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Re: My own build thread
man you have got a lot done, I have been looking for that ac vent for a while! I heard someone talking about trying to use 67-72 ac vent balls and center one, not sure if it worked or not! the wood engraving is awesome, are you just going to clear it, an how are you going to attach it??
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Thanks! I'm still not sure on the vent balls. I haven't had time to go see what the paint store has but if they don't have anything chrome I'm going to paint them gold. I'll come up with something.
The wood piece isn't the actual piece, the guy I had make this made it slightly too big. So that piece is now on my desk ![]() But the new piece will be treated, the guy is going to stain it a little and I'm going to clear it when I repaint my hood. There are 3 holes where the plastic piece was, I'm not sure if that is original but I thought about glueing dowels or I may just use some thin double back tape. Here is a pic of the the glovebox door installed. I just wanted to see how it looked. ![]() |
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Your question about the 3 holes in the glovebox door is correct, they are stock mounting holes for the trim piece that goes there. IMO I would go with at least 2 dowels ~and~ use the double sided tape to mount that. In one of my future builds I am going to do a wood trim interior, I have always thought that looked pretty classy (up until I found out later that most of it all was a decal laminate that only looked like wood grain....)
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Awesome work Bruh!!
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Thanks you! You don't happen to know if anyone remakes the nuts that hold the A/C controls on do you? I've looked everywhere, they look like threaded washers with two slots cut into them. I'm missing one... Grr!
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I really like your build. one of my favorites.i look at the build threads and if Zippey is on i'am watching
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If I could find my old one, I would send you that nut, I know which one you are describing.
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Thanks Everyone! I ordered some 60-62 Covette nuts, they look the same but I won't know if they work until they get here. I hope they work, damn things were 9 bucks a piece...
Anyway I've been working my butt off but everything I put together seems to need something fixed. I went to install the new side windows and realized the wheels were broken on the passenger side window regulator. After some research I realized you have to buy the whole regulator... So I searched some more and found a guy that used some shower door wheels from lowes to fix his jeep. I figured what the heck I might as well try and it worked! For 4 bucks I fixed my regulator. Here is how I did it. Drill out the rivets holding the old wheels "or what's left of them" out. This is the broken wheel on the regulator. ![]() Here are the shower wheels. There are a few sizes so pick the ones that fit the closest, you have to shave them down to fit. ![]() This is how much smaller I had to make the wheels, you also have to make them thinner by sanding on the side with the nut and bevel them so the slide into the tracks. ![]() I use these sanding disks on a high speed grinder, they work very well. ![]() Here it is in the track. ![]() Stack a few washers under it to get the correct distance for the tracks ![]() This shows the original wheels and the new ones I replaced them with ![]() You may want to buy some screws that are 1/4-1/2 longer than the one supplied because once you stack the washers behind the nut the original screws only catch a few threads. I also used red lock tight so everything stays together. Here's the door panels on with the door handles. I polished the handles too ![]() ![]() Here's the door glass in, I'm really happy how tight everything fits with all the new gaskets. It rolls up and down very nicely! ![]() For my project tonight, I get to figure out how to reassemble the newly re chromed GMC grill. I'm converting the lights to H1/H4s but they will look like stock lights until I turn them on. I rebuilt the headlight buckets and painted them black. Installed the new springs etc. ![]() Last edited by zippeay; 03-04-2014 at 01:01 PM. |
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So clean I love it
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Re: My own build thread
Finally sat down and read this whole thread.
What a *****in truck, color combo , stance.... You nailed it.
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Thanks guys! I'm glad you like it.
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That grill came out great. Nice trick on the window mech.
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I was just informed that you CAN buy the rollers from Classic parts... And I thought I was being cool. I guess this works too but I would probably order the wheels.
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A little update.
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How about something like this?
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do something custom with drawer knobs or bullets?????
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Do a single floating flat bar in the roof color. Shape the ends the same as the shape of the grile ends??
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Modified Corvette teeth...
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I'm going to leave it for right now, I have plenty of stuff to do besides that. I need to get it on the road... Thanks for all the ideas guys!
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Boon dogs what's that emblem off of?
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1963 c-10 is right on the money
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Sorry boonedogs72....hope you didn't mind me answering
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Thanks fellas
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