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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
With any luck, I just put the last smudge of plastic skim on the truck and have reached the point of diminishing returns on the body work. Sand out the silver dollar spot to night and in a couple of days when temps get lower will shoot two more coats sanding primer and block it for the final time. In between undercoating the bed fenders on the road exposed sides. next get to take 40 years of paint and rust off the wheel, oh joy...
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
Went to the American Graffit festival show in Modesto. Sat., me and my youngest daughter. Sun., w/ my 15yr old nephew. He's getting ready to start working on his dad's 70 Dart but for some reason we kept looking at GM A bodies...
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
nuttin ...........been at work all day ..........as usuall
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
Finally got my Pertronix distributor and coil installed. I'm still recovering from cancer that has weakened my back so got my son to come over and do it while I watched. We took a short cut and just numbered the wires clockwise starting at number one to make it more easy than trying to trace the wires out since they go down and under the exhaust manifolds. It started right up and I only had to tweak the timing slightly when we got it done.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
Got my steering wheel finished and installed! Photos to come.
This weekend my '50 will take me to a hot rod lunch at the local city park. Last edited by MiraclePieCo; 06-15-2016 at 03:23 AM. |
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Oops, 30 minutes expired; too late to edit the above. Here are photos of my new steering wheel. It came with a 4-inch dish - too deep, too close to my stomach, so I cut the spokes, flattened out the dish, removed the excess metal, re-welded in stainless, and ground smooth. Now I love the way it looks and feels.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
cleaned it up and taped so i can hit it with a couple of coats sanding primer. Decided I have hit the wall on "working on it" and going to put in the glass and start driving it while I do the final blocking. Want to shake it down mechanically before final paint.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
Getting closer to my chassis being done and ready to swap in the burb. Finished up the mustang II, fab'd up a crossmember and boxed the chassis foe the new crossmember (chassis was rusted out where the orginal mid crossmember was in the drivers side.) Unfortunately i cant find my pic of the rusted section be for I welded in thw patch but am still looking . Just need to flip the chassis for the finish welding then it's ready to mockup and paint.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
Getting ready for the 4 link and the 8.8 rear end.
Coil overs should be here in the morning. Going to center the axle in the rear fenders a little better. When I put the bed on for the first time, the stock s10 axle was too far back. |
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
Got this cool sign from Pep Boys. Had to order online, none here, its on ebay for cheaper than PB web site. My truck was originally that color.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
I have a similar sign on my garage wall that I picked up at PB. Mine is just the truck without the "Chevy" part. My truck is a 57 so not exactly like the sign, but same color and close enough that I had to buy that sign when I spotted it.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
Dropped Project Mayhem off to get back-halfed to fit the massive Intro Rally for the rear. They are also chopping the camaro clip off and building new front half of frame, rack and pinion steering, setting up airride setup the list goes on. I am like a kid at Christmas time I can't wait. I mocked one fender on the back to get the visual of how the rear will sit.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
That says it all!!!!
That's what this hobby is all about. Very cool project! |
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
looks pretty sweet there heavy. would it have been a stretch to just fab a whole new custom frame? it seems like the only stock part is the middle, and it is pretty flat, so fairly easy to replace with fresh, right?
keep the pics coming, we are all junkies for the build that is moving forward. |
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
Fitted a straight exhaust extension to get rid of the side exit that was blowing soot all over my (unpainted at present) wall when warming up!
Using this photo to get creative in Paint.Net on a design for a custom rollpan / bumper setup as my truck had a tow hitch setup that was removed by the previous owner, so now looks a bit.. incomplete! |
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
I had some spare time to bolt together the bed.... slowly but surely
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
Once I got the bed bolted together, slapped the signs in there temporarily to get the look I'm going for. ...
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Pretty cool
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
I finished up all my welding today and the chassis is nearly done.. At the point of mockup then it's finally sanding then paint. A small set back today as I lost my instructions to the leaf spring conversion. Small detail but it is an older chassis engineering kit and is complicated being it's a 54-55.1 kit I'm putting on a 53 chassis. I'll get it figured out but I blew it apart 4 yrs ago and a movery so it's frustrating.
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Looking good
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, take 2
Truck is back from paint a week ago,been installing parts every day. Lots of pics in build thread.
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