65 c10 stepside build

[McMurphy]

The way you did your bed rail caps is awesome!
Looking good.

[LiLDrumKing3]

Finally getting back to working on the truck. Just moved into a new shop and house and able to work on the truck more. I'll try and post some pictures of my progress up as soon as possible, but I don't have Internet at my house yet, so I have to post from my phone for now. But here's a description of what's been done since the last post.

Got the wiring harness under the dash pretty much all out and interior gutted. Speaking of, is there and "easy" way of getting those wire connectors out of the firewall? Although not done today, I got the motor out and front clip off. Next I'm going to the firewall all cleaned up and fill all of the unnecessary holes. I would like to take the dash out but it looks like it is spot welded in.
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[truckzilla]

Hey Jeremy, You asked about removing the dash. There is an easy way, but it requires a lot of time with an air chisel; something you'd probably not want to bother with.
It seems like it is that way with all of GMs trucks. You want to get the dash out you've got to chisel off the cab around it!

[Ta2Don]

Just found your build, glad to see you getting back on it, gotta agree with Murph, the bedrail caps are sweet!

[LiLDrumKing3]

Ok. Well I have been terrible about posting any updates, and let way too much time go between. Luckily, this time I've got quite a bit of progress to show! Although, it's not done yet, I got past some major milestones. I finally got it painted, and I'm very happy with how it turned out!

I'm going to go back and pick up where I left off. Hopefully I don't miss anything. The first thing I did when I got it into my shop, I started tearing everything down. Pulled the motor, and then removed most of the body from the frame. Yep, one thing led to another, and here we are into a FULL frame off restoration.


The firewall definitely needed a lot of attention, there were separate holes for just about every wire. I really wanted to clean all of that up and start from scratch leaving just a few of the original holes. It took some patch panels, welded up a lot of small holes, and some bondo, but I think it really it cleaned up nicely. I wish I had a before picture of the firewall, but I'm sure y'all can use your imagination.

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[LiLDrumKing3]

I wanted to clean up the dash as well. There were toggle switches in various places that seemed to have no use and a bird's nest of wiring under there. The radio cut out was all cut up and bent out of shape, so I bent it back and welded it up solid. I don't know what I'm going to do with this area yet, it may be a good spot for a double A/C vent.

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[LiLDrumKing3]

After all of the welding and filling on the firewall, I finally got some primer on and was able to see how it was going to look.
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All the Body work is done, and I was able to do a final primer coat over the whole truck before paint.
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Lots of wet sanding. Can I say I don't ever want to wet sand again?
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[LiLDrumKing3]

Thankfully I have a really supportive and skilled family. They have really encouraged me to keep pushing forward on the truck. My brother spent a lot of time with me lately, helping me get the truck through paint.

Here, he is doing one last modification to the roll pan before paint. In an earlier post I showed how there was a gap on the sides of the roll pan below the bed sides. My brother created a couple of templates and welded in filler panels.

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