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When I removed the harness the brake light switch came apart... no big deal I have a NOS replacement to use, Unless you want to buy it for more than a replacement costs....

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I got my fire wall / heater delete plates in from Infanti custom ($30 shipped) and I also punched out a handfull of slugs to fill all the holes in my truck......

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Finally, I ordered one of these!! EFI stealth, side(remote) fill tanks. group buy deal, looks awesome and I've seen alot of happy customers on here!

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OK I posted this already and it vanished... anyway I bought a mig weld cart from Eastwood for $59 thinking I couldn't make one for that price but after seeing it in person I could sense I can get sheet metal at cost and use our shears, punches, and press brake at work, but hey it was still a great deal.

The bottle, I got a sweet deal on from board member "suspect". He got me the hook up on an old nitrogen bottle that I was able to trade in for ownership and receive a bottle of arg/co2 for the cost of contents only, for life. Sweet!

SUSPECT is one heck of a guy and if I knew more people like him I might actually have some friends..(Insert sarcasm here, Yes I have some friends), Later

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Looking good! Those patch panels and welder will come in handy. I do like the gas tank, that is very nice. I wish I was a organized as you, not very good a labeling, kinda a seat of the pants with me. Got mine started and running but the gauges not working yet, think I am missing a ground or something is still unplugged. Keep it up, one bite at a time.

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Thats great, congrats on the start up! did you wire the old ign switch to the new interior harness? feel free to tell me how and save me the headache. :lol::metal:

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Nice stuff !!

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Yes I did wire the old ign to the new wires. There are 5 or 6 twelve gauge wires that go to the key in the new column. The red is 12 volts, pink is the fuel pump and the fuel injection so it is made up with the red in the acc postion and yellow starts the truck. So on mine if you connect the red to pink, then touch the yellow it will start. I got some wire diagrams from the Chev dealship for the ign to figure this out, and mine is a 98. If you connect the red to pink the fuel pump will run you will know you are going in the right direction. I just set the factory gas tank on the frame and hook the fuels lines back up and plug the wires back in so I didnt add to my confusion. Good luck!

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Cool, I need to go to the dealership and see if I can get a diagram for that. Did you just have to buy a couple paper diagrams or a shop manual? curious.

Also if I understand correctly you pretty much just hot wired the ign harness right? Im wondering how to hardwire that harness to the 67 ign switch. shouldn't be too hard just I haven't found a diagram of the 97 ignition circuit, Or i can just follow the wires to the fuse block to determine what their function is.

One more did you have to bypass the GM VATS ? I read on street & performance that 98 and up require this but 97 and under do not have VATS.

Later.

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Nice progress on the harness. Like all the new parts too.

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I did not get the entire diagram, the guy just asked what I needed and I started with the ign switch. I told him what I was doing and he got very interested. He told me that when I got to another stopping point he would print me more, didnt cost a dime, very nice guy.

I have got the red, pink and yellow wire on the old ign switch and it starts from the seat. I just hooked the red wire to it and used a test light to figure what made up when the switch is turned to each position. Hook the pink to middle position and yellow to the start.

And yes mine did have vats, when I first got it started it would die immediatly. So we drove to Street and Performance and had them removed, along with the emmissions.

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Thanks for the info john, I never thought of using a test light. I will definately go check out my dealer. They seem pretty friendly other than the salesmen trying to trap me when I drive in to sell me a new truck. I always tell them "sorry she's (93z71) running fine just going to the parts dept".

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Any paint code geniuses on here ??

I checked my spid and it says paint 4537AD I believe that is blue/white but mine has been repainted a few times and not the original blue. I have uncovered 3 different shades of blue. can anyone tell me the name of the colors both blue and white? I dont know if I will repaint the original color or not yet but seeing the opriginal color paint chip may help me decide. thanks..

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On a side note...

My wife has been starting her own photography business and has some customers ask about taking pics of their kids with an old truck in a farm type setting so I took her and my baby out to my buddies house to look at a '47 chevy. I have been trying to convince her to buy this "photo prop" so I can put correct wheels and seat on it as well as getting it road worthy making it a traveling photo prop for her business, of course. at the low low price of $500 I cant get her to commit. OK maybe I would be enjoying it too much. don't judge the pic our subject(my baby) would not cooperate. doesn't the patina look perfect ?!

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Gorgeous pic! Don't worry about her not cooperating, I think those make the best pics anyways:)
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Thanks for the site photos I am currently building a 1970 Suburban. I am also doing all of the rust repair myself and would like to find the panels for the repairs. You said the the inside rocker was not needed due to the floor panel already has the same panel made onto it. Do you know the order # for the floor panel part and did it come from LMC trucks. Thanks for the photos and keep up the great work on your build....

