Project '66 Dirtrod: K-30 Extended Cab

[oklahomaduner]

Thanks everyone for the support! Things have been going real slow for awhile. I've gotten some small things done like brake lines and I ran all the wires for a trailer plug and rear lights. The cab is coming together, we got the inner skin cut and fit together and the drivers door hung. It's definitely starting to pick up again!
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[alwaysbroken]

pictures..we need pictures. your killing me over here.

[oklahomaduner]

pics

[alwaysbroken]

oh my, that looks great. cant wait to see the truck finished.

so how much did u need to change the body mounts? did you change them on the chassis or the body?

[oklahomaduner]

Originally Posted by alwaysbroken

oh my, that looks great. cant wait to see the truck finished.

so how much did u need to change the body mounts? did you change them on the chassis or the body?

Right now we aren't sure how they will be moved. We cut all the mounts off the frame and we will see what needs to be done when the cab returns.

[alwaysbroken]

alright. when you do i want all the steps.

thanks

[65 old school]

WOW!, mad fab skills. You guys are doing a great job!. I love the ext cab, I thought about doing that to my 65' daily driver/work truck, and had to stop myself. " IT'S JUST A WORK TRUCK ". Great job.

[oklahomaduner]

Stay tuned and you'll see all of it bud!

[alwaysbroken]

lol. oh i will. iv looked this build over and over and over. i got every little bit of this build lodged into my little brain.

[56taskforce]

Just found your build here and after three hours I feel it was a very brief scan though such a great and in depth build, WOW will have to sum it up for me because you and your father have rendered me speechless.
Very nice work and a life time of cherish able memories for you and your father.
This is much more than a truck the two of you are building it is a legacy some what a passing of the torch “a passing of knowledge and skill from father to son. Very cool I will defiantly have to spend some more time here to better absorb what has been done and keep up with what is to come. Thank you for sharing this.

[Dinos63]

Dig this build!! And happy birthday!

[Big-Blue]

Any updates?
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[oklahomaduner]

Hey guys, this truck has been at a standstill for quite awhile as you can probably tell!

But I have a little more money saved up to start buying a few parts we want and a few things we need.

As for the body, our body guy is still slowly working on it when he has time. That is our biggest hold up at the moment.

We are also trying to mount up the a/c compressor which may lead to re-doing some of the accessory brackets. And we had to pull the tires and wheels to put on another truck, they were gettting old and started to form flat spots so she's sitting on trailer spares for now...

[coops714x4]

I just read your build.. and all I can say is WOW you guys have some mad fab skills. keep us posted. subscribed. if ya need a hand turning a wrench just holler. Coop

[RockTonka]

Moving slowly forward, but progress non-the-less. I'll post some teaser pics and let my boy fill in the details...

[RockTonka]

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[RockTonka]

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[jonzcustomshop]

these pics are great! they will be a helpful resource for those that want to build extend/crew cabs!
interested in hearing what problems and solutions came up.

[oklahomaduner]

Well we got the inner skin cut, fit, and glued together (we didnt weld from fear of warpage) and we got the outer skin cut and laid in place. The dash is nearly done, it just lacks some smoothing. And the rockers on the extended part need to be welded up.

The plan as of now is to have it out of the body shop by summer. After the roof gets done, we have to lay the floor in, panel the sides then decide how we are going to make the windows work. We are currently thinking about taking some ideas from the way the suburban windows fit in.

So after the cab work is done, we'll get it into primer and undercoated so we can take it back to our place to marry it back to the frame.

Some of the biggest struggles we have had on the cab so far is fighting the 1/2 inch difference in width from the front of our addon and the back of the original cab. And the differences in the contour of the roof skins. They create all sorts of issues when fitting the roof skins.

We found that making the right amount of relief cuts in certain panels was the best solution. We also decided that drilling out the spot welds and removing the panels whole made good fitment a lot easier than trying to just make one cut around the back of the cab.

If any one has any questions about any step so far feel free to ask it! Ill do my best to answer it!
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[Captainfab]

Very nice work

Obviously a lot of thought has gone into this.

[Woogeroo]

What, after all of this... no rear doors on the extended cab?

just kidding!

hehehe

sweet ride... or, it will be.

-W

[jbclassix]

updates?

too busy with the new burb

[RockTonka]

Definitely busy with the burb but he got some time in on this today...I'll let him fill in the details.

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