What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[hotrod1]

Originally Posted by hsdropout

Hotrod1 & Dan, the paint booth is just a 10 x 10 EZ-up on a tarp, with plastic sheeting walls, then a simple 2x frame to support the lights, a rain tarp over top. One small box fan and a filter opening opposite side....fairly simple but works. ZipperWalls from HD work good for opening in plastic...stick on, cut and instant zippered opening
I had no previous experience, just did a lot of reading. Trick is to get gun adjusted properly. HF HVLP $7 gun, used 1 for primer and 1 for finish,.1.3 tip., inexpensive paint $100 +/- per gal kit. Gal kit makes about 1.5 gal. Lots of sand paper (80 to 600 grit) some filler (most ended up on floor).
Like they say it's all in the prep & an incredible amount of moving parts around. Cab, bed, tailgate, steppers, 2 rear fenders, 2 front fenders, hood, cowl, facsia.......what did I miss?
It is an incredible pain in the a$$, in case you are thinking of doing it......
I now know why they charge so much.

HSDROPOUT: That looks great! Is there any one site that you can remember that goes over this in detail? I am impressed!

[Amorget]

Not 47-59 related directly, but pulled the 1996 Chevy 2500 w/ a 350 Vortec motor out of the garage for the first time under its own power and drove it around the private road we live on. Truck is amazingly quiet, hard to even tell it is running. We replaced the motor with one from the junk yard and overall it went amazingly well.

Frees up a bay (and time) to get back to work on the 57.

[Highsider]

Cool way to do a booth!
Thanks for the photo, too.

[hsdropout]

Hotrod, autobody101 forums has alot of good info and helpful people for bodywork, painting, etc.
I want to eventually do some old school flames on front and multi colored pinstripes,
Flames: fade from white, yellow orange to red
Pinstripes red, gold & lime green, not particularily in that order.





I did get straight "A"s in art and auto shop.

[crossfire84]

My new booster and master cylinder came today.

[G&R's57GMC]

Engine & Trans cross members came today from Brothers.

[hsdropout]

I flipped my "nitro slammer" shocks over the way they are supposed to be.....
Thanks to Dubie, Sqrints and all who pointed out that I had them installed upside down. DOH!

[waybad]

replaced the heater core,, installed led taillights, new inside wiper arm, licenses plate light..

[lazypineapple]

Weighed my truck , 1952 Chevy 350SBC/700r4
3170 lb
I think its a little Lite, only have a 1/2 plywood for the bed, no a/c

[broey]

techincally didnt do anything yet. but I got these from a friend for my fleet. not sure about them yet. they look good on delmos truck though.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Continued from posts #1782, 87 and 1801:

BEFORE (as a reminder):


AFTER today's shopping at The Truck Shop in Orange, CA:

[NEWFISHER]

Your fuax chrome grille looks good mounted!

[tttuba]

Bed parts came yesterday...time to pull off the bed to repair

[OrrieG]

More wiring to get the instruments in, but remembered I had to run the driver ac duct first, glad I did would have been interesting.

[mark '87 930]

@lazypineapple. WOW, that's really light.. i had a Porsche before this and it weighed 3150lbs with a full tank of gas and me in it. I thought these trucks were closer to 5000lbs?

[G&R's57GMC]

Mark '87 930 That 5000# is the GVW of these trucks. They have almost nothing in them. Change out the Cast iron engine & trans for a LS aluminum Engine and Trans and you'd be under 3000#.

Heck my stock '57 GMC Long Bed NAPCO 4x4 is 4250# and it even has a cast iron front axle, and its still lighter then a Chevy Colorado.

[mark '87 930]

wow, ok. I think i'm going to drive onto one of those truck weigh stations on the weekend (they are closed but keep their scales on). I am curious now. MY hoist definetly seems to work a little harder with the truck than the Porsche.

That said, I repainted the cab under the fuel cap (gas overflowed again).

[Dan in Pasadena]

Did some painting today.


Got the hood latch & latch panel in today...and it WORKS!

Yeah, I lost some bolts during the down time so those new ones will get painted tomorrow.

[dubie]

lots of the grunt work got done today. I should be done all the welding on the body this week and ready to mount everything
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...51#post5966951

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by dubie

lots of the grunt work got done today. I should be done all the welding on the body this week and ready to mount everything
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...51#post5966951

EEK! Your wiring looks like it was a nightmare.

Too bad you don't live locally as I found a guy that does great electrical work and very cheap. I've referred a couple guys and so far eveyone's been happy with him.

[rootbeer ride]

wipped bondo on,sanded bondo of and then repeat on lt fender.i paint cars everyday buy hate doing bondo work.man i'm glad i'm just the painter.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Finished up what I posted a photo about in #1843.

[Dan in Pasadena]

By the way, G&R your Jimmy is kickass nice.

I'd love to see it with the stocker steelies in the same creamy color your grill is and the GMC hubcaps with the holes in the front for the locking hubs.

SUCH a nice truck. Is it totally stock mechanically?

[lowdownstar]

Built a new seat frame, the old one was welded to the floor and didn't help with getting the rug to sit right. Plus i added an 1/2" of hight witch worked better for me.

Ray

[mknittle]

Originally Posted by lowdownstar

Built a new seat frame, the old one was welded to the floor and didn't help with getting the rug to sit right. Plus i added an 1/2" of hight witch worked better for me.

Ray

Looks good Ray. Makes me even more excited to get restarted on mine!