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Continued..

Welded the rear cross sill in place. All braces are welded to the floor finally. Just need to finish welding the middle seam.

Hung the front panel and the bedsides. For the most part the holes line up pretty good. I'll have to slot a few in the bed floor. Only issue right now is the driver side of the bed sits about 1/2" higher than the PS.

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Looks like it came out great! :metal: I've seen guys make a sanding block fit perfectly in the valleys of the bed floor to sand down the filler needed to get those welds to disappear.

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Yeah it actually did turn out pretty solid after taking my time. It'll l need just a little skim coat. I'm leaning towards doing a liner kit in the bed so I'm thinking that'll hide any little blemishes also.

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Very nice work, I especially like how you split apart everything to get at the rust. I'm in for the rest of the build.:metal:

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Dang man, good work here, lot of work pulling that on and off like that. Kudos for taking that wrong order and making it right.

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Appreciate it! It was definitely a lot of extra work but worth it. Similar to your firewall/cowl work, it was a TON of spot welds.

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Thanks TA. With a skim coat of filler at the joint, it shouldn't be too noticeable.

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Quick update. Been trying to spend a few hours each night in the shop after the wife goes to bed.

Because I plan on cruising in this primarily in decent weather, including the summer, I jumped on the VA train. Based on all the reviews on this site, it seemed like a solid choice.

As you can see in the pictures below, the center vent did not fit great. I read about this in some other threads. I decided to massage the dash into the shape of the vent to close that large gap. With a little body filler too, it turned out half decent.

So far everything seems to be good quality. Only concern is the ball vents. Hope they can stand up to wear and tare.

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Continued...

Fitting my grill. It lined up really nice with the fenders. Just a skim coat to clean it up a little bit. I'll take the grill off to clean up the joint. Also finished sanding the bumper. I think it'll look real sharp. Had a couple low spots on the rear cross sill, that I massaged out for the most part. Just a little skim coat left to sand.

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Looking great. And getting closer man. I did similar with my center VA vent. I wish I would have massaged my dash more. I have too much filler on mine, but it's on the inside so.....

I think those bumpers are gonna look pretty cool.

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It looks like you welded the bumper bolts to the bumper for the smooth look?

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yeah i think your build thread was one of them that mentioned that those vents didn't fit great. I figured I'd have to do something there. A little extra Filler should hold up fine in the cab I imagine.

I think the front bumper will look pretty decent when painted. Put it on tonight to See the fit. Went on easy. It's definitely more motivating to work on when you start throwing panels and pieces back on.

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Sure did! Wasn't too tough, just takes a bit of time. I was originally going to go front roll pan but my dad talked me into the bumper. I like the look.

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Small update:

Fitting the cowl panel to the door and fender. Bodylines and gap look okay. Will take some massaging. Also been doing a lot of sanding. Working on the tubs and bed floor. I finished up the two weld areas on the floor.

Also used a shrink tip to tighten the hood metal back up on the hood. No more oil canning 👌🏽

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Small update:

Finished up the welding and filler on the floor yesterday. I scuffed the new e-coating and sprayed some epoxy primer. It isn't perfect by any means but I don't think anyone will hardly notice it after I spray a bed liner over it.

I was in the zone with spraying so I hit a few other items.
The rear wheel wells were pretty beat up but after some Dolly/hammer work and some filler/sanding, they turned out decent. Once again, not perfect, but hardly noticable under a bed liner 👍🏼
There was also a lot of metal burn through areas in the filler/primer around the truck. I sprayed those areas with epoxy, including the front bumper.

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Couple more shots.

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Looks like you almost ready for paint. I'm sure its been posted somewhere but what colour are you going with?

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I'm starting to fit all my panels finally. Curious. Are all those stock panels or do you have any new? I got a new core support and inner wheel tubs. The inners are off, gonna have to massage and manipulate to get them to fit right...

Looking good!

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Definitely getting closer, but sadly there is still a lot of sanding in my future :waah:

Leaning towards centennial blue (similar to Chevy's 50th anniversary truck). It could very well change again tho. My dad supplies paint to most of the body shops in his area, so we are going to see if one of their painters has time to paint it possibly this summer.

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Much appreciated. I had heard some nightmares about fitting aftermarket metal so I tried to keep it all stock panels. The only aftermarket I have on it are the tailgate and bed front panel. Cowl hood might be interesting trying to fit up. It came with the parts truck. Time will tell haha.

Looking forward to being out of the metal work and sanding phase of the build.

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Small update.

Hung my new lmc tailgate. Awhile back I had split my tailgate in hopes of taking the bow out of it. Well I thought I had it fixed and as soon as I thought I was done, I stood it on its side and it had a slight twist in it... I suppose maybe I'll still paint it and turn it into wall art or something.

