Re: Johns 66
 

Hey John, I bought the same wheels but with the grey spokes. Mine are 17x8. What size did you get and what is the tire size?

Re: Johns 66
 

The rear is 5.5" backspacing, and the fronts are 4.5"
front tires are 245/50/20 and the rears are 275/45/20

Re: Johns 66
 

Well I was super excited today....I was going to get the front cradle built, new springs, discs brakes, new ball joints, new bushings etc........Oh Yeah...super excited

My excitement turned to aggravation once I was finished and realized that the upper control arms were on the wrong side:no:

I guess the good thing is I will get practice at taking them back a part and re-installing them the correct way after church tomorrow.

Boy dont I feel like a big ole idiot...lol

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Sorry to hear it! Fortunately all that was done on mine when I bought it!

I had one of those DOH moments a few weeks ago. I put new brake pads on my front discs... I got the drivers side in but struggled and was like..wow that was a pain. Then I did the next side and it went in easy peasy...then I realized I put the clip for one of the pads upside down! Since my truck isn't a driver yet, I waited a few weeks then went back and corrected the upside down clip...I felt like an idiot!

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I am just glad to see I am not the only one who gets finished with something, looks at it with extreme satisfaction..... then notices I did it backwards! At least you noticed it now!

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As they say..Gotta love it.
Got everything swapped over today after church. Definitely looks better now. Also did a lil rattle can touch up whete I marred it up. Gotta remember....not a show truck..lol

Re: Johns 66
 

More gooder now

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Looks great! Did you put any paint on those spindles? If you haven't, you will probably want to. I didn't on mine and they look like the rest of the 50 year old components just about 5 years after I installed them

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Looks good. I think we all have done something at one time where you stand back proud of what you did and then realize something was wrong...

part of the fun in doing these trucks.

I agree with Christian, get some paint on those spindles!

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I didnt paint them....yet. I was told that after I get about 500 miles on the truck that I would need to re-pack the wheel bearings...so my intent is when I repack the wheel bearing Ill paint them then....probably not smart but i didnt have the heart to take them apart AGAIN right now. I am also gonna paint the calipers, but will paint them before I put lines and fluid to them.

I will say its so nice and rewarding to be taking parts OUT of my parts room ( spare bedroom) instead of putting them in there...I know my beter half sure appreciates it...lol

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Paint them now before you hit the road while they're clean & it's easy.

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Well got the cradle back together the right way, I did paint the spindles, and got it mounted to the frame.
Cab will come off next week and go to the body shop.
I had a lil help from my nephew Kayden today which is always a blast

Re: Johns 66
 

Looks great! Always nice to have enthusiastic help!

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For sure, especially when he thinks its his. Much rather have him in the garage instead of in front of a TV. Funny thing is his lil electric truck was dirty and he decided to wash it....luckily it didnt mess up his lil truck

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Haha! That’s awesome, I love it when I get help from my kids. Slows ya down more than it helps but it makes it that much more enjoyable! Truck is looking amazing!

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Lil more progress today after church. My lil helper wasnt there because he had a birthday party to attend...I guess cake and ice cream beat out old truck...lol

Anyways decided to swap the rear axles with the 5 lug axles from CPP.
I had gotten a price to have it done but decided to try it, worst I could do was mess it up and have to take it to the shop.
Well Im glad I did it myself, Randy was there to help which made it better and I have to say that it took me longer to clean off the old gasket material than it did to swap the axles. I was surprised how simple it was.
Took the brakes off the drivers side and got all that cleaned up, and Ill reinstall them this week.
Got the differential cover cleaned up and painted along with the new drums.
Progress seems so good.
As we did this today Randy and I talked about old trucks and working on them, Andy and I have had similar discussions about working on our trucks. I would rather work on my project and see the progress, even though it takes awhile. At least I will know every bolt in the truck, will have memories, big laughs about doing things wrong, and thecsatisfaction of knowing, with Randy's help that we did it. I could have wrote a check for a finished truck and been riding, but wouldnt have had the satisfaction of knowing what we accomplished.
Its the journey, not the destination...in my eyes.

Re: Johns 66
 

Truth.

