My '67 Fleetside C10 renew

[Bomp]

boon·dog·gle
/ˈbo͞onˌdägəl/
Noun
Work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.
Verb
Waste money or time on such projects.


Shopping is she????

[jlsanborn]

Holy smokes! If she reads this I'm in the sh!t....
Its a western Montana saying I guess. Couple sheep rustlers I've worked with always used the term. I guess I kinda knew what they meant but crap, I'm for sure the boondoggler around here!
Go ahead Elco, I just set the table for you but I guess I got it coming.

I was all set to paint the cab but I think i'll listen to the wise man and start with the easier stuff. Doors and panels are ready for epoxy with fenders, hood and tail gate almost there. I'm going to tidy up and get on some of that the next couple of days.
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[Low Elco]

I refuse to go down the sheep road. I have standards, I think. nah.

I would recommend shooting a couple things, not just for the obvious reasons, but it gives you a bit of a chub for working on the rest of it to see something shiny happenin'!
Hope you get in some quailty time this weekend! Gonna get some use out of the Boy?

[jlsanborn]

I'm planning on burning a fire in there all weekend! I'm running low on supplies and still need to get the BC/CC. I've gotta corral all the funds I've got left and see where I stand. I wish the Boy was a little more interested in the bodywork part. I'm learning a butt-lode and can only imagine if I had crossed that path when I was his age. We'll see.

[Low Elco]

Not sure where you are on the big buy, but Southern Polyurethane is good paint cheap! See it here-

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...4&goto=newpost
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[Bomp]

Hows things going? Any updates? You driving it yet?

[Low Elco]

Wake Up Johnny! Your public awaits! Did ya epoxy yourself to the floor? Do we need to send assistance?

[jlsanborn]

I'll tell ya, it's been slow going on the project. I've been working on other damn trucks though! That divorced choke on the big fella just wouldn't get hot enought to pull all the way off so I build a cute little bell-crank to mount in its place and hooked up the ol' push-pull cable. Manual choke blows, but it works now! The other Sonny Boy has a late '80s Japanese truck with probably the very last carburetor before FI. Holy crap! Sucker has at least 5 solenoids and maybe more vacuum actuators. There has to be a dozen vacuum hoses. It's full of tamper-proof screws, covers and plugs. I was thinking I'd throw a kit in it . Screw that sh!t. I cleaned it off, tightened it up and wound up the idle a bit. Its running pretty well now but if there are any other issues its getting a Weber conversion.

So, plan is to get the shop back in order tonight and get back on the bodywork this week. I've got the moolah to pick up the paint so I'll be doing that here soon too. I'm going with that Martin Senour Cross-Fire stuff. $150/5qts sprayable for BC and $76/5qts sprayable for CC. Oh, and I ordered an aluminum bellhousing on EBay (........403 '69 Z28) and will be scoring a tubular trans x-member from Rob. Gotta cut that bellhousing cross member out and cut/weld some exhaust pass-thrus in the rear member.

I'd happily accept any assistance you can send my way!!

[Bomp]

Ha. I said that same thing about needing help and you can see what happened in my latest video with my two girls.
Keep stompin out the fires man. You'll get there.

[Low Elco]

I'd love to assist, if I could EVER get the rearend in this truck. I have a saga, with pics, once the computer comes back up and 67-72 doesn't crash it. I believe Murph caught the same cold. They did site maint last night, hope it helped. We'll see!

[jlsanborn]

Been a little quiet around here but I'm fixin to change that today. I got the shop cleaned up and I think I'm satisfied with how the Crummy is running. Last night I finished patching that fender and will grab some pics to put up. I'm going to light the fire now and should get something done!

[67ctener]

Nice fab work, mine is in need of major sheet metal
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[jlsanborn]

Originally Posted by 67ctener

Nice fab work, mine is in need of major sheet metal
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Thanks man! It sure as hell isn't as good as a pro would patch it up but it's rust free. I wish you could attach fenders to email! I'd send mine off to Bomp for sand blasting and metal work.

[Bomp]

Originally Posted by jlsanborn

Thanks man! It sure as hell isn't as good as a pro would patch it up but it's rust free. I wish you could attach fenders to email! I'd send mine off to Bomp for sand blasting and metal work.

Now thats funny.
At the rate Im going it would take forever to get your fender back to ya and you would have to suffer through weeks and weeks of videos of me showing my Dracula teeth and talkin funny.

[jlsanborn]

So I had a fairly good day in the shop yesterday. I took a few videos (just from the phone) but cannot seem to upload them. I'll keep trying.

That passenger fender is ready for some filler. There was more rot in that corner than I realized. Thanks to Bomp for the "small pieces" tip! Instead of trying to cut out the crap and replace it with one big goofey piece that I'd never be able to re-create, I divided it up into smaller, easier pieces and grafted those in one at a time. Great advice!! We also lopped out that trans cross-member. I plan to be back out there today.

[Bomp]

Originally Posted by jlsanborn

So I had a fairly good day in the shop yesterday. I took a few videos (just from the phone) but cannot seem to upload them. I'll keep trying.

That passenger fender is ready for some filler. There was more rot in that corner than I realized. Thanks to Bomp for the "small pieces" tip! Instead of trying to cut out the crap and replace it with "one big goofey piece" that I'd never be able to re-create, I divided it up into smaller, easier pieces and grafted those in one at a time. Great advice!! We also lopped out that trans cross-member. I plan to be back out there today.

