PROJECT HIGH OCTANE 71 c-10

[litew8]

Originally Posted by Wbrown

Was gonna seperate the cab from the frame 3 of the bolts broke, and this one is bent REALLY bad was wondering who has a kit with new body mount bushings, and bolts for a reasonable price?

I was warned that the bolts might bust off inside when mine were replaced. Surprisingly, none did. Console may look decent with black carpet.

[72C20RestoMod]

Is it just me or is the back of your frame crooked?

[tattoed71]

good to see something new, console looks cool, as far as u saying sorry for the bed choice its yours do what u want with it. paint it pink if u want lol, were not here to judge but help with any problems and encourage u to get threw ur build

[Wbrown]

No man it's all plum, level, and square. I checked ,checked , and re'checked everything when I put it back together I see what your saying but its just the picture. Thanks tattoed71, I'm gonna change the gauge cluster because after I looked at it for awhile it's not what I thought it would be appriciate the support.

[Wbrown]

Went and picked up the new parts truck, seems good and solid has a little bit of rust in the rockers and passenger door. I will be changing out a few parts on my truck for this one

[Wbrown]

Started tearing it apart today after work and our labor day get together. Gonna shave the fenders on here too, and then send the to my buddies shop to get primed and check out some paint options. Then gonna pull the front suspension, so it can all be blasted and coated to swap on to my truck.

[Wbrown]

Finally back to work on my poor old truck, decided to change it up and not half a** this thing ditched the console cutting the dash out to build an aluminum one got new gauges, new windsheild, ordered a new tank . It's gonna be along ride from here starting over but oh well yesterday I restripped my truck started fixing dents, and cut a new cab corner in got it smoothed out.

[Wbrown]

Today I pulled out a gnarly dent on the outside of my door, and patched one inside the door, and shaved my firewall got it pretty smooth and got my drivers side rocker tacked in. Gonna be 110 degrees tommorow man I need a new fan in the shop, will post more progress tommorow...

[Wbrown]

Forgot too mention I am not using the 97 shortwide bed, we are cutting down my factory 71 LB have two so might as well use them.

[VA72C10]

Nice progress! And sounds like a good choice on the bed

[Wbrown]

Heres a pic of the firewall sanded down. Today I got the fender hole filled, and all the body work done on it and the hood. They are now in primer also got my antenna hole welded up in my cowl another long day and feel like I'm making pretty good time. Tommorow I will try to get both doors perfect and a couple coats of primer laid down.

[Wbrown]

Today finally sprayed some primer from the firewall back need to go to the other shop and use the over head crane to pull the cab and get the frame blasted and painted this time.

[Wbrown]

Got the fuel tank straps bent, and bolted to the frame. I pick up my new fuel line cut the back 8 inches off the frame, then stripped the rear dont wanna do that again every bolt was rusted up tight. I got it apart finally and wire wheeled and sanded down and coated with por-15 best stuff ever, anyways gonna clean up the rear axle tommorow and try to get some new coils on order.

[Wbrown]

Got the rear end completed all cleand coated and put back together thanks to some new bolts wont let me upload pics for some reason I'll keep trying .

[Wbrown]

Ok heres a few pics had to upload one at a time ,now trying to upload a little video of it running cant figure that out.

[Wbrown]

One of my trailing arms had alittle gap in it but still super solid so I drilled some holes and pulled them back down tight.

[Wbrown]

think I got it not the best sound quality on my camera but you get the idea

stroked 71 chevy - YouTube

[67c10rustbuket]

Nice! Whats going on with the crew cab in the background??

[Wbrown]

It's the truck my buddy was building,but he got tired of it, and sold it. He had a fuel injected 454 and 4l80e ready for it added to the fire wall then smoothed it out tons of work into it . He owns the restoration/body shop my truck is at, we still have to put the rest of the roof in it fix a cab corner and finish putting in primer and then it will be on its way.

[Wbrown]

Just thought I would let ya'll see what I have to try and compete with. Don't know if I'll ever get there but trying too.

[67cheby]

nice job on the body work ! good looking set of trucks !

[Wbrown]

Thanks man this is my first experiance doing body work, but I have a good buddy helping me out. He's the one who built the supercab, and done alot of work to the orange one. I feel like I'm living south of a celebrity with all the things going on with your build. I'll keep picking away at mine till one final day.

[Tinkermc]

looks like a real good start for a car coral

[Wbrown]

Whoo hoo hope ya'll don't mind a few pics. I got the rear discs put on still have to go get two hard lines, the ones I got are the wrong length but still pretty stoked, in the third pic is where I had to turn the flange down but no big deal. Thank you steven for the help.

[67cheby]

Looking good
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