Not Another Rebuild Thread....

[McMurphy]

Thank you all for the cool comments, and for actually taking the time to watch my goofy vids!



Since I took the whole day off yesterday and didnt even get out of my pajamas, I did not accomplish much this weekend.

Today I laid down another strip of innertube to gasket my tranny hump door, modified my heater vent to work with the heater controls I installed, and finished some adapters a friend made for me.

Pictured here are some Jancy Slugger drill bits, for a magnetic drill press.
I got them at a super good price off CL here locally, but did not realize until I got them home that they were for a specific drill.

After searching the internet for adapters I happen to mention my dilemma to a fellow I work with. He has a bunch of machinist tools, and made the adapters for me. I just had to drill out and tap the retainer set screws, which I did today.

Now I can chuck these bits up to my regular drill press, or any other 1/2" drive drill.



So thank you SGT Dobie, man you rock!!

[flips72]

sweet bits, i dont care what my wife says, a man cant have too many tools

[McMurphy]

I plan on using them soon, I may shoot some video of it even !!
I cannot wait, they are awesome bits !

[Chad215]

I had to go look up what slugger bits were Never heard of them. Is there a difference between those and hole saw bits?

[truckzilla]

I wan sum!

[KroAutomotiveInc]

so you have got me pondering the idea of video logs of our builds think i may try filming something shorty seems like it would be fun think i will steal your idea of the signs too who wants to hear our voices haha!

[Ta2Don]

Great Video Man! Stay warm...
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[Low Elco]

Great video! 17 here in KC tonight, you'd be in your shorts! Neat to see the surroundings! What do you do for the surgical team? Navy Corpsman here. Merry Christmas!
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[Bomp]

Awesome Video Man!!!!!!
Caught me by surprise with the Frog.
Actually laughed out loud.
Thanks for the video. It made my day!

[Jeff La]

Great video, Merry Christmas everybody

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by rmvlt1100

Wonderful video Sir. The weather there looks great for Santa to get a good lift off. Again thanks for the video and have a great holiday.

Thank you for looking at it, Merry Christmas !!

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Great Video Man! Stay warm...
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Trying to stay warm, it went from -30 up to -10 yesterday, felt like a heat wave when I had to roll into the hospital...

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Great video! 17 here in KC tonight, you'd be in your shorts! Neat to see the surroundings! What do you do for the surgical team? Navy Corpsman here. Merry Christmas!
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By skill set (MOS in the Army) I am a Surgeon's Assistant, or Operating Room Technician (either title/description applies). For the past 10 years though I have been in admin, and have been running that entire department that takes care of the hospital Surgery. That department usually equates to 3 sections of about 30 to 45 personel. In the larger hospitals that would be closer to 100 staff. There isnt really much to tell, although the Army is awesome in the sense that on the outside, I would have to have a BA/Masters degree to do the job I am doing with just a High School Diploma....
I think it is funny, but I also count myself fortunate for the experience. (Though I will NEVER do this again once I get out, hospitals are full of sick and cranky people...)

Originally Posted by Bomp

Awesome Video Man!!!!!!
Caught me by surprise with the Frog.
Actually laughed out loud.
Thanks for the video. It made my day!

We saw the frog on the shelf and automatically thought of you and your first video, (which I had just shown to my son so it was fresh in our minds too)
Really glad you liked it, I had some things in mind, but there was an hour wait to get 30 seconds with the big red guy, so I did not get to indulge those inspirations....sorry.
Glad it made you smile at least.... one small gift from my garage to yours !!

Originally Posted by Jeff La

Great video, Merry Christmas everybody

Thank you for looking at it Jeff, and Merry Christmas to you too sir !!!

[Low Elco]

Interesting job, what's the post Army plan?
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[McMurphy]

First off, salute the mail box every month when that retirement check arrives!

We have the land, get outside the grid.
Spend my summers working the garden, orchard, and berry patches, and doing rebuild/mods on 50-66 chevy trucks (hopefully get one out the door a year) in the winters work on my art and writing.

Maybe buy a couple houses in town and manage them as rentals (we have 3 now, but 2 are outside of the home state).

Wife still has a tour left till retirement, but she still wants to work even after the Army.
Me, I plan to never ask another man to use and abuse my skills, mind or muscle for a pittance of their profits.
The 9 to 5 can grind someone else into a wooden box, but it wont be me.
We are invested as well, so hopefully it will all work out.

[Ta2Don]

Originally Posted by McMurphy

First off, salute the mail box every month when that retirement check arrives!

We have the land, get outside the grid.
Spend my summers working the garden, orchard, and berry patches, and doing rebuild/mods on 50-66 chevy trucks (hopefully get one out the door a year) in the winters work on my art and writing.

Maybe buy a couple houses in town and manage them as rentals (we have 3 now, but 2 are outside of the home state).

Wife still has a tour left till retirement, but she still wants to work even after the Army.
Me, I plan to never ask another man to use and abuse my skills, mind or muscle for a pittance of their profits.
The 9 to 5 can grind someone else into a wooden box, but it wont be me.
We are invested as well, so hopefully it will all work out.

Sounds like an awesome plan... When I retired from Uncle Sam's Air Force, I already had my business in place and have been at it since. Though the hours can be long, it's a joy to work for myself and my family. God Bless you and yours this coming year!

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by chad64chevy

merry christmas mike from my family to yours, the wife likes the videos! did your wife dye her hair? i thought it was blonde last yr, when you guys went to the junkyards! anyways merry christmas and happy new years!

