1970 K20 Z62 Full Restoration

[Chaparralman1974]

I just read through the entire thread. Very impressive!! I am restoring a 1967 K20 myself. It is so nice to see some of the older K20 workhorses being brought back to life. Your attention to detail is superb!! I look forward to following along.

Clay

[IronCanine]

Originally Posted by Chaparralman1974

I just read through the entire thread. Very impressive!! I am restoring a 1967 K20 myself. It is so nice to see some of the older K20 workhorses being brought back to life. Your attention to detail is superb!! I look forward to following along.

Clay

Thanks! And thanks for hopping on board! Some fun stuff happened this week...

[IronCanine]

Eric shot some color!

If you have ever pulled a high hump out of a Fremont truck (probably the same at other plants too) there's a ring of primer on the floor lip where they just sat the hump in there and painted over it...effectively masking that lip. We're only spraying the brown primer where it would show from the factory. Technically this is one of those places since you guys at least will see it.

The plan is to shoot the firewall in single stage so that we can write in the wet paint as they did at Fremont. Eric refuses to shoot the rest of the truck in a single stage metallic. So this floor is basically a practice shot for the firewall (what you see is single stage). After that it's base/clear so it can be buffed without goofing the metallics.

I am very excited about the color. It is a remarkable match to the original paint on the truck in the areas that were UV protected. We checked against the glove box under the 4x4 decal and the firewall under the A/C box.

[IronCanine]

Again I've tried to utilize as many NOS and date code correct parts that I can. Sometimes that's been easy/gone well...sometimes, well...

Mike Cofield helped me find a date code correct steering gear, which was then rebuilt by Mike (not Cofield) at powersteering.com. While he puts a blank yellow sticker on there, from the factory that decal would have had the broadcast code. Thanks to some sleuthing and member help, the broadcast code for N40 on this truck in 1970 was "PC". This wasn't that hard of a decal to make and I did it at home.

I found an almost date code perfect fan and fan clutch (March 70). They were a pair off a truck. I sent the fan clutch off to kirkconnellcorvettes.com to be rebuilt. I talked to them on the phone, and since the date code is effectively just an ink stamp, they asked what I wanted the date code to be. In a moment of weak vanity, I thought...I've memorialized all the other members of my family in one way or another in numbers on these builds...how about MY birthday! Unfortunately April is D, 1970 is K and a 1 and an I look a lot alike. Doesn't help that the damn thing is made by Eaton. Thank God for a fan shroud.