Looks great.
I feel compelled to give my .02 of caution.
One advantage of multiple pieces is to avoid that "one big goofy piece" but you really have to watch the heat issue when putting it all together. It may not seem like much but when that metal cools it has a tendence to wanna move. As you have seen on my thread (#362) theres a reason why I have so many hammers. Having to beat that metal back to where it belongs.
Just my .02
Looking great. Your really knockin that thing out. How's the boys arm?
Side note: I use a cheap little Sony Cyber-Shot 7.2 camera to make the vids. My phone (Galaxy S II) Is like a 4meg and the Windows Movie Maker 2.6 wont take it.

[Low Elco]

Looks great! I like the retention of the drain hole. It's all worth it when it's in smooth gray epoxy, ummmm yummy!

[butternut1972]

Looking good. It's hard to get anything done while your cold. Good to see you back after it.

[Bomp]

Nothin' like being in a nice warm shop with it freezin' outside.
Crack open a few doors to let the fresh air come through with the stove red hot.
Glad to see your getting things on the done list.
Sendin you a pm with some helpful hints on pic stuff.
Shop,stove and truck are looking Great!

[jlsanborn]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Nothin' like being in a nice warm shop with it freezin' outside.
Crack open a few doors to let the fresh air come through with the stove red hot.
Glad to see your getting things on the done list.
Sendin you a pm with some helpful hints on pic stuff.
Shop,stove and truck are looking Great!

WOW! Thanks for the instructional video

I've been basically using the same capture/save method as you have (5mp camera phone, email, save). I've always saved them to my server at the highest quality (I have a *****in file server out in the shop for all of us here at the house to save crap on. It's a RAID disk drive array so everything is backed up too!). It's the Photobucket thing that makes yours soo cool. I could always "attach" the 5mp photos and the forum thing would always automatically resize them to fit. It's limited to five attachments at 100kb each. The camera I bought Wifey is like 18mp and the site can't seem to handle them so I have to resize myself (screw that, going back to the phone!).

Ima open a Photobucket account and give the HTML bit a try! I've seen old threads tho where the Photobucket account was busted or gone and so......NO PICS!

Thanks again Bomp!!! You"re the Bomb!!

[jlsanborn]

So a little done today. Burned about a cord of firewood to get the place warm but it was WARM! Finished laying out the paint divider, well the Boy did. His eyes are better so he did the measuring, punching and drilling. Better not be effed up Boy! Taped off the doors and started seam-sealing but ran out!!! To be continued..... Made a few touches to the tailgate and got that, the other side of the grill and the heater box/manifold thing in epoxy. Gotta get more supplies! I'm going to snag a trans cross member here soon as well as some motor mounts so I can throw the block and trans in there for mock-up. I gotta get a hole in the floor for the shifter and snag a driveline length.

Saw a cool '69 K10 at the Depot today, shoulda snagged a pic. My truck is going to be cool man and I can't wait to get it DONE!

[jlsanborn]

Originally Posted by butternut1972

Looking good. It's hard to get anything done while your cold. Good to see you back after it.

Same to you man! Won't be long now will it? You're on the home stretch and it's going to be soooo cool! Thanks for checkin

[butternut1972]

Originally Posted by jlsanborn

Same to you man! Won't be long now will it? You're on the home stretch and it's going to be soooo cool! Thanks for checkin

Man I hope not...my sons sports are starting up real soon so I'm trying to make headway while I can. I'm looking forward to seeing some color on your truck! Later

[Bomp]

When your doing the seam sealer thing can you do a few close up and how to shots?
I've only seen the after and painted over. I might be thinkin to hard on the subject and over complicating it.
Glad the vid helped.
I use a little fan in the shop by the stove to help push all that hot air around better.
Oh yeah, You could do a vid on the seam sealer

[Low Elco]

Originally Posted by Bomp

When your doing the seam sealer thing can you do a few close up and how to shots?
I've only seen the after and painted over. I might be thinkin to hard on the subject and over complicating it.
Glad the vid helped.
I use a little fan in the shop by the stove to help push all that hot air around better.
Oh yeah, You could do a vid on the seam sealer

Progress looks great! Love the stove, a buddy just did a double barrel stove and that sucker WORKS!

I've been resizing and saving the pics in my thread to the server to avoid the dreaded photobucket sneeze issue. That'd explain why I don't have a lot more pics. It's a lot easier with Tapatalk, wish we had it heere......

I used Windows Live Movie Maker to edit my movie. Worked great and not hard to learn a tall. You can DL it free from Microsoft if your Vista and up. I use Windows Live Photo Gallery for resizing. Lots easier than going through a 3rd program.

Bomp, the seam sealer, if you get the LORD Fusor 800EZ, you just tape off the roof skin and lay a fat azz bead in there and use mineral spirit soaked towels and gloved fingers to smooth it out just like bathroom caulk. it isn't bad, just take a deep breath and jam. Here's where to get it-

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lord-Fusor-8...-/140750416365

And how to use it-

Factory-Match Seam Sealer Applications - Fusor...

I don't get a commission for this stuff, I just used it and it worked great for me.