The "Ole 69er"

[jmorri34]

Couple of pics out on the town today. Ran good!!

[jmorri34]

Got A new bumper, brackets and license plate tray, also got the new shiny grill shell for the front. Couple of pics to show the parts and the final product. shes coming along!!

[jmorri34]

Got the new grill on today, nice and shiny and straight!!

[jmorri34]

Got the wire kit for the 69er , Sure looks daunting. I hope I'm ready for this job lol. Wish me luck. Ill let you guys know how it is and turns out!!

[knomadd]

That's a great kit. Installed one on mine last year. It worked out great. In fact I've got another one in my garage awaiting my decision to tear into my GTO and start it's rewiring. Sooner or later I'll start.

Just take your time and read your instructions. I'd suggest running all of your wires to where you'll want them before terminating them. That way you can change your mind on the routing without having too much or not enough wire...

[jmorri34]

Originally Posted by knomadd

That's a great kit. Installed one on mine last year. It worked out great. In fact I've got another one in my garage awaiting my decision to tear into my GTO and start it's rewiring. Sooner or later I'll start.

Just take your time and read your instructions. I'd suggest running all of your wires to where you'll want them before terminating them. That way you can change your mind on the routing without having too much or not enough wire...

Thanks a ton for the advice, I will do just that then. I am kinda looking forward to it actually, just wanna make sure I take plenty of pictures!!

[jmorri34]

Ok so I'm about to get started installing the new wiring harness and decided to gut the interior and clean it all and put some rust inhibitor on the surface rust areas and get it all clean while Im at it. Well its not to bad under there as you can see and only a couple of places like under the gas pedal where your foot rests where its kinda rough but not near all the way through so its salvageable luckily. anyway I am going to try to get as many pictures as I can so that if anyone else tackles this they can see what I did and either learn or do it differently if they like. so tomorrow I think I will take out the column, the cluster, the glove box and door and the a/c heatr controls so as to get as much access as possible. Old truck is pretty solid and I am blessed as I am well aquainted with having to put metal back in a vehicle. spent 5000.00 putting metal back in a 69 camaro before I gave up and sold it. Anyway its a nice solid little truck and and I am having a good time putting it back together and putting new parts back into it. Stay tuned and Ill get pics when I can, heres a few to get started with and as always the obligatory safety point. make sure you pull the battery cables off before starting this!!

[jmorri34]

Well got started this morning taking all the stuff out of the dash so I could have lots of working room. Started working by pulling the Steering column( TIP: just take it aprt at the rag joint its 2 bolts and ten times easier) I found this out by tuggin and pulling at the collapsable joint an it dont work!! also make sure beofre you go to far with the column if you have A/T you disconnect the fiber optic cable. Anyway I then took out the gauge bezel, and then the A/C controls and finally the ash tray and the glove box. Here is a few more pics so far of the cleared dash and the bird nest of wiring I will have to deal with!

[jmorri34]

old harness and starting the new one!

[jmorri34]

Well stripped down the column and painted it black then finished rewiring under the dash and all the cab. Next to the underhood stuff!!

[jmorri34]

Finished the engine harness today and started the headlight harness. Only have the one headlight left to wire up and its all done. Heres a few pics of the progress, I have to say I am VERY impressed with the "American Auto wire" product the instructions are awesome and pictures help as well and there is plenty of extra wire to run where you need to with all the ends and fittings.

[jmorri34]

Another picture, also put in new wire gutters front and back the others were toast!

[azdude1964]

looking good bro...

[jmorri34]

Originally Posted by azdude1964

looking good bro...

Thanks Dude, I apreciate it!

[mcbassin]

Very nice work on the wiring. I hope mine goes as smooth as yours looks like it is so far. Keep up the good work.

[jmorri34]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

Very nice work on the wiring. I hope mine goes as smooth as yours looks like it is so far. Keep up the good work.

Thanks I appreciate the compliment. Just take your time and resist the urge to go faster and cut corners, it almost got the better of me Im sure yours is coming along just fine, it is definitely tedious work!

[Average Joe]

Cool truck. I just read through your build thread and I gotta say the brown and blue paint really grew on me. Nice work!

[jmorri34]

Originally Posted by Average Joe

Cool truck. I just read through your build thread and I gotta say the brown and blue paint really grew on me. Nice work!

Hey thanks I appreciate it, it has grown on me too but it has taken time lol. Its still got along way to go but shes getting there!!

[Odaroloc]

Lookin good! Keep it up!

Mike

[jmorri34]

Originally Posted by Odaroloc

Lookin good! Keep it up!

Mike

Thanks, been a long road and still a long way to go lol

[mcbassin]

Looking good!

[jmorri34]

Finally got a radio installed in the truck with new speakers. Carpet done and kick panel carpets in. interior getting close to done!!

[knomadd]

Nice job on the floor. Glad to see you're still around.

[jmorri34]

Thanks mcbassin appreciate it!! Knomadd yep I'm still here, just doing little things here and there, nothing picture worthy lately so now that there is something to see I'll add a few soon as I can!!Going to add the carpet, and a new radio and also thinking about putting a new Edelbrock intake on it to see if it will wake this thing up a bit!!

[jmorri34]

Well ordered the new GMCPauls door seals and the rubber door channel runners for the back over the top yesterday and hes already shipped them!! Got out early this morning and took off the old door seals and wire brushed them all down and saw the original blue and white colors! Also POR-15 on all the surface rust areas for good measure and shes ready for the new door seals. Now for the inevidable problem of the door slamming issue we all see with the new seals , wish me luck!!