Big Red, my 68 3/4 ton GMC

[Jacfourteen]

Today I did some cleanup on the truck. I scraped the sound dampening material off of the floor to get a better idea of how much rust is under there, overall it isn't too bad. I also pulled the cowl off because the truck has been parked under an oak tree for the last 10 years and the cowl was full of leaves. I cleaned that all up and reinstalled it, I was expecting rust under there but it all looked good. I'm going to see about getting the bed out and figuring out the floor situation tomarrow. Hopefully I'll get some more pics up tommarow.

[STOCKISH]

Great looking truck. Gonna be a cool project. Best of luck to ya! And : from NC

[Jacfourteen]

I've made some progress the last few days. After sitting under an oak tree for the last 10 years there were leaves every where. The cowl was full to the top so I pulled it off and cleaned all the leaves out, I was expecting to find rust but it cleaned up good. Next, I scraped and cleaned out the sound deadening material in the cab to see if there was any more rust damage, I was happy there wasn't anymore lurking under there. Then I wanted to get the bed out and cleaned up. first thing was to flip it over, after I did that I opened the tailgate to find a large wasp nest built between the gate and the bed, needless to say I got out of there quick. So I sprayed the 2 nests down with bee spray and let it sit over night. The next day I managed to get the bed on the truck with the help of my 7 year old son, pressure washed all the dirt and wasps out of it and figured out which cross sills go where. Then I measured for all the dimensions of the lumber and bolts needed to get a floor in it. The plan for now is to build a functional floor that will be used to hual my dirt bike in and still look decent and be cheap to build. I was considering building the bed out of 1/4" plate steel, but decided to wait on that because a future plan is to go to SWB. So for now I'm gonna build it out of 3/4" tongue and groove exterior plywood, then coat it with spray on bed liner. I hope to have the wood in the bed in the next few days so stay tuned! Here are some pics of what I've been up to.

Before:


After:


Me loading the bed with my son's help:




First time with a bed in about 3 years:


Floor Cleanup: The bad side




The good side:


Thanks for looking, I hope to have a bedfloor in this week.