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So I bought my 78 about four months ago, but haven't been posting about it, and now I'm gonna. All I've done since I bought it was new spark plugs and wires, new distributor cap and raptor, and points, lowered with 3 inch blocks plus took a leaf out and that lowered it probably another inch, and just this weekend I painted it primer grey, and I think I'm gonna leave it this color and paint my wheels black. Feel free to tell me what you think even if you don't like it, I wanna know what you guys think.

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'78 2wd LUV, Betsy, THE LUV MACHINE

Nice and straight Luv. I don't care for the black wheel look myself, even though I had them for a short time when I first got mine. The only thing about leaving it primer is that primer is pourous and lets the water through to the metal beneath to make rust. Looks great though.

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Three Amigos

Im gonna clear coat the whole thing in the next few weekends, so i imagine that will stop the rain from getting through and rusting, right?

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'78 2wd LUV, Betsy, THE LUV MACHINE

That should do the trick.

Let's hope so, haha... But thanks man!

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'78 2wd LUV, Betsy, THE LUV MACHINE

Looks sick dude. Lower than mine now. Little jealous over here.

Looks like you got a spoiler that ended up working out for ya huh? Was it from an s10?

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if you wanted to go lower itd be REALLY easy to do haha, but my front lip, all DIY hahaha, made it out of some garden liner than my mom left outside it works though, and i think it looks sweet.

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'78 2wd LUV, Betsy, THE LUV MACHINE

Impressive, ha. From the picture you can just barely make it out, but it looks good.

How is the ride? Still bearable? Or a jumpy bumpy mess?

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Well I had to remove a leaf spring to go this low, so the ride quality is horrible, to me it's worth it, because I'm just a kid who wants a mice lookin truck, but if you care about ride quality even the littles bit, don't take a leaf out haha. Do you have lowering blocks in?

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'78 2wd LUV, Betsy, THE LUV MACHINE

I have no idea. The ride is horrible in my truck, so I'm assuming it was more along the lines of your method.

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Look between your leaf spring pack and axle there will be a metal block, measure it and if its less than 3 inches let me know I know what you could do to go lower, also count how many leaf springs you have and tell me.

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'78 2wd LUV, Betsy, THE LUV MACHINE

I'll take a look when it's not a monsoon outside. :-)

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hahaha alright.. You most likely have lowering blocks, but they might only be 2 inch, and with blocks the lowest you can go without being dangerous is 3 inch, so maybe you have 2 inch blocks and you can take them out and add 3 inch blocks.

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'78 2wd LUV, Betsy, THE LUV MACHINE

they're 2 inch lowering blocks.

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If you are going to clear over primer why don't you just put paint over the primer then clear? I guess I am crazy but I can't stand to drive a car in primer. Did you prep the old paint before the primer.

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Certified pilots, looking down on people since 1903.

i did some prep work, not the best, theres to much needed for me to try and make this a perfect paint job, i was gonna put paint over the primer, but i really like how the primer looks.

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'78 2wd LUV, Betsy, THE LUV MACHINE

And if you have 2 inch blocks you could take those out and buy 3 inch blocks for about 30 bucks at Tonys Auto Parts on fourth plain, thats where i bought mine. And obviously since those are an inch taller, youd be an inch lower, and its a simple job to do.

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'78 2wd LUV, Betsy, THE LUV MACHINE

I actually just might do it. We'll see what happens. lol

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If you used primer from a rattle can understand that that stuff does not have hardner in it, your clear will just become fog soon. If you ever to paint the truck you will need to remove all of the rattle can primer, then apply real primer and sealer. I have been working in a high end body shop lately painting my airplane, I have seen horror stories from rattle can primer that has mot been removed before paint.

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Certified pilots, looking down on people since 1903.

can you get any more pics up? interior, engine bay, etc?

Would love to see what you've done so far.

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