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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
Look, my frame is showing!...In broad daylight!!!!
I had a great weekend! I got my porterbuilt stuff all installed, along with my new front sway-bar and I couldn't be happier!...although I am sore, and sick of drilling holes, burnt forearms from hot chips, and extremely tired, it was all worth it!!! I am more excited about this accomplishment than anything else that I have done this week!! LOL! Check it out!!!   Cab prepped & ready to set on the frame  Oh, And I cut out the crossmember for my exhaust!  The cab in it's final resting place  A view from the back!!  Wow! I am geeked!!! 
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10-13-2013, 07:07 PM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
Dude, way to gooooooooooo!!
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10-13-2013, 07:15 PM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
man its starting to come together!!! looks great man
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10-13-2013, 07:17 PM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
Looks really good...so, what's next?
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10-13-2013, 08:11 PM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
wow!! way to go, now that's how to spend a weekend! all the blood, sweet and tears will be worth it when its on the road! so what rims are you going with? I remember the sizes but not the kind!!
i'm going to save up for some billet smoothies! i'm thinking 20x8 up front and 20x12 in the back, but that will be like next yrs. x-mas present to myself,lol!! I was also thinking of having a fab. shop cut slots in the rims like truck rallys, just to be different
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10-13-2013, 08:20 PM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
just read where you post the kind of rim! Rushforth Rated-X wheels, something like this?? sorry about the small pic
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10-13-2013, 09:10 PM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
Hard to add to the previous comments...
Lookin' SICK!!!
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10-14-2013, 07:16 AM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
uh huh, very nice.
showing a good ride height even on the tire carts, minus 4 or 5 inches that they raise her up plus all the weight still to add and you're gonna be low low low. |
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10-14-2013, 08:59 PM
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10-14-2013, 11:30 PM
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supper awesome.....stoked for you...this one will turn all heads
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10-14-2013, 03:38 AM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
Man, it all looks really fantastic. I'm stoked for ya!
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10-15-2013, 02:57 PM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
Very nice progress man! Be proud!
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10-18-2013, 10:22 AM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
Lookin awesome. I love the color combo. Can't wait to see it done.
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10-19-2013, 09:03 AM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
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Great project and progress. This coming from another Michigander also running an LT1 in an old truck. Keep it up Marc
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10-20-2013, 08:42 PM
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10-20-2013, 08:36 PM
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Your truck is looking amazing and your attention to detail is outstanding. Thanks for sharing your build with us. I am as excited as you to see it with the cab on the frame. Keep up the awesome work and keep the updates coming.
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10-20-2013, 09:49 PM
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Ive been around. ha ha Yes, I saw your dads 48 that was another reason for my post. Very nice truck. I try to run through all of the different years. Marc
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10-21-2013, 12:59 PM
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I have been working on a bunch of different things this week, with no single goal in mind.
I figured out a kinda cool way to route my front brake lines (at least I think so) that works great no-matter which height the bags are at, bent & flared some stainless brake lines for the rear, mounted the radiator support with radiator & fan, and hung the headers & ran spark-plug wires. So many things to work on, and sooo very far from boring! Check out the pics!       
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10-21-2013, 06:05 PM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
looking very nice. still one of my favorite shades of blue...
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12-15-2013, 07:57 PM
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i hate wiring... sorry, i mean i strongly dislike wiring. probably some medical term or phobia about it. but dude you are a wire maniac. to me its gotta come in a plastic bag and plug into something else from a plastic bag or theres no way.
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Tryin to sort out all of the datails, but I want to make a vid of the start-up! I have already cranked it a bit without fuel to see if I had oil pressure! Quote:
I have no idea what the part numbers for these hoses are, they were in a box that came with all of the other stuff that I got with the truck when I purchased it. I will try to decipher weather they have a usable part# on them, or not. I had to modify the bend on the banjo fitting to get the angle that I wanted though! Thank for lookin at my thread! Quote:
It would have been a lot harder for me if my dad wasn't sorting a bunch of this out for me! He has been making some color-coded diagrams for me so I just have to hook-up wires!...Takes some of the thinkin out of it!
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10-21-2013, 08:19 PM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
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10-22-2013, 07:06 AM
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Re: My Unexpected '66 SWB-Fleet-Restomod Project!
Nice to see F.I. Love it....Diggin that water pump too ...Awesome stuff Bro keep pluggin away your getting close now..
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Picking the colors was a super-difficult task for me, as I didn't want a trendy color that would go out of style next week, and also needed to keep in mind that I couldn't paint it all at the same time but didn't want color-match variation problems (I originally wanted to paint it pearl white, or pearl orange, but my painter talked me off the ledge because of this) we thought that this blue was kinda stretching the limits of painting separate panels at different times. It seems really great so far, and I am more than satisfied at the moment, but I am not finished yet... Quote:
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