My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by SRU1436

Good stuff, love the jokes and the core support fix. Very ingenious.

thanks for the kind words, I appreciate that

[zicc1835]

You are traveling the speed of light putting me to shame While your at warp speed I’m still arguing with myself about what I’m going to do first in what order at what time and why��

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by zicc1835

You are traveling the speed of light putting me to shame While your at warp speed I’m still arguing with myself about what I’m going to do first in what order at what time and why��

ha ha, so been there, and that's why perfection is the enemy of progress

[Gregski]

a little video update: Electruck: What's the hold up?

[Gregski]

a video of me actually doing something: EV Conversion Tesla Brake Booster

[Gregski]

Me: "I should really plumb those front brake lines"

also Me: "I know I'll go out and buy a '67 grille in the world's worst shape instead and speed this project up by also doing a slant nose swap"

hey for $20 bucks I think I stole it! am I right fellas?

[Gregski]

The Greg don't mess around

[Gregski]

check out this beauty

[Gregski]

decided to remove the top bracket first, this one was screwed on, my '71 is riveted on

Top Tip: often times GM used flat head screws which you can't twist or hold with a flat screw driver after 50 years to undo, so you can either weld on a nut to the top of them screws or bugger weld a blob, I demonstrate both techniques below

[Gregski]

and Robert is your mother's uncle

Fun Fact: use PB blaster and tighten a stubborn bolt if she won't come out just to get it to budge, once it does loosen a few turns then retighten don't just go for it to take it off, the heat will jam up the process

[Gregski]

and here I am allowing my bugger welds to shine

[Gregski]

so correct me if I'm wrong but I am 71% sure that paint color schemes aside, all the GMC grilles, yes all of them from 67-72 are physically the same size and shape, and I am talking about the core big grille section that holds the headlight bezels

and the only difference between the slant nose era aka 67-68 ones and 69-70 is the top molding pieces and the bottom molding pieces

the 67-68 had what I call a skirt on the bottom essentially sort of like a lip protruding outward from the core support to the front bumper, LMC calls it a bumper/radiator deflector

[chewychevy67]

Yes you are correct

[notsolo]

Long weekend at the wrinkle nose garage, Earl has some undo time and a half coming....Happy 4th Gregski.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by notsolo

Long weekend at the wrinkle nose garage, Earl has some undo time and a half coming....Happy 4th Gregski.

LOL, ha ha, hopefully his wife don't drive off with the shop press

[8man]

Greg, there is a YouTube on improving the HF sand blast pot. Mine works better with the changes. If I could remember them I'd tell you, but I've got oldtimers disease.

Nice work by the way.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

Greg, there is a YouTube on improving the HF sand blast pot. Mine works better with the changes. If I could remember them I'd tell you, but I've got oldtimers disease.

Nice work by the way.

would you please stop reading my mind, I was about to head out to home depot for a bucket to make a dust collector


How to Make ● Simple Cyclone Dust Collector

[Gregski]

upper control arm bump bumps

Fun Fact: only reason I opted to run sum is to keep the 2" lowering coil springs from falling out when jacking up the truck

[Gregski]

so guess what? I'm redoing the driveshaft turns out the Lexus drive shaft has the center bearing support bracket on the wrong shaft (differential side instead of transmission side) so it aint gonna work out for me, so three drive shafts later...

I'm gonna post a video explaining all this so please stay tunned

[Gregski]

so I thought I would clean up the center bearing drive shaft support cross member just a tad

yes all that dirt is just from the back side of the center crossmember, wait till you see how I cleaned the other side

[Gregski]

ah yeah, I am not even kidding there were some things stuck so hard I could not get them off by hand using a putty knife nor a flat screw driver

[Gregski]

new old bracket fits

[Gregski]

well I was driving myself crazy so I decided to make brown things gray

thanks be to a forum member who hooked a brother up with two proper upper coil ear lobes (I'm sorry but once you see them you can't unsee them)

[Gregski]

how many details does my devil have?

[Gregski]

there, happy now?