Not Another Rebuild Thread....

[Ta2Don]

Can't wait to see the whole truck put in the Daylight...
Not to mention, hear the comments of the general public...

[Low Elco]

Lookin' good! How many days and a wake-up! Stoked for ya!

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

that is awesome ..just wondering did you wire the tailgate as a third brake light

No, I could not get the lighting the way I wanted it, to become brighter with the brakes, so it is just wired in as running lights. It seems to be dim enough to be complimentary without being a nuisence or distracting.
I am glad you like it....

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Can't wait to see the whole truck put in the Daylight...
Not to mention, hear the comments of the general public...

Probably soon sir. My neighbor was all alight yesterday when I showed him and he was asking if I was going to drive it.
Soon, yes soon....

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Lookin' good! How many days and a wake-up! Stoked for ya!

54 days until I Final Out from Ft Wainwright.
56 days until I ship out of Alaska.
84 days until I am an officially retired old bastard.....

Let the Fear begin.

[Ta2Don]

I know you will enjoy retirement Sarge!!!
I sure do...

[McMurphy]

Ok guys just a few follow ups on a couple of things....

When I finally decided on mounting the tail lights horizontally under the bed, instead of vertically in the fenders, I knew then ends of the lights and the space between the rear bed supports and the back of the fenders was going to need some treatment.

I forgot to get a before pic of the space between the support and fender, but I am sure you get the idea.





In the previous pics above, the license plate was mounted too far up, and the tailgate was conflicting with it when lowered. I tried to massage the mount but ended up making up a plate bracket mod that was better when all is said and done. It shows more of the fuel fill than I wanted, but such is to be expected sometimes.... The plate up:


And the plate down:


I may have to lower the fuel fill neck as it looks like it is going to be a tight spot getting the gas nozzle in there without banging up the paint.

[McMurphy]

Unless I stumble across another incredible deal for rims like I did the Cragar SS for my wifes Pontiac, I am going to stick with this American Racing wheels. At least for the time being up here in Alaska....
I wire wheeled off all the rust, shot the cones with the metallic charcoal grey I have been doing the trim in, and the inner rings were shot with truck bed liner.
One down, 3 to go:


This last photo is just a little techie tip that occured to me.
There have been a few times, with modern equipment that I have found myself trying to get these connectors to crimp down on itty bitty whisker sized wires.
So this was my solution, this is me twisting some solder wire in with the light leads before I crimp the connector on.


So far it seems to work pretty amazingly well, I just wish I had thought of it like WAY sooner !!


Just a short update on a side project.
If some of you recall I made a video about things I do while waiting for paint to dry, one of those things was a knife I made. (It was actually born from work buddys checking off an item from the Man Card) I finally got around to tempering mine this weekend, so while I was stewing about having to re-engineer my license plate, I finished it up.
Fresh out of the fire and cooled:


Re-file sharpened and polished up some, also signed and dated. I named the blade on the other side too...


Here is the final assembly with the elk horn grips I made with it:



I have duty tonight so I am taking a couple of wet stones and I am going to really hone it down.


Thanks again for looking at this mess of mine guys !!

[Ta2Don]

Adapt & Overcome...

Diggin' the Wheels!

…and the solder idea…

Lastly, Love to see the smiokin' progress you are making as you prepare for the move south...

Oh yeah, almost forgot… That knife Rocks...

[flips72]

ssswwweeeettttttttt and the knife is awesome

[Grizz1963]

I was painting the inside of "The Kennel" its first coat today and also had to do two strips I had removed after I thought I was done.

Your truck really appeals to me as it is so unique Mike.

[McMurphy]

Wow what a day !!

First off, got the wipers and the emblems put on the truck after spending an hour or two getting all the old over spray paint off.
The story behind that was I had fully intended on getting a new piece of glass, but the clock ran down as did my patience for the expensive nature of getting this stuff up here. So I lamentably decided I would stick with what I have until I get it down to the land of reason.
That meant cleaning off 2.5 years of crud.... I crack me up sometimes.
But the wipers turned out nice !!



After I got the emblems affixed, it was TIME !!
I am compiling a video for you all of the maiden voyage, but here are a couple pics:




Then my neighbor and I got it loaded up to drag off to a car show to top it all off !!
It was a good test run loaded, because we just bought the trailer to haul this rig down south with too.

