Project 69SWB

[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by sduckworth13

Awesome Jimmy that is cool, I like that setup you got. Those parts look great!

Thanks Scott

Originally Posted by mcbassin

I really like what you have going here. I'm about all done with my rust removal on this project but I have more rusty projects waiting.

And they'll be waiting and rusting patiently.

Originally Posted by Mr Chevorlet

Well Jimmy that's pretty ingenious, looks like its working pretty Good also.

It works better than anything else I've ever tried. Sandblasting works great too, but it'll take metal with it. This only takes the rust and nothing else.

Originally Posted by ddubbs

Wow really like the rust remover. Let me know when you have it figured out to do large pieces like a cab with surface rust.

I'm not sure this process would work for dipping a whole cab, well for the outside sure but all the hidden areas would be a problem getting to them to get the loose rust out. drying it afterwards would be hard too.

Originally Posted by Stickman

I like your rust killer idea and the build is cool also.

Thanks a bunch Stickman, I appreciate that.

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Jimmy for the Win! The Kid don't play!

Ha! Definitely winning on these cross sills.

[~Whitey~]

I let the rear most cross sill fry while I was at work today. I kept having to flip it around through out this whole process to get line-of-sight between it and the sacrificial piece of metal.

Overall it did real good, rust floated off like butter, I hit it with a wire brush for about 15 minutes then took it to the car wash and power sprayed it, then back home and air dried it with the compressor hose.







A little got left inside the channel because it was just hard to hang it right so that line of sight from the sacrificing metal could see in there. Next pic shows my idea to fix that on the other cross sills... and I may hit this one another time using that idea if I can't get at that little bit with a wire wheel and drill.



I just ran a piece of metal inside the channel and made isolators from a plastic trash bag rolled tight and wrapped in electrical tape. The inside of this channel doesn't stand a chance.

[~Whitey~]

here's a close of the little isolators I made.

[Bomp]

Totally Dig it.

Are you going to seal it up with epoxy?

[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Totally Dig it.

Are you going to seal it up with epoxy?

Thank ya sir. You've gone and read my mind. Yes going to hit these with fast etch to take care of any rust I can't see, then epoxy, and I'm going to Herculine them like I did the bottom of my cab. Also after I get the wood in I'm going to Herculine the entire bottom of the bed.

[~Whitey~]

The rust removal is going great not much to show right now, just getting pieces done and accumulating enough to mix some epoxy and paint to spray them all. So while all that has been going on I decided to go ahead and rebuild my gauge cluster.

Here's the ugly.

Typical dirt and little bit of rust


Looks like I better replace that circuit


Dropping this in the electrolysis trough




Looks like an aftermarket temperature gauge.. It's gotta go. The difference in the needle width will drive me insane. no can do... I also have the 80lb oil pressure gauge in there.

[~Whitey~]

I put all the tins in electrolysis and let it do the work of stripping the rust off and the paint as well.. Leaving me with nice clean metal to re-paint. For the weird green I had it color matched at O'Reilly's.. The needles are Duplicolor hugger green to match my engine and calipers.. and whatever else I end up doing green.






Fresh Paint and plastic. The Faceplate came from Manes, circuit and plastic from Classic Parts.. everything else.. came from 1969 ;-)



masked off the round part of the tach needle it didn't come out good enough to pass my standards.. UGGGH!



Had to pull out this rivet to get the tach needle pieces apart for painting.

[~Whitey~]

I tried masking the tach needle first in the pic above and you can see one step of it in one of the below pics, but had to come back and redo it.. There's no masking stuff that small and getting the result I wanted.


I just sprayed over the metal with matte clear to keep with the original look, I was tempted to spray it aluminum though. New circuit installed here.


Changed out my hi-beam indicator to green to match the needles and other green accents I've done.


tach needle came out nice since I took it part.. was a little rivet holding the 2 pieces together. I put it back together with hot glue. That's a piece of white lint back there oops.


