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What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
I got the cab all vacuumed to be able to assess what will need to be replaced. There was a ton of leaves and acorns. My plan for the truck is build a nice driver that looks really old and rough but with a really strong undercarriage. I kind of like the ugly paint.
The rockers, part of the floor and floor kick corners will need to be replaced. Also the holes in the firewall will be welded up and a couple other small little spots will be addressed. Should I have the cab media blasted and epoxied before replacing the panels? Or could I get away with replacing the panels and then painting the truck? I got one quote from a well known shop here in town and it's $650 to blast and $450 to epoxy. http://www.americanstrippingsacramento.com/ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
I'm no expert but based on all the threads i have read i'd do the following:
I'd weld in a number of braces to keep the door openings accurate before the sections of floor and rockers are cut out, the door openings have a way of spreading open and outward. Probably best to next to cut out the areas that need replaced before blasting otherwise you could miss a rotten or thin spots the blaster would find for you.
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
You California kids are funny, in Indiana that's a rust free cab!
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
In Texas that is "Scrap" metal......
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
In Arizona I would not even call that scrap metal. Not too bad actually. All the "Rust Free" cabs are scarce. I myself would brace the door openings like mentioned earlier, the remove and replace the rusty sections. Keep digging until you get into good metal, and put new back in place. Then I would blast it if you are wanting to start with a clean slate. Otherwise, the areas that are solid now are protected with factory paint and are happy. Depends on what type of animal you want to end up with.
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
my 67 cab is in about the same condition. pretty minor repairs actually compares to what ive seen on here. brace the door openings and cut and patch one panal at a time.
thats a great color. i wish i could find a 67 that color
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
here in new York that's as good as a 2016
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
I would brace up the cab and remove the outer rockers then have it media blasted and epoxied then once it comes back you can remove any remaining damaged metal and do the metal repair.
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
do you have all the dash parts and seat belts and stuff?
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Another thing I would ask the media blaster if he ignores areas that are obviously beyond saving and just blast the areas that can be saved if that will reduce the cost to blast it. You will need to dig out all the of the seam sealer in the drip rail before you take it in to get blasted that way you are starting out with a nice clean surface to apply the new seam sealer. |
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
Yeah it looks like those structural pieces have been removed before and improperly reinstalled.
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
Looks fixable to me... kick panel, outer floorboard section patch panels. I would media blast it first to see exactly what I was dealing with, probably soda blast so as not to distort the metal, but would remove paint and rust to my knowledge. The seam that has opened up around the trans tunnel could be clamped back in place with vise grips and spot welded
Got a better pic. Of the drivers side, not sure what's going on there More light would help How are your welding skills? The brace on the firewall/ floorboards are two pieces they will have to be spot welded back together
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Do they make rocker and outer floor section together? I thought saw somewhere they did. Here a couple more pictures. I can get more this afternoon if there is another angle you want to see. Thanks again. ![]() ![]() |
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
So. Cal you can find some good ones and then also can find some with normal rot spots. Just depends on PO'ers replacing the door weather stripping when needed (that's too easy) Found mine with normal rot spots at lower floor & side panels (L&R sides) at were High Beam foot sw. is. I have seen people selling a refurbished cab going north of **$9000+,** I guess the 72 AC cab I bought that is in Original paint condition ( lt blu) with out any rot in cab, let me say that again **NO ROT** any were at all in cab, Just small area on one door lower underside fixable,
So I guess I could put a price tag of Better than $10,000+ for my cab that has most all items still installed like AC stuff inside & outside, complete dash cluster, heater control, all is still wired,(- strg column), No title but might can be gotten. It does have a Bill of Sale. Just thought I would put this out there. You can still find good cabs if you look in the right places. mjgord51 |
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
Hey Nick, drivers side looks doable, except the lower 'A' post needs some attention, but luckily you won't need the whole patch panel to fix fender mounting hole
how's the cab corners look? Is there any more rust other than what is pictured? The only patch panels I've seen for the rockers are two pieces, floorboard extension, and rockers. Who do you plan on buying your parts from? Check with the guys down in the body and paint section for their advice on primer, I don't pretend to be a painter Keep the pics coming as you make progress, love the color, and tape up your vin tag before blasting You may consider turning this into a build and project thread so people can learn. can't recommend wire size, but someone on the boards will know. Only do one side at a time, and brace it as said above Has someone been in there working on the floor, looks like the floor was badly patched before All the above posts are sage advice
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Here are the rockers/out floor pieces I was talking about. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=258031 |
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
What shape is your chopped top cab in? Maybe easier to just replace the roof with this one?
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The flip side is that the current chopped cab has a lot of work that has already been done. The floor was replaced, blasted and painted. The color would be changed if we kept it. Where would someone cut to replace the top? Pictures of the current cab. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Re: What Are My Options With 67 Cab?
It looks like who ever did the chop did a good job on it and the paint looks nice.
That is a really nice truck it's a shame to tear this truck apart and rebuild it, in fact this is a good candidate for PB treatment with Air ride and 20's. Why did you pay a premium for a completed truck that is such a extreme custom if you were just going to rip it apart and put it back to stock? Last edited by Xeen; 08-13-2015 at 11:22 AM. |
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