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Ain't that the truth.

Luckily, I've got most of the parts to put mine back together with. I just need to find someone to put it back together.:lol:

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

I hear tell there is a good body man and painter up in your neck of the woods. Give him a call, I'm sure he will take care of you.:lol:

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

Got some more parts in today to add to the "pile".:lol:



http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0823.jpg

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

nice cluster, let me know how you end up wiring that in with your AAW harness....

I have been stock piling parts for the k10 as well.

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Will do Heath.

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

nice...I finally have all the parts for my tach/vac/speedminder setup... of course I still haven't touched my truck this year!

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I know yall ain't referring to me. LOL. Look for that motivation, it's somewhere. I told you we can work around what I have going on. ;). Get ready to start tomorrow.

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:lol: I need me a neighbor like you....... :metal:

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Thanks Mike. I wasn't really looking for a tach cluster, but I got a good deal in this one and it was too hard to pass up.

This year is half over you better get back in the swing of things before I catch up to you.:lol:


Motivation....what's that? Yeah, I think I'm done slacking, it's time to let the sparks fly.:lol: Your '65 needs some tlc as well.;)


Old Alan is about as good as they come. It's good having a gearhead for a neighbor. We "try" to keep each other going on these projects, but we fall short sometimes.

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

who you calling old? LMAO

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

I heard OLD? Did someone called me? :haha:

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Dam your truck looks awesome. Seems like skills and nice trucks are just natural in your neighborhood with you and Alan living there.

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Shannon nice job on the cab dolly.

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I figured you would chime in on that!! :haha:

The sparks are starting to fly. Come on slacker I gave you plenty of time to post some pics. :lol: I had to get you in action.

http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/t...n/DSC02849.jpg

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[QUOTE=Alan's Classic;4060629]I figured you would chime in on that!! :haha:

Just to let everyone know I watching, even though I don't post much.:lol:

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Thanks bud.

Thanks Ronnie. It turned out pretty nice and seems to work really well so far.

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Well the cat's outta the bag now. Yes it's true, I finally started getting some work done this weekend.

The first thing I did was to get rid of the old cab. This thing had been a yard ornament for quite some time now.


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0831-1.jpg


Here it is 30 minutes later.....


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0835.jpg



Now it's time to get started on the new cab.:metal: Back before I had the cab blasted I removed the cowl and found some rot around the fresh air vents. After it came back from the blaster we could really tell how much damage we had to repair. This area is notorious for collecting leaves and debris. There wasn't much left of the metal that the cowl was spot welded to so I went ahead and removed it.


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0836-1.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0838.jpg



Next to go was the a-pillar.


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0840.jpg


Fitting up the floor pan.


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0845.jpg


Here's the master mulling it over.:lol:


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0846-1.jpg


For the most part the cab is in really good shape, except for the cowl area and the driver's side cab support. Here I am drilling out what seemed to be 100 spot welds, but there were only 24 or so. (Thanks for the action shot Alan.)


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0850.jpg


Out with the old and in with the new. Well almost. This is where I stopped for the day.


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0851.jpg


Stay tuned. It should start getting real fun now.;)

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

starting to look like mine, not as bad though! what debris are you talking about? (this was after I cleaned the rats nest out!)

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

Mike what did you do to fix that area on yours?

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Caught me doing what I do best...........thinking. :haha:

uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh, replaced metal J/K I couldn't pass that up :haha:

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

hahaha.... great progress gentelmen.... DE Ja VU ...

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YEP! You can see where I drew on it, then I cut it out an welded new metal in, isn't perfect but I plan to run some kind of kick panel anyway...

I also have nice rust free covers to install over the outside portion, someone was scrapping a cab so I bought them.

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Yeah, I had that coming I guess.:lol:


Yay progress!!!!!:metal:

Yeah, I see those marks now. I remember you buying those vent assemblies now that you mention it.

Any progress with your truck lately?

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Now thats funny, Mike and truck progress...... no way ........ :metal:

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nope.. just finished my "Finance for Executives" mid-term though! woohoo,

and heading out to fly tonight... I need to clean the garage and see if my truck is still in there..:lol:

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Took a little break during the 4th, but we finally jumped back in last night and picked up where we left off.


