- New Project: 1968 C10 Shortbedby patmanI just bought a new project. I’m still digging through it, and sorting out what needs to be done to get it running and driving again.
- Replacing the TH350 kickdown cableby patmanThe kickdown cable is a connection between the carb and the TH350 transmission that causes the transmission to shift into a lower gear during hard acceleration. When I bought the car, the cable was not connected, and acted as though it was stuck. I assumed the sheath had melted somewhere, and that’s why it wasn’t… Read more: Replacing the TH350 kickdown cable
- 3D Printed Dealer Emblemby patmanSomeone on the Nova board was looking for a dealer emblem for their car. here’s a 3D printed version I made for them: Using the scanned image of the emblem, I used GIMP to reduce it to a pure black-and-white image using the posterizing filter. Once that was done, I hand-edited the result to clean… Read more: 3D Printed Dealer Emblem
- New rear shocksby patmanI’ve been driving the car more this summer since I’ve addressed a lot of the problem areas. The next item on the punchlist was getting it to ride more comfortably. The suspension felt very stiff, particularly in the rear, and going over potholes or train tracks felt like the car was going to shake apart.… Read more: New rear shocks
- New roof rail weatherstrippingby patmanThe roof rail weatherstripping on the car is probably the original stuff, and after 55 years, it doesn’t really do its job very well. I bought a bunch of weatherstripping for the car when I first bought it, and have slowly been installing it on the car ever since. I decided it was time to… Read more: New roof rail weatherstripping
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