Ice cream getter

[jaros44sr]

Looks great to me, wished i could get anything close to that! Its gotta flatten out with sandpaper
Great build

[SONOSADSACK]

hilljob26 - You are right, it is only a going to be a driver and this is supposed to be fun. A good friend who is older and probably wiser than I, reminds me of this all of the time. He also tells me that 90% of the people that will ever see this thing will never see what I see. He’s probably right unfortunately for me I am in the other 10%. I typically don’t add emoticons but this one really seems fitting.

jaros44sr – it did flatten out a bit after sanding and buffing but I will probably be recoating. We’ll see.

[Tom Vogel]

Not an expert here , but from what I hear, a deep clear coat will move around on you until it fully cures. Just a thought.
Hope you have a good respirator or good health insurance. That was some fog.
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[SONOSADSACK]

Yes the fog got pretty harsh but as you can see my friend’s shop is a garage and it was pretty damn cold outside. You have a choice of cold clean air or warm not so clean air. I let it go as long as I could before running the exhaust fan and then after it cleared up I would have to wait for it to warm back up. I had a respirator on my face from start to finish.

[Desert.Chevy]

Looks good!
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[Corndog777]

I love the whole thing! What made you go with Sky jacker system. I only ask cause I would love to go bigger with 37' or 40' but some how maintain a proportional tough stance. I have a 4" rancho that rides terrible... Spongy and leans a lot. Really like the color as well.
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[SONOSADSACK]

I originally choose Skyjacker because of some of what I had read here on this and other forums. Once installed however I didn’t care for how stiff the front springs were. I would have to measure them and compare them to the stock springs but they seemed to be short. No complaints about the rear but then again I never used any of the springs. I started talking to a few people who are using Deaver springs and decided to go in that direction including a longer than stock front spring. I have no intentions of ever doing any hard core trail riding but I do like to go to the dunes and overall I think I’ll prefer a smoother ride on the road as well.

[SONOSADSACK]

Almost fell off of the first page so it must be time to update. I’m still playing with paint and clear but now I’m doing it from home. My buddy’s shop where I had been painting is full so I built myself a paint tent. It’s not great but it keeps the overspray and dust from getting all over everything I own.







I blocked the clear starting with 600 on a hard block followed with 800 and then 1000. I also switched from a high solid to a medium solid clear. I think it looks better.

Fresh and wet


after buff

[VA72C10]

Nice work!

[JJH Jimmy]

I love the color! This is going to be a sweet ride! I am doing a similar build on a 72 Jimmy not far from you. What radiator are you using? Did it come with the fans? Thanks. Josh

[jaros44sr]

Looking at the other paint job, this does look better, actually, it looks perfect....well done! Glad it worked out for you. Nice build of the paint room.

You have a great deal of stick to itivist
Dont let this build drop of the first page

[tp85]

got any more details on the paint "tent"? looks like you have some filters on the ceiling. thx.

[SONOSADSACK]

Josh,
The radiator came from Entropy Radiator. If I recall the radiator, fans and wire harness/relays were all sold separately. I have not used them yet but they appear to be well built. Others here have said good things about their products. Their number is 773.295.1325 You can also find them on EBAY

[SONOSADSACK]

Thanks Jarros44sr
It is better. I would like better still but I think I’ve reached my breaking point. Time to move on or I’ll never get to drive this thing.
Keeping a build thread going is keeping me going. Not sure why but that’s that so I’m going to try to keep it on page one till I’m driving it. Then I’ll do my best to post as many family trips to as many different ice cream shops as possible.

[SONOSADSACK]

Tp85
This picture shows what the filters are all about. Really low tech. I chose to go with a pressurized tent because I felt it would be safer to run fresh air past the fan motor as opposed to solvent rich air as an exhaust fan. You can see my fan probably wasn’t intended to be used to exhaust anything potentially flammable. This created two negative issues. The first is I do get some stink and dust in the rest of the garage because the tent is not air tight. The second problem is when I open the door to get out of the tent it depressurizes and the ceiling collapses. My fix for that was I added a small work surface for mixing paint or clear and a chair for sitting between coats. I just don’t exit until the final coat has flashed so when the ceiling does fall anything that may fall with it won’t fall into fresh clear. I would have done things differently if this was to be a long term item.



This picture just shows how the ceiling looks when the fan is running and the tent is pressurized.

[notsolo]

Your hard work is showing in the panels reflection. Nice paint booth, You set the Bar high for the home garage Painter.

[SONOSADSACK]

I had a little time today so I worked on the rear brakes. Mostly because the axle had been apart and in front of the garage door that I needed to get through but also because I finally had all the needed pieces. I used brackets from captain Fab. I am very happy with the quality and fit and would definitely recommend them to anyone looking for a bolt on application. The only machining necessary would have been to the axle at the pilot to accommodate the smaller ID of the rotor. Unfortunately my axles were pretty chewed up so they were also replaced. The replacements from Moser were ordered with the correct size pilot. Needless to say I was happy to get everything together and have no clearance issues between the caliper and wheel. Everything will come apart again for paint now that I know it all works together.

[Low Elco]

Great Paint, Love this truck.

[Bomp]

Stumbled on your build and my mind is totally blown!

Great job on the paint, paint booth and everything else you touched!

[SONOSADSACK]

Thanks all for the kind words.
So a little catch up since my last post. I got another batch of parts sand blasted and coated them with black epoxy and two coats of satin black enamel.


After the first group dried I hung them up elsewhere and did another batch the same way. You can see my floor progressively getting darker.


My tent doing its job and containing most of the mess.


Not real happy with this to say the least.


After all the black parts were moved I thought I’d give the tranny a face lift as well. It has been rebuilt but didn’t look like it. It just got a spray bomb.

[SONOSADSACK]

After all the black parts cured for a week I started putting things back together and hopefully permanently this time. I also cleared coated the aluminum differential cover and painted and cleared the rear calipers.
First I replaced all the suspension bushing with grease-able units from ORD. I was very happy with fit and someday hope to test functionality.


I hung all four springs including larger heavy duty front shackles also from ORD.




And tonight I reinstalled the axles. Put the diff cover on and assembled one rear brake assembly.


I reversed the calipers or put the left on the right so the bleeder would point down rather than up. Other than the bleeder I didn’t see any difference from one to the other. Can anyone with more knowledge than me explain why I should not reverse the two calipers?

[Low Elco]

Bleeders should always be up, so the air has a place to go. Up and out, as it were. Sorry!

Ps- you gotta hurry, I can't wait to see all these pretty parts in action!
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[Wasted Income]

Sorry if I missed it, but what paint did you use for the frame and suspension bits?

It looks really awesome.

[fxdxharley]

air will get trapped in the caliper and you will have spungey brakes. the bleeder always goes at the highest point so you can get the air out.

[SONOSADSACK]

And that’s why I subscribe! Thanks for the input guys. I thought I saw an opportunity to make bleeding a bit cleaner. Oh well. The wrong has been righted.

Nothing special on the frame and axles, just epoxy primer and satin gloss black acrylic urethane single stage paint.