My 66 Service Truck Build Thread

[LostMy65]

Found me a beautiful straight clean box for $100
The catch is I had to unbolt it from the frd
He just wanted it gone. I was fine with that.

Now I won't have to try and restore my old beat-up box.

[66-PMD-GMC]

Originally Posted by LostMy65

Found me a beautiful straight clean box for $100
The catch is I had to unbolt it from the frd
He just wanted it gone. I was fine with that.

Now I won't have to try and restore my old beat-up box.

OMG! You touched a Ford......
Did you get vaccinated afterward...
Seriously, you should see a Doctor and make sure you didn't catch anything..
Gotta go.. need to wash my hands after typing the F word...

[KroAutomotiveInc]

love the service box very cool!

[Captainfab]

Wow, that looks good. If it is as nice as it looks in the pic, you stole that box.

[LostMy65]

These guys took my 79 donor away.
I wish I would of got a pic as they still had it hanging from their claws way up in the air.


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[pdxhall]

I get that same soreness and tire easily when working on my 66. Since that makes 2 of us it must be the 66 trucks. LOL

[LostMy65]

Originally Posted by pdxhall

I get that same soreness and tire easily when working on my 66. Since that makes 2 of us it must be the 66 trucks. LOL

Yea, there isn't any other reasonable explanation.

[LostMy65]

Got the old box off today.
I cut each side off and will be keeping them for tool cabinets.

[LostMy65]

I always like how these trucks look even without a bed.
That isn't rust on the back of the cab, that's the original county orange.

[LostMy65]

My Cab Corners arrived today from Dan's here in Portland.

They sent me two different brands.

TriPlus for the Driver's side and I don't know for the Passenger's.
I will be exchanging the passanger's side for a Tri-Plus brand.

The off brand is just way too cheaply made. The metal is terribly obviously thinner.
The shape of the body lines are very under shaped.

The TriPlus is far superior.

[LostMy65]

Pressure washed the frame rear section.
I'll be doing the rear gas tank upgrade and cab corners while I have the box off.

[pdxhall]

What kind of tank are you planning to use? Just wondering because I'm at about that stage on my 66. The plan right now is to use a 64-66 mustank tank. I've seen a couple used in our trucks and they are almost a drop in and very little hangs below the frame. They are only 16 gal., though, and also the sender needs to be modified to 0-90 ohms.

[66-PMD-GMC]

Originally Posted by pdxhall

What kind of tank are you planning to use? Just wondering because I'm at about that stage on my 66. The plan right now is to use a 64-66 mustank tank. I've seen a couple used in our trucks and they are almost a drop in and very little hangs below the frame. They are only 16 gal., though, and also the sender needs to be modified to 0-90 ohms.

I thought the 60's trucks used 30 ohm fuel gages??
I need a tank bad. I hate it in the cab.. makes me real fricking nervous!

[LostMy65]

I have two tanks to choose from.
My first choice will be a huge 79 suburban tank I got off my donor - similar to the blazer:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=474448

If I don't like how it's coming together, I got one off of the F250 that I got the service box off of. It's looks to be about half the depth of the suburban tank.

I'll try and load some pics of the tanks this afternoon.

[LostMy65]

Here's the Frd F250 gas tank.
I see now it won't fit between the rails.
If I have to go below the rails, I might as well use the huge suburban tank because it fits between the rails, so I'm guessing it won't hang any lower than the frd tank mounted below the rails.



79 Suburban tank:

[pdxhall]

66-PMD. you're right. my bad, it is 30 ohm.

[pdxhall]

66-PDM...you're right, my bad, it is 30 ohm.

[padresag]

65=30ohms, 66=90 ohms is how i believe is how it goes
ron

[LostMy65]

I found two clean doors. Driver's and
Passenger's.
$325 for both.
After driving around looking at rusty
bottom doors, I figured I had better get
both of these.
I'll get some pics up later.
I'm tempted to buy the hood also.
I posted in the parts forum asking what it might be worth.
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[LostMy65]

Saved for future reference:

Originally Posted by SFTorange

Thanks Guys! Having the cab back on the frame makes me feel like the end is in sight. For the interior colors, I gave the following codes to my paint shop, and they were able to match them. I'm out of town for the week, but I'll post the actual codes they used when I get home. The exterior color is the factory Saddle Poly code 22683. I think the colors look great, I couldn't be happier.

Medium Fawn: 60% gloss
DuPont: #9171-L
Ditzler: #DL-22571
Rinshed-Mason: #65B84

Dark Fawn: 0% Gloss
DuPont: #9202-L
Ditzler: #DIA 22568

[LostMy65]

Something I thought of the other day, and just did a search for here in the forums;
neoprene washers for the fender top bolts:
67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showpost.php?p=3733189&postcount=661
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[LostMy65]

Well Okay,
I got to drive it some before I tore the old box off.
It was fun.

I now have most of the patch panels to do the bad areas of the outer edge of the floor, cab corners and rocker panels.
I still have the box off so I started cleaning up the rear part of the frame.

So I figured I might as well dive in and pull the cab and get it cleaned up real nice.
Also got the cab windows out and will be building some kind of Rotisserie
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=406238

[LostMy65]

Originally Posted by LostMy65

Well Okay,
I now have most of the patch panels to do the bad areas of the outer edge of the floor, cab corners and rocker panels.
I still have the box off so I started cleaning up the rear part of the frame.

So I figured I might as well dive in and pull the cab and get it cleaned up real nice.

I don't have the money to do a complete frame up restore at this time, so I'm doing more of a frame up preservation.
I just want this thing reliable mechanically, and preserved & protected.

Like I posted above; I have the old box off and cleaned the rear part of the frame. I now have the cab off and gave it a good pressure wash and cleaning with dawn, underside and all - along with the rest of the frame.
I decided to pull the engine and do the front end swap to the complete front end with 8-lug discs that I bought last winter.

Yes, I know... Since I have everything tore off, now would be a good time to sandblast everything. But I'm just going to rustoleum the frame for now.

Once I have the frame painted, I'll put the motor back in.
Then I'll start patching my cab.
I'll epoxy the cab as I get areas stripped and repaired.

I guess instead of calling this my 'Build' thread, I should of called it my 'Work on in spurts' thread.

[pdxhall]

You know what you've started don't you? You can never go back.

[LostMy65]

Originally Posted by LostMy65

I decided to pull the engine and do the front end swap to the complete front end with 8-lug discs that I bought last winter.

Here's a good thread on hooking things up:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...ght=disc+brake