but looks a lot like that one.

Those Baja covers are different. But those wipers look strange. What are they?

[Angelo Voltura]

My push bar says FORD in it, but looks a lot like that one.

Those Baja covers are different. But those wipers look strange. What are they?

I would imagine they are probably very similar. I like that this push bar has adjustable bars on it, they unscrew and disassemble easily.

They are different...I have yet to see the round ones again.

Those wipers are super quirky! They are double bladed and refillable... I think Autozone still sells similar ones but a little different. Actually managed to find them when we were doing some restoration work...a bit faded, but back then apparently these were cool!