1969 Chevy Stepside Restoration/Build up

[matthew20061]

Got the drivers door hung today, it closes but it sticks out to much at the bottom by the cab corner and I can't seem to adjust it in. You also have to slam it because of the weather stripping I put on hopefully that will break in. Here's some pics of me installing it:

[matthew20061]

Amazing got the bed sides, the rear stepside fenders and the cowl panel painted! I can't believe it the only thing left to paint is the hood! It's going to start coming togeather fast here.
Here's some pics:

[Hoffman65burb]

looks great man, is the motor up and running?

[matthew20061]

Originally Posted by Hoffman65burb

looks great man, is the motor up and running?

Ya, basically the gas tank shipped last Monday so it should be getting here soon, and I'm going to get an inline fuel pump soon. On page 5 of this I have a video of it starting and running for a couple seconds with a fuel pump in a bucket didn't work so good but it ran. Also I need to build the exaust which I have a Flowmaster muffler and some mandrel bent u bends to make it. Also I have to fix the front brake lines and get some lines to go from the proportioning valve to the master cylinder. Otherwise its good to go!

[matthew20061]

I spent most of the day hanging the passenger side door and aligning it. What a pain, but I finally got it aligned and closing good. Then I hung the passenger side fender and that's where the problems started for some reason the fender stuck out about a 1/4 inch from the door. So after a ton of messing with it I finally put washers on the hinges of the door to space the front of the door out. Lines up perfect now, or well as perfect as these trucks are...Also put in the vent windows, door windows and all new weather stripping/felt. Here's some pics:








Heres the bed strips



Bed crossmembers

[matthew20061]

Started the process of building the bed today!
Here's what I got done:

[OARNGESI]

looking good coming togeteher

[matthew20061]

HUGE PROGRESS UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!
Over the last week I've been working on it like non stop!
Here the list:
1.Both doors aligned and closing good.
2. Front Fenders and inner fenders installed.
3.Installed door panels
4.Got a parts order in with lots of various things
5.Installed blazer gas tank and new fuel lines
6.Installed inline electric fuel pump
7.New trans cooler lines
8.New trans filter and pan gasket
9.Changed oil
10.Made new brake lines from master cylinder to proportioning valve, and to front brakes and connected proportioning valve to rear brakes
11.Made new power steering line
12.Made a shift linkage
13.Installed grill
14.Installed front bumper
15.Wired fuel guage and pump
16.Put bed on truck
17.Bolted bed to truck and installed side wood strips
18. Installed rear fenders
19.Installed steps
20.Installed rear bumper
21.Bought chrome rear diff cover since mine was all warped and bent so it leaked like crazy.
22.Installed front coter pins and wheel dust covers or whatever there called.
23.Bled brakes
24.Test ran!!!!

I'm sure I've missed some stuff but its gone from nothing to almost done in a week so I haven't had time to put updates on here. Heres pics:

[matthew20061]

Photobucket stopped working, I'll upload more tomorrow....

[nuke1]

Your truck looks AMAZING, sure wish i lived closer to take a look at it. nnot much longer and you will be driving that thing. just totally awesome!!!!!

[my67chevytruck]

looking good.

[Big J'72 GMC]

looks great man, mine just started, you gave me faith lol

[matthew20061]

Originally Posted by nuke1

Your truck looks AMAZING, sure wish i lived closer to take a look at it. nnot much longer and you will be driving that thing. just totally awesome!!!!!

Originally Posted by my67chevytruck

looking good.

Originally Posted by Big J'72 GMC

looks great man, mine just started, you gave me faith lol

Thanks, I'm trying to see if I can't get this thing done by Saturday to take it to the Kool Kruz car show on Saturday!

Anyway here the rest of the pics from yesterday...

[matthew20061]

[OARNGESI]

That looks really good

[BACKYARD88]

Been a while since I checked this one out. Made a lot of progress Looks good!

[matthew20061]

Originally Posted by OARNGESI

That looks really good

Thanks!

Originally Posted by BACKYARD88

Been a while since I checked this one out. Made a lot of progress Looks good!

I'm amazed at how far its come in such a short amount of time!

[matthew20061]

Pulled an all nighter last Friday-Saturday on the exhaust system and just about anything else that was left to do...

[matthew20061]

[matthew20061]

Here's a video of the exhaust and start up! We bought mandrel bent U bends and used a flowmaster muffler for the exhaust. It comes off the headers and Y's together into a 3" pipe that goes though the rear cross member and into the 3" in on the muffler. Then it comes out as two 2 1/4'' pipes that run out to that back tucked up under the bumper.

YouTube - 1969 5.3L Conversion Startup and crazy...

[matthew20061]

First time its moved under it's own power since the restoration! I couldn't figure out why it was running so bad for a long time until I realized that I connected the left oxygen sensor to the right wiring harness and vica vera. Here's a video of me moving it out of the garage right after we got the exhaust done.

YouTube - My 69' Chevy C-10 Stepside Moves under...

[matthew20061]

Here's the pictures of installing the hood and exhaust system.... I also installed the corvette engine covers!!!

[Hoffman65burb]

Awsome man, did it pass the burnout test? haha

[matthew20061]

Originally Posted by Hoffman65burb

Awsome man, did it pass the burnout test? haha

Haha, haven't tried yet because I can only get the rear brakes to work I'm having a heck of a time getting the fronts to work.

[matthew20061]

First test drive video!
Today I got the proportioning valve reset and bled the front brakes again to see if they would start working and now I only have front brakes for some reason so not sure if the shuttle valve moved back and shut off the rear brakes or what but now it will easily burn the rear tires!!

YouTube - '69 Chevy C-10 Stepside First Test...