Re: Johns 66
 

Well said John! I have loved every minute of my journey and I know you have too even if your journey has been crazier than mine. :)

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Part of the journey is meeting some wonderful folks, especially from the board. Especially how most of us help each other whethet parts, tools, advice or simply an ear to vent to.
I know that once ole girl is all gussied up and ready to roll, that we will meet some great folks at shows, cruises or simply riding arpund.
I live on Lake Martin and one of the first place we are gonna go is to the levee blaring American Pie....gotta love it!!!!

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I'm in total agreement with you. I hate the idea of letting someone else work on my truck. I tried it once with my exhaust and now I'm redoing it because the work done was crap. Besides I learned to weld and fit exhaust pipe. You've got a great project going and I enjoy following your story.

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I always say: "I can pay a professional to screw it up, or I can screw it up myself for free!"

The money you would have paid The Man can go towards tools, then the next job is free! Or you can even start making money with them thar tools!

Re: Johns 66
 

:agree: Well said!

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Haha, I like that quote!



John, it's looking good! That painted frame sure makes mine look like junk :lol:

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As best I can tell it....lol

Yeah my friend, the stories we are gonna tell once we are all done with our babies.

Well I have messed some stuff up but I guess thats part of the learning experience we all have on these play toys of ours.

LOL...When I was in the Marine Corp we used to say it took a college education to break it and a high school education to fix it....the officers certainly didnt like that.

Slowly but sure young Skywalker, Future C10 Jedi Master.

Re: Johns 66
 

Was great seeing all the progress on the truck John. The Journey is the best part of these builds..

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Thanks Scott, been sort of an ordeal with the bolt issues but we are on they way now!!!!

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Welp...on mo piece to da puzzle. I want to thank 60-66 ( Jon) for selling me this NOS tailgate for my truck., he is an awesome guy ....this is the way you pack stuff right here.
Itll be going to the body shop when I take the cab.

Re: Johns 66
 

That's purdy! Congrats...like Christmas in September!

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DISCLAIMER: You might get a lil more than a tecnical build in my thread...lol....jus sayin

So while eating a hotdog today, before I wash my truck I went shopping.lol, lol, lol LOL

As stated before its the journey, and my journey led me to Columbus, Ms where I got a hood, and a decent set of doors, on my way back I stopped for a coke and got another hood.
One of the doors will need a lil work on the door bottom. So since I THINK I have gotten the welder figured out Im going to attempt to put aan inner door bottom on it....when I get time from all my social media stuff....lol
Seriously I did get some real good parts. Dont need them but good original parts are hard to find and maybe one of my social media followers .....lol...may need them one day

Re: Johns 66
 

Nice score!

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Looks great John....nothing like the journey...and the memories that they make!

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Picking up momentum now!

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Dont need them but good original parts are hard to find and maybe one of my social media followers .....lol...may need them one day[/QUOTE]

So that was you that had posted them on FB.

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Yes Sir....and so very glad
So that was you that had posted them on FB.[/QUOTE]

I posted that I got them yesterday, one hood and the doors were in Columbus, Ms so a lil bit of a drive.

The other hood was local.

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More progress today. Got the frame off the cab, got the outside of the frame cleaned up and sprayed with flat black rattle can (all I had and didnt wanna go to the store) the took the front steering linlage apart and got the new linkage together and roughly set to length.
Ill get so.e semi gloss rattle can and get the frame painted up.

Cab, doors and rest of the stuff will go to the body shop on Tuesday. While its there Ill get the remaining things done on the frame, cleane the inside, clean the rear end housing, cross member etc all clean and get them painted up, and install the new rear springs while Im at it along with new trailing arm bushing.

One mo step in the process!!!!

Re: Johns 66
 

Bravo John. Nice score on the hoods!

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Thanks Mark...glad they got you situated so you can join in.

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Well got the rest of ole girl to the beauty shop today, and they had already started on the other parts. Because I did not want the hood blasted they sanded it back down to metal. Rest of it was blasted. Apparently I dont know how to mix primer because the body shop said it gummed up the sand paper...based on their experience I didnt put enough hardner in it. At least I know now what went wrong. So all the gummy and cracked primer is off.
Hate that I wasted all that time and effort but at least I learned something.

Anyway got the frame back in shop and I couldnt stand it...I just had to see how the wheels looked....lol
Plan is now to get the remainder of the frame, rear end etc....cleaned up and painted, new rear springs, new truck arm bushings, rear end cleaned and painted and new shocks.....

After that....mechanical stuff...lol

Re: Johns 66
 

Looking good!

Re: Johns 66
 

New shoes! Very nice.