My 67 Stepside Build

[Wilson_]

I had this posted on the website I helped run and the owner is closing it down so I will be copy and pasting as I go and try and get it right.

Enjoy

Day I got her

Well i found the truck me and the wife were looking for.
Its a 1967 Gmc
I will be picking it up tomorrow night

here is the only pics i have right now

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So i have been pretty busy with this thing, buying parts and what not.

bought
window regulators right and left
1 wire alt
brake master
hood hinges
inner door handle assy
misc odds and ends

what i have done so far

install the alt
clean up shotty led wiring in the cluster
take out seat, and carpet to inspect rust
make a gas petal bracket.(as AZ knows the 72 and older used a linkage type gas petal assy.)
so i switched it to a 72 cable style assy

will get pics when im done with the brakes, should be on sat

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so i busted butt for a few hours today

the brake lever that was stock would not reach the new master, the piston was deeper for some reason so i had to make a longer one
Old

New



R&R both window regulators(yay i can open the windows now!!!)
yess i need new bolts as the old were rusty and snapped off on the old one :glare:



R&R left hood hinge and adjusted both sides
and removed heater core box who the f needs a heater?:thumbup1:
I will be welding panels in to shave the holes at a later time


Gas petal mount


Old parts so far


my buddy is coming over to help me bleed the brakes tomorrow

also removed the front cowl and pulled out about a pound or so of dirt and leaves

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HHAHAHAH, it gets it pretty good, but it has needed the brakemaster so i dident want to go nuts then not be able to stop!!!!:scared:

will see, after the brakes get done i have to take it to the dmv to have the vin checked the reg. it

the plate i ordered

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Update.
ohhhh lookie what i got in the mail


























nope not bags yettt


new gauge clusters, i will be making a custom one out of this one
it will get painted and some gauges added

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well these are going in :wink:


process pics


one done so far, it was like 1am and the wife was trying to sleep and she was getting pissed because i was using the dremel :tongue_smilie:



the large fuel gauge will be replaced with a 5" tach later on,maybe
i will finish the rest tomorrow when she is at work!:laugh:

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Ok i think i finished the gauges so far, i still need to make a new harness for the gauges and get some new bulb harnesses but the layout i think is good

paint
im not sure how i am going to paint the bezel... i am going to the local flea market to find a mexican blanket for the seat cover, and door panel covers. i want red,black,grey and white for the blanket, so i think i will repaint the black part black and where the chrome is, make that red... what do you think??

PICS so far

opps i need to trim it!!

there we go






here we go!!


now with the lighting, LED's now i think i figured out what to do
see the secont to last pic? all those little black dots on the back are bulbs
here is what i did
Stock bulb holder







i need to get white and green bulbs then i can see if it works!!

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i got the gauges done with the help of a friend that can solder like no other!!:thumbup:
but the are not that bright, we need to change the resistors so they are brighter
i might remove the auto meter fuel gauge and replace it with something else, and try and use the stock fuel gauge and speedo just so i dont have to chop up a good cluster any more than i have to
when installing the cluster i reinstalled the carpet and redid the seat mounting.




looks so much better


the rear wheel is in side the wheel well now, before it stuck out like two inches, no thanks


tuckin 295's , well not yet:wink:

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Update

sorry guys i have not updated in a while
I waited 3 months for these, i think it was worth it







interior is a little more put back together, i got the door panels back on and the window cranks and the door handles

installed new door locks and matching ignition yay only one key now!!!
got a new steering wheel installed with billet spacer.

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started to remove the bondo in the bed
i did not get any real before pics because i forgot i had the camera

Rear pass bed side


Front part of the bedside












Bed Off

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So this is where we started today


I found a huge ass chunk of bondo, it was taking forever with the DA




So I stepped it up and busted out the die grinder and the 40grit flapper wheel




all gone



ANd a little buddy came along


What we are left with

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some drama occurred

My friends friends dad owns a muffer shop and this guy came in and asked if he wanted or knew any one that wanted these two trucks, he said he did not want them but he know some one that did.

so he called my friend and then my friend called me and le me know i could have the 67 the guy had, i said cool **** lets get them, and this other guy was going to get the 71..

so like two days go buy and the first person the guy told decided he wanted the 67, so i wasn't going to get ****,,,oh well

so then like 3 days ago my friend called me and told me that he called the guy that was being stupid and told him he dident need the truck and to finish his truck first......
LOL

so i think im picking them up on sat morning, and IF i do i will get some pics

the last two days i have been cleaning the shop like a mad man tring to make room and get organized, after we got the 5 toyotas and stripped them all the place was a ****ing disaster, parts,oil,more parts, tubing, cabs,beds, axels, you ****ing name it we had that **** in there...its getting better

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still no 2nd parts truck, the guy is super busy or something. i cant complain about a free truck

we got our tax return and i have been selling a bunch of left over crap from the shop thats been just sitting around.

wifey said i could spend some money :P

so i bought these to re build my front end


Got a radiator today too.

and today i went to the shop to start the tear down of a tbi 350 i have.

was going great in till the ****er fell off the stand LOL

i went to rotate it upside down to disassemble the bottom end and it fell off



the bolts that were holding it bent and broke, luckily no ones feet were under it.





so at the moment i am looking for complete rebuild kits at summit racing

im planning on buying

rebuild kit
electric fuel pump
fuel pressure reg
new fuel lines
remote trans cooler
water pump
radiator hoses
cam
lifters
push rods
paint- truck and motor
700r4 trans
tv adapter kit
lock out kit for trans
shifter kit for trans


