'64 chevy 2wd to 4wd

[Ol Blue K20]

How did you get any work done. I would've been fishing. LOL...Everything else is coming out great. I just got home from a long weekend at the cabin.

[dieseldawg142]

my fishing license expired!...
soon as i found out it was a metal roof & we were taking the flatdeck trailer, tried to slide my quad on the back of it, but the boss was'nt going for it.....

so i finally got all the hard points, locations etc.
changed the firewall, needed inner fenders, so into my new $15 box & strait to the s-10 (knew it would come in handy....) a little chop work...

into the stripper..


started a visor, & a hydraulic tank. the pencil line is how much i cut-off to get the rear wheels where they needed to be

[dieseldawg142]

here's what it looks like jammed in the crew. also made a rad support. the holes in the ends are to clear the headlights. will put dual batts in to cover them up


the finished visor


rudimentary control valve. will plumb it with hard lines on the frame (easiest) with hoses at the rams. also got my engine/tranny mounts located & in


rear axle & springs are built & almost ready to go in. notice the hyd tank is narrower...

[Ol Blue K20]

It's all looking great. The details are looking good. Totally awesome.

[dieseldawg142]

thanks Dale, been a slow go, lot of unseen boring work scratchin' it.....
did manage to get the springs in so it can stand by itself now


see what it's looking like so far.....

[Ol Blue K20]

I don't know what anyone else is thinking, but it is looking bad a#$ to me. Great job, keep it up. The boring scratch work to you is amazing to me.

[dieseldawg142]

here's some more boring scratch work.....
tie rod & front u-bolts


looking pretty plain on the pass. side- needs a air tank. figures, i have no tubing that big, but i do got a felt pen....


bent up some hyd. lines. the long one to the deck ram will half to be finished when it goes in. wont get it thru the hole in the frame otherwise...

[dieseldawg142]

found these nice little lites for the taillights, & where they'll go


workin' on a bumper....

[Ol Blue K20]

Looking great. Nice idea on the air tank. Front bumper looks good too

[dieseldawg142]

with the nice weather, been slowing down on this.....
my homemade int is almost there, seatbelts & a couple other things yet


deck is almost done (yeah, my winch cable is spooled the wrong way.....)

[dieseldawg142]

chassis is mostly there. still working on the 454

[dieseldawg142]

one of the oil filter slash transformer....

[Ol Blue K20]

Interior looks great. I.wasn't going to say a thing about the cable.......honest..... No one will notice it. They'll be too busy tripping out on all the other details.

[dieseldawg142]

little more on the rollback. i have 'till wed to try finish it. i kinda gave myself a challenge to get 12 models done this yr, one a month. dont know if it will happen.
the body was a ROYAL PIA, then for some reason i could'nt do anything right (except stick my fingers together....) pass side decals went on no prob, first shot, only printed one. dr's side was an exercise in frustration- NINE times i had to print the stripe.......
visors & domelight, re-wound the winch the right way, also got a couple of big chrome spots for it


'nother pia was the hood, multiple pieces= multiple warpages. grill valance is cut up & modified one from the s-10


454 is done, it's not glued in, everything is just mocked up for fit- 'nother issue was the fan & rad (SURPRISE!! just like the '55.....) had to make new rad support, new engine mounts, move the trans x-member, lift the body another mil or so, modify the grill to fit new rad support..................

[dieseldawg142]

these stripes....grrrrr!
scratched up some seatbelts


just another mock-up to check. notice white strip of styrene under rad-still having to shift things around......


i love these things, wish i had them a long time ago. 3d printed i belive

[Ol Blue K20]

It's looking pretty dang nice!

[dieseldawg142]

thanks Dale!
i got the block & trans mounted, had to modify the cab floor & t-case so it would fit as well.
got the exhaust made, still need to do d-shafts, rear will prob be a 2 piece'r. also need to do steering & heater & rad hoses.
getting this one done really makes me want to jump on truck 3 of the fleet, the peterbilt. but this rollback has been a HUGE amount of work, bet i got 'bout 60-80 hrs on it, so i'm thinking something simpler next.
'55 chev crewcab stepside 1 ton dually 4x4, but with tall skinny lugs
(or maybe one of them un-built kits first....holidays come the 3rd!)

[dieseldawg142]

with all the probs with this one, didn't think it was going to come together, especially how i lost 4 hrs yesterday swappin' out the switch on the wifes truck- again......

[dieseldawg142]

couple more.....

[dieseldawg142]

the "fleet" so far.......

[Ol Blue K20]

You rocked this one, a lot of awesome details. Nice looking fleet too.....

[dieseldawg142]

thanks Dale!
was not a smooth build.....way longer than i figured
i know i just did a five-five, but really getting into the crews, & i got an abundance of '55's right now (plus i just like the kit, nice frame etc...)
changing directions on this though, thinking all stock looking (4x4 on skinny luggies) but with a modern drivetrain, what most guys do on their 1:1's anyways
chopping up some styrene...


pretty rough looking right now. to keep the bottom of the cab level & the body lines strait, there's really no way to cut it so the windows line up decently, so i will cut out the center post, shape the windows & put a new post back in.
one other prob is the cab tapers back to front.....


....so i had to split & wedge it open.
it's going to look rough like this for a week, going camping tomorrow, beer, fishing, quadding, beer.....
so looking forward to it, we've had a heat wave (for us ) for the last couple weeks with mid to hi 90's, been brutal at work. some useless
trivia, took the laser thermometer up on the roof yesterday, air temp 96, roof temp on the surface, 165 degrees, as i roll along with my torch- around 450-ish with spikes to 500. yup, on slow broil all day....

[Ol Blue K20]

This looks like a cool project. I have faith in ya.....

[dieseldawg142]

thanks Dale
what the hey, got all these '55's.....this will burn up a couple of 'em
been busy since we got back, not a lot done
well, i know what kind of drivetrain i'm putting in, i know it's going to be a crew, i know what colors i'm painting it.....
but i'm not sure which way i'm going to go with this......
this is tire & wheels i got kicking around, also thinking non-dually with steelies & lugs, or steelies & bigger tires, haft to order (and of course 4x4 )
1 ton dually crew....


bigger tires....

[dieseldawg142]

little more done....
coat of primer to see the touch-ups
again, good-bye back wrap