My 1970 GMC “Project Splice”

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by chewychevy67

Make sure you fit the bucket seat pieces before you weld in the support braces. I think it would be easier now especially the longer brace for the console.

Good point. I'll have to dig them out.

[Kronald_70GMC]

I got my bucket seat crossmember cut out of the donor floor along with all the stand alone rear brackets. Also got the dish pressed into the driver floor pan where the cab mount bolt goes in.

[Kronald_70GMC]

I've made some pretty solid progress over the past few evenings, even if it doesn't feel like it. I've got the bucket seat crossmember straightened out and fitting about 90%. Only need to drill out the inner front passenger seat mount. I've been doing research into seat track locations and Im glad I did as the bucket seats require the front outer mounting holes to be moved 1-1/4" outward. So I'm glad that I did not drill the rear mounting points to pre maturly. I've sourced a few square nuts from my old cab support to be welded in where the new mounting points are. Also I looks like Sunday will the day for blasting the support. It's all starting to come together.

[chewychevy67]

Looking good!

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by chewychevy67

Looking good!

Thank you. All my work is finally starting to show.

[Kronald_70GMC]

I dropped off my support with the wife's uncle for sandblasting this morning. He is hoping to have it back to me early this week. I spent the better part of Friday evening drilling the 50 million spot weld holes for the support. I also welded in one of my spreader plates and the other one is also ready to weld in. This afternoon I started welding up the inner roof seam and did some more welding in the passenger door opening. For some reason the opening is quite diffrent where the front top seam is so I have been building it up with weld. Lots more to go, on the bright side, the driver door opening is much nicer.

[TA_C10]

Dang dude, lots of welding your doing, you counting the rolls of wire your going through? Ready so see this finished up and smooth

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

Dang dude, lots of welding your doing, you counting the rolls of wire your going through? Ready so see this finished up and smooth

I'm surprisingly still on my first roll of wire. I too am excited for it to be smooth. My dad did his door jambs and it looks so nice. I see you got your brake lines done. Looks good, you be stopping in no time.

[TA_C10]

Burning through or what? Sorry to hear the step backwards...

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

Burning through or what? Sorry to hear the step backwards...

Yeah just this one corner. The metal was pretty thinned out but I thought I could still weld up the pin holes. A few worked out fine but most ended up burning through and went from a small 1/8" pinhole to almost an inch before I hit anything solid enough to handle the heat. At that point, I figured I'd better cut my losses and replace the end. I really didn't want to because the patch piece is not the same gauge as the original but realistically, the new piece is probably thicker that the thinned out metal that was there. I did not cut off any more original metal than I had to though.

[72 tigger]

It’s amazing how small rust holes can grow - nice progress

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by 72 tigger

It’s amazing how small rust holes can grow - nice progress

Thanks

[Kronald_70GMC]

Last night I got all the holes in the support welded up. I also sprayed all the channels and areas I wont be able to get to later with rust converter. Hoping to have the support in place for welding after work.

[chewychevy67]

That is looking sweet

[cornerstone]

Looks clean enough to eat off of!

[Kronald_70GMC]

Again thanks for the kind words everyone. I'm so close to putting this thing back on level ground and it feels great!

[TA_C10]

How's the project coming along man?

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

How's the project coming along man?

I haven't been able to touch it since I last posted. We have been having a crazy busy summer, we did a whole bunch of landscaping and we found mold in our basement. Luckily only the perimeter walls were built by the po of the house so I have been tearing out the basement and trying to get grass to grow during one of the dryest springs / early summers we have ever had. It kills me to see the cab sitting exactly how I left it in the garage. I'm hoping that I can get back to it sometime in July.

[TA_C10]

Sorry to hear about the basement mold, that's no fun... We've been doing a lot of yard work and landscaping as well, at least you see the fruit of your labor with that

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

Sorry to hear about the basement mold, that's no fun... We've been doing a lot of yard work and landscaping as well, at least you see the fruit of your labor with that

Yes very much so. We just hauled in 8 yds of dirt to our front yard and put in underground sprinklers. Hardest I've worked in years but man does it look good!

[Kronald_70GMC]

Woohoo! Today was finally the day. The day that I walked into the garage after coming home from a local car show and said, enough of this cab just sitting here like this, it's time to weld! I finished up smoothing out the drivers door opening, ground down my inner roof seam and stripped the paint off the ceiling of the cab. Woohoo! Progress and it feels so good.

[TA_C10]

So true cornerstone. That's a lot of work you just finished. Dirty hard work. Keep it up!

[Kronald_70GMC]

Thanks guys. It's good to to be back on this thing again!

[Kronald_70GMC]

I did it guys! With the help of my dad we got the cab flipped down. It's been quite a while since it was sitting like this. I'm beyond excited to be past that milestone. I've been working on finishing up a few things on the floor. Then I can get the doors off the truck and get them fitted up on here and get to work on the rockers and cab corners. Again beyond excited for this guys! Thanks for hanging in there.

[TA_C10]

Looking good! Glad to see some progress on your build. Exciting moment getting this close keep it up man!