What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[dubie]

Holy hell, that looks just like my wife 58 fleetside sitting in the yard, Now THAT'S a driver!! nice one man!!

I cut out the rust in the other step side fender last night and welded in new metal. I ran out of gas shielded wire after my first 2 tacks so I had to do the rest of it with flux core. After a couple burn through, I got the heat dialled in and got it done. The bed is now ready to be roughed up and shot with primer.
I took a stripping disc to the lower part of the front drivers side fender thinking there would be some rot hiding behind the apparent bondo abuse and yet, the metal was clean. This truck does however have a ton of brazing done to repair some older front end damage. I've come to the conclusion that I've been over thinking the body on this truck and need to stay on task with my original build plan and have a rough body on a modern chassis and powertrain set up.

I have this entire week off work so there will be some major progress happening on this thing. Wiring and mounting body panels are on the top of that list

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by Daze57

...40 ft or 400 ft looks really nice

...and 389 miles is FLAWLESS! Lol.
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[Rude Dude]

I like the fancy Aluminum recovery tanks but can't see in spending that much money for something I can not see the fluid in. I needed an overflow tank for the radiator so went to Autozone and bought one of the generic plastic recovery tanks. I used the factory holes that where already drilled, put in Three rubber grommets for hose and two behind the mounting bracket so it wont rub against the the paint, also split a gas line and placed on the lower bracket in two spots that lay against the fender wheel all for under $10.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Excellent and cheap...which of course is the only better than excellent alone!

I never thought of not being able to see the coolan.! I HAVE a fancy spun aluminum one I've not installed yet and hadn't considered that.
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[tttuba]

Stripped the bed of the wood.

[dubie]

Originally Posted by sqrlnts

From this



To this in 4 hours, brushed on enamel. Took almost as long to tape off the spears and the cab for the two tone as it did to paint the whole thing black. I will call it a 40 footer! I plan to let the paint cure then sand down through it.

So what color is under neath the black? or are you just sanding through to what you previously had

[hsdropout]

Installed rear fenders, not as easy as it might seem...........

[Dan in Pasadena]

Looks good. I can't remember if you used welt between the fender & bedside or not? Was the hassle just that they're big & awkward?
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[hsdropout]

Dan, I like your chrome letters, I might have to go for some too. Yes, welting, really nice stuff I got from Classic Parts and yes...................just award, a lot of up and down, crawling under, reaching etc, some 30+ bolts if you include the spare tire bracket which was challenging in itself.......
I'm not a spring chicken. (58 years young, sound familiar?)

[Midgets50]

Worked on my truck over spring break, found out starter needs to be rebuilt, cleaned gauge glass and got the front axle cut out and the other mocked up, pulled out the seat and nasty shag interior carpet it had along with gas tank which surprisingly is in great shape

[sqrlnts]

Originally Posted by dubie

So what color is under neath the black? or are you just sanding through to what you previously had

Dubie, I will just sand through to the original colors beneath the black.

[agnes the dog]

Drive 200 miles to get a new front end with genuine Nostalgia Sid 3" drop axle, new brakes, bearings, rod ends, steering box, shims, and assorted accessories! Got the whole ball of wax along with new leaf springs and a pair of wheels for $300!!!! Score!! Can't wait to get back home to put it all together.
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[broey]

didnt do anything to the truck today, but I did finally become a premium member on the forum.. does that count?

[lowdownstar]

Originally Posted by broey

didnt do anything to the truck today, but I did finally become a premium member on the forum.. does that count?

YES




Ray

[mechanixman]

Pulled out the dash pieces.
Labeled them and put them away for a rainy day.
I figured each part would make for a nice small project. i.e. Gauges, heater, turn signal assembly

[1-ton of fun]

removed the stock rear springs and front leaf spring mounts.


then mocked up the 4-link:

[mknittle]

I did some measuring and more measuring. Now I have a pretty good idea where my engine and transmission is going to sit. It helped when I decided to go with a pusher fan in front of the radiator.
Now to mock it all up and make motor mounts.

[mavdog32]

front boxing plates tacked in and front crossmember swapped to a chevy instead of a GMC.

[mechanixman]

Originally Posted by 1-ton of fun

then mocked up the 4-link:

Is that mount part of a 4 link kit?
Or did you fab it yourself

[dubie]

we mounted the cab, hung the doors, tried to fit the front clip but due to some older front end collision damage, it's going to take a little massaging to make it all work properly. We installed the Rebel wire fuse panel and ran all the wires to their future homes and also went through the chassis from front to back re-chcecking every nut, bolt, grease nipple, cotter pin, etc to make sure it's all there. It was a pretty productive few days off and I have 3 more to go. I'd like to think I could get the wiring damn near done before I go back to work

[Denee007]

I installed my LED tail lights, hooked up the wiring and every thing works! I also put on my windshield wiper arms, but I had the under the dash arms on the wrong things making the wipers go the wrong way! I corrected that painstakingly and that's fine now, of course I checked the direction before putting the arms on~ that would have been disastrous!

[Denee007]

Larry, you brushed (as with a brush?) on the enamel? and it came out that nice?

Originally Posted by dubie

So what color is under neath the black? or are you just sanding through to what you previously had

[Daze57]

denee007

your truck is turning out very very nice

[sqrlnts]

Originally Posted by Denee007

Larry, you brushed (as with a brush?) on the enamel? and it came out that nice?

Denee, If your asking about my paint job, yes it was put on with a brush. And for the record its John not Larry!

[Denee007]

Oh, forgive me! Your truck looks so much like pbeguy(Larry)! I would have bet money it was his without looking at the username! Well, it's still incredible looking!; )

Originally Posted by sqrlnts

Denee, If your asking about my paint job, yes it was put on with a brush. And for the record its John not Larry!

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