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  1. HotWheelsBurban

    Lost keys

    Sounds like it's time for a Hide A Key..... If you don't have an inside hood release, there are probably spots under the hood where you could hide a door key.... The 94 Burb I was pulling parts off of last week, had the wheel lock key hidden under the hood. Couple dudes were trying to get the...
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    15x8 truck Rallyes for sale, Houston, Texas

    Got out there today, got more pics and looked at them closer. Two caps have emblems, two don't; I have a buddy in Cypress who has a couple of new emblems(I'll see if he'll send em to me)..... Planning on going to the swap meet in Conroe, Texas in a couple weeks, and the swap meet in Waco, Texas...
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    Time to sort out Dad's old truck!

    Welcome from Houston, Texas! My cousin and his family (Mom, wife, daughter, and grandson) just recently moved to Vancouver, Washington. We were talking to them a few days ago, and they mentioned that the teargas from the national guard going after the protesters (which are much fewer in numbers...
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    United By Trucks podcast- garage accident topic

    I think we were using stands, maybe one of them tipped. That was the closest call with the '79; the '84 Burb tried to kill me at least twice. Once when we were doing a tire rotation and it slid off the jack, bent the backing plate behind the right front brake rotor and very nearly bent me too...
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    United By Trucks podcast- garage accident topic

    Many years ago, Dad and I were changing the rear leaf springs out on our '79 Burb, on the driveway. Had the rear axle on a jack(lifting /swapping one side at a time) and the body lifted on another jack. We were swapping to 3/4 ton units with an extra overload, on a C10....He was moving the new...
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    Square body truck diecast for sale

    Mine is supposed to arrive on Tuesday. Those stickers are cool, where are they from?
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    Square body truck diecast for sale

    Yes, just came out this week.
  8. HotWheelsBurban

    Square body truck diecast for sale

    Okay cool thanks Ted I will set a pair aside. So...for everyone else....I still have one no bed, and two duallies. I figure the display had not been up long, to still have the squares in it. There are many cool cars in this assortment but the squares are the coolest of course.....
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    Square body truck diecast for sale

    Still have the CarTuned set..... Also got these, PM me if interested.
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    New guy from the Bayou

    That's on the northwest side of Houston (for those who don't know) ....I was kinda out that way yesterday, in Cypress. A friend out there was helping me with some stuff on my DD. I live in the Astrodome area, right off Loop 610. Worked all over the greater Houston area though....
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    Factory Engine Color???

    So the story goes..... I've had trucks like that, that were 5.7 or 6.0 gassers. Every place it could drop, it did....
  12. HotWheelsBurban

    New guy from the Bayou

    Sweet, sitting just right, right amount of tire and wheel in the wheel wells.... welcome from Houston!
  13. HotWheelsBurban

    84 C20 Suburban steel brake lines

    On the wheel studs, I'd wire brush them before installing new lug nuts, just in case there's rust/corrosion/other icky stuff on the threads. The threads can get messed up if there is debris on them, or if the stud or nut has a bad spot. I had two tires replaced on my daily driver one ton,and...
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    Aftermarket mirrors

    I think the shaft diameter is the same....but I'd have to go to the yards and check. The LKQ near me has several OBS trucks that have those mirrors, and some squares that do too.
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    Factory Engine Color???

    I want to say I remember Oldsmobile using a light green engine paint like this, at some point.... maybe the 50s? Buick used a light green for the Nailhead and the smaller V8 into the late 60s. The 400/430/455 big block Buick were red. I remember in our parts store, the colors of engine paint...
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    Factory Engine Color???

    That looks like Detroit Diesel green.... without any oil streaks lol
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    Factory Engine Color???

    The six cylinder Chevy engines were blue, going way back at least to '47 with the new models. The similar age GMC sixes were red or black. The 55 Chevy V8s actually were red, the familiar Chevrolet orange didn't start until 1956. The sixes stayed blue until the mid 60s and then were orange like...
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    Factory Engine Color???

    Yes I remember when the "corporate engine" shenanigans started about 77-78.... We used to have a favorite restaurant in SW Houston that was next door to Frank Gillman Pontiac/GMC, and every year when the new models were dropping, we'd go check em out after supper. This may have been around the...
  19. HotWheelsBurban

    Scores from DIY Parts Yards, Pull A Part, U Pull It etc

    Here's a couple of pics of the instrument cluster with the lens off. Two of the mounts on this broke off but those will be included with purchase.
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    Scores from DIY Parts Yards, Pull A Part, U Pull It etc

    I also picked up an underhood reel light off that Burb, I think the assembly is the same as the early OBS trucks use....they started using these in the late 60s? And got the second row floor mat , gray and looks almost new. Will post more pics tomorrow....
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    Scores from DIY Parts Yards, Pull A Part, U Pull It etc

    My buddy Bernard and I went to check out some squares at the local LKQ this afternoon. Actually there are 3 pickups and a late Burb there, we were mainly looking at a 74 and 85 C10 longbeds that came in this week. While I was checking to see what I could find in their OBS/400 offerings, I found...
  22. HotWheelsBurban

    Which mirrors are these? Factory?

    Right here, I screenshot the page.
  23. HotWheelsBurban

    What have you done to your square lately??

    Yes there are several different sizes of poodles, and they're technically different breeds... but it's kinda like how we have Scottsdale, Cheyenne, Custom, Custom Deluxe, Silverado...all Chevy trucks but they have distinct differences. One of my regular customers at Costco has a poodle that's a...
  24. HotWheelsBurban

    5 Lug Center Caps.

    That's why the "I'll put em here so I won't forget em" needs a list LoL.... If I find any more I'll let you know. I try to make sets when I can because they sell better than onesies. No telling what we'll find in the local yards when my buddy and I go to the local one Saturday. The three I found...
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    5 Lug Center Caps.

    I have three I got at the yard last trip, I have another one in the parts for sale at the shop. I need to get it on Saturday (hopefully?) and clean it up. Then that set will get posted for sale(unless someone puts claim on them.....) These are the '78-up stepped style, but they are OEM metal and...

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