More to follw guys, but thanks for looking so far !!

[piratexpress1369a]

the knife is way cool...

[msg]

Always enjoy checking out your work McMurphy, I love the tailgate letter light show. Just figure you'll be motoring along so fast and no one will have a chance to look that close at the details that might bug you. I really like it though, nice work all round as usual side markers and tail lamps, knife and all!!!!

[markeb01]

Your continued out-of-the-box thinking and seemingly unlimited enthusiasm absolutely boggle the mind!

[Captainfab]

I see that I haven't posted here in a while.......you're making some nice progress and your out of the box ideas continue to amaze me.

[chad64chevy]

The back of the truck is looking great and the knife is awesome!!

[McMurphy]

Forgive me guys for not responding to each of you like I usually do, but today is a busy day.
Not only is it Fathers Day, and I hope each of you fathers have a great one, but it is also the cut off day for this project to be my main focus. I am also taking it to a car show here in a few hours.

So having said that, let me get you all up to speed on what has been getting finalized.

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First up for those of you who know the show, you will get this quote, this is the only decal that is getting affixed to the rig, all others get magnets:


Note all the paint overspray in the windshield from that pic, it comes into play later...

As I was dinking around, I noticed I never painted in the beauty ring around the grill on the leading ends of my fenders, so that had to get done:


And a couple of finished pics just for giggles, note again all the overspray on the windshield:



Then I finally got the roof painted, odd that this ended up being one of the last things I get done on the truck......



Got a few more to upload here, so give me a minute....

[Ta2Don]

Looking forward to the Video...

Congrats on the Truck seeing the Light of Day!!!
…and those Emblems...

[KroAutomotiveInc]

She MOVES!!! Looking killer as always man i love the led work you did super jealous!

[Jeff La]

Glad to hear it made it's maiden voyage, hopefully many more to come.

[Low Elco]

Hey! Congrats on the Maiden Voyage! Gotta have a pic of the whole rig loaded up.

[piratexpress1369a]

truck looks killer is that a tow truck and what year is it

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Looking forward to the Video...

Congrats on the Truck seeing the Light of Day!!!
…and those Emblems...

Soon !!

Originally Posted by KroAutomotiveInc

She MOVES!!! Looking killer as always man i love the led work you did super jealous!

Thanks Kro, you have been an inspiration during this whole build man.

Originally Posted by Jeff La

Glad to hear it made it's maiden voyage, hopefully many more to come.

Yeah, hopefully LoL.... There are always going to be things that come to light that dont want to show themselves when it is just sitting in the garage, no matter how much or long you run it. Starting it every week helped me to ID a brake fluid leak on the porportioning valve, but did not show me the possible leak on the power steering pump. I have to check that one out now that it is back from its adventure yesterday....

Originally Posted by Low Elco

Hey! Congrats on the Maiden Voyage! Gotta have a pic of the whole rig loaded up.

Soon buddy!! Part of the next few weeks work is going to be restoring that wood camper shell that came with it.

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

truck looks killer is that a tow truck and what year is it

That is my 64 that is linked in my signature.

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This was such a monumental view, I had to share it....this is the first time this garage stall has been empty in a long long time !!


Here are some pics of the truck loaded up to go to the show, I hope you enjoy them:






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Thanks for taking the time to look guys !!

[McMurphy]

A few more of it loaded on the trailer:



A couple of it, and the tow truck at the show.




I had to choose between wearing my ACES/London shirt, or my Bomp vs Murph for the show yesterday, but decided the Bomp shirt was too far an inside joke for anyone to get.... sorry Buddy !!
On that note though, thanks Rian for the apparel !!

And here is the Maiden Voyage Video !!

Maiden Voyage 1966 Apache Custom SS - YouTube

Thanks for taking a look !!

[LostMy65]

Originally Posted by McMurphy

And here is the Maiden Voyage Video !!

Maiden Voyage 1966 Apache Custom SS - YouTube
Thanks for taking a look !!

That was fun watching!

[aggie91]

Congrats on is maiden voyage!

Now what, time to get ready to move???