Air bags if the budget allows

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alright
I got most of my **** today, summit is so nice they send a box that weights 71 lbs luckily my wife was home when they dropped it off so they could just use a dolly to get it in the house. when she called me at work she said it looked like a football team kicked it down a foot ball field......

when i got home she wasn't lying LOLOL i took these pics before opening it just incase there was something missing.. there wasent = happy me


Here is the parts list from summit
Part Number Part Description


CCA-K12-601-4 THUMPER CAM KIT SBC

SUM-171000 ROD BEARING SET OF 8 SBC STD

BMM-20400 CONVERTER TORQUE MASTER

99168-1 LOCKING PLATE

DER-13220 FRAME RAIL COOLER KIT

GTR-60715 CURVED RADIATOR HOSE

GTR-60751 CURVED RADIATOR HOSE

NAL-12495499 HEAD BOLT KIT SBC

SUM-56490HS BOLT SET-STAINLESS SBC


SUM-17350-00 SBC 4.00" HYPERUTECTIC PISTONS

SUM-133-139-00 RING SET 4.000 5/64 5/64 3/16

SUM-172000 MAIN BEARING SET STANDARD SIZE

SUM-173000 CAM BEARING SET SBC

SUM-G1581 BRASS FREEZE PLUG SB CHEVY


SUM-G2600 GASKETS-OVERHAUL KIT SBC

SUM-121155 OIL PUMP SBC HV

SUM-PG1 PLASTIGAGE

SUM-LUBE ENGINE ASSEMBLY LUBE

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Well my Thumper cam, springs, retainers, lifters, timing chain, locks and rod bearings showed up today

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So I got the block cleaned, but not as much as I wanted :glare:

any way I shot some paint on it
what other color than chevy orange?







Heads are not here, will be here on monday THANKS TO BIG AL
pics

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so i got the heads on monday, and they look great!!

the paint did not last that long, i guess when you clean a bare 350 and you want to keep the cam bearings good, dont wash it LOL so i took the block to the machine shop.

and had the new flat top pistons put on the rods, honed, hot tanked, freeze plugs installed and then the NEW cam bearings put in.


so tonight after work(i get off at midnight) i drove to the shop, cleaned the oil off the outside of the block, taped it up and painted that ***** again, i also painted the heads, intake mani, air filter cover, and the timing cover again.

no pics because i drove the TL there


its 2:20am now and at 7am im going to hopefully wake up walk the dog then go to the shop and start putting this thing together...

and i WILL get pics, maybe a movie...

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update, i had the block in the machine shop getting some work done so it got hot tanked and all the paint i just painted was removed

so i got the block on friday after noon before work and dropped it off at the shop, after work i stopped by and painted a bunch of crap and got home at 3am, went to bed at 430 or so and woke up at 730 to start the build

a few rockstars and I was good!!!


alright, its been a busy weekend for sure...

sorry the pics are kinda blurry

crank in and bearings installed with rear main cap


new pistons and old rods


about to remove the hood


my buddy scott installing the valve springs and retainers


Hood off and travis getting down


Cranks with all the main caps installed and torqued down


Getting ready to come out

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One finished head


Doin work


motor and trans out




4 in 4 to go


2nd head done





I had to move the motor mounts forward about an inch because the drive line was slaming into the back of the trans..


all 8 in
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ready for the huge ass cam


lube it up


In


installing the timing chain


done




Head gaskets




Timing cover


Torque it

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Heads on getting torqued


Heads on


there are a few missed steps like the lifter install and the pushrods but oh well

intake on, pulleys on


rolled out


sexy


end of day one

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Start of day two(sunday)

i spent like an hour on the phone trying to find a oil drive shaft bushing(the little white thing in the next pic)

High volume oil pump installed


valve covers and water pump on




random



alright, in this pic.... got some shorty headers from a buddy of mine, made a oil primer out of a oil distributer, And i had to buy a new flexplate....wackkk



open wide...no pics of the tranny because its ugly as **** LOL






thats it so far.

whats left to do is:

install trans crossmember
hook up flex plate to torque converter
install drive line
reinstall e-brake
hook up the wiring 5 wires LOLOLOLOL
install remote trans cooler
install radiator
vac lines
rad hoses
add oil, and trans fluid
prime oil pump
install distributer


and start that thing

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IT RUNS!!!!!

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well here is an update, havent worked on the truck at all the past few weeks, because i am moving out of the shop i was renting. and moving my tools over to my parents house. Its alot closer and i felt i was not getting what i paid for there.....

plus maybe me and my dad can finish this as a father-son-grandson project WINK WINK DAD!!!:wink::wink:




so you guys remember when i was going to get that longbed for free.........................................





well i got it but not for free i am paing 300 for the whole truck minus the front sheet metal..IE hood,fenders and the grill..

here are the pics, i will be doing the body work on the cab and stuff at my parents house THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!!:thumbup::thumbup:

on with the story and the pics

I have been looking for a complete 67 cab with doors for a while now because mine is a rust bucket.

my buddy told me about this about two months ago. he said that he knew this guy that was giving away two trucks a 72 and a 67 both long beds.
they have been sitting in the barn for the last 10+ years. i told him i wanted the 67 sight un seen
both are complete with engines and trans the kicker is the guy wanted the I6 back from the 67..



last week he calls me to let me know he pulled them out an towed them to his storage yard, i was pretty happy because i pretty much forgot about it

so today i go over and check out my new cab.

on with the pics

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