Project Slo-Go 67

[BIG HEAD]

be thank full to have you kid working with you, mine wants to skate board. he is good at it. after i get my cab painted and set on the frame i am going to try to get him to help with reassemble. your truck is looking good.

[my67chevytruck]

Thank for the Comment. My son is 16, and this is his truck. If he doesnt help i dont work on it solo. So if he wants it done , he will help. Good looking build you have going there Big Head.

[my67chevytruck]

ok we are making a little progress, currently we are sanding the interior of the cab, I cutout, made a patch and welded in where the floor shifter went today..

[my67chevytruck]

We made more progress continuing to strip the cab down. we flipped the cab on its back, and sanded, and wirewheeled underneath ( it will be rhinolined in the future) steadliy moving forward. We found some rust when we removed the windshield so i will have to address and patch a couple of areas...

[my67chevytruck]

Picked up some seats for my son's truck. I bought them at lunch, and put them in the garage. When he arrived from football practice i told him to go start working on the truck, he was in shock when he opened the garage...

[VA72C10]

NICE!!! I'll bet he was in shock!!!

[my67chevytruck]

we are making more progress, me have welded up more holes made by the PO. we have the entire inside cab sanded down as well, we need to cut and weld in a couple of patches on some rust we found when we removed the windshield.

[es67chevy]

Looking really good! What brake line kit did you go with?

[my67chevytruck]

Originally Posted by es67chevy

Looking really good! What brake line kit did you go with?

Since i switched to the '72 front and rear suspension, I went with '72 brake lines etc. I bent, cut , and flared the rear brake line and we fabbed a mounting point for the rear brakeline fitting on the frame.

[my67chevytruck]

We made some progress on the dash repair, i cutout the rust, and hand formed the replacement with hammer and dolly and some knee bending, pie cuts etc. It took me a couple of tries, but am happy overall with the outcome since i dont have any metal working tools etc...

[blazer72]

Brother, you are kickin' butt.

Good job - you wanna do my suburban to Crew cab conversion????

[Alan's Classic]

Nice work. I'm with you on limited sheetmetal tools. It makes a person get creative on how too shape a piece of metal. Keep it up.

[my67chevytruck]

Originally Posted by blazer72

Brother, you are kickin' butt.

Good job - you wanna do my suburban to Crew cab conversion????

Thanks Josh. getting a lil closer everytime we work on it. I tell my son that as well. I could probably help you , but dont think i have the skill set to do the conversion by myself...

[my67chevytruck]

Originally Posted by Alan's Classic

Nice work. I'm with you on limited sheetmetal tools. It makes a person get creative on how too shape a piece of metal. Keep it up.

Thanks Alan,

Hoping with enough practice that i get to your skillset one day. It would be nice if i was able to paint my own vehicles one day and the job turned out as nice as the paint looks on yours.

[72 SHORTBED 7.0]

Originally Posted by BIG HEAD

be thank full to have you kid working with you, mine wants to skate board. he is good at it. after i get my cab painted and set on the frame i am going to try to get him to help with reassemble. your truck is looking good.

Originally Posted by my67chevytruck

Thank for the Comment. My son is 16, and this is his truck. If he doesnt help i dont work on it solo. So if he wants it done , he will help. Good looking build you have going there Big Head.

Man nice work a was looking where you posted about the ground work
I need a quote to.

Well you said a mouth full about your son
,.Just the other day my son was helping me. I told him to go get something from the house he never came back!!! I was like what the hell is he doing!!! I had mud all over me. So I don't want to walk all the way from the back of 2 acers so, I walk to the front he's got mud all in the house and he's playing the play station .So I tell him what happen? He tell me I'm tired , "I said man if you don't get your but out here and help me. Do you think when you get a job!! you can tell your Boss you tired ,do I tell you I 'm tired and then just come home in don't go back to work, or don't pay bills we have to work so do you.. He will thank you later. I thank my mom all the time.

Sorry about all that.... keep up the good work ...

[my67chevytruck]

Thanks for the reply, My son is staying stoked especially since it will be ready to go to my buddy's body shop soon, we just need to finish patching up some more spots on the firewall.

Good luck on your shop, I wanted a 20x40 but we got annexed to city so i ended up building a bricked 16 x 32 .. Keep your son heading in the right direction, they will appreciate later on in life.

[msgross]

I am going to coat my bed floor with this.. lots of guys have used it and like how it goes on... I would spray with epoxy primer first and this..

http://www.tptools.com/p/2600,233_U-...Liner-Kit.html

and here is a jeep guy that used it. or look up musclerodz 68K20 project

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=580879

[my67chevytruck]

Thanks Mike i saw a couple of members threads that used this. Will probably give it a try.

let me know how you bed turns out as you will probably beat me to the punch.

[msgross]

I meant underside cab but couldn't edit it... underside of bed as well...

[72 SHORTBED 7.0]

They have some stuff call lizard skin you put under the bottom of the cab for heat and road noise.

[04 orange]

Man looks like u got every thing coming together, looks good. What color are u going to have the truck painted?

[my67chevytruck]

Thanks for the comment. My son is leaning towards Charcoal Grey......

[allen123]

awesome build!

[mahanian]

Originally Posted by my67chevytruck

ok we made some progress on the parts truck. We removed the springs and trailing arms. and we were also able to get the front crossmember off. now i have to look at the mc/booster and see what it will take to get it off. do you know if the mc/booster and rod will attach to the 67 brake pedal or will i need to take the brake pedal assembly off the 72 and install on the 67? attached are a few pics.

You've made some great progress on your truck!

I have a question, why did you use the trailing arms and front crossmember off of the 72 donor truck? Could you just transfer the axle and the spindle assemblies or did you need these parts as well? I have a 67 that I'm doing the same transfer off of a 72 long bed donor truck so any insight is greatly appreciated! I ordered CPP drop spindles designed for the 63-70 truck but they use 71-72 disc brakes but I can still change the order if I need to use the front crossmember.

[my67chevytruck]

Mahanian,

We just removed the rear springs and trailing arms when we removed the rear end, because i was going to scrap the lwb frame, so we removed all parts and left a bare frame . you can order replacement axles to make the '67 a 5-lug, but since we had the '72 rear end we installed it as well. we did the entire front swap, because the 72 was complete, and with the engine out of the '67 we were able to remove 14 bolts on both of them and roll the front xmember out from under it. We then tore down the '72 front suspension for paint, and rebuilt the suspension. I ordered '72 2 1/2 drop spindles from ECE, along with 4' drop springs for the back.

Good luck with your build. if you have any questions, let me know and i will do my best to help you out.

Thanks for the comments.

Heath