All done. New glass, faceplate and circuit... I tried to polish my old glass but it was too far gar. I'm going to order some green 168 bulbs to out in here too.

[sduckworth13]

Cluster looks pretty slick Jimmy, nice work.

[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by sduckworth13

Cluster looks pretty slick Jimmy, nice work.

Thanks a bunch Scott. Wanted to get that out of the way so I didn't just slam in the truck when the time comes and not give it the attention I wanted.

[KSWes]

Been a while since I checked your progress. You've been busy! The gauge cluster looks awesome! And the rust removal trick is sweet!

[Bomp]

Gauges are Insane!!!!!
Love the Green

[Low Elco]

Nice work on the cluster, I like the green!

[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by KSWes

Been a while since I checked your progress. You've been busy! The gauge cluster looks awesome! And the rust removal trick is sweet!

Originally Posted by Bomp

Gauges are Insane!!!!!
Love the Green

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Nice work on the cluster, I like the green!

Thanks Fellas!


I got my gas tank from Boyd's Welding (board vendor) a couple weeks ago, just got it installed this weekend. Other than this I've just been working on rust removal to various small under dash and under hood parts, and I'm still working on aligning my panels (biggest pain in the butt so far)

Went with the "Center Fill, roll over vent, and Sending Unit" options. Came packaged up real nice. Very professional looking well built tank. I can't say enough about it. Really happy with the purchase.






I lned it up and put 4 - 7/16" Grade 8's on each side.





Will have some more progress pics soon.

[KSWes]

That's a beautiful tank! Nice addition to the 69!

[sduckworth13]

Nice tank Jimmy.

[Bennett68C10]

Gas tank looks good Jimmy, I have the same one, they are definitely nice tanks

[jmking9]

Just checkin on you. How's that thing coming?

[Low Elco]

Yeah, Yeah! What's up?

[~Whitey~]

Originally Posted by jmking9

Just checkin on you. How's that thing coming?

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Yeah, Yeah! What's up?

Guys thanks for checking on me and sorry I haven't been on the site for awhile... I've been doing body work off and on... It's really the most dreadful part of this project in my opinion... but I'm getting there and will post some progress soon I hope. plus with it being summer I'm out on the bike most weekends. I promise I'll keep at it and get this thing done asap!

[jmking9]

Nothing better than body work! Glad to hear your still at it.

[Bennett68C10]

I'm doing the same thing Jimmy, sand sand and sand some more good times right. Can't wait to see some more progress pics.

[~Whitey~]

In case you were wondering...
I've still been at it on this ol'69. I haven't posted since July because I'd just been slowely going at the body work... got sick of that about the first of the year.. It's almost done, really just have some leveling of some panels to do, but it' amostly done.

I had originally planned to do this project outside in (paint first then everything else) but now I'm going for the "inside out" approach.. that way I don't have to be crawling in and out of this and worrying about scratching paint.

I wanted to get the sound deadening in place and start putting the interior and under dash components in.

Time to start laying the HushMat. I've got an old hotrod friend who told me when it comes to this stuff.. buy as much as you can afford and put it everywhere you can. So I did. Maybe overkill, but I'll never have to wonder whether I have enough or could have done more. :-)


I covered all the way from the back of dash, under the dash, firewall, entire floor, and the back of the cab, and shoved it into every nook and cranny I could find and as far as I could reach.


Not sure right now if I'm going to seal up my vents or not... Considering fabricating some mounts for 6x9's to go in there... and of course I'll lay the HushMat all in there.



I cut strips to go up into the back of the cab and used a paint stick to press them on. I did this on the sides of the cab to, and shove my arm up as far as I could reach.

[~Whitey~]

Put in the headliner

[~Whitey~]

With all that done.. I put in my e-brake and brake pedal assembly, but not before I stripped both down to bare metal, etched, primed and painted them.. A


New bushings in and greased.