What did you do to your truck today?

[aerotruk63]

Amazing how you can wake up one day with an obvious solution to a what was a very complicated situation. Looks good Mark!

[lakeroadster]

Lookin' good Mark, and you didn't even have to crawl under the truck! Those types of projects are great, come up with an idea, make the part and install it in a short time frame. Congrat's.

I spent the day starting to remove old paint and bondo from the bed rails and rear fenders of my truck. The top of the bed rails had over an 1/8" thick coat of bondo... removed that with a 4" electric grinder and a wire wheel.

Using a paint stripping disc to remove the paint. Works pretty well, noisey and dirty though.

Soooo, some people actually like body work? This is my first real try at it in the last 30 years.... I am assuming it will be more "fun" once I can start finishing, instead of striping.

[aerotruk63]

Have your box blasted, start fresh. Let someone else dirty their shop.

[scooterskoolkustoms]

got my new roll pan in the mail today so I cut out the old bumper and started to fit it on my burb I'll weld it in and take some pic's.

[Sick5]

well my flywheel busted and pulled my torq out its socket and busted my 700r4
i drop so many f bomb my back yard looks like japan lmao
i took it to the shop so they can redo the clutches.
i cant shft out of 1st
maybe another 300 sent down the hole

[Turkey]

Replace my old vacuum advance and fuel line with stainless lines. Also got my new mig in today. Gotta go get some gas tomorrow and weld my cherry bomb in!!

[Bugeyev8]

Got my newly repaired hood on and test fitted and got the interior almost prepped for paint...lots of sanding and sanding....should spray it on monday if I can get the repaired doors hung and aligned

[SRVBLUES64]

Friday 15th finished up back of cab with the bodywork, now on to the top of the cab, theres several hail dent mark some are hard to see cause I stripped the can down to bare metal so its all by feel. Im wondering if I can giude coat with a aresol primer? or should I just spray my epoxy primer and then look for low spots? Im hoping to get primer on the can before winter kicks in, any thoughts of what I should do if I cant get primer on it?

[daverod]

Originally Posted by SRVBLUES64

Friday 15th finished up back of cab with the bodywork, now on to the top of the cab, theres several hail dent mark some are hard to see cause I stripped the can down to bare metal so its all by feel. Im wondering if I can giude coat with a aresol primer? or should I just spray my epoxy primer and then look for low spots? Im hoping to get primer on the can before winter kicks in, any thoughts of what I should do if I cant get primer on it?

Hate to tell you this but I don't think primer is water/weather proof?

[markeb01]

In my experience there's nothing better than epoxy primer for protecting bare metal. And it sticks so tight you can do body work over the epoxy. If the metal is going to be indoors protected from moisture, you can just spray it with Picklex 20. It will keep bare steel rust free indefinitely, but only if it remains dry.

http://autobodystore.com/picklex20.shtml

Standard aerosol primer is generally lacquer, is not waterproof, and makes a poor substrate for anything put on top. It is commonly used as a guide coat, but the best results will be achieved if all of it is sanded off. Then there is no risk of incompatible materials under the finish.

[willyp]

sand blasted the ash tray and painted it, made a trim piece to cover up the hack job around the radio face and mounted my speakers in the vent openings in the kick panels.

[Andice]

Started to paint the rear half of the frame today in preparation of the bed install. I did all I could with the big brush. A smaller brush next week should just about wrap up this phase. It should take at least a week for the Por-15 to wear off of my hands.

[SRVBLUES64]

didnt get much done I got hit with the why isnt this done yet why do you statr something and never finish it yikes Pms, here in Indy you have do what you can do when the weather is good in October, I hope Sundays good, oh yeah Im off Monday and tuesday. has for my last question on Priming, my truck sits inside the garage during winter, and stays dry, should I still prime it ?

[knuckledragger]

Set the 402 in and started mocking up the engine mounts.I am using the captured style 73-87 mounts.I also made sure the headers will clear.I will definitely be using an electric cooling fan.

[FRENCHBLUE72]

We pushed sams60gmc down the road...

[knuckledragger]

Mounts are mocked up!Will remove engine tomorrow and finish welding them up.

[CVA59]

Got the old rockers off and geeeezzzz what a rusty mess that was.

[bigdaddy64]

Cut the top off today to clean up the rust, add some sound deadener, knock a couple dents out and weld top back on minus drip rail. This is the last of my rust repair!

[Camaro_nut2001]

Well I finally got back to playin with OLE BLUE this weekend. My new to me toy, '93 Blazer, has had my full attention for the last month. Anyway, I took the rearend cover off, cleaned everything up, checked my gears & put in new 85W140 gear oil. I also sanded, primed, painted & put my swaybar on the front. I bought it from one of our members a while back as my truck didn't come factory with that option. After cutting out one of the crossmember rivets it bolted right up. Man I Love my '69!

[fryer1979]

Daydreaming about my day at the shop tomorrow....Stuck here at work for my Friday.

[sams60gmc]

Well like my good buddy Frenchblue72 said. We got a good idea and pushed my frame over to his house, about 3 blocks away with one pretty busy intersection in between, when it got there we put the cab on the frame had to do some minor trimming to clear where the frame goes down for the body drop. Then we pushed it back to its home. Lays rocker no problem.

[markeb01]

Disassembled my throttle linkage looking for a problem, and discovered a fractured nylon spacer. Replaced it with a steel version, which restored the normally smooth operation.

[lakeroadster]

Originally Posted by sams60gmc

Well like my good buddy Frenchblue72 said. We got a good idea and pushed my frame over to his house, about 3 blocks away with one pretty busy intersection in between, when it got there we put the cab on the frame had to do some minor trimming to clear where the frame goes down for the body drop. Then we pushed it back to its home. Lays rocker no problem.

YOUR KILLING US GUYS, WHERE'S THE PICTURES! HOW COOL WHOULD THAT BE TO HAVE A PHOTO OF YOU PUSHING YOUR TRUCK THROUGH THAT BUSY INTERSECTION! OPPORTUNITY LOST!

[aerotruk63]

Do it again!

[FRENCHBLUE72]

heres some pics from my cell phone that he wife took as she helped push once in awhile...