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pejsa s-13
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so here it is 85 720 5 spdthe interior is super clean and nice and the motor is a mess i swear there are some bird nest in there and some random wires leading nowhere and vacume lines hangin out traded my POS 79 cutlass for it plus $300so today i replaced the air filter, oil, flushed the radiator, cleaned it and put my old wheels on it

on the ajenda for tomorrow, tortion lift, remove the shell, clean the engine more and maybe take the bumpers off

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jdansmith
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Nice! Keep the cap, those things come in handy when moving stuff in the rain like electronics, carpet ect. Wheels look good on it, I bought a 89 recently and vacuum are plugged and some missing and the ones that aren't probably are not ran to correct locations.

Inside looks mint, my Grandfather always said you rid on the inside so who cares how it looks outside.

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stop by the 720 forum

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pejsa s-13
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already did brotha

i like this truck alot

its funny though cuz the brakes on this suck and it has power steering. but my other trucks breaks are awesome but it doesnt have power steering. so these thrucks feel like they couldnt be any more different

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RT22
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Just a suggestion clean up under the hood and replace any belts and hoses that are old, cheap insurance. get some vacuum lines and replace any dry ones. Then just try to get a vacuum line diagram and figure out where they all go and replace and reinstall them. Can save many funny running headaches down the road. I hate guys who mess with vacuum lines as it always leads to trouble.

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RT22 wrote: I hate guys who mess with vacuum lines as it always leads to trouble.
i deleted all mine... except the vac advance and the brake booster.... do you hate me?

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pejsa s-13
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PEZi720 wrote:i deleted all mine... except the vac advance and the brake booster.... do you hate me?
oh SNAP callin you out...

but yea im going to replace all my blets and hoses and whatnot and i already cleaned under the hood mostly

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pejsa s-13
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so update on the 720 lifted the front about 3 inches cleaned the heck out of it replaced all the fluids and gear oils,

replaced the o2 sensor fuel filter air filter oil filter doing the blet plugs and wires tomorrow

and going to the junkyard tomorrow to see what i can come up with.

hopefully get a new front bumper and a center consol for the hard body =]

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pejsa s-13 wrote:so update on the 720 lifted the front about 3 inches cleaned the heck out of it replaced all the fluids and gear oils,

replaced the o2 sensor fuel filter air filter oil filter doing the blet plugs and wires tomorrow

and going to the junkyard tomorrow to see what i can come up with.

hopefully get a new front bumper and a center consol for the hard body =]
Good luck. I can never find hardbodies in the junk yards up near LA. I found one once, but there wasn't much left. I see v6 pathfinders here and there. As for the bumper, there's a couple places in San Diego that sell aftermarket body parts ridiculously cheap, but I don't know about the quality. You may want to check them out. http://www.cpwusa.com or http://www.certifit.com

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pejsa s-13
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well im going to look for a front bumper for the 720and a center colsol out of a frontier and maybe a tail gate off a frontier for my hb

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pejsa s-13
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Ah memories.

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pejsa s-13
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good ones i hope

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pejsa s-13
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updates,

painted my grill and the corner light surroundings

picked up a coil set up off an older 720 so both of the coils are stacked next to eachother, lookes a little better.

and i needed a new rad overflow cause my old one was sh*t so i just BS'D this one in out of a carolla whatever it works...

and no luck finding a bumper of a center colsol today at the junk yard

there was 3 720's and 2 hb's but nothing really important i needed

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pejsa s-13
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took off the xterra wheels cause there too big and painted my stock wheels and lowered the truck today

took the shell off ill have pics of the whole truck up tomorrow


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