My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck

[loudchevy]

Love the build! If anyone gives me a paper check, I use my phone to do the deposit as well.

[biketopia]

Originally Posted by loudchevy

Love the build! If anyone gives me a paper check, I use my phone to do the deposit as well.

Exactly, time is money, and I'm not wasting time getting my money into my account.

[Gregski]

PSA: so I called up these guys off of Craigslist who call themselves Mobile Ding Performance & Paint. I'm sure you've all heard of 1 Day Paint & Body, well I thought their ad said 1/2 Day Paint, but it actual said they will get there in half a day, anyway they did a half donkey job, drank all my beer, and left, I went to leave them a bad review on Yelp but they must have taken their webpage down, I knew the rollers were a red flag !

[D.B]

I just love this thread. If you're having a bad day all you need to do is read this thread each day its updated. You are either laughing your arse off or you realize someone is having a worse day than you. Thanks for the entertainment!!!!

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by D.B

I just love this thread. If you're having a bad day all you need to do is read this thread each day its updated. You are either laughing your arse off or you realize someone is having a worse day than you. Thanks for the entertainment!!!!

thank you so much


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[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Kronald_70GMC

I say with the shiny. Needs some contrast

I completely agree, but I still took them off LoL, but there will be a plot twist coming up...

[Gregski]

hey bro you painted that tailgate, whacha gonna do next ?






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[yuccales]

Doing what a truck is meant to do.... quietly.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by yuccales

Doing what a truck is meant to do.... quietly.

ha ha, I couldn't have said it better myself

[Gregski]

well I put this job off as long as I could, so now it was nothing to it but to do it...

[Gregski]

I decided to go all the way and take disassemble it completely

[Gregski]

gotta make sure we reassembly this correctly six months from now

[Gregski]

and there we have it one driver side triangle window in a 1,000 pieces

How much are these things new again ?

[Gregski]

so we were proceeding on merrily when my friend, and your forum friend, who's name we won't mention just had to point out that we had a SITUATION on our hands

[notsolo]

Not seeing a problem!

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by notsolo

Not seeing a problem!

LOL, please crank up your OCD level to 11.

[396ci]

Originally Posted by gregski

so we were proceeding on merrily when my friend, and your forum friend, who's name we won't mention just had to point out that we had a situation on our hands

Patrick!! Yeah!!!

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 396ci

Patrick!! Yeah!!!

Exactly, the man has probably forgotten more about these trucks than I will ever know, and he was kind enuff to educate me on how my truck was optioned out, and something called "Soft-Ray" glass pronounced: "green tint"

"The vent window you disassembled today has Soft-Ray green tinted glass."

[pjmoreland]

Half the fun of working on these trucks is searching for parts. I'm just trying to minimize your fun level. You're welcome

[Gregski]

I've said it before and I'll say it one more time when it comes to rust removal It Takes Two To Tango, meaning chemicals and abrasives, so I've been using Phosphoric acid from Home Depot for 20 years with great results it used to cost $5 bucks a gallon, they have changed the container about half a dozen times and further deluted the formula in California over the years but it still works, and it's the same sh!et you'll find in 90% of the fancy named brand miracle gimmick removal brands out there that cost 6 times more

yes I also wire wheeled this piece, as I do all my rusty bits, that's the abrasives part

FYI there's blue tape underneath that duct tape so it comes off easier but still gets more better protection (cause protection is key, especially these days)

[Gregski]

so as I was waiting on the acid to acid, and the paint to dry, I decided to go spend some money

I luv me sum mum n pop metal shops ! but they is all going away fellers, the sport is changing

I'm guestimating that's a 8" x 13" piece of 3/16ths aluminjum

[Gregski]

man I used them riv nutz on this plate cause I wanted it to be all nice and such and them riv nut gunz you get on AMAZON are garbage junk, they stip their own threads, so I had to resort to the manual method of using a long bolt and an impact gun

left a little room in the middle for a couple relays and a charging gizmo I bought to allow us to charge at a public station


still left the back side of the firewall nice and clean, may hang the pump relays on this side, one for the transmission fluid pump and the other for the water pump, yes both electric

[Gregski]

I may be the only guy I know who don't mind wiring, my wife calls it my therapy ...

[biketopia]

Yup got to be careful with the riv-nut guns. I think it's more the riv-nut not being strong enough, but's it's easy to strip out going full on with the handheld. We have a T handle set up at work that is super easy to use, but you need more room all around to use it.

[Gregski]

it's getting there, and I don't mean to sound pompous, I have literally been shortening some of these wires a foot at a time, and once I install some sort of EVSE charging solution module thingie I will do one more pass and thin it out some more now that we have the EV Fuse Block / VCU mounted in Siamese Formation

that green thing is a 5 pin relay that turns off my charger when in Drive Mode, it may be going away, again based on what charging solution I end up with