What did you do to your truck today part IV

[blacknwhitedog]

Finishing up my 4 link conversion.

[Chevy Fleetside]

We had a Christmas cruise so I decked out the truck

[AcampoDave]

^^^awesome^^^ I wouldn't mind seeing a little more of that.

[Canadian63GMC]

Originally Posted by AcampoDave

^^^awesome^^^ I wouldn't mind seeing a little more of that.

👍 agreed

[MT65]

Thank you, its tedious and time consuming, but I like to build my own, lots of these pieces were left over from my last 2 cars…

[66C10LB]

MT65 meticulous job on your exhaust! Looks great. Don't think that I have seen one tucked so close in behind the tire before.

[66C10LB]

MT65 meticulous job on your exhaust! Looks great. Don't think that I have seen one tucked so close in behind the tire before.

[MT65]

Originally Posted by 66C10LB

MT65 meticulous job on your exhaust! Looks great. Don't think that I have seen one tucked so close in behind the tire before.

Thank you for the nice words, its got just under an inch on clearance, takes more speed than this truck will do to make the tire grow that much, at least I hope so🤔🤔🤔

[racecougar]

Had to run to Home Depot for a fitting last night. When I came back out to the truck, the sunset looked great, so I snapped a few pics with my iPhone. Wish I would've had a real camera and been in a better location than HD's parking lot, but for a total impromptu shoot, I think these turned out well.

[MT65]

Finished mounting my rear sway bar, a front bar from an early 70’s Camaro should be fine, may have to fine tune end links when its on its wheels…

[MT65]

Finished mounting my rear sway bar, a front bar from an early 70’s Camaro should be fine, may have to fine tune end links when its on its wheels…

[MT65]

Finally resting on its own , maybe a little fine tuning on stance, 5” ground clearance as it sits…

[The Rocknrod]

Started working on stuff and ended up pulling the engine. I over did it as usual.

[Chevy Fleetside]

Started painting my new spindles to replace the one that broke.

[62bagger]

I finished replacing the bed wood and raptor lined the inside of the bed. I got it finished and mounted back on the frame.

[Railroadman]

Removing the floor of the utility body, and de-rusting the frame. I left a small part of the floor to hold the fan to help blow away the dust as I'm wire brushing. Wife brought home a bunch of N95 masks the local pharmacy was giving away, I said "Perfect for the shop!"

[Canadian63GMC]

Originally Posted by Railroadman

Removing the floor of the utility body, and de-rusting the frame. I left a small part of the floor to hold the fan to help blow away the dust as I'm wire brushing. Wife brought home a bunch of N95 masks the local pharmacy was giving away, I said "Perfect for the shop!"

That’s a job! Nicely done!

[Railroadman]

Originally Posted by Canadian63GMC

That’s a job! Nicely done!

Thanks! I don't believe the difference in condition of the frame from one part to another. The truck had some sort of fantastic undercoating, and in many places peeling that off reveals metal which looks like it just left the assembly line. But in other places the salt has really done a job. The trailing arms have all the structural integrity of a couple potato chips!

[Nappers]

Sorry folks, no pictures but today I:

Installed new knobs for the headlight switch, wiper and heater (one knoberoo). I had all black knobs but put the stainless and black ones in.

Installed new glovebox, it was a learning experience, had to do some trimming and whatnot. I wish I knew what to put on that cardboard to protect it. I may remove and do some final trimming.

Installed a new heater fan, those big 45 size sheet metal bolts for the airbox to cowl were all stripped out so I drilled out the holes and installed stainless nutserts with stainless steel 1/4X20 bolts. I also used stainless steel screws on the heater box and lid. The new fan worked great and didn't scream like a screech owl.

Oh yeah, installed new clutch pedal rubber to match my brake pedal.

Slowly but surely it's coming along.

I took it for a spin to a local store (about 15 miles one way) and love driving that truck.

I also have an NV4500 5 speed to install pretty soon. Can't wait!!

I didn't have a nutsert tool, so I used a 1/4X20 bolt with a couple of washers and pulled them in with a nut behind the washers. Broke a couple of bolts thinking I had some tightening to do, note to self, broken bolt, probably tight enough. The airbox is sturdy now.

Here's a pix of the truck itself with an under the hood for giggles. I'll try to get some pix of the new stuff but it started to rain when I finished up putting my toys(tools) away.

[jweb]

Got the frame and body ready over the last few weeks and both sent out to be blasted this morning.

[jweb]

We had some unusually nice weather over the weekend. So I built a cart for my Suburban and pulled the frame out from under it.

[Canadian63GMC]

Started on my drivers door inner and outter skin replacement plus some odd dents to pull out… and 16 holes to weld up that were from previous owner that I can only assume were for different types of mirrors… and his over use of a grinder in those locations 🤦*♂️

[66C10LB]

Originally Posted by Canadian63GMC

Started on my drivers door inner and outter skin replacement plus some odd dents to pull out… and 16 holes to weld up that were from previous owner that I can only assume were for different types of mirrors… and his over use of a grinder in those locations 🤦*♂️Attachment 2168015

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Looks good on your door bottoms replacement! It's wise, I think, that your outer skin butt weld will not be in a straight line. I'll be starting my doors shortly as well. Are you going to butt weld your outer skin first so that you can hammer/dolly with access to the back of the weld? ...or are going to butt weld the inner first in order to have firm backing?

[Canadian63GMC]

Originally Posted by 66C10LB

Looks good on your door bottoms replacement! It's wise, I think, that your outer skin butt weld will not be in a straight line. I'll be starting my doors shortly as well. Are you going to butt weld your outer skin first so that you can hammer/dolly with access to the back of the weld? ...or are going to butt weld the inner first in order to have firm backing?

Thanks for the reply, yes I’ll be butt welding outter skin first so I can hammer dolly it to get it as nice as I can followed by the inner skin. I just did the other door (passenger side), it turned out great but I used the whole patch, 1/3 of the way up. I had to English wheel the patch panel to get it right before welding it in and figured this other way is going to be a much safer way to go at it, leaving more original door metal and contour and like you said, avoid welding straight across… learning as I go!

[Canadian63GMC]

Almost done inner door skin, finished welding, just gotta hammer over bottom flange.