My 68 swb build.

[77chris03]

Thanks to Slick67 for giving me the rundowns on how to start my own build thread, Heres a few pics of what i started with. it started with 5 trucks and now i have one and it takes all my money!! All the pics and everything done has been done by myself and my dad helping every chance he gets. i started this project right after hurricane ike and its still going. im gonna start with the truck the engine i pulled came out of. i took engine, tranny, and the booster(good core)


the next truck was part of the buy one take the other too...lol
finally sold this one last week for $300 with a original tx title.

After going through and throwing all the old internals out, valve job,all new internals .010 on bearings and .040 on cylinders, and z28 springs, this is what she looked like.

[77chris03]

few more steps with the engine build. installed new crane pushrods, and procomp 1.6 full roller rockers, and double roller timing chain and a few other parts. all hardware is grade 8 or stainless socket head bolts and billet alum. accessories.


Truck No. 3 and No. 4 or whats left of No. 4. it was a truck that got stripped and turned out to be a goner. had a rocket 350 with a 400 tranny in it that ran. gutted stripped and sold. made my money back on it.


truck No. 5 and the one im building. this is what she looked like after the cab was trashed and left a roller. sorry for the small pic but i was trying for all 3..

[Shyguy]

Looks like you are making good progress.

My '67 has parts from 6 different trucks of 6 different years. My son and I put it together last summer, it was a fun project working together seeing how different year parts would work.

Now this summer we are going to take it back apart and do a restoration on it. It is a driver for now.

I know some people may even have trucks made up of more years.

My '67 is titled as a '67 but has parts from 67,68,69,70,96 and seats from an unknow year.

Keep up the progress and enjoy the time you get to work on it with your dad.

Danny

[Slick67]

You are welcome Chris, keep the thread rollin. Good to have ya on here!!

[jsbgump]

Looks like it's going good. Keep up the progress.

[63chevyll]

looks a little rusty,

have fun and dont get any PB blaster in your mouth

[0331grunt]

Looks like a good start..

Originally Posted by 63chevyll

have fun and dont get any PB blaster in your mouth

did this over the weekend...

[77chris03]

Out of all the trucks i had and parted with i chose the worst one of them all...this is the biggest rust bucket ive ever bought and i couldnt sell it.

[77chris03]

please note the many different colors...and if you have xray vision look at the 3-5 gallons of bondo on the roof and rear window pillars, cab corners, and the floor.

[77chris03]

more of the rust bucket.

[77chris03]

more of the rust bucket...the last pic with it on the trailer and doors on is the day i sandblasted it. only a few pics of the before and after of that. theres too many..

[77chris03]

I promise only a few of the blasting before and after...



dont know if it can be seen from the pics but the whole roof was so bad, that i couldnt use it. it forced me to find another one. the passenger side looked like a tree fell onto it and crushed it in and someone drilled holes, pulled it out and then filled it with everyones nightmare, bondo. same with the cab corners and the rockers. i found this roof in a salvage yard on a complete 71 chevy truck. suprisingly the roof was the only good part on the truck.

[77chris03]

[77chris03]

No rust!!!! WHO WANTS TO SEE WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE NOW? OR SHOULD I CONTINUE WITH PICS THAT LEAD UP TO THAT?

[77chris03]

keep in mind, this is my first build ever........all the holes in the cab is where all the bondo was...and the rockers, they kinda vanished when the sandblaster got ahold of it


cut out a piece of sheet metal to match the gas cap hole and tacked it in..all the holes under it got cut out and a new piece was put in.(hint..the dotted line)

[77chris03]

got the new sheet metal in and the cab corner tacked.. along with the inner rocker, outer rocker and the pillar(was able to cut around the bolt holes and reweld the pillar back in place) and got some of the floor done on the drivers side.

[77chris03]

more pics...drivers side. fabed up a new air box and partial cover. cut the old bondo kick panel out and made a new one...



this is the attack cat that climbs all over the cab and frame making sure im actually workin....meanest pixie bob ive ever had....

[0331grunt]

wow.. thats some progress! Keep it up!

[72BlckButy]

Nice progress on the cab.

[Slick67]

Rollin right along, keep up the good work.

[77chris03]

frame is almost completly done...got it a roller today....did the rear brake lines last night...

[orange71]

Wow! Good for you for tackling that project! I would have scraped it! Great work!

[77chris03]

Was kinda wondering if anyone was actually following my thread. Kinda losing my motivation.

[dccarpenter]

I'm following along, great pics. Amazing work on restoring that cab most everyone here woulda scrapped it and you now have one better than most anyone's.

Hopefully the motivation is only lost on the thread and not the truck.

[0331grunt]

I like the work you have done so far.. Keep it up!