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ol'skoolrob

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About ol'skoolrob

  • Birthday 08/02/1991

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    robert_gard@yahoo.com

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    New Braunfels, TX
  • Cars
    '70 521, '01 focus hatch
  • Interests
    minitrucks, pizza, beer, and good times
  • Occupation
    landscaper

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  1. Nope its just wrinkle paint I think vht makes it
  2. hey hey hey been a long time since I posted got a new job landscaping/irrigation which has taken damn near all of my time been busting my ass for 12-16 hrs a day but I'm learning a lot too been lurking for a while buying a few parts here and there put an aluminum radiator in it installed a matchbox rebuilt the carb got her some new shoes installed a gm internally regulated alternator pulled out the carpet to get ready for some spray on bed liner she has been my dd for the last few months and been fighting with me the whole way she was sputtering a lot and loosing power above half throttle so I gave her a tune up and rebuilt the carb still no change turns out my distributor was shit so I put in the matchbox she ran pretty good for about 3 weeks after that then started sputtering again slowly more and more I somewhat fixed my vacume advance on my carb (siliconed a little piece of brake line in there because I cant seem to locate the hard line that is supposed to connect to the distributor) also replaced the intake gasket because i was loosing water slowly still not a lot of improvement so i bought a compression tester not a lot of great news cyl 1: 145 cyl 2: 60 cyl 3: 60 cyl 4: 120 also cylinder 2 has a little bit of water shooting out with out the plugs in so I've decided to replace the head gasket for now and see where that gets me hopefully be able to have her up and running again this weekend going pawn shopping today to look for a torque wrench so enough of the bad news heres a few pics of where she's at right now nice and dirty Christmas present from my lady toolbox i made not exactly sure what this means but #4 is leakin a little oil been doing a little work around the house started a garden and laid some grass for the dogs i think they had more fun with it in the truck than on the ground
  3. helping my buddy move haven't posted in a while been working too much for a while now updates will come soon
  4. I took the leaf out under the main leaf and then skipped one and took another out also have 3 inch blocks and no bump stops only an inch or two of travel but its definately a lot lower you could also de-arch your leafs instead of buying new ones with less arch
  5. you still have the air cleaner housing if so shipping to 78130?
  6. i love mine because rwd carbureted 4cyl. B) and because RACECAR!!!
  7. i'm digging that sun visor too i was thinking of putting a plain steel one on mine
  8. it might be cool if you finished it but it kind of defeats the purpose of having a little truck in my book if you want a v8 truck then get a full size :fu:
  9. how much for the air filter housing shipped to 78130
  10. yesterday i put a new fuel pump on for the second time this month the one i got from rock auto failed within a month :sneaky:
  11. ^^^ genius i've never thought about that before
  12. do you have the copmressors for sale if so what you looking to get for them
  13. any chance you still have that radiator
  14. ol'skoolrob

    1971 521

    i'd buy one of those stickers that would be a killer addition to any slammed B) 521
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