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Re: Frankentruck
I love your paint booth!!!!
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Thanks John. Gotta do what you gotta do sometimes!
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Ok, so I got the U bolts for the axle torqued down today. I think the axle was loose almost the entire time I've owned the truck
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Went for a cruise last evening to return my friend's torque wrench. Had a big scare when I was going down hill with no throttle input and then heard a big metal-y crunch. The engine shut off as well, so I thought that something in the overdrive broke. I pulled over and the engine started up just fine, so I drove in lockout mode the rest of the evening. I heard another crunch sound on my way out of my friends apartment, but the engine didn't shut off, so I kept going.
This morning, I pulled the overdrive solenoid to make sure nothing was broken on that end, and then I noticed the missing bellhousing to transmission bolt. After that, I noticed the hole in the dust shield ![]() Now to go pull the dust shield and see what other damage lies beneath.
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Looks like you dust shield isn't flush with the bell housing either.
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Also, the bolt was in the dust shield!
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Put the new bolt in and while I was at it, I checked the other 3 bolts. 2 of the other 3 were also loose. Oops! Tightened them back up, topped off the gear oil in the trans, and took the truck for a test drive. Everything seems to be ok. In the past couple weeks, I have removed a bunch of rattling and vibrations that I didn't realize were not supposed to be there. Definitely could have had worse outcomes!
After that, I decided to finish up removing the old seals from the extra set of vent windows I picked up a couple of months ago. That was a pain to do because the rubber was so dried up that it just broke apart. I basically had to dig out what was left with a screwdriver. Got it all out eventually and made a big mess ![]() ![]()
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Got the side baffles painted and cleaned up and painted my extra set of vent window frames. Going to be putting the new seals and such in the door windows soon
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Oops, I made a giant hole! Learning how to repair rusty doors for the rest of this week
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Keep practicing , Im gonna have plenty for you to play with later on .
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Sounds like fun! Hopefully I'll get it repaired before the c10 club meet this weekend
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Well, it isn't pretty, but it definitely is less rusty! Fixed up the corners of the door skins, so tomorrow will be putting the inner bottom back on
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Good work. I have saved the door bottoms of Sanity for the last rust repair I have left to do. I'll be starting on mine as soon as I get some cooler weather to work.
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Made a ton of progress today, but the door isn't done just yet. First two pics are fitting up the inner bottom. Second two are tacking up the panel.
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And here's after the first pass of welding. I did a bunch of tack welds to make it solid again. The last picture shows what's left of the metal work I need to do. The split that went up the door a good ways is a pain in the butt.
I'm not able to make it to the Georgia C10Club meet tomorrow, but I'd rather have the time to seal everything up on the door so I don't have to do this again. I might also throw a little bondo down where I put some weld to smooth it up and make it pretty
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On a happier note, my recent Ebay purchase showed up today! I finally got some hubcaps!!!!
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Hey glad to see you getting some rust repairs done it's all looking good
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Thanks man! It's slow progress, but still progress. I'm doing rust repair on bits and pieces that I can easily get done without having to tear the truck down for several months
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Over the rest of the weekend, I got the rust repair done on the door. It's not pretty, but it is functional and my door skin doesn't flop around anymore!
I painted the bare metal with some maroon primer, then some yellow and green to try to match what the rest of the door looks like as best as I could with rattle cans. The green I used was gloss paint, so I need to scuff it a little and knock down the glossiness. Today, I made a round trip to Toccoa, so basically 4 hours of driving. Frankentruck did wonderful and was not tiring to drive since I put the steering gear on a couple months ago and actually have the rear axle bolted in tight. I definitely need some AC though ![]()
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Looks good...once you scuff up the gloss paint, you won't be able to tell. Where do I send my doors?
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Looking good!
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With how that truck is right now. I would leave the exterior of those hubcaps how they are. I bet if you painted them They would look to out of place on the truck. For now that is
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I agree, and that's probably what I'm going to do if I put the steelies that I have on before I fully restore the truck. I just have to drive the rest of the tread off the current tires before I can put the new tires on the steelies. Guess I gotta drive the truck a bunch more now!
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