Project 69SWB

[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Lookin good lookin good.
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Originally Posted by Low Elco

Wooo wooo! Progress! always feels good.

Originally Posted by sduckworth13

Great job Jimmy!
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Thanks guys. Got the bed off tonight (it was just sitting on there to save space in the garage. ) and cleaned up shop some. Used the same mount but cross cross a couple ratchet straps on the bed and it worked great. No pics though. :-(

I also ordered a 4/6 drop from Early Classic today so looks like I'll be going back and redoing the suspension. Woo woo. Haha nah this is a labor of love so I'm glad to do it.
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[~Whitey~]

One more.
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[KSWes]

Bad ass! Looks great back on the frame!
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[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by KSWes

Bad ass! Looks great back on the frame!
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Thanks! It's a big milestone.

[67cheby]

sweet

[jmking9]

That thing is looking awesome even without the bed or clip. Cant wait to see it dropped. To me, it doesnt get much better than a 4/6 dropped swb with 17 inch TT's. Do you have an idea of when your gonna have it back on the road?

[ddubbs]

Jimmy. The truck is coming along. Man you are not messing around. Roof came out perfect.
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[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

sweet

Thanks Mike!

Originally Posted by ddubbs

Jimmy. The truck is coming along. Man you are not messing around. Roof came out perfect.
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Thanks ddubbs. I'm very happy with the roof, was worried at first. :-/

Originally Posted by jmking9

That thing is looking awesome even without the bed or clip. Cant wait to see it dropped. To me, it doesnt get much better than a 4/6 dropped swb with 17 inch TT's. Do you have an idea of when your gonna have it back on the road?

Thank you Jonathon. I've got my springs but still waiting on the rest of the 4/6 or else I'd have it on there already! He said it's all waiting to ship, just the adj. trackbar holding up the shipment. After seeing other 4/6's and admiring them so much I decided to go ahead and do it too... Love the look. I love the TT's too. I am really hoping to have it ready to go by late summer early fall. We'll see, I'm not going to rush it as badly as I want to.

will post up an update in a few

[~Whitey~]

Well after getting the cab mounted to the frame and torqued down, I started getting serious about aligning all the panels and found that I could not for the life of me even after reading every single thread about door alignment get the passenger door to align right. One problem I ran into is during the a pillar repair on the passenger side either I wasn't paying attention or it was from the damage to the cab, the top hinge and bottom hinge are not parallel with each other.

Kind of hard to see in the pics, but the bottom is tilted in towards the rocker making door alignment even more of a PITA that it would be normally.





I just cut the front side and then used a 2x4 and 3lb hammer to straighten it out, then welded it back up.... REAL SLOW LIKE.






I can't stress enough to anyone welding, GO SLOW, I've rushed through a few welded areas and have caused myself more work and more than one setback by welding to fast and warping stuff. I also had to cut my rocker in a few places also, because it was too high at the bottom gap with the door and won't let my door come down enough so that my fender and cowl match up. I've got it cut and the door is looking good now, but I still gotta weld it back in the places I cut... I tacked it, but tonight I figure I'll finish it up.. SLOWLY. :-) I WILL HAVE PERFECT GAPS IF IT"S THE LAST THING I DO!!

[Low Elco]

Gonna look right dropped! Hurry and bring it to Riverside! Convoy up with them other Springfield dudes!
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[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Gonna look right dropped! Hurry and bring it to Riverside! Convoy up with them other Springfield dudes!
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I agree on the drop... will look "right". haha. When is Riverside?

[Xeen]

Wierd stuff happens sometimes atleast you went back and made it right, there are alot of guys who would have left it jacked up, so kudos man.

[Bomp]

Nice save on the door issue.
In total agreement about slow welding

[RocketKing]

Wow, looks great!

[Low Elco]

Riverside is All Truck Nationals. Look under the main Midwest board. Its the weekend after Labor Day. Always a great time. Please come up, all trucks welcome!

