What did you do to your truck today part III

[62 Barnfind]

Went to the machine shop to help with putting my engine together. Notice the original gray paint.

[65 C20]

Grizz1963.
To help with visability on your sand blaster window.
If you tape a thin plastic sheet on the inside of your window it will take the abuse of the blasting media.
When visability gets bad remove and replace with a new one.
It saves your original window.

[dwcardfan]

Installed seats and ran the wire.

[dwcardfan]

Painted the GMC grille.

[schpeen]

New roller rockers

[gman60]

Waiting on some patch panels to come in, so I decided to play with the color of my wheels.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by gman60

Waiting on some patch panels to come in, so I decided to play with the color of my wheels.

Let me be the first to say Welcome and colour absolutely approved.

I like it a whole lot in that combo.

[gman60]

Thanks Grizz1963!

[siggyfreud]

Prototyped a new gauge cluster bezel for my 66 GMC project

[Boedean1981]

Spent some time cleaning of my junkyard find. The towel was white when I started. Engine de-greaser and a nylon brush seemed to do a fine job of getting that years of hand germs off of it.

[jayoldschool]

Pulled my valve cover and found a loose rocker (thankfully). Fixed that, and the engine is quiet like it should be. Set timing and idle. Put in fresh Rotella with a dose of ZDDP additive, and an oversized oil filter. Greased the front end. Enjoyed my now nice-driving truck that is finally running well, and has a lot more power than when I started.

[Boedean1981]

Sorry (but not sorry) but the picture with gf was much more pleasing on the eyes.

[pimpston65]

Originally Posted by Boedean1981

Sorry (but not sorry) but the picture with gf was much more pleasing on the eyes.

hey aint mad atcha!!! but your truck better be more NOS then hers for her to look twice!!!

[Lugnutz65]

Welded the angle strips onto the bed sides. Lots of effort to be sure they are in the right place.

[dwcardfan]

Originally Posted by Lugnutz65

Welded the angle strips onto the bed sides. Lots of effort to be sure they are in the right place.

Very nice work Lugnutz!!!!

[Grizz1963]

Today this was happening in England.



Any guess at what was being created?

Yes, I am excited.

[mjh1965]

Well I managed to sand down my chassis . Finishied the painting my crossmember and trailing arms . Install the new bushes into the trailing arms , and paint my front brake callipers

Crossmember and trailing arms painted




Close up of the new bushes installed



Chassis sanded down



Front callipers

[Hollow65]

Popped the hood for the first time in a while today. Found some wicked carb leaks and the front seal on my blower needs replaced. But it's hot and I'm lazy so maybe next weekend. I did polish the wheels and bumper/grille. $50 and a Saturday and I'll be beating the truck some more.

[62 Barnfind]

Finally putting my engine together!

[Isaiah92260]

I stripped off all the crappy brown paint that was on the inside of my cab, found that someone sprayed black paint a long time ago too, what do you guys think I should use to get the black paint off besides the razors blades that I was alread using lol

[schpeen]

Originally Posted by Isaiah92260

I stripped off all the crappy brown paint that was on the inside of my cab, found that someone sprayed black paint a long time ago too, what do you guys think I should use to get the black paint off besides the razors blades that I was alread using lol

240 grit

[Isaiah92260]

Originally Posted by schpeen

240 grit

That sounds pretty corse, you don't think that would leave scratches on the OG paint and show metal?

[schpeen]

varnished the oak fencing i made last week and countersunk the holes for nice stainless hardware

[Boedean1981]

After cleaning and cleaning and some sanding I have an almost ready instrument cluster.

The last pics are the before.

[Evoracer]

Fabbed removable bike rack...