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"Look factory?" Um, they didn't look that good from the factory. Nice stuff! I have the 3-gun kit from HF. I love it 'cause the big one comes with a 1.8 tip. Great for primer. Good progress! I would say, If you have a plater near you, having all those bolts cad plated works a lot better than painting. I tried to do that, the plater's burned down, so I had to paint mine. I'd have been a lot happier with plating. Not trying to be a jerk, you've just got the rest of this so cool and all. Those inners would look good with Raptor liner on the undersides, too. Man, I'm stoked for ya!
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Congrats on nailing the color.
Not sure if this tid bit of info helps on "paint on bolts" but it worked for me. I cooked my freshly painted bolts for 20 min @ 175 in a convection oven I got at a garage sale. None of the paint lifted after I wrenched'em in. Wifey was happy I wasn't in the house trying to poison the family with my cookin. Gonna be awesome to see things getting put together. |
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Ahhhh some updates. So kool man. I'm still digging the ride.......Can't wait for more.
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Those inner fenders look killer, can't tell that they've been cut and welded! Love stuff like that, nobody will notice but that's the whole point.
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I'll prolly have to do a similar mod to the inners for 'Locks, so I've been watching to see what you came up with. They look perfect. How far away are you from getting it on the road?
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Nice progress!
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Nice to see the progress, & everything looks great!
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I have to install the inner fenders and core support, and get the underhood stuff done (paint the bottom side of the hood, hoses, wiring, etc). I still have to do my fuel tank mod, and that's going to be some uncharted territory. Still need to raise the bed floor and c-notch the frame (couldn't get it low enough without the rear end hitting the bedfloor). Still need to do bodywork and blend in the paint to match the patina. Still need to spray the exterior with satin clear. Still need to finish the sound deadener in the cab. Need to re-rubber the doors and windows. Replace the windshield. I think I'll have it running in Mid-January, and on the road around March. Hopefully, a whole lot sooner than that, but I'm trying to be realistic. I have to stay on my current pace and not try to rush anything. If I rush stuff, it'll show in the final product, and that'll drive me nuts every time I look at it later. |
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As usual, outstanding work from you and Brad!!! I can't wait to see the end result.
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The weather has been cold and rainy for the past few days, so it has given me an opportunity to turn up the heater and the tunes in the garage and get crackin'.
Today's project was assembling the A/C condenser, the receiver/dryer, and the lines on the newly painted core support. I'm real happy with the results: http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps1e75f240.jpg http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...psfabc1a16.jpg I don't like the look of a body-colored core support poking through the grill of any car or truck, so everything had to be black. If you recall some posts from a few months ago, I modified the core support to accept a 2001 Corvette A/C condenser. It meant that I had to cut pockets in the uprights to give clearance for the inlet and outlet fittings. I used a couple pieces of 2"x 2" square tubing to fill the cutouts and Mig welded them in. The hard line at the inlet on the bottom of the condenser is a combination of the factory Corvette line and a #6 A/C crimp fitting that I had a buddy Tig weld together. The factory outlet line at the top of the condenser was chopped off and a fitting to accept a #10 Beadlock style A/C hose was Tig welded on. All of the fittings were bought on ebay for cheap, the hose was extra pieces I had laying around, and a buddy crimped them for me. The dryer was also an ebay special ($14.99). I put some heat shrink on the dryer clamps to tighten them up a little bit and to also insulate the dryer from metal-to-metal contact. The core support actually looks better in person versus the pictures because the camera flash does weird stuff with the satin black and makes it look blotchy and shiny. http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps8aefffec.jpg http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps184ed504.jpg Next task: Install all of the rubber seals on to the inner fenders. |
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Looks nice cheapskate. Got me motivated dude!
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Kool man.
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That's TIGHT!
