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Here is what it looks like.

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Sorry about the loss of your dad also, your truck is awesome and will be great when done...I'm doing up this truck with my 15 year old boy...its gonna smoke and rip and tear and its rusty...lol
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That's very cool...I work at the firehall at Adelaide and Fansahwe when not the captain at another hall...your welcome to see the rusty bucket anytime..
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Progress is progress, even when it's slow.

Got some frame work done this weekend in preparation for reassembly. I'm prepping for a small notch in the frame for clearance using a piece of 5" pipe I picked up from the commercial plumbing supply shop down the street.

My sandblasted frame has been calling my name every time I walk by it at work.
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psvsqc24ix.jpg

Got the bump stop brackets off
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...pstvt7c0tw.jpg

Ground down the old welds
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psdqroo2c0.jpg

Finished with a wire brush wheel
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...pssebitfbf.jpg

And removed the rear shock supports too.
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...pswg9n9vjs.jpg

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Then I also got some time in prepping the new vacuum gauge and tachometer to work into the deluxe instrument panel I picked up in Longmont with Lee64 last month.

Nothing earth shaking here, I'm just following suggestions from the Astronaut and Chevyrestoguy.

Autometer tachometer from Carquest
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps7mp9qods.jpg

Cut the chrome bezel off at the band saw
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps0zdwuwg9.jpg
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psrjvxzuof.jpg
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...pshwn2njqz.jpg
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psswtq7reu.jpg

Disassembled except for the housing which I will leave in place until I have the instrument cluster ready for it.
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps6ouaglyi.jpg
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps9j8boc1x.jpg

I'm going to paint the needle with testers model paint (fluorescent red)

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Spent the last few days driving back from Detroit to Denver with a canoe strapped to the top of a Jetta with pretty wicked side winds in western Iowa and all of Nebraska. That was AWESOME!

A highlight of the trip was our stop to visit _mg at his home and to deliver the jack and underseat brackets that I picked up in Longmont last time I was there with Lee64. It was great to meet another member of the forum. _mg has a clean and mostly original 64 4x4. He said it was great to be able to pull people who had gotten stuck in his driveway (it's close to 3/4 mile long, maybe?) last winter. He's also been using it to haul wood on his property. Not sure I'm ever going to retire, but if I do, I'm seriously going to consider moving out where he lives. That was pretty much perfection in my book.

BTW, Here's the pic I promised of how it went together, _mg.
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psepuphvoo.jpg

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Thanks 53Sparky!

Glad to hear you and your mom got back okay. I was a little concerned to see the boat on the top of your car for that long drive back, covering up part of the windshield.

Sorry to hear about your dad, really cool that you are restoring the canoe.

Thank you for the compliments, the truck and the woods are two of my favorite things (next to my wife of course). ;) Next time you are in town, we can get a few of the forum guys together to spend a little more time talking trucks.

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did you decide how low you were going to drop it? What size c-notch are you using? You are a head of me On yours. I just got my rear end and gearing worked out. I do have my front suspension powder coated and rebiult. I like that you are doing your truck on a working man's budget, but the attention to detail is good. I think they have more character. Very good thread.
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did you decide how low you were going to drop it? What size c-notch are you using? You are a head of me On yours. I just got my rear end and gearing worked out. I do have my front suspension powder coated and rebiult. Just haven't put it in yet. I like that you are doing your truck on a working man's budget, but the attention to detail is still very good. I think they have more character That way. I can't wait to get as far as you are on yours. Day jobs suck. Very good thread.
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I got a couple hours to do some more work on the mini-C notch last night.

http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...pskjyte2oz.jpg

http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psjdf8duhc.jpg

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Looking great!
This should work awesome.

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Got the other notch in this afternoon and finished welding all the way around both notches except for the last 3 inches - my spool of welding wire ran out, so off to AirGas on Monday.

http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psyze9md7m.jpg

http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps5sllmiv8.jpg

The angle that this picture was taken makes it look like the notch is deeper than it really is. It's exactly a 2" notch.

Nice! You could drop the rear 7" or maybe even 8" with the c-notch. I've dropped mine 5" and that's max without a c-notch. Gonna have a nice stance.
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Thanks, Bill - I'm hoping that the stance will be as level as possible and as close to 5-6" as I can get. But the notch is there so I can still have some suspension travel

Today I responded to a Craigslist ad parting out a 1962 C60. I though there might be more to it, but when I got there it was pretty disappointing. There wasn't a single body panel that hadn't been mangled. The roof was peeled up, the cab was trashed, the grill was taco'd. Even the cowls and the window vents were wrecked. All I got was the c60 emblems. I figured someone might want them for their 1960 Chevy or something, and he was going to cut the truck up next week to recycle it for scrap value.

http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psse7vvrmz.jpg

He did have some other heavy hauler stuff there, though, which wasn't for sale.

