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Whats up yella. I was actually born in Cali but dont tell ;) I claim to be an okie. Mustang is over yonder east of the cow pasture. Really it is just west of Will Rogers Airport, or South of I40 from Yukon. Small "city" about 6sq miles. Thanks for checkin out my rustbuket.

I'm workin on it Mike! Almost done with the driver floor right now then on to the "B" pillar, cab corner and rocker. Working on another progress marathon.:lol:

Hey there buddy, I actually cut my floor exactly as you did. There was extra room over the front support because the floor was rotted, It just kinda peeled up like the shell of a hard boiled egg there. For applying the POR I initially tried the POR "dauber kit" (think fuzz ball on a coat hanger). Well they sucked, left fuzz in the POR paint and the fuzz ball was too big to get in the corners so I got a little hillbilly and taped a $2 paintbrush to a paint mixing stick and went to town. Worked out great.

Here is a teaser pic of where I left "Georgia" for the night.. No more flinstone floor :lol: One more round of welding and grinding/sanding to go!! Gotta love Taiwaneese steel, melts like butter.:lol:

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Actually, I cut my floor exactly LIKE YOU. When I finally decided to take a look at your thread, I saw the pics of when you cut out the outer floor and saw that you cut around the cab supports. It is obviously the smart and only way to do it, but seeing your pics made me be a lot more careful. I could easily see myself cutting the floor, then saying "OH S**T" when the cab supports starts hanging by a steel thread.

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The pic looks good. You are pretty much done with that side. Have you done or do you need to do the other side?

I am thinking I am not going to worry too much about grinding down the welds. Ideally, the floor will be covered with insulation and carpeting. No one is going to see it.

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Looking good man

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looking so good so far, love the donnor motor and trans and your little helper is cute as a button.wish I had access to Grandpa's stash myself, like what you said about the busses best.

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Rust repair looks good Dan. Nice progress.

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Okay here is the dirty on my floor, it is all done and I will try to include pics of the progress. I had a hell of a time with the floor patch panel. I cut it down as small as possible where I still had good steel in my original floors. I still had to section a chunk out and make a piece to fill it in right to match the pitch going down into the kick panel. any way here it is. I cut out the old, stripped to bare steel, replaced the firewall to floor edge piece that I made (worked out nice!!) sprayed some copperweld and went to town. cut it some more and welded some more... Loading more pics be right back..

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Here it is all ground down and sanded and primed with some rattle can self etch prime for now. I finished and smoothed the kick panel and "A" pillar along with the floor section..

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More pics of the floor and kick panel....

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I scrapped the organ donor Tahoe and got $344 for 3440 lbs :metal:

I saved a few more parts to sell but CL sales are a little slow, but even so the old 'hoe paid for itself and then some so the drivetrain in my '67 is free and then some..

My daily driver (the light blue Z71 in the first pic) was not very happy pulling the load that weighed in gross at over 10,000 lbs with trailer and the 'hoe. She will be for sale soon. I love her but she's got to go. Pretty nice for a 20 yr old truck but I need something more reliable with less maintenance and most importantly... more convenient to get a 2 yr old into ;)

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Looking good Dan. It looks like you put a few spot welds on the seam instead of welding the whole thing, right? Got your package today. Thanks again for sending it. Gonna try and get some work done tomorrow. Was busy trying to modify my air compressor today; broke it instead.

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What is that lever tied up above the pedal?

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I decided to rebuild my original rear pillar behind the rocker because I was disgusted with the lack of quality of the LMC piece that I bought, it wasn't even close. Well I know no one will ever see it again but I went a little psycho on it at work... I sand blasted it, cut out all the rot, probably 60% or more of the original steel, replaced it with some new steel, sandblasted it again, had to form the lower edge on a "hand" brake and welded it all back together, sand blasted again after grinding and smoothing!!. Finally I had it powdercoated and it looks better than new. I should have this welded in tomorrow...

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Here it is with some powder coat on it and a "test fit" shot, looks good I think..

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Yeah thats right on the welding, the patch was so thin that i tack welded it starting about 4 inches apart, weld, move 4" weld, move... once you make it to the end go back to the starting point and add another tack weld, move to the next and so on. It is a long process for sure. No prob on the extra parts man, I had to refurb my compressor too and my local buddy "suspect" hooked me up with some parts so my compressor is kickin' butt now

That is the emergency brake ! isn't it fugly? that was a 1967-68 only deal, in 1969 up they moved it to the more traditional floor pedal "E" brake next to the kick panel. There are a few differences and more one year only features to the '67 model year. I like my odd ball and I think the hand operated "E: brake is pretty cool looking but kinda inconvenient if you need it in an "emergency".