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Thanks for checking out my build,

My issue with the inner rocker backing plate was that it was too short vertically so it would not meet with the bottom of the rocker. After I cut the old rusty parts out I realized the whole floor edge piece anyway because the inner rocker backing did not extend far enough front to rear as I had rust all the way across. I bought all of my parts from classic chevrolet in OKC except for the B pillar bottom which is the lower section of the rear door jamb behind the rocker. As far as I know most of this stuff is from the same Taiwanese factory. My parts are all manufactured as Tri-plus/Key parts. There are some variations in thickness though most of my pieces are 1.2mm while the outer floor edge piece is 1.4mm and the actual floor pan (not installed yet) is 1.0mm the thicknesses are labeled on the sticker. heres a pic to help explain my issue. and link to classic chevrolet

http://www.classicchevroletparts.com/

also heres a pic of the LMC parts catalog and the classic chevrolet catalog, I used parts 2,3,7,8 in the LMC diagram but bought them from classic. I bought part 9 from LMC because classic didn't have it at the time. the pricing for classic is wrong the floor edge is $78.95 still cheaper than LMC
the classic catalog is a little frumpy and doesn't have very good pictures

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Well I was going to get a auto trans Xmember from my good buddy Mike but he was out of town and I realized a custom one would do me some good in routing the exhaust above the bottom of the frame so I bought one from GMCPauls on Ebay.

Too busy with school to do any real work on her.

Sold the plastic Jaz fuel cell and POS pressure pot sand blaster.

Also in the mean time heres something to look at. My 97 S10 around 2001? just before I sold her and got married. That was my first bagged truck and I put a lot of work into her even though I was not a welder at the time. Yeah that is Cheetah fur. I wonder what happened to that old truck. Not a bad thing though, once I sold it I bought a 69C10 daily driver and that started my C10 addiction and the dream of this build that I have now 67 SWB that I finally got going.

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Great Job.. I ordered the same tank.. good luck on the build..

I am subscribed..

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Thanks everyone for the encouragement and checking out my build, been pretty busy lately so not much time for Georgia.

On the sheetmetal subject, I recently saw another members floors from LMC and I have to say I beleive the triplus parts are much better! The cab corners looked very similar but the LMC corners looked to be about 100 degrees around the bend where my triplus corners are closer to 90 degrees around the corner. So maybe there are multiple taiwanese manufacturers??

Here's what I got done this weekend:

1-Hacked out the old dual exhaust system with my sawsall

2-Painted and installed my auto-trans Xmember from GMC pauls. Pain in the butt!! talk about a press fit. not bolted in yet.. Nice piece, but very tight. looks like it might just line up without drilling any holes. I guess we'll find out when i get enough room to get the mount in.

3-Hooked my E-brake back up, looks like I'll need to reroute it to clear the exhaust.

4-Scrathced my head....:hh:

I am going to go with a high hump floor piece as my 4L60E is almost hitting the floor without a mount in it. It would clear just barely if I had new cab mounts since mine are 45 yrs old and quite compressed. Right now the wiring harness on top of the trans is hitting the floor. Also the fuel lines are hitting the pinch weld at the bottom of the firewall. DOH! :hh: Any Okies have a spare hump laying around?

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Looks like some good progress Dan. On the patch panels. I'm certain there are more than just Tri-Plus / key parts. Some fit some don't fit at all. Most are too thin. I had pretty good luck with the Tabco cab corners I used. They fit very well with minimal tweaking. I had to use my only high hump for my cab.

My tunnel actually hit the tranny. I prefer the look of the low hump but need the extra clearence for the tranny too. They come up pretty often on the classified section.

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I checked out Tabco's website after I saw you and crash_ok mention them previously. I might buy from them for the passenger side and see how they compare. I measured and I need just over .5" to get the trans mount in there and that will put the trans right up against the floor not counting the harness. No clearance so its definitely a necessity(high hump).

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Put a mount on there and see what you get, I thought the same thing on mine but it clears just fine.
That dime looks familiar, I had one like it at one time.
http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/a...Trucks/s10.jpg

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I like what you are doing so far looks real good. Nice idea on the homemade plugs for the firewall

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Thanks for the tour of your truck yesterday evening. Keep up the good work.

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Thanks Mark, The tank is sweet! Awesome quality. I love what you've done on your K10.

Nice S10 Lower, I think my trans xmember from GMCPauls places the trans a little higher and I wanted a high hump anyway thinking I will get a dropmember someday.

Thanks tinker, those slugs are machine made at work ;) I have access to some cool equipment which I will be making some nice pieces once I'm done with the rust removal.

Anytime Billy, Let me know when the next BBQ meet is, I'm all in for some eatin'. I know mcbassin has talked about it before but we need to have a meet and greet get together this summer.

