72 K30 Build

[El Dorado Jim]

looking good! My sons both have the retro sound stereos in their trucks , they really sound good, I am going to get one for my 72K20 and one for my 73 suburban.....I just picked up a 69 GMC one ton open road motorhome, but i think I am going to keep it a motorhome, the interiorof the camper isnt all that bad, a little water damage, but worth fixing it....I think I will start a thread and post pics...

[7dee2]

Thank you, El Dorado Jim. Went for a (OMG were going to die!) ride last Summer in a friend’s beautiful red 64 Malibu. He has a non-amplified retrosound radio, windows down, happy 383 and the radio sounded great with just 4 Kenwood speakers.

Open Road motorhomes are very cool would love to see a thread on it. Just hated cutting up our Rancho El Rae here’s a pic of the old girl outside my office 4 years ago, covered in snow. I was going to wait till the 3-year anniversary of this short video which is next month but here’s us ripping the leaky roof off ours. Ha, think I mentioned earlier our neighbors love us! https://youtu.be/qx1Q172qmuA

[First c10]

Hey Brett I bought a HF benchtop grinder/buffer, with coupon it was like 40$. It worked great for the trim. Made the process of buffing nice since it was mounted to a pedestal.
keep it up its looking great and moving fast!!!

[El Dorado Jim]

I cant watch youtube at home,lousy internet,I may be able to send it to my phone and watch it someplace else......I havent decided to either put a newer front end with disc brakes and newer rear end.......or my son wants me to convert it to four wheel drive...I can get a dana 60 dually front end from a mid 80's chevy for $1200.00 with 4:10 gears,(a friend of my son's has it) and then find a 14 bolt dually rear end with 4:10 gears....I already have a t-400/205 trans case setup....the truck has a t-400 now and the 350 engine was replaced with a 454, came with all the receipts,has only 10,000 miles on the 454....I stole the truck for $800.00 with $375.00 in back dmv fees,I trailered it home ,would start but wouldnt stay running, I changed carburetors, removed quadrajet,(installed holley my son had that i knew was good) runs great.....I need to start a thread, just hate trying to download pics on this site, I couldnt post pics last time i tried....

[7dee2]

Originally Posted by First c10

Hey Brett I bought a HF benchtop grinder/buffer, with coupon it was like 40$. It worked great for the trim. Made the process of buffing nice since it was mounted to a pedestal.
keep it up its looking great and moving fast!!!

That would be so nice but for this little job the small hand held buffer worked out pretty good. Thanks, really happy with how it’s turning out.

Originally Posted by El Dorado Jim

I cant watch youtube at home,lousy internet,I may be able to send it to my phone and watch it someplace else......I havent decided to either put a newer front end with disc brakes and newer rear end.......or my son wants me to convert it to four wheel drive...I can get a dana 60 dually front end from a mid 80's chevy for $1200.00 with 4:10 gears,(a friend of my son's has it) and then find a 14 bolt dually rear end with 4:10 gears....I already have a t-400/205 trans case setup....the truck has a t-400 now and the 350 engine was replaced with a 454, came with all the receipts,has only 10,000 miles on the 454....I stole the truck for $800.00 with $375.00 in back dmv fees,I trailered it home ,would start but wouldnt stay running, I changed carburetors, removed quadrajet,(installed holley my son had that i knew was good) runs great.....I need to start a thread, just hate trying to download pics on this site, I couldnt post pics last time i tried....

The video is just 7 seconds of camper carnage out in the street. Disc brakes would be a very nice add and a 4x conversion would be very cool. Driving ours home we hit a dust storm with some high winds and had to stop for a few minutes. With the narrower CC diff and no rear sway bar the RV got some serious sway, Mrs. 7dee2 was following and said it looked like we were going to tip over. Raising your center of gravity, I would seriously engineer some very large sway bars into the 4x design.



The frogs are back and happy as ever to help out. Taking this stuff for the short ride over to the cab for install. Cab is done and ready for glass, it’s been polished and the top of the dash is blacked out.