I finished cutting off the inner rocker and out floor area.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0856.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0857.jpg


Test fit the new pieces.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0859-1.jpg


Mocked up the outer rocker. At this point I had a pretty big smile on my face. I know I have a long way to go still, but this give me a big boost of motivation. I was ready to hang some doors and shoot some paint.:lol:

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0860-1.jpg


Mocking up the kick panel and "a" pillar

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0861.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0863.jpg

The area around the fresh air vent was rusted and pitted pretty good, so I cut that piece out as well.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0867.jpg

Cutting out the replacement piece for the kick panel area.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0868-1.jpg


At this point it was 11:30 so we called it a night. We only worked about 4 hours, but I'm pretty happy with the progress that we made.

Stay tuned...

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

i like the pink :haha:
but really its looking good

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That looks like a better way to fix the kick panel area than what I did...

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Nice work Shannon! Glad to see some of us are making progress...Gotta love those patch panels. Curious to see if you have any issues where the front of the rocker meets up with 'A' post-- that curved area that runs up the 'A' post on the inner kick panel

Your rolling chassis came out really nice

I like the way the clamps are painted orange, no mistaken who owns them

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I got to spend a little time on the truck again last night.:metal:

We got the kick panel patch cleaned up and Alan made the new flange bends.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0872.jpg


The next area of concern was about half way up the "a" pillar where there was some pitting and rust. The bad piece was removed and Alan went to town fabbing up a new piece.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0875.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0876-1.jpg


Alan making it happen.


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0877-1.jpg


The new piece.


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0880.jpg


And it fits......:metal:


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0882-1.jpg


The new kick panel patch was installed next.


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0883.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0885.jpg


We called it a night shortly after this. Stay tuned we're on a roll now.

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

Sweet progress guys..... since your on a roll, I'll send my roller your way :lol:

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I hope your paying attention Shannon. Because your doing the other side. ;)

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:lol: Shazam!

if we only see pics of the drivers side in the future, we know the issue :lol:

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Not a problem, it's only metal right?:lol:


:haha::haha: There may be some truth to that. Nah, Alan would set me straight before I totally flubbed something up.

Re: Project - '69 4x4 named "Patches"
 

wish my neighbor had cool tools like that!

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Nice work as usual ;)

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:lol: The best part is that he knows how to use them.


;)

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We're on a roll now, 3 consecutive nights working on the truck.:metal:


Started out by trimming off the last little bit of the floor pan so the new panels could be tacked in. Everything seemed to fall right in place.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0886-1.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0887.jpg


Next was cutting and repairing the lower door pillar.

Out with the old.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0888-1.jpg


And in with the new.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0889.jpg

We mocked up the outer rocker again and so far so good.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0890.jpg


So far these aftermarket panels aren't as bad as I had anticipated them to be. I'm sure my luck will run out though once we hang the repop doors.:lol:

I'm rebuilding the door hinges now and ordering some weatherstripping getting ready for the doors.


For those that have rebuilt their door hinges, what do you do on the upper hinges as far as the friction pad and stop goes? Just blast and paint them or can you actually rebuild them?

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Nice work guys!

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We're still making progress here. Alan's on vacation this week so I took a couple of days off as well so we could dedicate some full days to my cab repair.

Today was a good day. I finished welding up the front half of the floor patch and the kick panel. We test fit the "a" pillar and outer rocker for the thousandth time and got them tacked in.


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0895.jpg




Then it was time to dig into the parts stash.:metal: This was the first time that I've ever had it out of the box since I bought the parts lot 2 years ago from a guy off craigslist.:lol: At first glance it looks pretty good.


http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0896-1.jpg




After about 30 minutes of trying to get it lined up and to clear the rocker we ended up with this at the end of the day.:metal:



http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_0898-1.jpg


The body lines matched up pretty good. The window frame is going to need a little massaging, but I was kinda expecting that already.


Once again, today was a good day.;)

Stay tuned.....