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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Oh and even though I won't be picking it up until June or July I thought I would show you guys this hood I just bought from a friend a couple hours away. A 60 gmc hood for the 62! I have always loved the look of these beautiful ugly hoods and now I finally have one. I first really started liking them when I saw namloc's 60 gmc "the snortin bull".
Here's a pic of it, the guy bought the complete 60 burb for $500 cdn. But when he started digging into it he found the entire floor and roof were mostly rust along with most of the other panels. So unfortunately his only option was to part it out.
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Fender is looking great. The more I think about it, the more I think I may have to borrow your tailgate cable solution...
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Sweet hood! You got a GMC hood on your Chevy and I have a Chevy hood on my GMC...may be a trade is order....hahaha
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Looking good! Dang there's parts I want off that burban! lol!
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Thanks tj, unfortunately that pic is a week old and all the parts have been pulled from it and it was just scrapped. R.I.P.
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Started to tear in to the rear cab mounts/cab corners and no surprise lots of rust, here we go again. First I cut the cab corner off to gain access to the cab support. I started to cut out all the crap.
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The metal guard that goes under the cab corner is done.
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
And the door gap was horrible before. The door stuck out 1/4" past the cab corner and did not close well due to the cab being hit years ago and badly dented. I was able to make some relief cuts in the rear door pillar structure and bend it and weld back in place. Then I did some modifications to the door latch and now the door closes with the push of a finger and has nice gaps. Here's a video http://youtu.be/m1CdteSUyPk
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
And working outside was quite enjoyable today. It was 25 degrees Celsius or 77 Fahrenheit with sun and blue sky's
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
It's been Super nice weather here this whole week and I haven't had any time but for school and work. haha! Oh well. Summers coming. Hope ya get that cab corner done ok.
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Thanks, Yeah I'm prayin for summer to come as well. I'm sure il do fine on the cab corner
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
did you get it running good yet ?
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No unfortunately I haven't had time to mess with it. I know exactly what the problem is now. My neighbor is a mechanics teacher at the college and let me use a tool for testing vaccum leaks. It's pretty much like a smoke machine you would see at Halloween. I hooked it up to the vacuum line and blocked the carb opening off. I saw a little bit of smoke coming from where the manifold bolts to the head. The head and manifold are both straight and clean so it is the gaskets fault.bill (Palfstep70) said he had a similar problem back when he had a straight six and solved it by getting a high performance gasket that was much thicker. Do you know of any king of gasket maker that will handle the heat? Thanks
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Finally finished the bodywork on the fender. I just sprayed it with some old paint I had laying around to prevent surface rust. I also adjusted the torsion bars to the height I wanted.
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
the fender looks good . I need to do mine like that .
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Thanks. Yes it is starting to look more like a truck again
Thanks Jim I'm pretty happy with the end product.
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Wouldn't even know the fender was modified unless you had a tape measure or a SUPER good eye. lol Nice work.
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Fender looks good!!
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Keep up the good work man!
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Thanks! Thanks man!
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
TJ 's right about the fender mod. Very subtle custom work Nik.
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
Thanks Dale.
Cut more out of the cab corner/support area and attempted to fit the new cab support but the stupid thing is made completely wrong, looks like they'll be getting a strongly worded email about their worthless junk they call quality parts. Last time I'll ever and I mean ever buy repop panels. See how the area that attaches to the inner rocker is the wrong angle. |
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
So I made a relief cut and bent it then filled the open area with new metal. It fits pretty good now
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Re: A 15 year old's project. Rusty 62 stepside
I am going to admit your truck is probably my favorite in the 60-66 chevy forum area! You are definatly making some progress keep up the good work man!
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