What did you do to your truck today?

[lakeroadster]

Made a 3 gauge panel to replace the heater controls in the Camaro dash. I like to call it the rare "Heater Delete" option. Then shot a coat of rattle can primer on the dash and gauge panel just to lighten it up a bit. It needs soem filler but I plan to run the dash like this through the year and tear everything back down next winter for bondo and paint.

Also spent some time organizing all the under dash wiring with wire ties in preparation for hooking up gauges. It might look nightmarish but now I know what every wire is thanks to my trusty 1965 Shop Manual.

[LILRED66]

Originally Posted by 198plus

Looks great Tony...........Is that the grill I sold you ????

I think so Ronnie. I have a few of these going right now and I can't remember for sure, but I did use the nicest one I had and I believe that was it. Thanks.

[LILRED66]

Originally Posted by blackmopar

Another great piece of info to have - thanks LilRed!

Some of the books and manuals I have are quite informative and not readily available, so they offer a lot of great details about these trucks.

[LILRED66]

Originally Posted by markeb01

Man that white ring/black background makes all the difference. Really beautiful.

Thanks mareb01. I appreciate it.

[DWright]

Replaced a heater core in a customers Chevy Equinox. Job calls for 10hrs and the car only had 60k on the odo. I know it doesnt pertain to our trucks, but i thought you guys might be interested.
I did however get my front suspension out from under my truck tonight.



cant seem to be able to post the pics. i'll try again later

[markeb01]

That's why I drive a 50 year old truck, the heater along with most everything else can be fixed or changed in minutes instead of days.

[stretch-t]

Spent 3 hours grinding and sanding rust/dirt off the the rear 1/3 of the frame. Tomorrow plan is to finish the rust removal with a wire brush , then paint it with POR-15.

[SCOTI]

I worked on modifying my rear shock c.member....

[4dranch]

Started on some panel replacements..

[Vernski]

Originally Posted by LILRED66

Per the Chevrolet Truck Encyclopedia, all the '60-'66 Chevy trucks were done this way, including the single-tone and two-truck paint schemes. There may be some exceptions, but that is the way they were originally done.

Two obvious tale-tell signs of a repaint, are this area not having the black backdrop with the off-white accent ring or the firewall being any color besides the body color.

Hey Tony I was wondering does GMC do the same with there grills or is this a Chevy only thing? Thanks ---Vernski

[jbgroby]

On the GMC trucks. only the back area (behind the barbell) was blacked out, no trim color was done.

Jake

[LILRED66]

Originally Posted by Vernski

Hey Tony I was wondering does GMC do the same with there grills or is this a Chevy only thing? Thanks ---Vernski

I am not sure Vernski, but the GMC guys have the answer. I do believe it was only on the Chevy trucks, as noted above, by jbgroby.

[Vernski]

Thanks guys for the answer on the GMC grills. Hey today I bought a 63 Chev swb knee knocker from a guy that was hurtin for sure. $500 and the title was mine. It needs bed wood and I will have to replace the rockers maybe just the drivers side. I'm a GMC guy but I wasn't passin' this up bbw an all. It has an I6 in it and it runs good. I'll start on it when I get my GMC done, it needs paint and some body work.---Vernski

[LILRED66]

Congrats Vernski...I don't know if I jealous or envious or both. Keep us posted and nice score.

[ruffrida2005]

Good score, looks pretty straight..

[sams60gmc]

I did some work yesterday and today on my rear backhalf. I made my top tri link tabs and today I squared up my frame and rearend, set the pinion angle and built the top links. I ran into a small problem with where my links were headed so I had to bend them so they would hit the middle adjustment. But I'm glad I did because it turned out sweet. I had to pie cut it because I don't have a tube bender and didn't want to wait. My bungs are tacked in and its tacked in the front and the tabs are tacked aswell. Anyways here are some pics and I did a walk around and video'd it and I'll have that up later.

[jgh64pkup]

i did some measuring for a y pipe then set it back on the ground and tried a little (with open headers)

[70 Suburban]

bench tested the dash and a/c from the 08 chevy. it works so ill be tryin to figure out how to get it in the 66

[ruffrida2005]

Sam60 Do you know what your ride height is going to be set at on your truck?

[sams60gmc]

Originally Posted by ruffrida2005

Sam60 Do you know what your ride height is going to be set at on your truck?

Should be about the same as or around about a 5'' drop on a shortbed.

[sams60gmc]

YouTube- 1960 GMC truck, rear backhalf frame...

[protrash64]

Nice work sams60 .......also congrats on one of the most popular and long running threads I've seen.

[Martin64]

I parked mine in the neighbor's carport to keep tree limbs/trees from falling on it while it's windy....they park in the street since there's no tall trees in front of the building.

[sams60gmc]

Originally Posted by protrash64

Nice work sams60 .......also congrats on one of the most popular and long running threads I've seen.

Thanks!!

[markeb01]

With unseasonal temps in the high 40's and low 50's, I got mine out of storage and back in the garage for new trailing arm bushings, a relay for the heater and maybe more upholstery.