"BUILD: 1970 C10 LWB--->SWB “Jumping Cholla”

[Shifty One]

Excellent! Lesson: Don't fear the paint gun!

[loudchevy]

Originally Posted by Shifty One

Excellent! Lesson: Don't fear the paint gun!

Not anymore. Grip it and rip it

[Shifty One]

Originally Posted by loudchevy

Not anymore. Grip it and rip it

Hell yeah!

[nicklear36]

That's a lot of paint stripping Great work

[loudchevy]

Originally Posted by MySons68C20

Looking great very nice work!!

Thanks!

[loudchevy]

Tons of progress the last few weeks. This past weekend was a great feeling of accomplishment. Along with the wheel wells and core support, I now have the front fenders, cowl, and cab in epoxy primer. The bottom of the cab still needs primer and Raptor liner, but that will have to wait until next weekend. It was a pretty good feeling enjoying a few beers in the garage staring at the grey cab. I still need to strip the hood and both doors, but I'm pretty happy right now. The cab and fenders are really straight pieces. The primer definitely shows where the dings are in the sheet metal but the 50 year old steel is in very good condition. Hopefully it all comes back together with minimal filler.

[loudchevy]

Pics

[raggedjim]

You have brought that cab back to life. I dread doing mine!

[zicc1835]

just read through your build...outstanding ......you have lots of metal work talent and tackling a SWB conversion along the way great accomplishment and all this in less than 6 months ...and all that wire wheeling ....amazing..... looking forward to seeing more and the finish product

[Chaparralman1974]

She is looking good Scott! You will have that truck back on the road in no time!! :-)

Clay

[loudchevy]

Thanks Gents

[loudchevy]

I had another weekend of great progress. I got the hood and doors all stripped down on Thursday and Friday to be ready with the bottom of the cab for some primer on Saturday and Sunday. Sat morning I got the inner side of the doors and hood and the bottom of the cab sprayed.

[loudchevy]

Sunday morning I flipped the hood and doors over and got the outside sprayed with epoxy. Then I sprayed 2 coats of Raptorliner on the bottom of the cab. The way that Raptor looked on the bottom made all the hours of cleaning worth it. I'm pretty pleased with how everything turned out so far.

[rodstored-72]

scott, nice progress looks really nice!! before ya know it...you'll be pulling your hair out wiring it!!...

[loudchevy]

Originally Posted by rodstored-72

scott, nice progress looks really nice!! before ya know it...you'll be pulling your hair out wiring it!!...

Good thing I shave my head on a weekly basis! I actually enjoy wiring when you can start with a clean slate. Digging into someone's rat nest of wiring hacks, splices, and general garbage is the worst.

[Chaparralman1974]

Damn Scott! Looking great!! Keep it up! I gotta step up my game now. LOL!


Clay

[loudchevy]

On Saturday the boy I and bolted all the panels together and made everything look like a truck again. I still have some work to do on gaps and panel alignment but by the end of the day on Sunday, I had everything but the hood gaps looking decent. I put the door seals and the door latch hardware on and got the doors opening and closing. I went through the door hinges and cleaned them up so they actually would move on the hinge. The doors open all the way without extra effort to push them open.

I also had to give the garage a deep cleaning, swept/vacuumed, cleaned and put away hand tools, organized, and finally tossed some old junk that wasn't going to be re-used on the truck. There was months of C10 building debris everywhere.

It felt great to roll the truck out of the garage and take a look at it in the sun. I tossed on the the beat up OG grille, cracked a beer and smiled

Next up will be some body filler on the visible dents.

[D.B]

Originally Posted by loudchevy

On Saturday the boy I and bolted all the panels together and made everything look like a truck again. I still have some work to do on gaps and panel alignment but by the end of the day on Sunday, I had everything but the hood gaps looking decent. I put the door seals and the door latch hardware on and got the doors opening and closing. I went through the door hinges and cleaned them up so they actually would move on the hinge. The doors open all the way without extra effort to push them open.

I also had to give the garage a deep cleaning, swept/vacuumed, cleaned and put away hand tools, organized, and finally tossed some old junk that wasn't going to be re-used on the truck. There was months of C10 building debris everywhere.

It felt great to roll the truck out of the garage and take a look at it in the sun. I tossed on the the beat up OG grille, cracked a beer and smiled

Next up will be some body filler on the visible dents.

It looks like you fit right in with your neighbor across the street. Always nice to be around like minded people.

[loudchevy]

Originally Posted by D.B

It looks like you fit right in with your neighbor across the street. Always nice to be around like minded people.

The guy 2 doors down from me has a nice 72 C10 in glossy black as well.

[Chaparralman1974]

She's alive!!!! Great work Scott!

Did you take the hinges off of the doors? Have you tried to align them back yet? I am having a devil of a time trying to figure out how to align mine.

Clay

[loudchevy]

Originally Posted by Chaparralman1974

She's alive!!!! Great work Scott!
Did you take the hinges off of the doors? Have you tried to align them back yet? I am having a devil of a time trying to figure out how to align mine.
Clay

Thanks Clay! I did take them off the doors, but before I removed them I drilled 2 locator holes in each hinge through to the door. It definitely helped getting them back on and having a good starting point so I really only had to worry about the hinge to A pillar connections. I should've drilled the holes in pillar sides of the hinges months ago when I first took them off the cab, but that didn't happen.

[Chaparralman1974]

Originally Posted by loudchevy

Thanks Clay! I did take them off the doors, but before I removed them I drilled 2 locator holes in each hinge through to the door. It definitely helped getting them back on and having a good starting point so I really only had to worry about the hinge to A pillar connections. I should've drilled the holes in pillar sides of the hinges months ago when I first took them off the cab, but that didn't happen.

Man, I wish I would have thought of that!!

I have been playing like hell to get the doors aligned....I don't know how they managed to do it on the assembly line.


Clay

[rodstored-72]

great progress scott, nice to see you "moving" forward & that you are posting on here...

[loudchevy]

I remember seeing that trick many years ago on TV and I finally got to use it.

Good luck on yours!

[loudchevy]

Slow progress on the bodywork. Much like being noob on replacing rusted rockers, I started my noob bodywork journey on the wheel wells. I figured this was the best place to start as they are hidden under the hood. I hammered out as many dents as I could see and filled in the rest with some filler. I pictured applying filler in the same way you use plaster with drywall. It's similar but filler dries pretty quick and is much more difficult to sand down. I laid down another coat of epoxy primer after the filler and then hit it with some low gloss Eastwood Underhood Black. They turned out not terrible so I moved on to some body panels.