Zombie Hunter Project.........

[Dirty Rat]

Ok so here it goes. I am new to the board and have been watching and trying to learn as much as i can wince I have been coming here. So a little story behind how I got my truck and then I will post some pics as well as my friends truck that lives down the street from me. I think we might build 2 or 3 of these at the same time so it should be interesting to watch.
So I own a 72 longbed that I wanted to buy around 11 years ago from a neighbor a couple of streets over, I even went as far as to sell my car and made it to his house to buy it but then my GF at the time told me I shouldn't buy it so being the idiot I was I passed up on the deal. He was only asking like 2000 for it.
So after some moving around and getting a new GF, I was working on my 51 Chevy Styleline and my 69 Lincoln Continental. I ended up selling the 51 and was working on come of the stuff for the Lincoln when my old neighbor that I had not seen in over 10 years stopped by to talk to me while charging my battery and I had told him that I always wanted his 72 and that it sucks that he sold it. To my surprise he informed me that he still had the truck on hid other property and that if I was still interested in it that he would sell it to me for $500. So of course I ran to the bank and got the cash and bought it right then. Sight unseen..........

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So here are some of the pics

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I went to get the truck while was only about 10 minutes away and tooka battery and a can of gas with me. After about 10 minutes I started the truck and drove it back to my house where my lincoln was in the driveway. As I approached the house my brakes went out on the truck and I lightly ran it head on into the lincoln

Thankfully not alot of damage was donr to the truck and there was no damage done to the lincoln.

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My truck does have factory air but I will need to get it working again also the dash lights dont work so I will have to work on them to figure out what is going on.
The rocker panels are rotted out but I have already bought new panels to replace them.
I also noticed that I have all the male ends tot he seat belts but I dont have any of the female ends but I work at the salvage yard under contract and found a 67 that I pulled the seatbelts from.
the dame 67 cab is in decent condition so I might see if someone on here might need it. Not sure how much they want for it since I am only under contract to sell parts for them but I can find out if anyone is interested.
I will try and get some pictures up here soon.
By the way I also found 3 other projects that I am hoping to pick up in the next couple days.
I warn you that this might be a slow project considering I dont have a lot of tools to work on this because of some petty thieves. So I will be working on this truck from the change in my pocket lol.

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So I was driving the truck til the other day and all of the sudden it started pushing gas all over the motor.
So I guess it is time to do more work on the truck again!

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More pics of some of the stuff I found out while taking the truck apart

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and more

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if you look you can see where some of the grounds are not even attached

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I think these pics show the unhooked grounds

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Got the hood put on but still havent gotten it to line up yet I will work on that in a few minutes

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Got some new headlights in. They are halo lights but 1 of them came in cracked so they sent me a new one

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Looking at all of those pictures I see that I have some work to do as far as trying to get all the pieces to redo the air conditioning as well as my heater/ac switch is broke not sure if you can tell that from the pictures where I have it hanging down.
I also have all the pieces to the truck like the other door panel for the inside but the drivers door only shuts half of the time so I have it off for now til I fix that problem as well. I put a new alternator as well as a new starter on the truck, I also had to replace the headlight switch and some of the bulbs for the panel

[litew8]

Welcome to the site!

[Wbrown]

I like the white seats, and looks like there in good shape what kinda plans you got for her ?

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Originally Posted by litew8

Welcome to the site!

Thanks and that is my friend that watches over my truck.

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Originally Posted by Wbrown

I like the white seats, and looks like there in good shape what kinda plans you got for her ?

Well today we are going to work on the truck to figure out why it is spitting up gas from the carb. I talked to another guy on craigslist that says he is on this forum he had a 69 that got wrecked and so he bought a 72 but he sent me some pics of a vette 327 that he is thinking of getting rid of. I have already taken off the glove box door and sent the cardboard inside to my friend that wants to replace it with a fiberglass housing instead.
I am also going to look around for another grill for the front of the truck, I talked to the guy I bought my truck from and he has a pull behind trailer made up of a 70 c10 bed and axle so I was thinking of picking that up to kinda figure out how I could make a matching hauler.
I will also get some pics today of my friends green 72 that he is working on here at the house as well.
As far as future plans I only live about an hour from Airride Technologies so I figured this week I would go talk with them to see about doing some kind of drop still not sure if I want to go static drop or not.

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So I got my new parts in today from Summit

[EOChev]

where did you get the halo lights from?

[Hduramax]

welcome to the site, nice project you got there, and BOXERS are cool

[Dirty Rat]

I actually got the halo lights from a guy on ebay. When I got them in one of them was cracked and he instantly sent out another one to replace it.

His website is Mikeschevy.com and his ebay name is Chevyracer57

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I also ordered and should have in a couple days this kit to make them HID

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BI-XE...ht_4899wt_1272

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Ok.....so I started working on the 72 today and was working on trying to get most of the motor undone so I could add on the new parts. Now I will get to the interesting part of this.
We started taking off all the lines and hoses so that I was able to get the valva covers off and also working towards getting the manifold off of it as well so we could apply new parts to the motor now keep in mind that I have been driving this truck for the last couple months with very little issues now comes the fun in the way of pictures.....

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as we get more of the parts off it

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and yet more to the story lol

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you can see how pretty the inside of this thing is lol