Nah she has had black hair since '05 when she got back from Iraq.
Chistmas was cool, looking forward to New Years though, starting tomorrow !!!
Happy New Year to you too Chad !

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Sounds like an awesome plan... When I retired from Uncle Sam's Air Force, I already had my business in place and have been at it since. Though the hours can be long, it's a joy to work for myself and my family. God Bless you and yours this coming year!

Thanks, the plan goes way deeper in detail than just that tho.
Instead of building a house to retire in, we are building a retirement house. It will be set up to be navigated by wheelchairs with all that old folk detail (faucet handles instead of knobs, stuff like that) with an "in-law" apartment for a live in hospice care provider. No sense in building your dream house just to end up in some "retirement community/assisted living" set up that is lining someone elses pockets with money.

If you are not playing this game of life to have the winning end move, then you may be just a spectator. As far as I can tell it is all about the end game!

But anyways... enough geariatric philosophising!!

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I got my new 6 lug rotors in, thanks to a link from Joe231 !!
Installed them today, with a certain amount of trepidation... I got them so I would not have mismatched rims, and so I would not have to swap out my rear axles to 5 lug.
But....
As I was looking at them the other day, I remembered that they did not have disc brakes in the mid '60s and my experience with stock rims taught me they do not fit over disc calipers.
I dont love the rims I have, but I dont mind them either, and dont want to spend too much more on shipping up here to Alaska when I have serviceable rims on hand.

The 5 lug that came with the set up from the donor front cross member.


Oooooo shiney !!


One red caliper goes ~bling~


The moment of truth, and sigh of relief..... the rims that came with the truck fit !!

There isnt enough clearance between the calipers and the rims to go mudding, but I am Ok with not indulging in any of that in this truck !!

Thanks for looking, hopefully I can get some more progress done this weekend with a video as well....

[chad64chevy]

merry christmas mike from my family to yours, the wife likes the videos! did your wife dye her hair? i thought it was blonde last yr, when you guys went to the junkyards! anyways merry christmas and happy new years!

[VeronikA]

Very nice video!!!! Hahaha and cool comments
Love it!!!
Hope you having an amazing Christmas time with your fam and friends!!!! Keep us posted! Very cool! Thanks a lot for sharing!

[flips72]

great video i need the santa ,i can explain shirt hope yal have a wonderful and blessed christmas, i know it will be special with your son there.

[Ta2Don]

We still have some of that white stuff, seen on your wheel pic, hanging around for another day or so... Still tuned in for progress reports and the videos of course

[McMurphy]

It was a pretty productive weekend here.
Wife took off all day Saturday which left me uninterrupted in the garage for almost 14 hours.... no wonder I was so hungry !!

My neighbor Daniel helped me check and wire everything except the guage panel (which I dont have yet) and the steering column (which I have not re-installed yet) inside the cab. So everything electrical in there works so far; lights, wipers, heater ect.

I am getting close to welding in the dash extension and wanted to get all that wiring done and ready while I still had plenty of room to work with up under the dash.

I also finished my transmission door mod (video to follow on that) and got some major progress on the dash extension done (photos to follow later as I get that closer to finished).

Then to wrap it all up yesterday I laid down the Herculiner inside the cab.
Let me tell you, this has been a long time coming !!

After a good vaccum I wiped the whole area with some grease and wax remover. It was the closest thing I had to the suggested prep (acetone et al)


Then it was one coat with the paint brush, then a second coat with the roller.


It looks so dang good I think I will leave it at that, unless I gouge it or something and need to repair it.

So until that Herculiner dries (been 24 hours now, but it is only 50 degrees in the garage and getting colder outside) I am mostly at a stand still. I dont even want to stir up any dust down there at this time.

Thanks for looking !!!

[Ta2Don]

Very Nice!!! Another step or so closer, can't wait to get there myself!!!

[Bomp]

Dang that's a nice job. Very very well done Sir!

[Gunster89]

this build is sweet keep up the good work cant wait to see how you are going to set up your system

[piratexpress1369a]

did you do the belly side too or just cab?

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Very Nice!!! Another step or so closer, can't wait to get there myself!!!

Yep it was almost dry this morning when I left for work, so if today is an easy day (as in I get off work on time) I may be able to get some more stuff done tonight!
I bumped up the heat in the garage before I left too, so with luck that will help it cure.

Originally Posted by Bomp

Dang that's a nice job. Very very well done Sir!

Thanks Greg, I appreciate that !

Originally Posted by Gunster89

this build is sweet keep up the good work cant wait to see how you are going to set up your system

Ok this made me laugh, there are quite a few builds that I think are wayyyy cool and have told the builders as much, but I think this is the first time someone has said my build is sweet.
That is very confirming, and motivating !!! I am sincerely glad you like it.
I too am looking forward to installing the stereo. last weekend I was actually drawing out the plan for the cab lower back panel that will mount the Amp, Condenser, and house the sub woofer.

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

did you do the belly side too or just cab?

No sir.
If I had had the room I would have taken the cab off the frame, and would have done the bottom as well. Sadly that is not the case this time around. For certain though the next one I do like this will get the full treatment like I have seen others do on this site (presuming I have the shop to do it in by then)

I do still have 1/2 a can of the Herculiner left, so if it does not dry out between now and then, I am thinking of doing my wheel wells with it front and back.....