1968

[gdavis]

Today was a good day. I primed and painted the rest of the parts to the front end. My shocks and springs are going to be gloss Sun yellow, the linkage will be Chevrolet Orange and the upper and lower arms will be gloss Black alone with the steering gear box and the frame. Starting Monday I will start with the frame. I have to scrape and wire wheel and presure wash so I can sand blast the frame. My sand blaster doesn't like built up grease and asfault from the last 40 something years. Also a picture of my boys and friend.

[gdavis]

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[Bomp]

Nice job!!!!!!

[gdavis]

Originally Posted by longbed67

Looks like a good start! Whats your final plans for the truck?

Going to paint it burnt orange metlic on top and black metlic on bottom. 350 4 bolt engine and stock transmission 2 speed for now. brakes are drum for now and disk later. I want to get the hard stuff done first. and drive it around and see what i need or want to do next.

[67c10rustbuket]

Originally Posted by gdavis

the sand blaster is a 10 gallon and after I fixed it. When they built it one of the valve's were stopped up with a piece of metal. they did not finish drilling it all the way thru.sorry about the bright light shinning thru the door.My air compresser 11.50 CFM at 90. The hand held blaster did all the small parts.


Gdavis frm Florida

Thanks for the info, I had a larger pot blaster that my compressor could not keep up with and now just have a crappy siphon feed hand held that sucks. The speed blaster seems to have a lot of great reviews I may have to get one of those. I am running a 33 gallon craftsman compressor so I cant really expect to run a large pot blaster and I only need to blast small parts anyway. Your project is coming along very nice, keep up the great work!

[gdavis]

Today, I just cleaned up the shop. Aranged some more parts. I will be cleaning them up tomorrow.


ash tray, bottom and top hinges,motor mount brackets, door latches,ETC.

hope to have them all sanded and primed tomorrow

als here are a few pic that I took yesterday and my helpers. I think they just want to do something.

[gdavis]

Today I wired whelied about half of my frame. My sand blaster would not cut thru the built up grease and road tar or asfault. Tomorrow I will do the inside of the frame. It takes a different wire wheel that the out side. Another trip to my hardware store called Home depot. Here is my Home made rotisserie I built for my truck frame.
First, I got 2 6x6x10' presure treated post. Drilled one 1 inch hole in each post. Mounted a 2x4x4' on each end of my frame. Drilled 1 inch holes to match the post and two pieces of 3/4 pvc 6' long that I drove into the post. Then I got two bolts 12" long by 5/8 and two nuts and the frame turns free. It can rotate 360 without any trouble. Now I can do all my work standing or sitting in a chair. No crawing under and over the frame. It took me abl out 2 hr and the rest is History.

[gdavis]

Originally Posted by MJs69CST

Your parts are cleaning up nicely.

thanks for the support. I work hard on all the parts. nothing but time.

[gdavis]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Nice job!!!!!!

thanks

[Bomp]

Originally Posted by gdavis

Today I wired whelied about half of my frame. My sand blaster would not cut thru the built up grease and road tar or asfault. Tomorrow I will do the inside of the frame. It takes a different wire wheel that the out side. Another trip to my hardware store called Home depot. Here is my Home made rotisserie I built for my truck frame.
First, I got 2 6x6x10' presure treated post. Drilled one 1 inch hole in each post. Mounted a 2x4x4' on each end of my frame. Drilled 1 inch holes to match the post and two pieces of 3/4 pvc 6' long that I drove into the post. Then I got two bolts 12" long by 5/8 and two nuts and the frame turns free. It can rotate 360 without any trouble. Now I can do all my work standing or sitting in a chair. No crawing under and over the frame. It took me abl out 2 hr and the rest is History.

That right there is THINKING ahead!
I like it.

[longbed67]

How do you like that speed blaster? I am thinking about getting one for small jobs so I dont have to crack out the big dog!

[gdavis]

Today, I did a ton of work on my truck. I sand blasend primed the truck frame and trailoring arms. I see now why I put it off for so long. It was back breaking job. But someone had to do it.

[gdavis]

one m picture of the trailoring arms.

[gdavis]

Originally Posted by longbed67

How do you like that speed blaster? I am thinking about getting one for small jobs so I dont have to crack out the big dog!

It works great, But it will only blast fine sand. Medium sand clogs it up.

[longbed67]

Very Nice! That feeling of finally finishing the sandblasting and stepping back and seeing that clean frame is very rewarding!

[gdavis]

Originally Posted by longbed67

Very Nice! That feeling of finally finishing the sandblasting and stepping back and seeing that clean frame is very rewarding!

yea , it is. several times a day I go by and say Job # 68341 done

[gdavis]

some more pictures of the work i did toda

[gdavis]

tomorrow i will clean up the transmission.

[Bomp]

Nice and clean parts look so nice. What are you using to clean the tranny?

[gdavis]

Originally Posted by Bomp

That right there is THINKING ahead!
I like it.

Thanks and happy building.

[gdavis]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Nice and clean parts look so nice. What are you using to clean the tranny?

wire wheel and elbo grease. Dawn dish soap. and then I will sand blast. prime and paint

[nuke1]

That is one great idea you had there with the frame turny thing a miggy!!! lol. That cuts down on so much work right there and you can easily do it. Great job so far. Liking how everything is turning out.

[gdavis]

I took my truck frame off the rotisserie today. Mounted my front end minus the ball joints. ( ordered) also aranged the rear end under the frame wainting for bushings.

[gdavis]

pictures

[Bomp]

Seeing all this assembly work makes me wish I hadn't gone so nutz on mine.