1963 GMC C30 panel truck

[AJCK87]

She's got some height to her now!

[chevyfreek]

Man this sure is one sexy truck I love the 5.9 swap. Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing more!

[AJCK87]

Originally Posted by 62stepside longbox

Yep no problem Anthony, they were cool wall hangers but I'd much rather see someone like you put them to use on their truck! And yeah I definitely agree that 60-63 are the best!

Awesome! Must feel really good to see it all together as a whole truck Instead of just a pile of parts, she'll be on the road soon, can't wait until mine is at that point

For sure! Keep picking away at it and it will come together

Originally Posted by chevyfreek

Man this sure is one sexy truck I love the 5.9 swap. Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing more!

Thanks Chevyfreek! It keeps on getting better, and more to come

Just got back to McNeill after the honeymoon so no progress as of late hahaha. Here is a little snap shot from the wedding. Hopefully get back to it soon. Thanks for tuning in

[Palf70Step]

[Bomp]

Congrats.

[62stepside longbox]

Now that is how a wedding is supposed to look! With an old Chevy truck in the background!

[rusty76]

Awesome ride. Congrates as well.

[AJCK87]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

It was an awesome day!

Originally Posted by Bomp

Congrats.

Thanks Bomp! Wish the old girl was rolling, would have been great to take out on the honey moon. The surf boards would have fit better hahaha

Originally Posted by 62stepside longbox

Now that is how a wedding is supposed to look! With an old Chevy truck in the background!

Thanks Nik! Everyone was super excited about my project. Janel and I even spent the wedding night in the back. Super comfy with tones of space. It will be a perfect road tripping and camping rig.

Originally Posted by rusty76

Awesome ride. Congrates as well.

Thanks Rusty!

Not much progress for me lately as I'm all out of annual leave and the truck is a 5hr drive away. Just going to be tinkering on a few bits here and there. I'm looking for some shop space in McNeill, but will have to play it by ear. Hopefully back to it soon! Cheers guys thanks for the kind congrats

[AJCK87]

Hey Guys,

Things have been pretty quiet in McNeill, just been working on a few part here and there. I did some rust repair work on a bunch of the bed wood tie downs and I ran into a few issues with the front turn signals I put together, so I scrapped what I had and started fresh. I got some new turn signal units, 6" by 5/8" with 6 White leds for the day time runners and 6 amber leds for the turn signal, should marry up to the wiring harness a bit better. I refit the housing as well, I shaved the back and welded up some 16 gauge for a flat mounting place, had a little creative licence with the back hahaha

Now I moved onto finishing the heater system refurb. I had a look at the ducting and all the old felt is blown out and the whole thing is pretty rusty. Here's where I'm at with the resto, I pulled the duct apart and I cut out some wool felt to seal up the vent valve. I got to weld the side piece back on and clean up the cables then onto the head portion.


I'm still on the look out for some shop space up here, hopefully something comes up. Other then that, I'm just going to keep at it
Cheers,

[TJ's Chevy]

Congrats on the wedding and Congrats on the truck! Wedding is always that much better with a GMC or Chevy truck. haha

[AJCK87]

Originally Posted by TJ's Chevy

Congrats on the wedding and Congrats on the truck! Wedding is always that much better with a GMC or Chevy truck. haha

Thanks TJ! It was a pretty awesome day, and it was really cool to have all the family together. Got a lot of positive comments on the truck! Really digging both your builds, great work man!

More progress!

I finished the tear down of the heater ducting, I cleaned up all the pieces and laid down some POR15 and put in all new seals. Ready to install in the truck!


I was looking at the heater motor resistor, and it's a bit bent up and corroded. Does anyone know if this is something that will affect how this system performs? Going to have to do some more research!


Out of parts up here for now, going down in a few weeks. More to come.

Thanks for tuning in

[Palf70Step]

Wiring, it really tests my patience.

[Palf70Step]

Sorry to hear about the loss of your grandfather. Like Nik mentioned, it is also good to hear about you making some progress on the truck.

[AJCK87]

Originally Posted by 62stepside longbox

Sorry to hear about your grandfather, my condolences.
Glad to hear you're making progress on the move and will be back to working on the panel again.

Thanks Nik

My brother in law is going to help me tow the truck to Port McNeill now that I don't have the Dodge anymore. We just have to get his truck going first....hahaha

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Sorry to hear about the loss of your grandfather. Like Nik mentioned, it is also good to hear about you making some progress on the truck.