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Soooo whats a post without pics. Not too much progress but I have been shopping. I planned on finishing the driver side floor saturday but my daily puked up a radiator so I was foiled again. so here's what I did get done-ish

My boyd tank came in, Awesome quality- I highly recommend Boyd's welding

Met mcbassin and did a little trading, I got a ign bezel which turned out to be the wrong one. I didn't know 67 was a one year only piece. Bought the correct ign bezel and spacer from the classifieds on here. also scored an auto column from mcbassin, needs a little work but the price was right. Thanks again Mike!

Bought a high hump from a board member

made a firewall to floor repair piece to fix the rust (pics)

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And ..

Met bjcaldwe. another cool okie!

Found an oil filter adapter in my stash to eliminate the vortec oil cooler setup

buying a trans linkage from randy (teeitup) to get the shifting together

we will be scrapping the 97 tahoe in the next two weeks and I will buy: ball joints, bushings, tie rods etc. cant wait to get the front back on its own weight.

Cut my floor pan down at work on a mini shear and put the brake on the font that taiwain forgot(pic).

found a gas pedal out here on the blue 72 (pic), that is where I got my rear end axle donor. That is the wifes grandpas farm. I am going to get the sport mirrors from the blue 72 and both radios next time I go out there.

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Sorry for the crappy cell pics. but here's another. Really bad pic.

What you can barely see is my barn find :lol:

The wifes grandpa was a service tech for GM for 30 some years and bought this new in 88, looks like new. Rarely driven ( I have seen him drive it maybe 5 times and we have been married 8 years!), hides it in the barns. factory plastic on the seat, no bull. Plastic on the seat. I hope to inherit this someday.

He is also hoarding a goldmine of 60-66 NOS parts because he wants another one since that was his favorite gen. He got a little excited looking at my project a few weeks ago even though he rather dislikes me doing anything different than what GM did originally. Gotta love the old guy.

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Nice looking parts.I really like the custom patch piece you fabbed. Killer barn find too.

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Yeah its nice. NO ONE is allowed to get in it but grandpa. seriously. They also have a 90ish caprice with plastic on the seats hiding in another barn.

Thanks mike, I checked the cabs out for you while I was there, lets just say I could see the wheat underneath.... still a few more parts I want for mine so still a score, He is a lot more willing now to let me yank parts off of them. The school busses are full of mint used and NOS panels (I peeked).

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Hey, a little progress is better than no progress, it's nice to see you back on track, but I think I'd stay away from that Mcbassin character!!! :lol:

Nice barn find, hope it winds up being yours someday! Keep up the good work, looking forward to more progress.

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Looking good lots of work but you will appreciate it more right
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That piece looks really sweet. I could have probably used one of those (probably still could). Gonna try and cut metal out of my old cab and pop in the new one first.

I am guessing you have access to machine shop tools to be able to make it look so nice and perfect.

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Thanks man, It has been a struggle getting rid of the rust so I can actually start "building" I like what you have done with yours!

The firewall to floor edge piece? I made an extra set if you want them. If you make one you will screw it up so I make multiples and then I never mess them up. Thats how it goes i guess.

Not quite a machine shop, I work in the "Model Shop" of an HVAC company and I have years of experience on CNC hydraulic press brakes so I can make most anything out of sheetmetal, good skill to have when fixing these old rusty trucks.

Thanks for checking out my build, she aint much yet, but she will be soon...

I completed my last major essay for English Comp II tonight and no classes this summer so it is rock and roll time for Georgia!!! Progress pics coming this weekend!! :metal::metal:

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Pretty cool! It's awesome that you have access to all of the tools and equipment you need to bend and shape metal. I am interested in your spare edge piece, but let's wait until I start cutting up the floor; if I take it too soon, it will be one more thing lying around for me to misplace. Thanks, I appreciate it.

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Ok rustbucket, I'm officially hooked to your thread!!! Also Im born and raised in Tulsa,Ok but I have NEVER heard of Mustang,OK but luckily my good friend and co worker is from Weatherford,ok (didn't know where that was either) :lol:anyway keep up the good work on your truck I'm subscribed!
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Mustang is basically far west OKC.:)
The metro area just keeps growing. Before long where I live will be part of OKC metro.

Dan,
get that rust hammered out so you can get on to fun bodywork.....

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I was looking through your post and saw on page 1 that you coated the inside of the cab supports with POR15. It kind of looked like you cut into the metal of the floor to allow access to the inside of the supports? Otherwise, I am wondering how you were able to get in there and coat them?

The inside of mine were nasty. A whole crap load of... well, crap, came out of them. Dust, dirt, debris, and maybe even some rotted metal parts from prior hack jobs.