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Once I mount the rear pillar that I re-made I will of course be adding the rocker and cab corner no later than a week from now !!! :metal::metal:

I considered re-using the original cab corner considering my experience with taiwanese parts so I took my cab corner to work and sand blasted it. well take a look. There weren't any holes in it when I cut it off.....

The Tri Plus cab corner is actually thicker than the original and seems to fit very well. The only flaw I have noticed is the radius around the seam to the pinch weld is different than original but no one will ever notice just me being anal I guess.

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Just for fun here is a pic of the LMC rear pillar bottom... notice where the cab corner should be spot welded to, I can stick my finger in between the gap, no bueno !. Seriously LMC? Do you want to borrow my calipers to remeasure your piece? Also the outer flange is curved not straight as LMC has these formed. The flange that should mate to the holes in the cab support is not wide enough to accept the bolts from the cab support.

1st pic = LMC, bad

2nd pic = Dan, Good!!

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Also on the agenda for this week I have to fix this issue with the cowl vent rust. The piece I removed was bubbling with rust at the bottom seam where it was not draining properly so here is what I cut out and a (huge) patch I made to replace that section. I will sand blast and coat the internal surfaces with POR15 before welding in the new patch. The patch I made is a little oversized around the bottom edge and curve so I will just smooth that out once it is welded in place..

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Nice work
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I would say your panel looks way nicer than lmc's. Looks like your making some forward progress.

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Nice work on the rust repair. Brings back some good memories.
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The brake us certainly unique. I kind of like that it's different. I wonder how they ever came to be called emergency brakes, they are actually parking brakes. The only emergency it might help with is if your car was parked and started to roll and you happen to be close enough and quick enough to jump in and apply the parking brake.

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Nice work on the inner cowl. That's the area that scared me the most about my original cab. Of course it needs more than just the panel you replaced; it was rusted through all over.

I am glad I did not order parts from LMC; I had read on here about people having problems; not too mention they are very expensive on a lot of parts. I ordered my parts from Classic Parts; guess I will find out soon enough how good they are.

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Thanks Mike! only 7 years to go :lol:

Thanks Jon, It fit better too! pice coming up next!

Hey now, I wish it was a memory. I see the light at the end of the tunnel then I remember I still have to do the passenger side, doh!

Yeah "georgia" is a little scary sometimes but I was dumb enough to buy her and to stubborn to give up. I just take it one step at a time and we're making progress.

I Bought all my steel except that piece from classic in oklahoma city and well they were ok (tri-plus branded) but that lmc piece, Wow! wasted beer money I guess.. apparently Tri-plus doesn't make that piece but I found out Tabco does but I didnt want to wait so I re-made it myself. I have bought other parts from them but not rust repair and was fairly pleased but that one was very dissapointing.

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Here is my rear pillar piece that I installed today, not my prettiest welding but it works. Where did that goat come from ?? :lol:

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Then I bolted the pillar to the cab support through the inner rocker/floor. I will put a few welds on it once I set the door gap. Another test fit of the rocker and the rocker seems to fit very well so far but I will wait on another test fit of the door to make that call. with my old cab corner held in place all the gaps look nice though.

I haven't cut the replacement cab corner yet so I will see how that goes and make a choice there. You can see how my cab is about a half inch lower than the bed here (shot cab mounts) and that is what's holding me back on bolting in the trans mount and making any progress with the drivetrain. I will be addressing that and working on firing up the engine once I get some rollers on the front. Well and buying/making an exhaust system.. Later, Dan

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Lol, don't try to match my build time !! It is not for the weak at heart ! Lol, I think 5 of the 9 years were burnout periods !
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That is the emergency brake ! isn't it fugly? that was a 1967-68 only deal, in 1969 up they moved it to the more traditional floor pedal "E" brake next to the kick panel. There are a few differences and more one year only features to the '67 model year. I like my odd ball and I think the hand operated "E: brake is pretty cool looking but kinda inconvenient if you need it in an "emergency".[/QUOTE]

Apparently you've never ridden with ME.

