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General Site Info => General Discussion => Topic started by: JohnnyPopper on November 21, 2025, 11:25:10 pm
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Where is everybody?
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Elvis has left the building 8)
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IDK. I wondered the same
I've at least talked to yall two recently and bd. Chris popped in somewhere I saw but yeah, i wondered the same cause I'll scroll down and I'll look at the dates posted on all the forums and its mainly the same stuff.
Honestly, when I started kinda going through several other c10 / 73-87 boards, they're all kind of flat too in my view. IDK if its newer gen younger people using subreddits or facebook groups, not sure. But I'm apart of all of em somewhere.
I'm still going to come here 1st. Nobody else I've really spent time talking to me about/on mine, nor anywhere else have i spent more hours looking at data and old posts researching things pertinent to my truck. Always been here.
IDK how we could affect a change in turnaround. I aint a content creator, i just put the footage stuff together honestly for my son's benefit on my 87, but i'll definitely be linking this site on my descriptions. I ain't plugging nowhere else.
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This started about 3 years ago when inflation was running about 20%.
Seems a lot of us are doing projects with 'spare change' as we have for decades, and when that dries up, so do our projects.
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Put my square box on ice for a while. My CJ7 project has been eating up my time and wallet. Used to be when you ran into a pard the question would be "what are you working on" now it's crickets. As far as I'm concerned 73-87 square box chevies are king. I'm looking at my1979 short bed now and could use some advice about an emissions issue. The stock emissions canister is long gone and gas fill ups are a slow go. Let me tell you about the truck It's a 1979 short bed originally a k10 duel fuel the emissions nipples are vented to caps like on a axle or tranny vent like I have read they did with the 1 tons in the day. The gas caps are vented. The return lines are capped. It has a mechanical fuel pump with no return line fitting. I had a 1980 square box with the emissions nipple capped on the tank and could fill it up as fast as the pump would pump it so I don't get it! I'm making sure the pump is inserted and pointed away from and below the vent tube on the filler pipe. Still it pukes gas unless I just dribble it in.
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Check the filler neck rubber hose for kinks or obstructions or being installed upside down. Check the vent hoses and vent caps for obstructions. Make sure the tank hasn't been partially collapsed from an impact. Is it possible that the molded fill neck hose was replaced at some point with one having the wrong configuration?
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Shifty- You're right about them being King.
If you follow BaT, the prices they're fetching are heartwarming.
Doubt it's a bubble like VW's.
Squares Rule!!! ;D ;D