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Nothing really pic worthy, I got the box sides finished. Tomorrow it's fender time.

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A bit off topic. After getting new tires for my '67 Jeep we went on an overnight trip 3.5hrs away and they work amazing.
Old vs new both 33"
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Yeah, I bet there was a noticable difference. :lol: They look nice!

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nice, hey if you want something pic worthy. I can send you photos of the inches of snow we got over the weekend (I could have thrown up). Glad to know there are drop tie rods, I'll look into those if I run into that issue.

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Today I got the fenders finished up and all the panels loaded in my trailer, ready for prep and paint at my friends work.
A great way to finish cleaning the tar off the inside of the fenders is gas. I tried brake clean and de-greaser nothing seemed to touch it. Little bit of regular gas and a quick wipe done.
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Beautiful weather so I got some painting done. Battery boxes, rear bumper went black inside clear out. The scraper wear bars got some paint, hope to put them on tomorrow. I also laid some long strand fiberglass to cover some bad spots in the cab. Here is a pic of how my rear driveshaft hoop turned out.
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Looks good Lower50's. That looks like a big battery box. What size battery are you going to use.

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Thanks!! I'm going with a pair of 850cca with 150(Reserve Capacity) they are 12" long and 45lbs ea. The bat boxes are longer than that because I am putting the compressor relay and some power terminals in there as well. The battery terminals will be below the top of the frame.

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I like the hoop, that's one thing I'v been putting off doing.

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Henry it makes me feel much better knowing there is a hoop front and back, having the drive shaft above the floor and everything so tight out back.

Did some more painting up front and got the scraper wear angles on. I bolted on 3/16" angle under the scraper bars front, middle and rear. So when they wear out I just make some new ones.
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Wow, those fenders look really solid and they cleaned up well. Nice! Stout looking battery box too.

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get some titanium and bolt it on there!

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Thanks. Yes they are very solid and for a Canada truck. The truck started life as a fire truck so I'm sure that helped.
That probably will happen ;)

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Well over the weekend a good friend of mine came over to help/do some body work. Even tho I'm not painting with color there are still some spots to fix. Door handles, cowl, A pillar. Then we are spraying epoxy primer like it has then scuffing everything. I am loading the truck on the trailer thurs and taking it over to my friends work where we are spraying it all Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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Yesterday I picked up my alternator 130A. Had them put in a "W" wire for a tack signal to run the diesel tack I bought.
Also we are almost done with body work sprayed some epoxy primer on the patches. Tonight we scuff the new paint and its ready.
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Nice work! That alt with the W wire is trick too!

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Thanks! The rebuild place I use even added the W wire free of charge.

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After 4.5 hrs of sanding last night the cab is ready to be sprayed. My arms are ready to fall off.
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Wow, nice lowers!!!

Finally sat down and finished reading this. Can't wait to see it finished up and some vid of you getting down in it.

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Thanks Chance!! Oh there will be a vid.

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Well a huge step forward the truck is painted :metal::metal:
Friday after working 8hr I loaded the truck and took it to my friend Joe's work to get the party started. We hung all the parts in the booth and clear sprayed. Then got the cab masked for interior paint. The plan was to use 1980 gmc charcoal gray but the mixer machine messed up and made this color I am calling burnt root beer. After 9hrs we called it a night. @2:00am
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Sat got to the shop at 9:00am to look at our work. Wow that is very semi gloss for flat clear. It turns out you have to mix the crap out of this stuff like home depo does when you buy paint. But we decided we like the contrast. The inside of the fenders got undercoating then clear coat.
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Then onto the cab. Cab, hood and grill. They would be flat. The sun really shows the color of the interior. So Saturday was a 10hr day when we left it was all painted. Then Sunday we went to pick it up and bring it home.
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Wow, you guys really did a lot over the week end. Looks good!

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Turned out nice, lots of work...Jim

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Looking really good Bob!

:clap::gmc2::clap:

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nice work

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that interior color looks like a really happy accident! looks like saturn brown, which looks black in all but direct sunlight. nice!

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This things is plain BA!!!

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Busy weekend!!
Looks great!

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Thank you everybody. It was a ton of work, but I am very happy with it. My friend Joe is very good with body work and I learnt a lot from him.

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THEE OG do you have a build thread for your 55?

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Lookin' good. You and your buddy really do crank out the progress. :metal:

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Lower, is that your Blazer? Looks really nice.

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That interior color may be a mistake but it sure looks very, very nice.

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Thanks. He is a good friend, he helped me with getting the motor running and most of the paint stuff. I think he is a jedi master with body work but he will say otherwise. I also bounce ideas off him when we hang out.
Yes its my DD 1987 Jimmy original paint we bought in Phoenix AZ year and a half ago.

It's nice when a mistake works out better than the original plan.

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So much for taking a brake on the truck lol
Today I pulled the compressors, tanks, shocks and rear tires to finish painting the frame. WOW that axle is a stubby monster. Guess I need to clean the rest of the axle.
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Very cool build!. I just read the entire thread this afternoon. Would love to take a ride in this beast. :D

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Lookin great! - just watched your startup vid again... it is THE BEAST!!!... the hoses on the engine look like lungs breathing!!! :metal:

very cool