Thanks Bill

I am really looking forward to finally bringing my truck home!

[AJCK87]

Big panel news!

The truck has arrived at my new place in Port McNeill! Pretty excited, still need to work on the space to best keep out the wind and the rain. Excited about making some progress happen. More to come soon

Cheers,

[62stepside longbox]

Good to hear you got the panel home without any problems

[AJCK87]

Originally Posted by 62stepside longbox

Good to hear you got the panel home without any problems

Thanks Nik, plans all went sideways with the trailering idea, so I shopped around for a tow and got it flat decked up and delivered, so nice.

On to progress!

Evening Gents,

Well I finally got some time on the panel this past weekend! I want to get all the GMC, Dodge and Cummins electrical blended together in the wiring department. I began re-routing the signal wires on the dodge harness, got them all wired up. I need to figure out the "signal" bit though, I'm ordering some LED signal and hazard relays and hoping that will get it working. I also got the horns bolted up and running, and a bunch of the other relays mounted as well. I need to round up some more wire loom and spend some time cleaning the rest of the harness. Still have a few things to hook up too: head lights, wiper motor, washer fluid pump and heater.



The day and night time runners, the LEDs go amber for the signal



I installed some LED bulbs into the gauge cluster as well



Spent some time on the shifter and linkage for the NP205, should be a smoother engagement



Man that 5.9 just fits in there hahaha



O and some new body panels I just put on order from Auto Body Specialists, coming from the East coast, but they were the largest quarter panels I could find shy of getting the whole bed side hahaha



Thanks for tuning in!

[Palf70Step]

Glad to hear you making progress.

What is this snow thing u speak of?

Yeah it got cold here too. we have dipped down into the 60s again

[62stepside longbox]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Yeah it got cold here too. we have dipped down into the 60s again

Haha I wish it was 60 here, let's just say we have quite different perspectives of cold

[AJCK87]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Glad to hear you making progress.

What is this snow thing u speak of?

Yeah it got cold here too. we have dipped down into the 60s again

Thanks Bill! We got it pretty good, despite the cold and the wet. Hahaha.

Good day!

I got some time on the truck today, decided to extricate the portion off the dash that I need to work on rather then removing the dash completely. I started by deleting the hole for the old clock as well as a smaller hole below that, then I moved on to fixing the radio location, it was hacked up. Couldn't really tell how bad until I fit the radio in. I patched that then re cut the hole for the radio, cleaning up the tuning knob holes and deleting a few other random holes. Don't think I got a photo up yet with the new radio, the wife got it for me last October.



Tomorrow I will be fitting the ash tray location with the Cummins message board and the clock delete area will be replaced with the 4X4 engagement indicator.

[62stepside longbox]

Nice work, that gmc radio is cool, any idea what year it's from?

[AJCK87]

Originally Posted by 62stepside longbox

Nice work, that gmc radio is cool, any idea what year it's from?

Thanks Nik! That radio is a repo from Custom Autosound, ordered it on eBay, it was a good price for a 300 watt system. All I really need hahaha.

Well another good day on the truck,

I continued work on the dash section, I fitted the Cummins message board. I did my best at re creating the fancy lip, I think it turned out pretty good. I also mounted the 4X4 indicator. Now I need to weld this section back into the dash, a project for another day. Thanks for tuning in!

[Palf70Step]

Nice work on the dash panel.

[winslowgoodwin]

that looks awesome! I like the way you got all that in there.

[AJCK87]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Nice work on the dash panel.

Thanks Bill! I'm really liking how it's turning out. I had a vision for it, and it totally holds up

Originally Posted by winslowgoodwin

that looks awesome! I like the way you got all that in there.

Thank you Winslow! I really wanted to incorporate those couple of dash pieces from the Dodge and figure it would fit in with the direction I'm taking the build. I'm really looking forward to seeing how you put your gauges and dash together. Cheers man.

Evening guys,

Little more progress this weekend. Spent some time and welded in the dash piece that I have been cleaning up and reworking. Pretty happy with how it turned out.



Next I'm going to pull the seats, move them forward a few centimetres. Make it a little easier to get into the back hahaha. While the seats are out, I'm going to close up the remaining holes in the floor and firewall. More to come.