Best advice I can give is to do rockers and corners with the doors in place and especially re pinned and bushed. I did it that way and I still have tight spots!

Glad you're gettin' 'er squared away. Gonna look great!
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[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by Xeen

Wierd stuff happens sometimes atleast you went back and made it right, there are alot of guys who would have left it jacked up, so kudos man.

Thanks Brian, means alot.

Originally Posted by Bomp

Nice save on the door issue.
In total agreement about slow welding

maybe I need to put on some slower music when I weld. :-/

Originally Posted by RocketKing

Wow, looks great!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Riverside is All Truck Nationals. Look under the main Midwest board. Its the weekend after Labor Day. Always a great time. Please come up, all trucks welcome!

Best advice I can give is to do rockers and corners with the doors in place and especially re pinned and bushed. I did it that way and I still have tight spots!

Glad you're gettin' 'er squared away. Gonna look great!
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I'll see what I can do... might be unfinished, but if it's close I'll bring it anyway. Thanks for the tip.. NOW YOU TELL ME! haha

[XxCHEVYMANxX]

You're really movin along. Nice work Jimmy, and it's good to see Nacho has good safety habits.

[Bomp]

Originally Posted by ~Whitey~

maybe I need to put on some slower music when I weld. :-/

Its rare for me to read a reply and bust out laughing but you got me.
Slower soft music helps set the mood.

[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by XxCHEVYMANxX

You're really movin along. Nice work Jimmy, and it's good to see Nacho has good safety habits.

thanks Chevyman! Nacho, he's does good out in the garage unless I'm making alot of noise... My German Shepherd on the other hand, he loves to be out there with me too but he won't sit still very long, he rather go wheelin'. :-)

Originally Posted by Bomp

Its rare for me to read a reply and bust out laughing but you got me.
Slower soft music helps set the mood.

I've been queuing up some Air Supply and Chicago, and massaging the metal real slow..

[derrickmanx1]

Looking great. Keep up the good work.

[jmking9]

Haven't heard from you in a while...Hows the truck coming along? Hope all is well.

[~Whitey~]

Hey Jonathan.. thanks for rattling my cage. I apologize to everyone who's been following my thread .. I haven't been a very good host!

I'm still working away, had a couple setbacks with my cab being tweaked.

Even before I tore the truck down my drivers door had a ridiculous gap in it at the striker, the was a total of 5 plates stacked up just to get it to latch. Instead of welding a bead on the edge of the door to close it up I decided to cut the corner and bend it, was a big SCARY job but now my door seal will match up with the door line good.




So I started cutting and tacking...





and then I cut and tacked some more...



and a little more to get the inside to fit the door line right...

[~Whitey~]

after what seem like forever and a day of welding this back up real slow...



I ground down the welds... couldn't make up my mind if I wanted a dummy filler neck, then just decided to fill it in...





There's more to this repair but I didn't get pics, will try to take some tonight and put them in with it.. But basically I had to move the entire rocker about a 1/4 inch forward... and I also added a strip of 18 gauge down the door line to make the gap even.... I'll get some pics of that when I get the door back on during sanding and blocking.

[~Whitey~]

Next on to something ALOT more fun than metal work! Got my 4/6 Drop from ECE... it went on like butter and after leaning in and out of the truck while I was getting the interior ready for paint and smacking the back of my head on the door jam multiple times... I finally got it through my head that the truck sat much lower now! ;-)

You can see the difference between what I took off and the ECE drop





Glad I did this, it gave me chance to buy the dust shields and get them on there...







Didn't take pics of the back, but will tonight and get them uploaded...

[mcbassin]

Very nice work on the cab and fender Jimmy. I bet that took some serious time to stitch that weld in. I can appreciate all your hard work on the doors too. I have just spent months on my doors, fenders and bed sides. It's slow going for sure even you aren't distracted by bikes keep up the hard work.

Nice work on the paint inside too!