'64 chevy 2wd to 4wd

[dieseldawg142]

dont usually like having 2 or more junkers on the go, too easy to lose pieces with my house cleaning....but, rain, rain, & some more rain. we ought to build a pipeline down to you Dale, 60-80mm today (approx 2 1/2") on top of the inch & a half we had yesterday....
at least i dont need to worry 'bout the 'ol lady slappin' me in the head
a little more finishing bodywork & i'll have me a longbox. need to stretch out the frame & d.shaft now...

[dieseldawg142]

alright! longbox is going back in the box for now, postman just dropped this off

[dieseldawg142]

little more done....
standing on it's own susp. still got lots of small details to clean up.
want to get this done & get back on the longbox before i tackle the peterbilt

[caminokid]

I just seen this. I have been doing autocad on the computer and coming up with different things.

The colors on the 64 was close to what I was doing except how was doing the colors. Here is what I was doing. This one is a 66

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

little more done....
standing on it's own susp. still got lots of small details to clean up.
want to get this done & get back on the longbox before i tackle the peterbilt
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I'm back, I took off to my cabin for thanksgiving holiday. I'm off the grid up there. I like the way its coming out. The slogan on the hood looks fantastic! The Longbed looks good, what's a 1/16" among friends. LOL

[dieseldawg142]

caminokid, seen some of your other stuff on here, very cool but waiting for you to do a 4by
sweet OlBlue, always awesome to get up to the cabin. and i added another 1/16 on the longbox, not 'cause i'm a detail freak but the bedsides did'nt line up with the cab the greatest, show you later...
'72 is done

[dieseldawg142]

few more...



crap...i just realized i'm not done, looking at the pictures i see i forgot to put my mudflaps on, back on the bench...

[dieseldawg142]

my eyes, they must be going...i never noticed the blobs of super glue on the bottom of the cab, or the bumper hanging down untill i looked at the pictures....
straitening up the bumper was easy...


attaching the mudflaps was easy...


ended up meticulously sanding, masking, & respraying the bottom of the cab, real big pia, maybe next time i'll just leave it alone....

[Ol Blue K20]

I think it looks great. I didn't notice the blobs but a lot of nice detail work....

[dieseldawg142]

thanks Dale!
been doing some box work
one problem is the front of it is open (shortbox in the top left) allowing the fenders to bow in & not line up with the cab, as seen on this one i did about 10 yrs ago, which i'll haft to fix now....


so i added a 1/16" front to the box, after i heated the sides & bent them to line up with the cab. almost exactly the length of this chev longbox. also added some styrene around the inner fenders, if you look at the first pic of the box you can see how lame they were...


lines up much better with the cab now

[dieseldawg142]

dont like the way it's lifted, blocks under the spring hangers-cheezy
cut the leaf packs off, will scratch some new ones, diff covers look like nothing i've ever seen, just happened to have 2 D60 covers, & the axles are way narrow, the tires just make it to the body, now they stick out a bit for that bulldog look. all rough right now, lots of sanding & filling to do...


started putting together a 454 & stretched out the frame

[dieseldawg142]

waiting for the body, axles & block to dry (primer & filler), staring at it & decided it needs a canoe. kinda modeled it after an old coleman canoe i had.
only piece of .015 styrene i have, got some nice dents & creases in it, & instead of a scale 14 footer, this piece is only big enuff for a scale 13 ft

some scissor work & a bend

some super glue

and some seats & interior ribbing
took me a little over an hour to scratch it up

have to make a rack now

[Ol Blue K20]

You sure make the canoe look easy. Looking good.

[dieseldawg142]

it REALLY was easy Dale, just like cutting out snowflakes at school-but....i have now spent about 3 hrs muddin' & sandin" & muddin' & more sanding. like i said, that .015 had a lot of dents & creases in it, once i primed it, it looked like an old aluminum canoe someone beat up with a rock (and it's supposed to resemble a fiberglass canoe....)


we finally caught a break in the weather & have crammed 3 weeks of work into 4 days, so not a lot of progress....untill today, another 2-3 inches of rain
axles mostly done, some work on the 454, & just started mounting the fr springs

[dieseldawg142]

yeah, it's not a truck, but my 10 yr old son has been working on this for 6 months. he lost the .30 cal gun & the wind kinda went out of his sails for a few months. the other day i made a quick hatch cover to go over the hole, & he's all gung-ho again. last nite he sprayed his first model (first two he brush painted), & he cant wait until tonite to paint the guns, seat boards & install the treads


he built the entire thing, all i did was make a hatch for it & helped him square up all the body pieces, rest of it is all him, even all those stupid little tread rollers.... (i try NOT to help him if i can help it....)


couple pics of the "mini-master" at work

[dieseldawg142]

little more done, another typical gm interior....


almost got the susp. done


de-chromed the chrome spokes & turned them into white spokes, should give a good contrast to the paint, rootbeer brown

[dieseldawg142]

just finishing up the plug wires on the 454.
and my boy got his guns painted & treads on, will let the paint cure a couple days then decal it up & weather it some if he wants

[Ol Blue K20]

The tank is looking pretty good so is the interior. We finally got some rain here and snow at my cabin..

[dieseldawg142]

yay! your drought maybe coming to an end Dale? was reading somewhere like how it's been 3 yrs there with hardly anything. which is funny because most of our rain comes up from the south on tropic currents....
with christmas & doing all the fam-damily stuff, my longbox has been kinda simmering lately. off work for a week, so i'd like to try get it cleaned up 'fore the new yr.
454 is pretty much done (bb exhaust Dale)


susp. almost there, need to put the shocks on, steering gear, brake lines & u-bolts


didn't like the size of the canoe, so...

[dieseldawg142]

just finished digging threw a box of junk & found this, forgot all about it (was debating about using it on the '64 )
thinking i mite de-chrome the bumpers & mirrors, paint 'em white to match the rims....

[dieseldawg142]

was hoping to finish it this weekend, had a primer fiasco....
had enough good stuff to do the box, used some other crap for the cab & hood-big mistake.....top coat kept on cracking & hazing, so i chucked it in the stripping tank.
gave me a chance to fix & replace the drip rails & rear window trim (my eyes, missing all kinds of stuff lately....)


keeping with a basic truck theme, chrome had to go. filled the turn signals, pushbar holes, & added a piece of checkerplate to the r bumper


added some fender braces


at least i got one thing done....

[dieseldawg142]

i'll clear the bed when i do the rest of the body...real rubber bed mat

[dieseldawg142]

little bored, waiting for stuff to dry
got almost 8 trucks & one car this yr. wish my bank account was as big as my imagination....get more done
builds of 2014

[dieseldawg142]

and this, still not sure why...i do have crusher plans for it...

[Ol Blue K20]

It's looking great, nice job on the bumpers. I've enjoyed watching all your builds this year and looking forward to next year. I hope your holidays went well. I met my oldest daughter, son in law and 4 year old grand daughter at my cabin. I enjoyed watching them play in the snow while I had sat on the porch and stayed warm....