Prroject sixTsix

[sixTsix]

Well fella's, the journey to make my truck a road worthy beast has begun so I figured I start a build thread. Now with that said, this will not be a off the frame at this point. This will be somewhat of a budget build. Although most of the work you guys will see as of this point has alrdy been done, I'm gonna post anyways. So I hope you guys enjoy the read and progress of my ol'turd. The P.O decided to try and go the ratrod way with it....and well it wasn't nowhere near what anyone would consider a rat.



The day I picked my 66 up. It started out rougher than I would have liked, but seeing it, driving it changed my mind about just how rough it was. Blinded me some would say. I was like Arnie in the movie Christine, it didn't matter how rough it was , I was in love



As seen here the interior was pathetic to say the least. I mean who the hell puts house carpet in a car/truck and expects it to look good. So immediate action was need here before I could even begin to think of any other ideas. So with very little money and a day or so of beer drinking and wrenching I turn the toilet room you see above to this



So, after playing around with it a bit and driving it which was a death hazard, terrible brakes and front suspension gone, I decide to park it for a month or so. As it sat in my driveway, and me reading the forums, seeing everyone making progress on their rides, I decided it was time to do something about the terrible rattlecan black paint. So I was pounding brews one day and decided to sand a bit and see what we had underneath the rattle can job. And hell maybe have some patina or faux-tina. So here is what I came up with before coming to a stopping point. At one point during the process the faux-tina was taking nice shape



But for some reason, I think the beer was talking to me, so I kept on sanding and ended with this



Now, with the intro out of the way, time to get down to business. I ordered ECE- 4/6 drop springs, disc brake conversion w/ new SS brakelines, and complete front end rebuild kit, with sway bar kit as well. So let the games begin right!! Considering I'm off till the 27th of May I figured it would be perfect time to get started on the ol'turd. So here we go.
Today I pulled it over to my work area, considering no other projects were in the way. Jacked the truck up and commenced to prep work before complete tear down.
As you can see here , still running manual drums, manual steering and 50 yrs of road grime





Balljoints and tierods are shot....As to be expected lol





Prep work begins with this handy little product here. Now most probably are aware of or maybe have seen or used this stuff before, But needless to say it works pretty good for cleaning



As stated above the stuff works great, But if you used it straight (not deluted) do not spray on painted areas because it may strip the paint right off.
Here you can see the results of how well it works with a pressure washer







I'd say it worked pretty well considering I was using a very small pressure washer.
So today begins my teardown, and more pics to come as more progress is made.
I did take before pics as far as ride height and stance so I could compare as it is now and what it will be like finished. So here they are.





UPDATES TO COME.......