1965 Fire engine
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psyzojk3j9.jpg

1965 C80 grill
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psoftrayi5.jpg

1956 Heavy
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psu4xh1yzv.jpg

55-59 1 ton
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...psoectxsvo.jpg

And family inside the 55-59.
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/a...pse4jtuk9w.jpg

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Scored this air compressor on Craigslist yesterday - $100 for a 2012 60 gallon Ingersoll Rand Air Compressor.

PO says that everything works, but the motor trips the breaker when he uses it at his shop. Monday I will get this thing plugged in at my shop to test for myself, but it got me to thinking...

In your experience, IF the motor is indeed the culprit, is a direct replacement of the motor a more cost effective solution vs rebuilding or repairing the old one? Especially when considering down time, longevity of repairs, etc?

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Well. It's been way too long again since I posted anything on this forum. Not long after my last post, my wife began to feel exhausted all the time, and she had quite a bit of pain. It took a while to figure out, but we eventually learned that she had a form of cancer called Multiple Myeloma. Naturally, everything related to the truck went on the back burner. I was by her side for 4 rounds of chemo, followed by a bone marrow transplant, and then a slow road to recovery after that. The bone marrow transplant left her completely vulnerable to viruses and any contagious diseases, so we stayed away from large crowds and wore masks if/when we went out. Sound familiar? Yeah. We were social distancing way before it was cool. At the end of January 2020 we got the news that her cancer had been beaten back enough to be called in "complete response". We had a great time for the month of February, getting to go out in public again (carefully), and then COVID hit. It was time to retreat back indoors and resume social distancing again. Work has been very slow, but my wife is feeling much better so I've had some time to get back into the garage and work on this truck.

Here's the new workspace.

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The cab is in a different corner.

My daughter went a bit crazy with the label maker.

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I installed CaptainFab's Power Steering conversion. It was easy to do - all the materials were well made and fit without modification.

Having a mag drill and a 7/8 annular cutter made it really easy to get the holes cut properly.

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Today I finished installing the rest of the steering components.

I found this link to be helpful, but there isn't a lot on this site for the early X frames, so I documented a bit more carefully for the next guy.

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FYI, there is a correct way (and an incorrect way) to install the connecting link. The castle nuts need to point FORWARDS on the truck. Not that i learned the hard way or anything. I'm just saying this so that the next guy doesn't waste a bunch of time trying to make it work the wrong way.

I'm sure that there are other solutions to this geometry, but on a 60-62 frame, your results might look somewhat similar to this if you use the square body donor parts. I hope this is helpful for anyone reading this.

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Here's a sneak peek of what's on the docket for tomorrow.

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Sneak up on the 11-1/4 just to be sure, cut to fit.

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I hear you, loud & clear. Thanks!

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I shortened the frame today following the method outlined by SkinnyG on his thread. However, I only took 8" out of the middle section instead of the 12" he removed, and I'll take 4" off behind the axle once this is all welded up. I think his plan shows 8" removed from behind the axle. The end goal here will be to remove the same 8" and 4" sections from the bed sides which will result in a 7' bed on a 119" wheelbase. I've played around with some photochops and I think the proportions look right to my eye.

I didn't weld it today, but everything is back to square and level. I'll try to get that done tomorrow night or Tuesday after work.

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Excellent job!

I think the "X" makes the task considerably easier to keep things aligned.

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Glad your wife pulled through.

Cool project.

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Prayers you all get through these crazy days, especially for your wife.
Nice work on truck. It will be nice to see more work on the truck done, that we can assume the wife is doing good.
God Bless you Both

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This took longer than expected but I finished chopping the frame today.

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Damn, awesome job on this Frame!!!! I had a similar issue with the idler arm on my 66 frame, thanks for sharing. I am sure that will be of some great help to someone. I eventually went for Rack & Pinion instead... cost alot more .... Anyways, your work on this frame is just outstanding!!! Great job!!! cannot wait for future progress....

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Merry Christmas, friends!

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Got this from my daughter today. Just in time to start some body work soon!

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Got started today on some body work.

I think a lot of these trucks have the same crease in the driver side door panel from being opened too far, but I found a donor door that wasn't creased. There was enough rust in the bottom part of the donor that I didn't want to just swap the entire door. I was surprised by the lack of significant rust inside my door panels once I cut away the creased portion.

I'm waiting on some paint to treat the surface rust inside the doors before I weld the repair panel in place. Hopefully it arrives soon.

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Nice build! I got the same dolly and hammer set for Christmas also! :D

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I blasted inside my doors as far as I could reach, and sprayed epoxy primer in there to try and stave off corrosion.

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Nice work!

On your donor door, did you cut through where the mirror mounts? Apparently the mirror arm on my truck held water there for a long time and rusted out right around the screws. If that part is still good from the donor door, would you be willing to sell it?

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It's in very good condition. If you PM me with your address and pay for shipping, it's yours. Deal?