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and that's how's done !!:metal:
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Thanks for the comments, guys! I've been on a roll, and today was a big day. It was time to start bolting stuff together for the last time. No more mocking up and taking it all back apart. :metal:
I realized that I had never taken any pictures with the engine installed. It's been installed for a few months now, but I've been focusing on other stuff, so I apologize. Here it is: http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...psd96c8b6f.jpg http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps3609ad97.jpg We had to to be extra careful installing the inner fenders and core support, and I'm lucky I had Brad helping me. This is definitely a 2-person job. We had a few issues to contend with and a couple of holes needed to be slotted slightly, but that's to be expected when you're putting one of these things together and trying to make it all fit right. http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps5de93090.jpg http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...psf89dea62.jpg Here's a teaser shot of how the inner fender lower edge sits in relation to the frame. It looks factory, and that's what I was going for. I don't want anybody to figure out that the chassis has been Z'd. I've got more time in those dumb inner fenders than I want to admit, but it was all worth it. http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps4bb2f0d7.jpg In all of the excitement, I forgot to take pictures of the core support installed. I can't believe I forgot to do it, but take it from me, it looks good. I promise to take pictures of it next weekend when I get back on it. I have a big list of things to accomplish next weekend, and if it all goes to plan, the front sheet metal will be on the truck. A big thanks to Brad for the helping hand. We thought we were in for trouble when the driver's fender to door gap was huge and we were completely out of any more adjustments. We couldn't move the fender back anymore. After about 45 minutes of racking our brains, Brad figured out that the driver's front cab mount needed to be shimmed up. Once we jacked up that corner, the gaps came in perfectly. I was thinking the worst and figured that the inner fenders and core support all needed to come back off and get tweaked. What a relief. |
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Ditto, nice work! A/c routing looks premo
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Motor/firewall looks great! Can't wait to see the big holiday weekend progress! No better words than "for the last time".
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The S-10 is one of Brad's Land Speed projects. Right now, it's just a shell. His intent is to break Gale Bank's long-standing pickup truck landspeed record, but once he started building the streamliner, the S-10 has been on hiatus. |
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Ha, he's gonna have to build a patina'd 70's Peterbilt to haul all his stuff to the Salt!
"Hey, where's Brad?" "Utah." "When's he coming back?" "Next month. Maybe." Salt Fever, watch out for it, Kids. |
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Your modifications, unless you know what to look for you don't even see them.
I can hear people now,"Somethings different but I don't know what he did!???!!" Great job. Keeps me on my game. |
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Alex has done a great job on his truck! He's kept on his path of keeping the truck simple but with lots of little details, I just have to keep reminding him that he's building a driver and not a Ridler contender! I know how much fun we've had going to different events in my truck and I'm excited for him to have to pick ME up for a road trip! This thing is gonna be sooooo cool!
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Man if I lived closer you guys would be picking me up...hahaha.
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did you just paint the lines after they were crimped? looks good
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WOWZA! looking good!
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Been a minute or 3 since I checked in…;)
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YEAH! More pictures!!!! LOL!:metal::lol::chevy:
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More pics.....please....purty please.
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some killer work you have been doing man!! I really dig your build. super clean
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Had another good day today. We were able to get the cab mounts shimmed and adjusted to get the proper fender to door gap, and that was extremely important because it'll save a lot of body panel fit headaches later. Got all of the inner fender and core support bolts torqued, and sandblasted a bunch of parts that will need to be primed and painted soon. That will be my main focus tomorrow, getting these parts etch primed and ready for color.
Here's a few pictures of the front inner structure all bolted up: http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...psb98a1f01.jpg http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps1c26f1bb.jpg http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps87afc781.jpg |
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Man, that looks nice! Can't wait for the next update! Any rough ETA on the first fire-up?
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I don't have a firm ETA on the fire-up because I still have a lot of plumbing to do, along with installing all of the wiring from the firewall forward. I still have to get the fuel system installed (tank, etc). I still have to do a little more suspension work on the rear, which will require notching the frame and raising the bedfloor. There's still a bunch to do, but the list is shrinking (slowly).
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