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I drove my truck to my hobby unit to start on my rebuild with lots of upgrades!!! I'm very excited because its gonna get the long well deserved much needed love. I finally get to do things the right way.
Ill be making a build thread n post pics soon
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You do need the rivets or screws. The anchor bolt that holds the belt has a shoulder about 1/2 inch long, which tightens against the bracket, not the cab wall. It would be kind of sloppy and rattle if you didn't have the rivets or screws.

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Finished the bed inside this afternoon. Roll pan, fenders and put it on the frame next week. It's Miller time now!

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Oh, ok got it. Makes snese.

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here's a couple pics

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Detail painted the inner door frame, and inside step, used the spray bedlinner stuff on the steps looks nice, now if I can just keep it clean. Wrinkle painted the upper part of the dash, lots of masking. Lower dash and ceiling and rear of cab to go.

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Actually it was Saturday but I got the truck out from under the cab-over camper, all the loose underhood parts secured in place with bailing wire, piled all the loose nuts, bolts, driveshafts etc into the cab, loaded the cylinder head (HEAVY!) into the bed & got it ready to tow back to Berkeley.
The truck lives in Grass Valley at the moment, but I'm finally just one trip with a trailer away from bringing it back to the shop in Berkeley. ~3 hours drive each way.
Oh, and I continued obsessing over which brake kits, which engine, which carpet & which gas tank I'm going to want.

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Ordered my hardware for the suspension, battery box, and polyliner for my leaf springs. This weekend is going to be a wash, but the following weekend I will pick up the rear end out of the yard and hopefully have the front end suspension put back together.

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Recently added the chrome wheel center caps. Today I threw an old bed in the back and took it to Salvation Army. Fun to drive that beast.
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Hey 51 okie cool looking truck

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I put on some new 'shoes' on the ol' girl. 15x8 Rallys on 245 60 15s. I am happy, happy!!

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e298/LDO05/Bev.jpg

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Looks good Bob!

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Thanks!
It finally looks like it does in my head!

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Pulled the motor ans trans out today

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Removed my rear fenders in preparation to working on my bed. I didn't like clutch head bolts before, now I really really don't like them, LOL.

Bob, looks great. Nice improvement IMO.

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I started installing my carpet and worked on my speaker pods that go into the kick panels. I also finished wiring up my interior lights through the door jam switches.

Marc

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Fenders and bed installed on frame.

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Man that thing looks like a beast!!!!! can't wait till you have it all together


Ray

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That looks real nice. Like the fat meats in the rear!

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Thanks, guys. It's a hot rod.....ya can't have too big a tire or too many carbs! :uhmk:

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Speedbump,

That thing looks wicked. I likes. Good job man.

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Speedbump, Looks cool! Love what you did with the paint on the body line difference. I dislike the curved down line, no imagination.

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Detail work, painted the dash with wrinkle paint,, inside steps with spray bed liner, detailed door jambs, took the bed off to begin painting the frame and install the new gas tank. Discovered my cross member that the shocks bolt to is bolted in, instead of riveted, one sides bolts were loose, so thinking new grade 8s and nylocks may keep that from happening again.

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Worked on the steering wheel. Got the horn adaptor figured out and fabbed. Dremmeled out the cracks in the steering wheel. Tomorrow will epoxy and start sanding it. I will post details in my build thread.

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More sanding on my $40 manifold, I included the before pic as well , almost ready to polish

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Started install my jute pad and carpet. I have a center console that will cover the seam in the middle. I also test fit one of my speaker pods. Car show in (2) weeks so I'm in trash mode...ha ha

Marc

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Fixed all the grounds on my tahoe chassis so the old beast has 4wd and brake lights again.
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Sanded the steering wheel first epoxy coat and applied second. Worked on cleaning up the tailgate cable bracket welds. Guide coated and blocked the bumpers. Feels like progress.

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Well, I made a MESS!!

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I have been cleaning out the wheel wells, angle grinder with heavy wire wheel.
works pretty good, plan to use it on the bottom of cab as well. 53/s10

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I finished one speaker pod and mounted the speaker. I'm working on the driver side now. This was my first attempt at making fibergalss speaker pods. I learned a lot.

Marc

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very nice work

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Spent nearly $1,000 in parts today buying everything from cab corners to bed mounts. Fingers cross that the bulk of the buying is now done.

For my and my wife's birthdays (we are only a couple weeks apart) her family bought almost all of the exterior lighting for the truck, so that is exciting, too!

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NIce fiberglass work Youngrodder. Looks great.

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Thanks man, I learned a lot. I still need to make a cover to cover up my computer for my engine seen in the pic. I also need to figure out the back of the cab.

Marc

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Youngrodder nice design on the speakers. Looks like a front headlight. Too cool:).

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Got the cab jammed!!

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Floating bed, cleaned and painted the frame for the new gas tank.

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Drove my 1956 3100 to work today.I decided to drive it to work today.I had lookers all over it including a couple of my client's sons telling me cool truck.

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Spent an hour and a half drilling out rusted bolts. Mostly it was the stupid clutch head bolts holding the rear fender on. Should of just skipped buying the clutch head sockets and started with drilling them out, would of saved a couple hours of cleaning and fighting with them.

Anyone else up for finding out who created clutch head bolts and who decided they'd be a good idea to hold the rear fenders on and take them out back??