Anyways... The new tailgate seems to fit great. Passenger side gap is slightly larger than I'd like, but I'll be able to live with it I think.

Also started to fit my cowl hood. After messing with it for a day, I realized that this hood had some fitment issues. I did a search on here and I'm pretty sure it is an older cowl hood and they require some slicing and dicing to fit up... I'm thinking I'll give it a go at some point. In the mean time I'm fitting up my original hood. It fits way nicer.

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Smooth bumper looks great. Thanks for posting all your progress... There's always some dude out there needing inspiration and or motivation to continue on with his project. Even though what I'm doing on my truck has been done hundreds of times already, I try to keep the pics flowing, because many times I have been the guy needing the inspiration.

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Nice work, great progress for a short amount of time your truck is coming along great

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Thanks for the compliment. This board has been great for inspiration for sure. Lots of cool ideas from different projects.

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Much appreciated. It has been a fun ride so far!

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Welp, the compressor finally called it quits. I think it's fixable but I needed a good excuse to get a bigger and better one. So I'll give it to my brother to fix and have. Compressor won't be here for a couple weeks (I hope), so not much progress going to happen I imagine until that's setup.

So for now, here's a picture of my dog getting a good feel for the bench seat that needs reupholstered.

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Nice progress! Keep the pics coming. A dog and his truck, what could be better!
Tell us more about the air compressor you have coming.

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thanks. looking forward to getting back at it!

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Like I previously wrote, old compressor went down so it was time for a new one. Got it unloaded today with the help of my dad and brother. Still need to get it plumbed up and wired in, but I'm really stoked about it.

Belaire 5HP 60gal two stage. 15.3CFM at 90psi. Looking forward to a quicker tank fill and longer duration with good pressure 🤘🏼

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Hope to have some good progress photos soon.

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I like the new compressor:metal:
That will save a lot of time Waiting.

Here's the guideline I used to fight the moisture problem I had.
And a link below with Printable PDF.

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Link:https://www.tptools.com/tech-metal-piping.dlp
















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Slow progress. Between being busy at work and home life I haven't had much time for the pickup. My mar-k roll pan showed up about a month ago. I installed it the other night. Also cut out the corner of the rear floor brace for my fuel filler hose. I think it'll work out decent.

One goof I had was blocking my access to the tailgate. I didn't realize it until after the roll pan was welded in. Looks like I'll have to put my thinking cap on To figure out how to remove the tailgate. :waah:

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That pan looks good! And doh! No tailgate access lol. I assume you mean that bottom bolt on the hinge? Yeah, let us know what you end up doing there.

Question on the gas filler stuff. Where did you get your hose?

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The roll pan is pretty solid quality. Mar-K seems to have a pretty solid reputation. I purchased the hose from fillerneckSupply.com. I think the shipping was more than the hose itself.

Link:
https://www.fillernecksupply.com/1-1...sold-per-inch/

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Quick update-

I think I resolved my tailgate issue. I had to notch the pan to remove the trunnion bolts. I purchased a set of trunnions from a squarebody parts truck on facebook market place tonight. Quick notch of the tailgate and a dry run produced some good results. Just a little clean up needed and will need to patch the pan back up.

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Roll pan is completely burned in and the tailgate seems to be working great. Another item to check off the to-do list.

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Nice, looks good. This makes me re-think my original thoughts on front roll pan WITH bumper. I think it really helps fill in the gaps. What are your plans for the front?

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This is an awesome project man. Love watching the progress.

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You read my mind sometimes TA. I can't say that I've ever seen that mod, but It's run thorough my mind a time or two... I think having both roll pan and bumper could look incredible.:metal:

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I watch a lot of shows. Iron Resurrection and Texas Metal are my favorites as far as the personalities but I also really like the quality that KindigIt puts out. And all 3 of these shows have badazz C10's they built. Seen em all like 2-3 times so I catch a lot of details on them, especially details they don't even mention. pause, play, rewind, pause, play LoL. Anyways, some of these guys have done this mod, roll pans front and back along with bumpers. It looks REAL clean.

KindigIt and Martins Bros both did camaro bumpers along with the roll pans(if my memory serves correct). Foose did this too pretty sure, on his white c10, youtube. He did another mod I am going to be taking advantage of on my turn signals too :D

We need a new sticky on this site that only hosts "cool mods" with pics that we can just scroll through skipping all the extra stuff in between normal posts lol.


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Thanks for the compliment. I'm pretty happy with the fit. Didn't take much tweaking or busy filler. The tailgate comes off and on pretty easy now too.

I purchased a front roll pan awhile back but I wasn't happy with how the fit was going to be. My dad talked me into going with the front bumper, but it'll be painted to match the truck.

If you do go front roll pan, it sounds like the two piece front pan would be a nice piece.
https://www.vannattafabrication.com/...4pc-p144963201