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I am glad you like the video, we had a lot of fun making it, going thru Santa Claus House with a bunch of "Ooooo get a shot of this !!" kind of discussions!
Thanks for the encouragement, it really isnt that cold out today 5* above and snowing.

Thanks Clemdaddy, I am liking it so far.


Just make sure you do it with the garage doors open and a fan blowing thru the cab... it didnt make me dizzy (cause it was too cold outside to do that open door stuff) but man were my eyes bloodshot and burning !!

Thank you Coulter !! I been keeping up on your build, man I love how you trimmed those fender well tops!

Thanks for taking a look 62BF.

Yeah well the money is not so much an issue, but an allocation thing.
We bought a back hoe last summer and I have been diverting as much of the cash flow as possible towards that, and my son's recent visit.


Thanks Aggie91, I know I stole some of your ideas for this build, so you know I appreciate the input !!

In scraping some of it off tonight to do some welding, I would have to say it is more of the rubber compound type. Not hard and brittle like a plastic coating.

No worries, I really appreciated the photos, they showed me what I needed to know about those style manifolds.

Hmmmmm I may come to hate you for that last zinger of a one liner.... you bastich !! LOL

Thank you for taking a look!
As my best friend says, "The best is yet to come!"

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did you price out a set of hooker headers?were they not in your budget ..my pick would be the first set

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mike, i like the first ones for ram horn style manifolds, i think they look cool! but the second set you priced you can grind the extra metal and smooth them out a lil add a lil paint and make them look better then stock!! ive seen it done before and they dont look bad, but that totally up to you!! and the cab floor looks really great, i'm thinking of doing the aluminum peel and seal stuff you can get at lowes and home depot! i got stuff i need to do to my truck but being sick is not helping me any!!

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I was originally looking at headers, but then I got to talking to some of the local hot rod guys and they mentioned about the tinny sound they make. coupled with the clutch push rod assembly I decided against them in lieu of manifolds.


I surely do like those first ones too, but when I am looking at $700 for guages alone, it is hard to keep pounding the checking account for "fluff stuff" for lack of a better term... LOL
I think I am going to go with the Peel and Seal as well, I just gotta get out to Lowes and take a look at it.
I have a sample of FatMat at the house to compare it with before I make my final decision.

But time will tell... I may yet cave in to my vanity, wallet be damned !!

Right now I am finishing up a status/how to vid on my transmission hump door, and getting my dash extension finished up.

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""" I am looking at $700 for guages""" are you changing your whole dash out ?

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Quote:"I was originally looking at headers, but then I got to talking to some of the local hot rod guys and they mentioned about the tinny sound they make. coupled with the clutch push rod assembly I decided against them in lieu of manifolds."

Umm, just have to throw my .02 out there.
I can remember going to swap meets yrs back and seeing exhaust manifolds for Corvettes.
http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/o...ldcorvette.jpg
This may be of some interest.
Free'er flowing exhaust.
On the header issue of sounding tinny. And not trying to knock your hot rod buddies, Hooker and Headman (and others i guess) have some headers made out of thicker material along with being coated. Coupled with some deeper tone mufflers you can have a nice deep tough tone.
Your build is totally steller dude. word
I check your build everyday. Everyday!

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Pretty much...yeah.
A while back I found some guaged from Autometer I just totally fell in love with.
I think I am going to make my own guage mount face too.... hopefully something really spiffy!!


Those look interesting....

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Ok here is my newest video.
It is more about making gaskets from vacuum lines, bicycle inner tubes and Permatex than anything else.

Hope you enjoy it none the less.


http://youtu.be/kTs-9x21cL8

I dont know what happend to YouTube site, but I no longer have the ability to....... Share > Embed > Options \/ [] Long Link....... this stuff.
Kinda frustrating, when you spend 20 minutes trying to do something that should have only taken 2.

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:metal:Great video, man.:bann: You come up with some of the coolest ideas.

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:agree:
Bravo

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Ditto on the above comments... Great video and I really like the Burning Snow Logo!:clap::clap::clap::bann::bann::bann:

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Thanks, you should see what I am working on right now....

Thanks Greg !!

That burning snow flake came from when I was in Germany and our unit was going on a week long ski trip down to the Bavarian Alps. Our Commander kept saying it was going to be Ski Hell week, and the image of actually skiing in Hell came to my mind, where it was so hot that the snow flakes would actually go down in flames....
In my mind I call it the Flaming Snowflake, to write that or say it out loud seems to make dubious references to alternate lifestyles that I am not prepared to contemplate, sooooooooooo Burning Snow.
Kinda sounds cooler too.
:metal:

Yes I know I am weird, I get that a lot.
:smoke:

Thanks for taking a look, and making the time to post guys I really appreciate it !!!

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Another fine video production :clap:

I agree, you do have some good and creative ideas..... keep it up.

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great video again

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McMurphy,
What is your MOS? I need a good SSG in my company when do you PCS back to the states?

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floor looks great, and the video was pretty cool as well. keep up the great work:metal:

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Thanks John!
Wait till you see what I have cooking on the work bench right now!!

I dont suppose you would like to take a drive up to Hope, and look at/buy that 1973 Chevy rollback for me?
I am waiting on the owner to call me back now, so we can discuss some details.....

Thanks Pirate !!

