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Last night it was literally five minutes, maybe not even that. I cut the front piece of the door window frame to length, marked it and cut it, that was it.

Not much but still more than the entire 15 months prior to last week.

Brian

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Brain, I feel your pain, sometimes I will go into the shop to do something else and just spend 5-10 minutes on the truck. Not much but it does seen like progress.

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Nope, I don't joke about the 5 minutes day plan. :D It works, I did my Gran Sport in about 8 months after starting the plan. It had sat there painted for a year and in 8 months I assembled it, restored the top irons and installed the top, everything, from a garage full of parts covered in dust to driving it in about 8 months.

If we force ourselves to get out there for 5 minutes SOMETHING will happen in that five minutes, even if it's planning, or arranging nuts and bolts, SOMETHING will happen. No kidding, cutting that piece was more than had been done in the previous 15 months! So it will get done a lot faster doing that than not at all.

Most of the time that 5 minutes turns into a half hour or more, but even just the five minutes is better than nothing.

But I have amazed myself at how many times I have gave up and sat on the couch in my pajamas only to feel guilty and walk out to the garage and do something!

Nope, the 5 minute a day plan WORKS! :metal:

Brian

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Brian, I like your project. Keep at it, small bites

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OrrieG got any pics & details of what your using for the doors & headliner? Also what your gonna be doing with it �� thanks

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Modified the a arm for steering and mounted (a test fit) the steering wheel I made.
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Headliner will be the same fabric on 1/8" masonite, slipped into the stock opening it will be a snug fit. Using split door edge guard to trim the metal edge. Doors will be painted and the recess where the handles go will get the fabric on 1/16" plastic, pressure glued to the metal. The fabric is DesignTex heavy duty commercial grade furniture fabric. Wears like iron, super stain resistant but not cheap. Got the templates made, will post pics when I get them upholstered in installed.

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finished up the air intake...
draws air from bottom of passenger inner fender area.

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Nice work!

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Pulled engine and trans and stripped out the cab so it can go to the paint shop this weekend!:bann:

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Pulled the engine/transmission. Scraped/sanded/cleaned the frame.
Gonna try to get paint on the frame and leaf springs tomorrow.

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Headliner is in, details in the build thread. What a wrestling match!!!

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Donandal, nice looking setup. What AC setup are you running? Any more pics of the brackets? Thanks. Jim

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Looking good!:metal:

I got the front of the window frame on the drivers door trimmed down and tacked in place.

Brian

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the A/C is vintage Air, but the brackets are from Kwik Performance.

I'll have to look to see the exact setup part numbers I got.
Haven't taken any pictures of just the brackets

It is a high mount setup for LS engine, and it requires the
2010 camaro water pump

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Door Panels. The stock raised metal accent will be metallic black to match the steering wheel , knobs and ac grille. Rest of panel will be silver birch to match the rest of interior. Arm rest is grey matching the seat leather, door handles stock chrome and black knobs.

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Got the last 2 coats of primer on my hood and rear fenders.
All 3 panels now only need a 400 blocking and 600 wet sanding before paint. I am planning on Monday morning at this point. I want to only paint in the AM hours now. It's getting pretty hot out there.

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Between the 320 sanding and reducing the epoxy 10% as well as using my Iwata LPH-400, it laid down pretty smooth for primer. I didn't use to be able to shoot paint that smooth.

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Looks great!
I'm anxious to see that interior all finished.

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Looks excellent Roger! Maybe I missed it, what are those two small holes on the left rear fender for? Now that I re-look, there's one on the right rear fender too!

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Thanks Dan.

I'm going to re-use the rear bumper that was on this truck when I got it and it uses those holes to bolt the ends to:

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_6934.JPG

I got it fixed up real nice and it's painted ready to go on as soon as the rear fenders are painted and mounted:

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Loaded it up for a trip down to Savannah, Ga. to my friends shop. My son came up with his trailer to get it for me. It's going to be getting a new disk brake rear with posi, new leaf spring rear suspension, and a Street Demon carb installed.

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My gosh that's a purdy truck!

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Beautiful. Any other pics?

Got my rear fenders and hood painted today.
 

It's HOT here. Our first 100 degree day this summer which is pretty unusual to come this late. Since it's been cooler that normal so far, today just felt incredibly hot. Not just me but everybody I talked to when I ran my errands this afternoon.

