Jeffs70's Custom C-10 Build

[Jeffs70]

Originally Posted by 1970TokyoMaterSS

Diggin the build! Havent been on here before and really explored. You have some awesome creative ideas.

Had my truck for 8 years and havent been able to restore it or even get started. Now the Army is moving us to SA, Tx hopefully Ill get started soon.

Definitely a Subscriber!

Hey 1970TokyoMaterSS Welcome to the Forums hope your enjoying it here. Thanks alot.

Hope things go for you well in the move and you are able to get started on your truck and have some fun with it. would like to see some pictures

[Jeffs70]

Well I Finely Broke down and had to Sale my Truck.
LOL Yeah right to that. I have to much invested into this one to sale lol. any how I did good yesturday Finely Sold the Donor I got the Bed and Frame and some other parts off of. and the good news is I fixed it back up decent enough to sale for just around the same price I purchased it for so I think I gained in this project just under 3k so now the good thing will be that money will go directly into this project to get it on the road this summer i hope..yay I am stoked!

[Jeffs70]

I have gained some good progress and have gotten my brakes setup just the way I am wanting them. I have went ahead and relocated my Prop Valve to my Frame and Flared my own Brake lines and bent them to a nice fit. also got my Fenderwell in on the driver side after doing some modifications to get a smooth look and take out some factory bends that do not need to be there.

[dnd1978]

Your bake lines look great.

[Slick67]

Excellent job on the brakelines, very clean and well thought out! It's really coming together Jeff. Keep up the great work!

[Jeffs70]

Originally Posted by dnd1978

Your bake lines look great.

Hey dnd, Thanks Alot, I am very pleased with the way they turned out.

Originally Posted by Slick67

Excellent job on the brakelines, very clean and well thought out! It's really coming together Jeff. Keep up the great work!

Hey Slick Thanks man. Alot of time and throught put into them for sure, well worth the extra time. The day is coming closer to getting it running.

[67cheby]

agreed nicely done

[Jeffs70]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

agreed nicely done

Hey there Cheby thanks.

well today i got my brake lines all fit together and bleeded the master cylinder on the truck just like a bench bleed and that worked fine till I went to bleed the lines and wheel cylinders. I noticed the master cylinder started to leak some fluid inside the cab so now my next step is to put on another master cylinder tonight and hope to get it bleed totally. the bummer part is the master cylinder that was on the truck looks cleaner on that firewall then the newer one. guess ill have to just change it again later to one i like.

[Jeffs70]

well I finely decided to find a color of paint I like and did a test on my firewall here is a picture. I am not sure about the color but im sure excited to see some paint being sprayed, makes me want to hurry and get it done now lol.

[slick copper]

Nice color! Even if you're not sure it looks awesome! Go on and PAINT IT ALL!!!!

[Jeffs70]

Hey Slick, Thanks bud. It really is a nice color and I may go with it lol. least I know im getting closer to paint now

[Jeffs70]

I got quit a bit done recently as far as body work under the hood and also got my hood back from painting the underside.
also did some work today on shaving my stake pockets in the bed.. I would have left them but they are just a pita to work around any how and useless after plugging up the rails.

[slick copper]

Lookin' SWEEEEET! Love the stake pocket removal! Wanting to do that and your radiatior/grille fill in. How hard were they to do?

[1972hays]

thats a cool lookin truck you got there

[Slick67]

Jeff, I am glad you started this build thread and from the looks of it so do alot of others!! Keep up the great work!!

[Jeffs70]

well i been busting my ass on the bed the last days and week. I finely got something to show for it. I laid down some paint yay go me lol im stoked. this is not totally done but it will be in the next few days as I still have to do some minor body work on a few dings but for the most part its clean and sprayed. the center section of the inside of the bed will be gloss black. I wanted something different so here it is. also dont mind some of the wet primer still lol

[Jeffs70]

Originally Posted by slick copper

Lookin' SWEEEEET! Love the stake pocket removal! Wanting to do that and your radiatior/grille fill in. How hard were they to do?

Hey slick thanks alot. im very happy with the out come so far. alot of hard work but I think im getting there one day at a time. The Radiator/Grill fill in was actually really tough. took me a week to just get it fabricated. I had welded every piece there so thats what took so long. the curved area. is where the hardest was. I didnt have a roller for sheet metal so I cut some tubing in half and made it work just perfect and welded it to the sheet metal. I think if I had the roller it would have been so much easlier. now If you went along and made one with out the curve and just bent it into a 90 there it would work too and get away from all that hard work. but now that I did this I had to also mod it up on the underside to have a pull cable to open my hood.

Originally Posted by 1972hays

thats a cool lookin truck you got there

Thanks hays appreciate it

Originally Posted by Slick67

Jeff, I am glad you started this build thread and from the looks of it so do alot of others!! Keep up the great work!!

Hey Thanks Slick. If it wasn't for you bro I wouldnt have done it I dont think. You got me stoked and asked me several times to start one and I am glad you did. Thanks alot again for the compliments as I am also glad to see yours is coming along again.

[Jeffs70]

im still not to sure if i will keep this color or not. thats why i tested it inside the bed. because I got it cheap enough. I think I am darting for a more of a silver with a blue metalic. or pearl. but for temp this works for me for now. least everything is easy to work with now.

[Jeffs70]

im really in a good mood the last few weeks since it seems everythings going together very well. I purchased me a Red Air Ride Tech Valve block off Ebay for really cheap and wanted to test it out so I plummed up my air ride last night and I am so stoked it worked great. and I will finish the install in a few days.

[Slick67]

This is gonna be on a cover of a magazine one day! Keep up the smooth work!

[Jeffs70]

Hey Slick, Thanks bro, LOL It would amaze me if it was. I will keep dreaming till it happens I guess. You know one of them things that would be awesome to have happen. but never would beleive it till it does. Yes I surely will keep up this work as I go I really enjoy it.

I just got my air ride working. I need to now run the wires to the cab for the switches. and I will be a happy camper.

[Jeffs70]

well I ordered my compressor for my air ride so Hope to get it soon and install it. cant wait.

I am in the process of doing more body work. I swear it never ends haha.

[Slick67]

The pearl would look cool, to see the outcome of the pearl on our trucks check out my freinds thread. His name is Chris and he lives about 20 minutes from me. I went and looked at his project today and it is really clean. He already has his paint and it should be getting sprayed soon. Here is the link to his build. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=379333&page=9
Hope this helps you with color decisions!!

[Slick67]

Jeff.....you absolutely post too much! July 29th of 2011 was the last one! Dust off the ride and take a couple of pics of that awesome project!!!!

[Jeffs70]

Originally Posted by Slick67

Jeff.....you absolutely post too much! July 29th of 2011 was the last one! Dust off the ride and take a couple of pics of that awesome project!!!!

HAHA yeah I know I had some other things I had to get finished for a while that was more important. Like making the green dough to finish the project LOL

Here you go a few pictures of the latest and greatest of my project.
I will get more shortly as I am pleased to be working on it again