If all you needed was a good SSG, I could certainly be that for you.
I am a 68D = Surgeon's Assistant/Operating Room Tech.
In the 80s I was a 16R = Short Range Air Defense Artillery Gunner on the M167A1 Vulcan.
Come next August when I (hopefully) start clearing this place I will only have one year left.
Unless they pick me up for SFC......

Thanks Flips!
Cannot wait to see some serious drag racing vids from you !!

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great video...i feel that i just witnessed the hands of a surgeon operating at lightning speed. way to go murph.

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I am glad you like the vid, and thanks for taking a look!!

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Ok ....I got the dash extension idea from 65 old school, his is orange, pinstriped, and has AC vents in it, and turned out sooooooo cool looking that I could not help but be inspired !! You can see it here:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=510107&page=6

So for me it all started with cutting a donor piece of sheet metal out of the most incredibly ugly green fleet side pick up (Thanks Ddubs !!) and taking it home, making my infamous patterns, and cutting, beating, bending, tweaking....oh yeah, we call that "massaging" around here.

At that point it looked like this:
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That was 13th of May, and by the 28th it looked like this:
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and a quick mock up, and it looked like this:
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After that it was set aside to make way for more orderly items.
Finally after I installed my engine, and pulled it back out again (where it still sits waiting for some attention), I decided it was time to finish SOMETHING instead of just pinking away at odds and ends. At which point is when I started to "finish out" my cab.

In the mean time I had gotten a bit more savvy to some of you guys skills and tricks, as well as more tools and as I work my way down from the ceiling in the cab, it was finally time to bite the bullet and either install the dash extension or chuck it.

Oh ... but wait .... wouldnt it be much easier to work on if it wasnt in the cab yet?
Yes, and that decision added on a lot more backwards planning on my part.
Then we dug in...
First thing after making sure it was as straight as we could get it, was to weld an addition backing plate to the inside of the thin body sheet metal. My reasoning was due to the fear that some of the controls I was going to be mounting in it would warp it with weight and vibration.
Then it was a matter of planning the placement of the controls, which side of the steering wheel, what order, and spacing.
I started with the p-side of the steering column, and came up with this:
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I made up a dummy test panel to see how the Slugger Bits I got were going to perform for my needs.
This turned out to be a critically good move, as the holes were all aligned and spaced very nicely dead center of the spaces needed by the controls to be installed, and level.
What I did not take into account would be the appearance of the control knobs, and how they would play into all this.
As you can see in this mock up:
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After seeing this, especially in the photo, I spaced each of the controls from the 4-way flashers out an additional 1/4".

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With the new spacing, everything looked orderly and balanced.
I also cut in my stereo hole, as well as welding in a support bracket for it to help with stability for the stereo.
I was just going to have one cigarette lighter, but in this day and age, where my GPS runs off one, we charge our cell phones off them, I just decided to have two.
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Then it was time to plan out the d-side:
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A quick mock up:
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And then welding....
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I have come to learn my own little mantra for welding stuff like this.... it goes a little something like:

"Weld a little, grind a little............ Weld a lot, grind-for-freeking-EVER !!!!!! AAAAHHHHHAGAAGGGGGGGG"
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More tomorrow, I think the wife's polite glare means I have exceeded my 2 posts a day limit !!
See you all tomorrow for more fun and adventure from McMurphy's Frozen Garage !!

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Looks Good!

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"I have come to learn my own little mantra for welding stuff like this.... it goes a little something like:

"Weld a little, grind a little............ Weld a lot, grind-for-freeking-EVER !!!!!! AAAAHHHHHAGAAGGGGGGGG""

I have to agree. I have had all these emotions in a five minute span before on a simple weld job.
http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/tr...smiley-020.gifhttp://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/tr...smiley-049.gifhttp://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/sa...smiley-010.gifhttp://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/sa...smiley-050.gifhttp://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/sa...smiley-005.gifhttp://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/sp...smiley-001.gifhttp://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/co...smiley-003.gif
Doin' a great job keep it up.

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Quote: I think the wife's polite glare means I have exceeded my 2 posts a day limit !!
I guess all wives learn that look at a very early age...:lol:

Great Work, Keep it up!:metal::metal::metal:

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i know what u mean

that dash extension is looking really cool man!!

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Thanks Aggie.... if you have not seen any ideas I stole from you yet, that just means they are on the way!!

Thanks Greg, funny, I was thinking today of the video I would like to meet if I can get down to see you at the end of next summer!

Thank you Don, hope your shop move goes smooth and quick!
Would hate to not see an update on your build for too long.

Thanks Coulter, I got the steel rods yesterday. I should be adding a little bit of your influence to this build this weekend!!

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Well by luck or foresight, as you see I welded up the shorter p-side of my dash extension first. This turned out to be fortuitous in that it was easier to manipulate into being mostly vertical according to my level. I realize this is subjective in regards to the stance of the frame, but it still gave me a good reference, and base by which to mount and align the longer and harder to wrestle d-side addition.
This piece of angle iron I used help to keep me on a track of sorts.
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When doing this stuff I have to constantly remind myself that "being dead on straight" is not the same as "looking like it is straight" I think the guys that really excel in these builds are able to achieve both of those goals somehow...
So after welding comes a little bit of mud....
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and more down the line.... I dont know why exactly I added those "dog ears" that continue down the kick panel from the extension. I think I just wanted to be a little off center field with this whole project....
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