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    Cleaning Aluminum Wheels

    You'll end up with results like Irish sucks that you don't have any suppliers around to make my mix that and a powerball would give yea a little better of results and you'd have lots left mothers aluminum polish is just a finishing bar ground up and made into a paste
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    New user 79 3+3 and other past rides

    Got me the fenders buddy finally replied and they are for a 73-80!!! Gonna pick em up tmr night
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    Cleaning Aluminum Wheels

    The good from the pics it looks like most of the clear coats still intact so by stripping em they should be shiny under neath now the bad is that the weights are on the outer lip so under neath those weights those wheels will be fucked, if you can somehow find bar and make my hand polish they'll...
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    Cleaning Aluminum Wheels

    Here's a set of old square body rims I did they were off a 90 suburban had the clear coat on em the left ones sanded out the right ones finished product
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    Cleaning Aluminum Wheels

    Yea the only way to get em to look half decent will be to strip em and polish em back out what kind of rims are they????
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    something that disolves rust?

    Might be able to work something out on becoming a vendor jacksonleas real sticky as to who they sell to like in Alberta peterbilt has exclusive rights everyone else has to order through them and they're prices are inflate 10% over peterbilts, now my old man has a contact from jacksonlea so if...
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    something that disolves rust?

    They will clean up but won't look awesome if yea have the time get some aircraft paint stripper, use it to get the coating off the rims might take 3 or 4 coats then you can use my mix to clean em up to have a shine if your looking for crazy results your gonna need to sand em out and get some...
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    something that disolves rust?

    Its all I ever use for hand polish things like places I can't get with a grinder its 1/4 of the bottle ground up green bar and 3/4's gas for $20 you can have hand polish for the next 2 years + see the problem with other shelf hand polishes is they use nepta petroleum (synthetic gasoline product)...
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    Cleaning Aluminum Wheels

    Check the chrome thread in detailing just posted don't use steel wool just a rag and a clean rag after you've scrubbed in with the first rag Edit: something to dissolve rust thread
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    something that disolves rust?

    Go to your local peterbilt pick up a jacksonlea green bar grind it up with a cheese grater put it in an empty pop bottle mix it with gasoline use of like a hand polish with 0000 steel wool but go with the grain of the chrome should clean her up like new
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    New user 79 3+3 and other past rides

    Think I mighta scored a set of new fenders for $60 just waiting to here if they are 73-80 the add just says 73-87 got my fingers crossed!!!!!
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    New user 79 3+3 and other past rides

    I'm thinking they're peanut port heads the block castings a 776 4 bolt main made 68-85 got the info from mortec, how would a set of patriot heads be on a motor like this, I read on an impala forum when I was digging around a guy can build a dec motor out of these for around $3200 I'm by no means...
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    New user 79 3+3 and other past rides

    So go the 427 route would the nv6500 hold up to it??? I'm rly on the fence I know the 427 has crazy lowend but at the same time I've seen and driven an 02 suburban with the 8.1 and 4:10's out back and would be pretty happy that route too I'm more leaning towards the 427 I think it'd be cool to...
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    Hard 'clank' when putting into reverse _sometimes

    I pretty sure its the steady bearing the driveshaft was just replaced with a new one 6 months before I bought the truck but the guy never did the bearing does :doh2: if that doesn't fix it then ill do the u joints Thnx for the info man
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    New user 79 3+3 and other past rides

    What's everyone think a 427 tall blocks worth I've had my eye on one for the past couple weeks buddy originally listed it for $1000 has 24000 kms on it but now he's dropped it to $750 worth it??? Then I just gotta find an nv4500 or maybe an nv6500 So on the fence now I see darts brought out a...
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    Hard 'clank' when putting into reverse _sometimes

    Yea that's all I've ever heard em called steady bearing, its not bad but it has a bit of play in it and causes a bit of a vibration at anything over 110km/h the u joints all look and feel good, ill prolly replace when I do the dually swap since ill have it all apart, other then that mechanically...
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    Dual front shocks

    I know the rpo now I wish I had the suburban to check if it was a factory quad shock :Moon:
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    Dual front shocks

    fuck I wish I still had my suburban I checked the front end and swear it had quad shocks I seen the upper mount like in the pic on the first page the PO musta cheaped out and just put 4 new shocks sometime in its life I wish I could check it for the rpo now
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    Hard 'clank' when putting into reverse _sometimes

    Both my 79's have the reverse clank my 3+3 needs a new steady bearing does have a lil drive line vibration but just had a new driveshaft put in last year I think even my suburban lights did it
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    12bolt axles worth 300 bucks?

    This is true I think its just plain hard to sell anything right now the truck I understood as it was a complete lemon unknown kilometers needed a cab box and hood lol the quad however kinda shocked me it was an 03 can am ds650 with a bunch of upgrades on it, ran like a top not a thing wrong...
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    cleaning the build up

    Get a good degreaser from a place like zep or Gregg's distributors we used to use it on semi frames would eat any kind of grease or muck off ill see if I can find a link for the stuff Here yea go its the one on the very bottem I believe it'd cut right through the grease on the fifth wheel...
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    12bolt axles worth 300 bucks?

    I know what yea mean man when I was trying to sell my truck 79 sclb I started at $1200 and ended up dropping it to $700 before it sold same with the quad started at $3200 and ended up at $2200 for it, it killed me but needed the cash ATM so bit my tongue :p
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    Where can I get these?

    Here's the link to 67-72 about the truck http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=427898
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    Where can I get these?

    I had no idea Mexico built a truck like that, kinda makes me jealous lol we've all been cheated out, they kinda brought the GMT 400 feel to the sb with that truck lucky bastards I read on about the truck on another forum and its a 350/ manual 4 speed on propane
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    Fix Slamming Doors - Striker Door Latch Repair

    This wouldst been a good mod for my last 79 single cab that door was fucked been slammed so hard by the previous owner that he busted the window track inside the door lol that truck was a mess ill defs be doin this mod to my 3+3 the back doors aren't bad but the driver and passenger need a lil...

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