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thats great, how did you end up fixing it ?

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Got a little paint sprayed today..working in a small garage sucks...and what sucks even more is dust and dirt falling in fresh paint..oh well

oh also ordered the division bar inserts...guess when I got the kit from Chevy Duty 12 years ago...they shorted me the linings

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Looks good :thumbs:

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Nice build and a great story!! Keep up the good work.

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Thanks for the kind words !!

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Got the hinges worked on yesterday...they were all sloppy..a few hours and a few minutes of frustration finding the parts..I came up with these from Dorman part #38374, its a kit assortment and has 2 of the ones for the 62 ..so I bought as many as I could they only had 2 at one parts house and one at another...then found them at Pep Boys availible seperate but for the same price as the assortment, at 6$ per set its not bad and LMC wanted 9.99 plus their shipping would have been more

I cleaned them up and re used the pin and put a good coat of anti sieze on the pins when I installed them, all hinges like new for under 30$

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Got some primer surfacer shot today and all the seams sealed

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big difference in this and what I started with

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looking good.i know what you have went through doing this cab sheet metal work i restored a 66 truck back in 1994 and most of the repair panels were not available then and had to be made from scratch including the inner rocker panels.looks like you have done a fine job.

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That must have been fun, I had to make my own share of patches, I made both inner rockers and the RH floor patch, as well as the corners of the knee knocker cab below the windshield, also made several patches for the hood, Its been a long road..I hope it lasts another 49 years after all this !

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Got one more door painted inside and the rebushed hinges painted

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got the summit headers test fitted...they look ok...kinda cheap and thin flanges, but for 200$ what do u expect ?

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Good to see you back :)....it's been almost a year.

Do you have a part number for those headers? How far down do they hang underneath?

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Subscribed, went through the first couple pages, very nice workmanship

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Made a new trans x member today and started on the exhaust system

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Thnaks so very much ! I really appriciate it =)

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Yeah went back to work full time and the hiurs are long on top of a long commute, but I had a few days off and got back to the 62 !

The headers are summit long tubes for a 67 camaro , they were 239 $ as I recall, they dont hang too low and for a stock truck like mine plenty of clearance, I can get the part # if you want in a few

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pics

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finished my exhaust tonight, sounds awesome !!

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tail pipes, 2.50 mandrel bent pipe

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got my belt set up at the pick n pull.....bastards charge an arm and leg for this stuff now!

I am adding AC and needed to relocate the alt to the other side, got a 90s camaro belt set up

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Been a while but still working on the 62, been going slow but..the vintage air ac is in and the upper intake is powder costed as well as all accy brackets and pulleys, I get a deal thru work so its better than me cleaning and using a rattle can, cleaning up the engine bay as I go till I blow the body apart and the front clip comes off for paint

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before, I swapped this engine in when I was 17...I just wanted it to run at that time...engine was hi tech then ! I still like the look of the TPI !

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Nice work. subscribed.

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not much progress...just doing the easy stuff and thats spending money !

bolts and door parts back from plater today !

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Man Brian great work ! Can I get some more info on your transmission cross member? Also what did you use for your fuel tank?
I appriciate the tips you have posted in your build thred !

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The trans x member I made, its 1x3 rectangle and I sleeved for all the bolt holes, my fuel tank is stock behind the seat tank with a return line added for the efi

come see it any time !

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The exhaust does sound good. I didn't see any mufflers. Are you running any?

It seems I have seen an exhaust X like that before. What is it from?

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Its an x pipe from a 2010 Cadillac ctsv, and there are 3 chamber flowmasters under there, sounds good for a stock engine !

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Read your whole thread, and was sad when I came to the end. I'll have to keep an eye on it, neat stuff!

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Thanks for the compliment ! Hope I will have some updates soon !

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got some work done on the 62 today, I cut 1 inch out of the motor mount towers, just a little more bending to make them fit perfect
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Gone ls !

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filled all unused holes in firewall and flus mounted the vintage air unit,no bolts thru firewal !l

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Just ran across this build! Great work so far!