A dental student's stress reliever

[rubberbandit]

Just got this done as a birthday gift from the wife! Freshly blasted and powdercoated. the company even picked it up and delivered it. It's like a blank canvas ready to become a work of art. Now the real fun begins!

[Rich916]

Nice birthday present!

[rubberbandit]

I am gonna post some pics of what I have been doing lately.

I cleaned, and scrubbed, and cleaned and scrubbed this crossmember. Then sanded and painted it. Not bad for a rustoleum job

[rubberbandit]

These control arms were in good shape so i cleaned them up real good, sanded them, and painted them as well

[custompaint870]

keep up the good work!

[Tinkermc]

looks nice

[superflysteiny]

Welcome to the board man. I am glad I am not the only dentist on here building trucks. I am really surprised you have the time to do this while you are in school. What yr are you and were are you going to school. At any rate nice truck and welcome again to the board
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[rubberbandit]

Originally Posted by superflysteiny

Welcome to the board man. I am glad I am not the only dentist on here building trucks. I am really surprised you have the time to do this while you are in school. What yr are you and were are you going to school. At any rate nice truck and welcome again to the board
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Awesome, another dentist! Yeah i usually go out at night after the wife and kids are in bed. Just me and the truck to get my mind off of school. Only during non-test times of course. I am in my 2nd year now (until august) and going to UNLV SDM

[superflysteiny]

Originally Posted by rubberbandit

Awesome, another dentist! Yeah i usually go out at night after the wife and kids are in bed. Just me and the truck to get my mind off of school. Only during non-test times of course. I am in my 2nd year now (until august) and going to UNLV SDM

Second year is the hardest but once you are through it. It will be smooth sailing from there. Congrats

[rubberbandit]

I have had a 3 week break from school so i did alot of stuff. I will post some pics of what I did

[rubberbandit]

Before and after pics:
got all new Moog steering components along and painted and installed them

[mcbassin]

Looks like another cool project to follow.

[belowme51]

welcome to the board, nice to see another local on here.

[rubberbandit]

Originally Posted by belowme51

welcome to the board, nice to see another local on here.

Thanks, it is nice. I hardly see people from Vegas on the forum and I have only seen a couple restored C-10s here.

[rubberbandit]

So now that Dental Boards Part I (a big test you take in dental school after the first 2 years) is out of the way I can spend a little more time in the garage. Here is some stuff I have done recently:

bought and installed new:
Grade 8 hardware for front crossmember
upper and lower control arm shafts
control arm U-bolts from ECE
2.5 inch drop spindles for CPP
ball joints
1" drop spring from CPP
KYB shocks
Shock mount support bracket from LMC
Rubber bump stops from LMC
I then greased and torqued everything

And the pics to show it:

[brans72]

Our truck started out same way now cab sitting on frame and wife is like WTF you have 2 projects from hell sitting in garage and neither complete. But I blame this site and Jessie (Charity Case)/ Geoff for this one lol

[Tinkermc]

very nice work so far will have to keep watching

[rubberbandit]

Thanks for the support guys. There will be more pics shortly

[rubberbandit]

This one took me a little while to do. Way too many rivets to remove. but in the end it's worth it right? This is a CPP crossmember

[rubberbandit]

I decided to stick with drum brakes so here's the backing plates, ready to add the brake components (still in boxes waiting to be installed). more to come soon

[Lolyin58]

Welcome to the board. From the looks of it so far its gonna be a nice ride!

[alltexan]

Any updates

[Malamute]

x2.

Another dentist checking in......not sure how you found the time to do that while in school. It seemed as though my free time led to screwing around and drinking too much!

[rubberbandit]

December is a tough month to do any work on the truck. With Christmas, Finals, and travelling there isnt much time for other things. Happy to get things going again though. I just pulled the chassis out to clean it up a bit. Here's a pic of it. I put all new raybestos brake parts and new drums on. New shocks, springs, and bushings The tires are the original, just put them on for now. I like the moser diff cover. I have alot left to do. Time to get rolling again!

[rubberbandit]

Originally Posted by Malamute

x2.

Another dentist checking in......not sure how you found the time to do that while in school. It seemed as though my free time led to screwing around and drinking too much!

ha, yeah this is my alternative to screwing around. although I do that every once in a while. This is a fun thing to work on late at night or on the weekends. I am busiest doing work between semesters though