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    1974 Indianapolis 500 GMC official truck

    https://www.drivingline.com/articles/5-coolest-classic-gmc-indy-500-official-trucks/
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    How Will My Square Body Look With XX Lift and XX Tires?

    Planning to put these 20 x 9 on my K20 with 4” lift. What tire can I get away with before I get into clearance issues? I wasn’t planning to put aggressive treads on it.
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    Fix Slamming Doors - Striker Door Latch Repair

    Pex worked perfectly for my driver’s door, excellent inexpensive fix, thank you!
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    Patch Panel or Metal Fabrication ?

    These should work, huh? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QMXEIMK/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVGJP8PQ/
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    Patch Panel or Metal Fabrication ?

    I used a body hammer to break up the bondo and find solid metal . I’ll grind the area down to confirm good metal and sand blast areas needing cleanup. No reason to hammer the **** out of it to only create more work.
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    Patch Panel or Metal Fabrication ?

    I bought a couple of welder’s about 5 years ago, still in original boxes. I guess I will need to set them up and convert the electric stove 30 amp circuit to 220 so I can operate them. I busted out the hammer, the worse cab corner and box corner had a bunch of bondo holding it together, really...
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    Patch Panel or Metal Fabrication ?

    Ok, can you please provide more information about the specific welder I should invest in?
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    Patch Panel or Metal Fabrication ?

    Scraping and cleaning only but taped around it and it’s solid.
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    Patch Panel or Metal Fabrication ?

    Scrapped off the bubbly to determine the extent of the rust repair, looks mostly limited to both sides cab corners and both sides box behind rear wheels. Does it make sense to buy patch panel or just fabricate my own patches for these small areas? The driver side cab corner and passenger...
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    Filled both tanks - BRUTAL

    Yea, I was running on fumes when I pulled up to the pump. Each of the two tanks took nearly 20. First time I’ve ventured out over 5 miles, went nearly 20, forgot to put on the license plate too, didn’t notice until I got to the station. It actually drive’s pretty good but man it’s sure is a...
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    Filled both tanks - BRUTAL

    Yea, I topped it off and put a small amount in a gas container, Walmart Murphy’s blue, ethanol free 87.
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    Filled both tanks - BRUTAL

    Gas was around $4 gallon a month ago because main refinery was shut down for maintenance. After finishing maintenance and back online, prices went down but it won’t last long.
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    Filled both tanks - BRUTAL

    Decided to filler up (pure gas) before the annual petroleum companies summer run up profits increase. Good thing I don’t drive it daily or I would have to get a second job. How much to fill your tank(s)? Or, what’s the most you have spent?
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    Switches

    1983 K20, upper switch is lights, lower unknown, the bezel is for windshield wiper on dash eventhough they are working at the column. The lower switch has three wires, two go through the firewall, one goes to the red illuminated near the switch.
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    Switches

    Could this switch be a trans lock when this truck was an automatic rather than a manual as it is today? I’ve noticed a few threads with trans lock switch which looks similar.
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    Fuel pump pushrod won’t slide into block

    I have a 880 block in my k20, didn’t have the tunnel machined through the casting for mechanical fuel pump. I installed a Carter electric pump which failed with less than a 25 miles on it over a couple of years. The Carter pump was unserviceable so I threw away $125. I believe it failed because...
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    Extra wire connections

    Nice, my thread has returned, lol. I probably won’t have time to look at it this week but thank you for the response.
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Last week, I put new bulbs in the gauge cluster, 1000 wet sanded and buffed the cover lens, and somewhat got the blinkers working, did this after going to the car wash to clean the drive train.
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    Switches

    It pulls out about 1/4”, three wires are connected to the back terminals, one goes to the red indicator, the other two go into the engine cavity. The two going through the firewall and into the engine cavity are heavily black taped and feed into the covered wire loom so not easily traced without...
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    Switches

    Since the knowledge is vast here and it’s been saving me time, thank you all, please inform me what the purpose of the switch under the headlight switch? Also, the gauge bezel doesn’t quite match up with the headlight switch and opening, a PO did a dash hack so not sure if the headlight switch...
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    Extra wire connections

    Click on the paper clip and then choose the picture wherever it is saved to.
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    Extra wire connections

    If I’m reading the wiring diagram correctly, it looks like those two are for water in fuel and glow plugs.
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    Best Spent $$ for Square Restoration

    Or, it could be similar to pumpkin pie with some whipping cream on top.
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    ok, now THAT was scary!

    I’m thinking my highway experience will be similar with my 83 K20, I’m really not too eager for the white knuckle ride. Thinking I’ll try it early Saturday morning when traffic very light.
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    Extra wire connections

    The only two I noticed were the low coolant and seat belt lights, The seat belt light didn’t want to come out so I couldn’t look inside since I couldn’t get it completely removed. I guess I can remove the fuel and speedo gauges to look behind them. The speedo cable was giving me fits when I...

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