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Matt, My retirement job is managing an automotive restoration shop. Very familiar what cheap parts are and the failure rate that is now acceptable in the automotive parts industry. I don't use junk parts on customers vehicles as they quickly forget how much money you saved them when the parts...

Continuing on my down to the frame saga and slowly painting and reassembling! Put the left knuckle and kingpin components in and realized i left the upper kingpin cover/steering arm at work! Oh well, grab the axle and start to slide it in and realize the joint is partially seized. Argh, only...

Don't look, have everything i need! Bought the lower saddles, upper hold downs, and new ubolts. Also have the cast iron upper spacer blocks... Overloads will become somewhat moot as I'll most likely buy the heavier rear HD spring packs... Then again, to be truthful, getting too old and...

Thanks Rick! Pretty much looks like I'm okay! Do have the top hold down cast pieces.... Will finish painting some bits and pieces (and ubolts) and get some more stuff assembled today!

Rick, I do have the cast iron pieces and they're in! Springs i removed (rusty) were a double set-up, factory setup only called for one. So, someone added the second slightly higher arch spring which worked well. Block i have came from a C30 and worked with the original setup. Not sure if the...

Quite a ways to go, but starting to reassemble, finally

Outfit called Amsco Valley Forge (In NY) may be worth looking into. We do vintage auto and restorations and occasionally use them. One of our mom and pop parts suppliers was looking for a leece neville and i gave him the link and turned out they had it! Their techs are also really decent! Eric

PS: No comments on the nasty looking drums, that's killing me! Everything inside them is done, but outside looks like doo!

In the middle of a frame off (well, different frame) thrash and finally getting to the point where I've got stuff painted and trying to reassemble! Way back when i parted out a C30 and used the frame perches and overload spring for my 1008. Overload springs were a double setup vs, the normal...

285 75 16 Duratracs on stock rims. Slight rub if really loaded and flexs just right with wheel cut hard. Empty its never a problem. With plow on front nver an issue, only when max load in bed! Well, it doesn't rub at all now as in the midst of a full restoration and wheels are outside, frame...

OP stated rear brake light was not grounded properly. Rear lights do not ground through the front light socket, ground to body is in vicinity of rear light assembly.... just saying as I've btdt

There is also a ground to the body at the rear lights. Know for sure there's one on the right side, don't remember if one on the left side. Wire is grounded behind the right side light assembly to the bed with a self tapper.

After surfing the web i came across some bogus info and decided to start digging through the boxes of parts to find the rusty body bolts. 1/2 x 13 x 4" long.... (thanks for the reply rick!) Mcmaster will be getting a order once i figure out most of what i need! Now that the frame and cab are...

So, the saga continues//// After a hot and medically challenging summer I'm back to it! Ended up with another frame and cab (thanks Rick!) as mine would have required a LOT of work (easy button?) Frame, cab and all the parts on hand were treated to a day of dustless blasting and were promptly...

I've got the Hella glass upgrades and they were a substantial improvement over stock! Think they were around $100 for the set. My truck only gets 1500 miles a year, so couldn't justify the more expensive lights! Eric

So, cab coming off tomorrow after work! Other stuff going on and this miserable heat has led to some procrastination! The truck makes it to the "shade" around fivesh, right about when i get home from working on other peoples junk at the shop! Not a real good recipe for motivation..... Wedding...

My wife thinks i used up all my hobby time on the musclecar this year! Six weeks of thrashing in the spring which should have really been done over the winter! It's a bitch getting old and slow!!!! Had hoped to have the dustless blasting outfit do the CUCV, but mission creep on the camaro...

Rockers, cab corners and floor repair will be done once cab bolted back on frame and doors fitted! Also have one cab support "outrigger" to be repaired. Going to spend today straightening out all the parts pulled off so i can get a little organized! Away nex week, when i return cab will be...

I'm in the thinking stages at the moment. Meaning i go outside and look at the truck and think wtf! haha Once i get the cab fully off i can get to stripping, scaling and blasting. Definitely will need some brackets and widgets. Am going past you next week (en route to in-laws in Pittsburgh) but...

Been threatening to strip the 1008 down and rebuild from the ground up, turned out Saturday was the day! Got my three sons to pitch in, started ninesih and finished just prior to dark! Stripped off nose, cab and box. Engine, trans and transfer all out. Waiting for a machine to lift cab off as a...