I got started early this morning. I was out in the shop at sun-up but didn't get the last coat on the hood until about 1:30 PM.

Weird. I cleaned the paint room really well to prepare it this time. Better than all the others. I hosed the floor, walls and even the ceiling off yesterday.
But, I got more dust today than any other paint session I've done. I don't know what the deal was. My filtration system didn't seem to do anything. I think I wouldn't have had any more dust if I had just sprayed without the good clean up and the garage door open. Even my wife (who usually thinks I'm too picky about things) agrees it's a lot of dust.
Anyway, it's OK as I can sand all the dust nibs off and polish. That is going to come much sooner than I figured though. Probably not long after the truck is entirely assembled on the outside. I'll do everything except the top and bed sides.
I saw the amount of dust so I put 4 coats on the hood instead of the 3 I've done on everything else.

Other than that everything went fairly well. I sure could have used extra slow reducer and hardener today instead of just slow. I had a little trouble keeping the wet look when passing the gun across the panels. I tried to get the last coat a little heavier to get it as wet as I could. (Didn't get any runs or sags so that is good.)
This will all be fine though as I will be buffing anyway because of the dust.

Sure glad I've got the big stuff all done. Only about a dozen odds and ends left to paint now. I didn't really want to be painting on this project during the hot summer but it just turned out that way.
I can say that before my next project I'm going to figure out a way to improve my make-shift spray booth as it's just not good enough the way it is. My mind is already working on it.

This morning after epoxy sealer/adhesion coat:

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After 3 coats on the fenders and 4 on the hood:

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changed my master cylinder

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installed a bed floor finally

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Bought a Kenwood radio CD deck and making up the carpet templates.

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A little before with holes and after holes welded and ground.

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slck57, Every time I skim through the pictures posted and I come across a cab stripped down, my heart skips a beat.

The cabs are nearly identical after cleaning and blasting, and I have a quick flashback of mine about a year and a half ago. Then I realize it's not mine I'm looking at and I find comfort reminding myself that I'm past that stage now.

Keep up the hard work, it's worth it in the long run. Jim

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Put some elbow grease into an old school back up light I got yesterday at a swap meet for $8. Allstate Brand, glass lense and good 50's American chrome came back. Cleaned up the electrical, rewired and works great. Just need to find a brighter bulb. Not shown is the rest of the bracket and mounting bolt. Also finished insulating the cab floor. You can also see one of the carpet templates, getting close to having the interior wrapped up.

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Took a longer cruise yesterday. Left town on the northeast side drove around the countryside looking at the corn crops. Came back in on the southside of town. About 20 miles os fun.

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Hi. What color green is that? That looks sweeeeet!!!

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Thanks.
It's called Fir Green and it's code is RAL-6009.

RAL is a standard color set.

Do a google search on "RAL Colors".
There's lots to choose from.

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Excellent, thanks for the reply!

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I wouldn't have selected that color for my truck at first but now that I have seen it I think it's going to look great. It has grown on me. I really like it and I'm looking forward to seeing it all together.

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Thanks!
You are not the first to say that.

Here's how it looks now. Getting there. I hope to have it on the road by the end of next month. Sill a lot of little things left to do.

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/da...1/IMG_2996.JPG

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Ordered a box full of parts from on-line vendor. I was trying to figure out why the brake, tail lights and turn signals didn't work correctly and the RR tail light fell apart into multiple pieces when I went to take it apart. So I ordered new LED taillights, LED turn signals that mount to the bed holes and LED license plates lights, brackets, grommets and wire conduit. I figure I'll just cut out all the old screwed up mess and install all new. Good weekend project. Wish me luck!

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carpet fitting. Did a template but found it was good for identifying problem points. Actual fitting is lots of tiny cuts.

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Started on the power steering conversion...moved pretty quick and the conversion kit seems to be a very easy process so far. What they don't tell you is that when using the original column you will definitely need a bearing 1 5/8" OD with 3/4" ID. This is to be placed at the bottom of the original column so that the column doesn't wobble. Not hard to find online. Had to stop until we get one.

Top Left is before starting.

Top right...column and shaft cut. Steering box removed

Bottom Left, new box in place

Bottom Right, Grinding the shaft to accept the rag joint supplied in the kit

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CCP make a column saver kit that has the bearing, might look at their instructions to see how it is secured.

http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/transmi...umn-saver-kit/