[rgunlock]

Looks like signs of recently completed color sanding. The cab turned out looking great!

[El Dorado Jim]

I havent driven my gmc yet, trailered it home..didnt think about how top heavy it is, I need to drive it and see how it handles, may just go with the disc brakes on the front and call it good..thanks.

[7dee2]

Originally Posted by rgunlock

Looks like signs of recently completed color sanding. The cab turned out looking great!

Thank’s, Rick! You are right and it's beauty in person, kudos to my friend Rex Marshall at Marshall’s Corvettes for the great paint work.

Originally Posted by El Dorado Jim

I havent driven my gmc yet, trailered it home..didnt think about how top heavy it is, I need to drive it and see how it handles, may just go with the disc brakes on the front and call it good..thanks.

Good luck with your Open Road and let me know if you start a build thread, El Dorado Jim.




The glass is in and it’s now ready to go back home. Ha, hoping we can do better than these guys! http://www.discovery.com/there-goes-the-cabin/

[First c10]

Looking good Brett, what color did you paint the top of the dash???

[El Dorado Jim]

that cab is beautiful! where did you get the rubber for the windshield and back window? my glass guy said he cant get a good rubber that will hold the ss trim ...on my 72 K20

[7dee2]

Originally Posted by First c10

Looking good Brett, what color did you paint the top of the dash???

Thank’s, Scott! It’s SEM Trim Black 39143 in a rattle can, was looking for something UV resistant in a satin/matte black and a friend suggested this product. Checked in with our paint supplier to see if there was anything better and he also green-lighted this product. https://www.semproducts.com/manage/h...k_0616_WEB.pdf

Originally Posted by El Dorado Jim

that cab is beautiful! where did you get the rubber for the windshield and back window? my glass guy said he cant get a good rubber that will hold the ss trim ...on my 72 K20

Thank’s, Jim! I’ve heard from several sources that same thing or that it's discontinued. The general consensus appears that Precision is making the better weather stripping these days. https://www.prp.com/product/?SearchT...ickup&type=All We purchased the complete kit for 71-72 style trim (CWK111171) when we got our back glass. There was one issue with our rear gasket it was the only piece that didn’t come in a Precision green and clear bag and had been relabeled with the Precision number (?), in the link, it’s the piece on top in the pic? http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...&postcount=769

That gasket was perfect, except for the innermost bottom trim groove the shallow one was not cut quite all the way (+or- 3”) to the corner on both sides. Just a few minutes with a razor blade as our glass guy did, or you could trim the trim to fix this. If you look at the picture above (frogs helping) you’ll notice the lower trim is not sitting flush near the corner, that’s also why the corner pieces are not installed. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...&postcount=880



Got it back in our garage last Friday during the heat of the day which was about 15 degrees! First clear day all week and I can report no barrel rolls on the freeway.

[Dieselwrencher]

The cab looks great and I'm glad to hear you didn't lose it on the way home. That would be a bad deal! You can keep all that white stuff you have too.

[7dee2]

Thank’s, Ryan! We were joking around at the paint shop about that Misfit episode, think it was staged? Strapping stuff down on a dove tail can be iffy, especially with only one strap over the pinch weld area, oops! Greatest snow on earth they say! I don’t ski so…


Bolted in the high hump and bang, on its nose. Fished out the cab light harness and washed some slush and shop dirt off the bottom. Noticed with the glass and stuff it’s a little top heavy so I added some safety bungee’s!

[First c10]

Cab is looking good.

The show was staged... it had to be! that incident probably kept the show on the air.

What seat are you putting in it?

[Deer_hunter_088]

following!!

[Dieselwrencher]

Man, if it was staged, they could have used my rusty old cab! I would have traded them straight up before they loaded it out of the body shop. You almost have a cab over going on now.

[7dee2]

Originally Posted by First c10

Cab is looking good.

The show was staged... it had to be! that incident probably kept the show on the air.

