My 1970 GMC “Project Splice”

[sakustoms]

Looking good. How did you manage to spray in what looks to be your home garage?

Didn't you have primer everywhere including outside?

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by Scurry67

Right on man. That’s an awesome milestone. Keep at it.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by sakustoms

Looking good. How did you manage to spray in what looks to be your home garage?

Didn't you have primer everywhere including outside?

Thanks

Haha well being that primer is very thick and heavy, I find that if falls to the floor quick and dries before it gets there. I wouldn't do anything more than prime in there.

[sakustoms]

Originally Posted by Kronald_70GMC

Thank you!



Thanks

Haha well being that primer is very thick and heavy, I find that if falls to the floor quick and dries before it gets there. I wouldn't do anything more than prime in there.

I'd be afraid to try that in my garage. I sprayed some high build from a can in the door jams on the c10 and that crap was on my Jeep outside in my driveway with only the man door open on the other side of the garage.

[Kronald_70GMC]

Today I started fabricating a new cab mount nut as I somehow lost one of mine. I found the base piece on the left in my scrap metal bin. What are the chances of that happening? Luckily my dad had the correct size of square nut so all I really had to do was make the cage for the captive nut. I've got a few small things left to do on it and I can weld it all up and get them installed on the floor.

On a side note, I finally found the leak in my air system that has been driving me crazy for months. Unfortunately my secondary air tank that I painted up and hung on the wall has sprung a leak in the bottom. The previous owner must have left water in the tank for years and it rusted through so now I'm back down to 20 gallons of air until I can afford to replace it.

[Kronald_70GMC]

Well now that those are done and mostly out of the way (still need to be installed) I decided to start playing around with my seats, console and behind seat audio box. I put in my driver's side seat on some blocking to get to a height and pitch that I'm happy with. Near as I can tell with measurements off my dad's truck, I've settled on stock height at the back, down an inch in the front and slid back as close to the rear panel as possible. This gives me just a bit more headroom as well as legroom since I am 6'-2". Once I had that established, I started creating the skeleton of my behind seat box. It will follow the same slope as the seatback until it hits a level line from the tip of the rear floor hump, then it will drop vertically till it hits the floor. I think that will look best.

[Kronald_70GMC]

There we go, the skeleton is complete.