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I'd love snap on but I'm sure it's outta my price range right now

I actually have had good luck with the nicest HF set.

Don't force the bits and they'll cut good for you.

 

 

Let the bit do the work.

 

 

You could go buy a cobalt set from Home Depot or Sears.

Cobalt drill bits work better on heavy metal.

Biggest mistake people make with cobalt is speed.

Slower speeds work best for cobalt.

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Ended up wrapping up a decent amount of things on the todo list!

 

Finally got nuts and bolts in lue studs on the exhaust mani

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Got the dizzy cleaned up and vaccumm advance painted

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Intermittent wipers got added

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Had to rewire the head unit, one of the PO decided electrical tape or a butt conector was all you needed....

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I ended up with a removable option and tape in all the right spots

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Couple of zip ties and bam!

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Should have a charged battery tomorrow and I can test everything b4 pushing the head unit all the way in

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While I wait for my battery to show up I figured I'd knock out somethingelse on the list.....

 

When I first got the truck passenger door never open from the inside and about a week ago the same door decided it wasn't going to stay latched closed anymore. So you go to close the door out of habit, and it slams and bounces back ...

 

Picked up a new lock mech from teddy

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Worked like a charm, stays shut and opens on both sides of the door :D

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Nismodr stopped by to give me a hand the other night and ended up charging my dead battery at his work while changed the carrier bearing!!!

 

Before

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After

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Muy Bueno!!

 

 

And since I now had a battery it seemed like a good time to test all the upgrades/mods I did!

 

Everything powered up with no fires! Woot

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Whoever did the "aftermarket wiring" in this truck previously sucks......

 

Cus everything did power up, or so I thought :/

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No pics for this part but I just spent more hours than id like to admit undoing someone's attempts at bypassing the stock harness for reasons only known to them.....

 

Had to find out why the wipers diddnt have the intermittant setting, ended up being another harness issue

 

But after all BS I got back to what I intended to do today

 

 

Manifolds are both on!

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Well, almost all the way on..... Ended up finding out one of the bolt holes for the manifolds was stripped out(explaines part of the old exhaust leak I guess, I just blamed it on the POS header that was on there and globed in orange RTV)

 

And since it's 11pm and parts stores are closed I can't get a hell coil till the morning so here I stop for the night :/

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Oh!!!!! But wait!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

There's more!!

 

The water pump has always had a wet spot, not a leak but noticeable.

 

So of course I went investigating!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And things escalated quickly, -.-

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Long story short, I found a broken bolt and a missing bolt on the water pump :/

 

Lucky me tho, The broken bolt came out 1st try with minimal effort :D

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Still not tired...... Onward!!!!!

 

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Water pump and new gasket are in, inspection plate got a new gasket too, timing cover and dizzy got fresh o-rings, belts back on, blah blah blah

 

Pretty much stopped on what's left till I hit a parts store

 

Can't remember who gave this to me but I've failed to use it tomorrow's the day!

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So I'm gunna try to get one of my daily naps in and catch a ride to the parts store

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