What seat are you putting in it?

Don’t know for sure if it was staged but I did LMAO when I saw that for the first time! Black & white hounds tooth bucket seats that we did up last year are for this truck.

Originally Posted by Deer_hunter_088

following!!

Welcome Deer_hunter_088!

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Man, if it was staged, they could have used my rusty old cab! I would have traded them straight up before they loaded it out of the body shop. You almost have a cab over going on now.

No kidding! Just have to finish up the undercoating and it’ll get flipped upright.



It’s like Christmas having the cab back!

[flashed]

Looking good .

[rgunlock]

Those seats are going to look really nice in there. I think that you may have hit on something, maybe you should do all the under-dash wiring while you have the cab on its nose. Got to beat laying on your back with half your body bend over backward out the door opening

[First c10]

Looking good Brett as always. That truck will be hauling stuff around Utah in no time.
I love the seats.

[swamp rat]

There was no way that Misfits episode couldn't have not been staged unless they are so retarded they don't know how to use tie down straps, which to me is a shame because these cabs are not exactly being reproduced and that one was savable.

Your cab looks damn sweet.

[ak47paul]

Nice build...Man! Just wondering where did you buy your front springs?

[7dee2]

Originally Posted by flashed

Looking good .

Thank's flashed!

Originally Posted by rgunlock

Those seats are going to look really nice in there. I think that you may have hit on something, maybe you should do all the under-dash wiring while you have the cab on its nose. Got to beat laying on your back with half your body bend over backward out the door opening

Thank's Rick, if I wasn't paranoid about busting the windshield or tipping the cab over I'd probably do more!

Originally Posted by First c10

Looking good Brett as always. That truck will be hauling stuff around Utah in no time.
I love the seats.

Thank's Scott, really happy with how our seats turned out and I can hardly wait to put my butt in them and use the truck!

Originally Posted by swamp rat

There was no way that Misfits episode couldn't have not been staged unless they are so retarded they don't know how to use tie down straps, which to me is a shame because these cabs are not exactly being reproduced and that one was savable.

Your cab looks damn sweet.

Thank's Mike, I'd agree that it could have been staged because they got it on camera. You know the bed was not tied down very well, it did get dumped on the highway (permits and stuff?) and you know "stupid is as stupid does"!

Originally Posted by ak47paul

Nice build...Man! Just wondering where did you buy your front springs?

Thank's ak47paul and welcome to the forum! They are a stock 72 K20 3-leaf style replacement from General Spring. http://www.generalspringkc.com/Leaf_...972_s/1828.htm




Undercoating on the cab and inner fenders is done, didn’t get what I was hoping for from a rattle can and in hind sight wish we’d done this using a Shultz gun (next time), but hey live and learn. The great spray off started with a real old can of Keystone 970 that’s no longer available, back when this stuff was new it would give a nice chunky texture and the fumes would knock you into next week (probably why it’s no longer). That one’s been on my shelf for over 10 years and what came out was like clumpy buuuggggers, ended up that was the only chunky texture we got. Everything else pretty much laid down like thick paint, first 2 cans of Evercoat that put a thin coat on everything. Ran out to the local AutoZone and grabbed more, 2 cans of the 3M stuff and 2 cans of the Rust-oleum, all that they had. Mainly just to build up the thickness a little bit more and still hoping to find one that would give some texture (not).

Before starting this my friend Tony from Hot Rod Body & Paint (he recommended the Trim Black stuff for the top of the dash) tried to warn me that if I was after texture in a rattle can this Dupicolor truck bed liner would do a better job.

[7dee2]

Glued in some replacement insulation just prior to righting the cab. Next up the fresh air cowl flapper got installed, could’ve probably kept installing stuff prior to putting the cab on the frame but that would be just too easy!

[First c10]

I have been thinking about how I am going to insulate the cab. How did you come up with this? keeping it stock? I have seen many people use a plethora of insulation ideas. not sure what is best.