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Re: Dug's 1959 Fleetside
Nice seat.
Hope you get the brakes worked out. I'm still not exactly sure how I'm going to do the seat belts in mine yet. Kim |
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Thanks. Working on the seat belts is a bit like raising kids. You don't know how well you've done until it's too late. Frankly, I like how they look. If I was a purist and doing a restoration, the shoulder belts may offend me. The safest way would be the 4 point harness tethered to a hoop that runs just below the back window. Out of site and more structurally sound but too much for what I intend to use the truck for. dug
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Belt install is looking good.
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Re: Dug's 1959 Fleetside
dugg, looks like you have the seat belts figured out. just wondering if you beefed up the plate under the floor to spread the weight in case it is needed.
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Yes. I failed to include these shots. Since I had to slide the bracket back into the cab corner I had to round the backer plate edge. Backer plate is a bit small but I figured by the time I welded it in and picked up the vertical cab corner sheet metal with the weld, it would suffice. May put an additional piece vertical under the cab for support. All this will happen when the cab is off the truck and tipped up so I can weld it. Last shot I had to use the passenger side. Forgot to photo the driver side.
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Re: Dug's 1959 Fleetside
Nice instal on the belts, give me ideas.
I have only the shoulder brackets in, was easy, but then I have a small window ![]() Have to figure out the middle brackets, how have you done these?
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By middle I assume you mean the female end that the shoulder belt plugs into. If so, that end is attached to my seat. Here is an old shot from 2013.
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Yep, that's what I refering to.
I have a benchseat so that's another story. But I assume you've made the bottom bolts quite sturdy ![]() Comes down to the same strengthening. Thanks for the info and pic!!
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More minor progress. Fabricated and tacked in center bed support brackets.
Moved brake pedal by removing 1.75" of horizontal portion of the brake arm. Brake pedal is now 1" above the gas pedal. Without the pedal pad in place, the top of pedal is 7-5/8" above horizontal cab floor and about 7" from the forward angled cab floor. It was amazing how uncomfortable reaching for the brake pedal was with it being 2.75" above the gas pedal. I have to assume the less upright seating position made the factory Envoy setup not work.
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just looking at the accel pedal, will it be an acute angle for your foot? it looks kinda high off the floor. not critisising, just asking how it feels. do you have to hold your foot up so you don't go full throttle as you relax a bit while driving? I had a car like that one, a v8 vega, and I ended up changing the angles because my shins got cramped up on trips from holding my foot off the gas pedal. looks like there is lots to work with if you do need to adjust things later for some reason.
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Bed sides have been with the blaster for a few weeks. They got covered up and some equipment broke so I went to the back burner. Not having them here has forced me to do other things I did not feel like doing...like the brakes. I'm sure he will have them to me in the next couple of weeks.
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Dug. Three Dog Night on your wall. Assume, Seen this group more times than I can count. The seat belt application is fan-damtastic going to use on my build as soon as I get started. Good work, thanks for sharing.
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Hey 'Three Dug Night! I'm still alive-been slowed by knee problems, they want to replace them-not in a hurry to do that! Good to hear from you.
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Nice looking bed parts.
Cool kids. Kim |
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Bed parts are really nice!
I was a bit worried on how you would blent the new and old bed together, but it came out great! I think you've got your grand kids hooked on old Chevy Trucks ![]() ![]()
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Re: Dug's 1959 Fleetside
As I await the sheet metal pieces I am having bent to attach the bed sides, I decided to go ahead and hang the front bumper. Also sent the hood and doors to the blaster since they did not play a role in hanging bedsides.
On a couple of jack stands, I screwed some 2x4's together so I had a solid platform from which to adjust the bumper's position. From my dumpster diving inventory, I used a large piece of angle to create the brackets at the bumper. Welded a couple of small angle irons together to create the horizontal "C" channel structure and used a fairly thick piece of plate metal as the vertical attachment to the frame. Tacked the verticals to the frame temporarily. Once I have the front clip off, I will drill and bolt the verticals into place so they can be removed in the future and cut the bottom of the plat off flush with the horizontal piece. The toughest part was establishing and maintaining the location of the bumper relative to the truck front to to back, horizontally, vertically and, finally, the "rotationally" (side view). I managed to bump it a lot so I go pretty good and resetting the location. Before I weld the horizontal to the vertical, I'll stare it for a few more hours and remeasure to make sure its as close as I can get it. At it's closest point at the front of the fender, the bumper is about 1/4" from the fender. The factory edge is pretty terrible. Had it been a painted bumper, I would have ground a curve into the top of the bumper so it followed the curve of the fender. Last thing I'll do is build the outriggers to pick up the single holes near the ends of the bumper.
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Re: Dug's 1959 Fleetside
...some more appealing shots.
One final detail, to get the vertical plate to fit flat against the side of the frame rail, I had to cut the sway bar bracket portion that was on the side of the rail and reweld to the bottom of rail. See last two photos.
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Hey dugg, nice job. You will be driving it soon. Im jealous.
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Re: Dug's 1959 Fleetside
Looks nice, is it upside down?
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Looks good.
They do fit better upside down. Kim |
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Thanks gents for the input. ChuckDriver put us to work this morning with his comment. I called my buddy Jim over and we studied the "right side up" version (photo 1). It was touch and go for a bit and "right side up" was winning. After a bolt hole location discussion, the realization that the short face of the bumper (to my eye) belongs on top and the fact that the rear bumper was going to be flipped, we came back to the "upside down" version. The bumper definitely fits better "right side up" against the valence and it does not help my choice as beat up as my valence currently is. I went ahead boxed the end of the horizontals, finished the diagonals and reinstalled it. Will measure it a few hundred more time and do the final tacking to the verticals. Whew!
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Hey sorry, didn't mean to cause you extra work!!
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Re: Dug's 1959 Fleetside
Many many times I've been so close to something I could not see the obvious. This was extra "play" and we enjoyed the exercise. Frankly, this is what this site is all about. Thanks dug
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