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02-06-2014, 11:49 AM
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Re: my build thread
Smooth as silk! Beautiful job!
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02-06-2014, 12:23 PM
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Re: my build thread
Very nice fab work.....great build.
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02-06-2014, 02:12 PM
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Re: my build thread
Sweet welder! I just got the same one.
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02-06-2014, 07:03 PM
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Re: my build thread
killin it man!!!! i really dig your work
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02-06-2014, 10:14 PM
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Re: my build thread
Love the new toy and the work is great also
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02-08-2014, 10:25 PM
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Re: my build thread
no new info on the build but i worked on a welding cart today for the tower of power... Im still in a 1 car garage so space is at a minimum.
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03-01-2014, 03:23 PM
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not a whole lot of new news on the truck, got my new mounts in from Energy. Also figured out how to mount the uppers, now ive been working on the tabs to hold them and also make them fully adjustable and also good looking. Steel came in for the lowers and ive got my buddies hydraulic bender in the shop to start on them.
  also finished this cart finally 
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07-05-2014, 12:08 PM
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Re: my build thread
Diggin that A arm.
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07-18-2014, 11:14 AM
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Thanks Bomp. Been getting a ton of work done on the truck finally, just not enough time to post, so ill catch everyone up with this one.
Got my passenger side rocker replaced, the drivers will be here this week, I ordered them from Brothers and they fit great. Decided to take out all my body work around the drip rail because it was failing due to poor prep work on my part. Spent a lot of time re welding it all and getting it smooth. I hired a guy to come start smoothing the whole cab out. He has the drip rail, fiber glassed, bondo'd, and spot puttied, and is almost all smoothed out. Also ive got the bottom of the cab coated in chassis saver. As for the fab work, the front of the truck is done. Did a bunch of figuring with the lowers, then machined my ball joint sleeves, and made the jig. The joint sits on a 13* angle, and both arms are built on the same jig, just by moving the locating slug and bolt to a different hole. I need to change the upper mounts just a bit for caster/camber and ball joint accommodation, but overall im very happy with how its coming together. Once the front is done ill get it all up on a frame table and connect it to the rest of the frame          
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07-18-2014, 11:32 AM
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Re: my build thread
Front end and cab looking great!!!
I'm interested to see the drip rail conversion done.
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07-19-2014, 04:17 AM
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Re: my build thread
awesome work man!!! really make me want to try to build some tubular control arms!!
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07-20-2014, 10:57 AM
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Re: my build thread
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07-20-2014, 11:11 AM
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Re: my build thread
Excellent work !
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07-20-2014, 09:11 PM
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Re: my build thread
Very nice work.
I have often thought about building my own control arms. Yours look sweet!
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03-13-2016, 09:50 PM
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Re: my build thread
Well no updates on this thing. I decided to make some serious life changes and take my career somewhere new where I hope to go further. The truck was un able to make the trip. The frame cab and bed were sold. I decided to keep all my front end stuff and keep my 66 in hopes of bringing it to southern Washington one day to finish it.
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06-20-2022, 11:04 AM
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Re: my build thread
Do you have a new build thread on the new truck?
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08-24-2010, 07:58 PM
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Re: my build thread
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Didn't have the motivation to build a jig today but I priced out my steel for the set of uppers. 6' of 1 1/4 wall dom and 1.5' of 3/8 cr. Runs about 70 bucks. Now jus gotta find someone to bend 1 1/4.
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08-24-2010, 11:34 PM
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Re: my build thread
I could bend that, but I'm not close to you.
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08-25-2010, 07:24 PM
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Re: my build thread
Found someone to bend my tube. Put an ad up on CL and a guy that used to come into the machine shop alot replied. He said we could trade machining for bending but then I reminded him who I was and he said free.
Pretty stoked to get started on them.
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