1972 Chevy 4wd Longhorn Project: Never Ending Changes

[LT7A]

Good thread and great truck. Lots of information. Got a little sideways with 'brand vs. brand' there for a minute but you got it back on track. I think it's cool how you and your brothers work on stuff and share things. I have two brothers too, and they're great but we wouldn't quite be able to make it work as well as you guys do. I hope you can work of the last couple details on your truck and keep enjoying it. Chris

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by LT7A

Good thread and great truck. Lots of information. Got a little sideways with 'brand vs. brand' there for a minute but you got it back on track. I think it's cool how you and your brothers work on stuff and share things. I have two brothers too, and they're great but we wouldn't quite be able to make it work as well as you guys do. I hope you can work of the last couple details on your truck and keep enjoying it. Chris

Thanks Chris! Yeah, the entire build and thread went off track a few times. All in good fun though.

I've been daily driving this thing for a month now. I really miss the cab space but still enjoy driving it. It is going to be hard to stop driving it but once the weather really changes and they start putting more junk on the roads, that will put a kink in my style.

Here's a pic of it doing work. Not a heavy load by any means.

[lower50's]

Glad you having fun driving it, that's what it's all about!!

[mosesburb]

Truck looks better with some dirt on it.

[Dieselwrencher]

I'm still dd'ing it. I need to get around to installing the grid heaters. It's been starting fine surprisingly with the single and low teen morning temps we've been having.

[CHIZZLER]

Love that truck. Awesome

[Dieselwrencher]

Thanks Chizzler.


Last weekend I used the truck to go get plywood, 2x4's and a new heater for the garage. Saturday they sprayed liquid rust all over the roads, and we got a little over an inch of snow. Monday morning it was 2* and it didn't want to start. I got the battery charger out and got it going but just let it stay put until some of this garbage is off the roads. I need to wire the grid heaters. It's going to be real cold on Sunday. I got another dodge done and gone. On to the next one. This 24v ran awesome.

[lower50's]

Nice term "liquid rust" they spray that stuff like they are washing the roads up here. 24V looks real nice.

[Dieselwrencher]

This weekend I went and got some wood for some projects. Too bad this white stuff was everywhere. I need to wash it now.

[Dieselwrencher]

The truck keeps doing well. I've got to get my 95 F350 done enough because I want to take the bed off this and get it finished before June. It'll be making parts of the Power Tour in June. For now, I've just been racking up the miles using and enjoying it. It has me spoiled. I won't want to drive the stock powerstroke for long at all. Haha

[kehstr]

Glad to see the truck getting used! Let me know if you go the aluminum fuel door route, a buddy of mine has a couple in MINT shape that I'm sure I can talk him out of

[7dee2]

[Mad Mazdawg]

So I just joined today & came across your thread tonight. 94 pages wow! So I couldn't go through all of them this evening (have to get some sleep b4 work tomorrow HAHA) BUT....I checked out page 1 to see what you started with then cheated & skipped ahead to page 94. Is the Orange "finished product" on pg.94 the same green one on pg.1??? Anyway clean Chev my man & I'll get around to reading through all 94 pages eventually. ;-)

[Dieselwrencher]

Mad Mazdawg, welcome to the board! Yeah, the thread has been a saga you could say. Yep, the green truck on page 1 was the original truck. I've retained the doors, glove box door, frame rails, and some hardware from it. The rest is new, and or new to it and rebuilt. It's been an adventure. Haha

[mcbassin]

Nice upgrade to the steering Ryan. Keep plugging along, eventually you have it just the way you want it.

[Dieselwrencher]

Last week I logged on to the Goodguy's website to pre register for the show here in Des Moines Iowa. I was surprised to see the Longhorn is in a picture for the Des Moines event. It is right behind the Willys. Pretty cool that it made it in a pic considering how many cars and trucks cruise down Grand Ave those 3 days!

https://www.good-guys.com/hln-2017

[jbclassix]

Very cool!

[lower50's]

Wicked

[Rodzzilla]

Awesome!

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by Rodzzilla

Awesome!

Rod, it was nice to see you at Goodguys. Too bad I couldn't find you later. It was a mad house there.

I did some more work to the truck but still haven't finished all the things on the to do list. Here are the things I did manage to get done.

Replaced head light housings with more stock appearing ones
Installed the carbon fiber grill emblem I did a few years back
Moved battery cables and modified the battery hold downs
Installed the filler panels in between the grill and rad support
Started installing my boyd fuel tank. That still isn't done
Re painted the bottom side of the truck to get winter's curse off it
Put some old Longhorn badges on it for now
Painted around the headlights on the grill until I decide what I'm doing for a grill
Installed my front drive shaft and 1350 yoke on the D60 finally

This year I successfully drove the truck to Goodguys. I was impressed it never got over 195* the entire weekend. It took 1 hour to make a round around the show on Saturday afternoon. I wish it had AC finished then. I think I had the 2 only vehicles there that would idle too. Stupid gassers revving their stuff to keep them running any way. LMAO!

These were the only pics I took all weekend. The rear suspension is dumped here making it easier for peeps to get in the bed.

[1985-GMC]

I like the filler panels! Is it just the pictures or is there something going on with your paint?

[Dieselwrencher]

The bed isn't painted yet and the passenger side door is a shade darker than everything else. Part of the color distortion could just be from my phone. The underside of the hood isn't discolored as that pic shows.

[Rodzzilla]

Yeah, it was a madhouse. I couldn't believe the traffic to get into the grounds. We got there a little after 10AM and traffic was backed up to the west end of Pleasant Hill. Then there was a long line at the ticket gate. It was amazing how many vehicles were there. Every year they keep getting farther and farther to the east end.

[doubleb's69]

Originally Posted by Rodzzilla

Yeah, it was a madhouse. I couldn't believe the traffic to get into the grounds. We got there a little after 10AM and traffic was backed up to the west end of Pleasant Hill. Then there was a long line at the ticket gate. It was amazing how many vehicles were there. Every year they keep getting farther and farther to the east end.

I should've went. I wasn't sure about the Olds engine. I drove it about 35 miles yesterday. Ran fine. I heard it was crazy busy at Goodguys. Maybe next year.

[Dieselwrencher]

Last Friday night after work I loaded the boys up and took them to Oskaloosa. We stayed in my brother's camper and Saturday morning we took the truck to the Rollin Oldie's Car and Truck Show. They had 214 cars and trucks. My brother took my Vette. Neither of us won anything. No surprise because there were a lot of nice rides there. This show is pretty nice though. They give out root beer floats before they do the awards presentation. After the show the boys got to ride in a Peterbilt tow truck and then it was on to home. They both passed out about 5 miles into the trip home.

I did manage to get my fog lights put on and hooked up last week. I also finally hooked my dome lamp up to a toggle switch until I get around to installing the door switches. I installed my back up lamps in the back bumper but still have to wire them up. I don't know if anyone will notice but these are the new head light housings I put in earlier this month. They don't have a defuser in them and are glass and look more period correct. I also finally put on the modified grill emblem. Slowly but surely.