MY build thread...

[shortbed70]

Yea it sucks right now. Part of it is my fixed mortgage keeps going up because insurance keeps going up because building material keeps going up because ...... Well you get the idea! Something has to change and it isn't my spending!!!
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[wutnxt]

Hey thanks for stopping by and checking out my build.....

You have done some great work to your truck, looks great I bet you can't wait to get it out on the road.

[shortbed70]

Originally Posted by wutnxt

Hey thanks for stopping by and checking out my build.....

You have done some great work to your truck, looks great I bet you can't wait to get it out on the road.

No problem.

Thanks it's been a LONG time since I have drove a truck this one I have never drove. I am super stoked and hoping to get it mobile this weekend... Burnout video will be taken!!! I've had my eye on yours for a while it's looking good.
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[wutnxt]

Thanks...

I really haven't driven that one almost at all before i tore it all apart and now the race is on to get it together for summer. So i completely understand you being Stoked....I will be checking out the thread for a rubber burning clip...lol...good luck man

[shortbed70]

Good luck to you too we just got my buddies race truck together for this weekend and took it on the maden voyage yesterday. 417 sbc, 550-570 solid cam, 3800 stall,4.10 gears th 350. It should run good we will see. Check my videos on YouTube under this screen name...
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[Alan's Classic]

It's not the best job to do too a truck. Blocking does suck. I do it because others don't have to. Don't give up. It's a lot of work. Keep digging.

[shortbed70]

Thanks Alan I should've just replaced the quarter panel on the drivers side also but live and learn I guess. Just more elbow grease required...
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[daverod]

It fun turning mud into dust, huh. Alan makes it look so easy. I've been working on my bed sides for a year. Off and on. More off than on, because anything that I can do besides body work I do instead. Just like anything else though the more you do it the easier it gets. You'll get it. and your arms will get ripped.

[shortbed70]

Originally Posted by daverod

It fun turning mud into dust, huh. Alan makes it look so easy. I've been working on my bed sides for a year. Off and on. More off than on, because anything that I can do besides body work I do instead. Just like anything else though the more you do it the easier it gets. You'll get it. and your arms will get ripped.

Well I'm kinda in a situation there cause it's bodywork or wiring.... I hate both so a friend of mine offered to help with that so two birds with one stone. I still need taillights also and haven't made up my mind yet there.
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[Alan's Classic]

Originally Posted by daverod

It fun turning mud into dust, huh. Alan makes it look so easy. I've been working on my bed sides for a year. Off and on. More off than on, because anything that I can do besides body work I do instead. Just like anything else though the more you do it the easier it gets. You'll get it. and your arms will get ripped.

HAHA, I love sanding so much (NOT) I'm going to block my bed again and clear it. I haven't had the time yet, but not looking forward to it.

[56taskforce]

Originally Posted by daverod

It fun turning mud into dust, huh. Alan makes it look so easy. I've been working on my bed sides for a year. Off and on. More off than on, because anything that I can do besides body work I do instead. Just like anything else though the more you do it the easier it gets. You'll get it. and your arms will get ripped.

Dave think about it, if it really builds your arms then Alan would look like Arnold

[daverod]

You know he's hiding out up here, He's riding around on his bike trying to building up his body. It hard to do a accent on the keyboard. I'm pretty sure Aan has some ripped arms.

[56taskforce]

Wow I love this place another great build!!! Nice work Troy and it’s not taking so long I have been working on a 56 for 5 years and still not even close. I have a 64 that I have been getting ready to start for a year now it seems as if maintenance takes up all my time. Spent the last three days repairing the box on my dump truck after the cylinder broke lose and went through the floor as well as cutting and grinding on the bucket of the excavator so I can weld on new mounting shanks for the teeth I would rather block sand LOL

[56taskforce]

It dosn't take much to get you going dose it Dave

[shortbed70]

Originally Posted by 56taskforce

Wow I love this place another great build!!! Nice work Troy and it’s not taking so long I have been working on a 56 for 5 years and still not even close. I have a 64 that I have been getting ready to start for a year now it seems as if maintenance takes up all my time. Spent the last three days repairing the box on my dump truck after the cylinder broke lose and went through the floor as well as cutting and grinding on the bucket of the excavator so I can weld on new mounting shanks for the teeth I would rather block sand LOL

Thanks for the looks and kind words. As far as your situation with the dump truck and things I do that every day so I know the feeling.

Originally Posted by daverod

You know he's hiding out up here, He's riding around on his bike trying to building up his body. It hard to do a accent on the keybody. I'm pretty sure Aan has some ripped arms.

Now that's funny!!!

Originally Posted by daverod

This is when he just started his truck . It's hard to tell? Bet he's bigger now, He stays out of the camera most the time. You see his fingers and hands a lot. Check out his eyes. That boy is happy. Must be all the dust he's breathing.

Maybe it's because all the dust is plugging up my sinuses and no oxygen to the brain...I'm not gaining anything because it's already 100 degrees in the shop and after working 10 hours at my job (welding) then sand for 2 hours... Drip drip..I did manage to put the final touches on the drivers side bed panel. Now time to hunt taillights!!
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[daverod]

Should put AC in your garage. I was going to say a swamp cooler but that might make things rust faster. I pick up a little AC window unit at a garage sale for $50, had it for 10 years works great.

[Alan's Classic]

Y'all crack me up.
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[daverod]

Is that happy boy? Don't you have some blocking to do?

[shortbed70]

I actually have a window ac but without a ceiling in the shop and doors that leak like crazy and on top of all that I'm cheap, I would have to run it for ever to cool it off in there.
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[shortbed70]

Well Guys the cooler weather has bred production and got one side of the bed sanded primed and blocked. Still need another coat of primer and a few small pinholes filled but not too bad for what it was. Now I wait for my primer to come in...Also Got the last modification to my frame done so I can get the exhaust outside the frame. 1/4" wall tubing cut 1" thick at a 45* angle welded in so now it comes out the side or rear of truck. Thinking maybe through the bedside but not sure now.

[daverod]

Nice job. I need to do the same on frame. Bedsides lookin sweet.

[wutnxt]

Aw yes the dreaded blocking of the box sides.......been there done that....lol....good job by the way

[shortbed70]

Originally Posted by wutnxt

Aw yes the dreaded blocking of the box sides.......been there done that....lol....good job by the way

Yea I'm glad that's done just the gate left. Thanks.
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[shortbed70]

Fianlly for the picture lovers that actually follow my build...New taillights fitted and tacked in place. I got the lenses and template off ebay and had to come up with a light so I made a bucket to hold a light behind the lense and bingo...Flush taillights on a budget... Total cost; $65.00 And the last pic is me and some how Mark (baggedout81) caught me blinking...

[baggedout81]

Another step closer

Also he forgot to mention.Made a relief cut from the bottom of the roll pan up where the license plate goes an pulled it out an tacked it.Got rid of the bow in the middle