1963 LWB bagged project

[Popcorn W]

Yea, I have 1.5" blocks and even with those, if I have a flat my U-bolts will be making sparks on the pavement. I'm guessing with 3" and stock wheels you'll be flying sparks if your tires are 10 lbs low on air.

[Popcorn W]

Here's mine with 1.5" blocks. Those are 255/70-15 tires (about 29" diameter)
Let me know how the 3" ones look when your U-bolts are on. I actually may go with 3" also if they look like they'll work.
I guess if we both have blow-outs there will be flying sparks either way, 1.5 or 3, huh?

[provelless]

Here's mine with 17' rims and 27' tires. I actually let all the air out of that tire to see if the bolts would hit but not enough weight on it to see but its definately close.



But heres the way I look at it, you have 4 bags, 4lines and 8 air valves if any of those fail your going to be digging up asphalt to, just part of it I guess.

I did manage to get my air valves and compressor hooked up tonight and tested. Seems some dumbass forgot to put Teflon tape on all the pushlock valves that screwed in top of the bags.

[provelless]

Well I pulled my bags back out to put Teflon on the fittings and realized they had Teflon on them. I remember now they had Teflon on them when I got them I had just forgot . Anyway I clean the threads up added three or four wraps of Teflon, aired them back up and it still leaked. Cleaned threads again added six or seven rounds, aired them up again and their still leaking. The fittings I have said they were NPT threads but I'm starting to wonder. They screw all the way down flush with top of airbag as if they have no taper. What do you think.

[provelless]

Ok so I think I see the problem. I measured them and they are .790 at the small end and .795 at the big end. I then measured my other 1/2" fittings and they are .800 at small end and .830 at big end. I sent a message to the ebay seller curious what he will have to say.

[Popcorn W]

Wow, you're really moving along!
I really like that color. What color were you planning on painting it?

[provelless]

Proudsoul thanks, when I first sprayed it I hated it but within a few minutes I was digging it and ever time I see it I like it a little more and that has been everyones reaction when they first see it. It looks flat in the pics but it has a satin finish.

Popcorn I was originally going to try a fake patina type paint job ,probably a light green color. I really don't think I have enough skills to pull that off to my satisfaction though. My main goal was to get away from having to do perfect body work and a satin color will help. I did the body and paint on the s10, Chevelle and plane car and I drive my self crazy trying to get it perfect. I'm kind of a perfectionist without the skills to be so. Anyway, I'm striving for a good looking truck as long as you don't look to close.

[creep]

Looking good!

I would recommend removing the Teflon tape from the fittings and using Loctite 545 thread sealer. From what I've read the Teflon doesn't seal as good and can shred apart and foul up your valves.

[Nacho_Paras N.L.]

Nice!! Great progress...

[1963c-10]

I like the color and I think it pulls it off well in a satin finish

[uber cool]

Nice 63, I sold my s10 for the same reason too lol

[provelless]

Since I wasn't sure what I was going to do on the door, re-skin or find a used one, I moved on to the bed. Started on the drivers side because it looked the worse. Actually the rust repair didn't look that bad to fix but damn there is bondo from tail light to two feet past wheel well.

[provelless]

I got to this point on drivers side and decided to see what the pass side looked like. Again rust repair does look that bad but double damnnn on the bondo! There's places over 3/8 's deep in bondo and bondo from tail light to front.

[provelless]

So at this point I have to decide if this bed is worth saving and if I can find another bed, parts around here are impossible to find. Looking at the driver side , it looks pretty straight so I'm not sure why all the bondo. I may go ahead and grind the pass side down to metal and see what it looks like.

Meanwhile I mocked a engine and trans up. I've been very curious as how the transmission was going to fit the tunnel since the 2" z-frame. It's close, I have about 1/2" clearance at front of doghouse and rest of trans clears good. My hump is 7" high so FYI if your zing a frame and have a smaller hump you may be cutting the floor. I could also drop engine about one and a half inches and may do that to get a little more clearance.

[provelless]

Ok so it's been a while but I'm making some progress I couldn't find a good bed so I decided to repair mine, this took a while. Both sides had deep bondo from tail light to front, both sides were bowed out in the middle quite a bit then the rust repair. I ended up taking the whole bed down to metal because the top layer of paint was coming loose and under it was a layer of primer that had rust coming through. I used paint remover, sand paper, and a sand blaster some. In hind sight I would have been weeks ahead if I would have taken it somewhere and had it sand blasted.

[1963c-10]

Great progress on the bed sides. A lot of time and work in it, but it came out great!!!!

[provelless]

Thanks 1963c10, I wouldn't want to paint it gloss black but it's not bad. Since dealing with the bed, the door I wanted to replace doesn't seem so bad. So I replaced the bottom and grinded out all the bondo. The door had been hit vertically right down the middle and had been pulled back out. This left the middle of the door bowed out. I'm not a body man and I always have trouble with large areas of sheetmetal that's bowed in or out. My solution this time was to make a cut right down the middle of the door and weld it back up. This worked great!

[provelless]

So finished up the body work and sprayed them last night. Came home and bolted them up.

[CHIZZLER]

Looking good.

[provelless]

Ok so it's been a while since my last post but I'm finally finished with this project. This is the longest time I've ever took to get one finished and just got burned out or maybe just getting old, not sure I ended up rebuilding a 305 I had and adding a small Summit cam sounds great and will boils the tires thru second gear, good enough. My air compressor wasn't reliable so I ended up using my ac compressor to supply air to the bags. So far this has worked great and will fill the tank in about 20 seconds.

[provelless]

[Rorkrado]

Loving the LB! I may have missed it, but where are the rear wheel tubs from?? Need something similar for my 66 long bed.