Just wanted to say that I am at the beginning of my project, and your progress is inspiring. i have a 72 swb fleetside in a really similar condition to where you started. Luckily, I also have a retired buddy with a big shop who can out work most 20 yr olds. In fact, he just practically gave me a 69 swb stepside that is about as rust free as these trucks get (when you're buying one that hasn.t been off the frame. I have been working every day this week pulling the $3000 worth of stuff i put on the 72 (plus the 5 lug stuff) ang putting it on the "69. I didn't mean to be long winded, but I have been looking around on this site for a while, and when I saw a guy my age that was doing what I like to do, I thought that it was a good opportunity for my first post. Thanks for the inspiration.
Matt

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Looking good man.

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Good progress Dan!

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X2,,,,(where did that goat come from???)

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Thanks man!

Just messing with you, I hope I get done a lot sooner and actually I want to drive it in all it's ugliness this fall. Maybe just to 7/11 for a beer but to have it "driving" none the less and save up and buy all that fancy PB stuff and some Tubz then tear it back apart for the suspension mods and paint.

Matt, Thanks for checking out my build. I have been known to do some crazy driving, but at 34 im starting to calm down. :lol: It sure isn't the fanciest truck yet but hey you gotta get the dirty work out of the way first. That is great about scoring a rust free truck and the friendly hook up is awesome. Start up a build thread so we can all see what you have going on, sounds like a great project. Glad I could inspire someone I thought I was pretty slow and boring. This forum is great for learning all types of new stuff and meeting new friends and other local guys to help each other out and do some trading and sharing of parts. Also we try to meet up for BBQ once in a while, a great place to meet some good people!
Thanks Billy!

Thanks Mike!

LOL thanks Wade, There's another goat on my chin.:lol: That was the OKC zoo, was an abnormally cool day so it was real slow which made a great day for my daughter no sweating and waiting in line.


I have a few "honey-doo's" today and will get back on "Georgia" this evening.

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That B pillar looks great after you fixed it up. Way better than the LMC one. The most impressive thing to me is that you managed to fix the floor with the seat in there!!! You must be a lot more flexible that I am!

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I must agree with you about the LMC parts, glad you made your own, looks good

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Thanks man, I actually took the seat out when I did the whole floor edge piece but it has been in and out several times, I did the floor patch,kick panel, and pillars with the seat in though, gotta keep the garage semi accesable in case of a hail storm for the wifes hondur. It was a PITA welding in the kick panel and floor patch for sure! maybe I am a contortionist :lol: my beer gut is getting in the way! Hard to take good pics with the seat in the way also..

Thanks Tinker, I would be a lot farther along if the repair pieces actually fit properly. Just glad that I have some skill, not great skill but I do alright.

Working on the cab corner today, pics to follow....

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Today I was a little busy with the little princess and wife so just had little truck time, I gave up my Saturday to put more decking in the attic to store more baby stuff for the next one. I told the wife we wouldnt need all the girly stuff cuz the next one is a boy ;)

Here is my progress...

Seems to be a little sloppy in the corner that mates to the rocker and B pillar so I did some tweaking, sliced the cab corner in half to match what I cut out. I should have cut from the outside as cutting from the inside provided a nice ramp to shoot the sparks and debris right into my face :dum:

I had to slot the lower corner in several places where the metal was bunched up preventing it from making the proper curve.

used some duck bill pliers and channel locks to bend the flange in to where they shoud be. also bent the pinch weld profile to match the rocker.

Did a rough test fit and it is pretty close just need to square up the cut and tweak the rocker where I have some interference with the rocker pushing the cab corner out at the bottom.

Should have this properly fit up and welded tomorrow, hang the door to check the pillar alignment and install the rocker. :metal:

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Ordered some gas pedal "bling" from the man Mike at slosh tubz and I am going to order some energy susp cab mounts to get the cab back up to where it needs to be and cut the hump hole... I may be pulling the cab off soon but I just cant decide what to do next?...

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Cab corner looks great! I have to do that with my cab from Arizona. No rust but has a *($)%^& dented cab corner so I STILL have to do cab corners!!!!!!!!! It never ends I tell you!!!! And as you found out they never fit. Have heard Tabco corners fit the best. I'm going to give them a try for better or worse. Even if they do not fit much better at least they are American made and I still believe in helping our fellow countrymen out when I can.

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Do you have a high hump already btw? If not I have one that I would sell you for a song if you are interested.