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Re: Son's 68 c10 Short Bed
Saturday, the three of us spent about 9 hours body working the bed. Was a long but productive day.
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Re: Son's 68 c10 Short Bed
At the end of the day, the bed went into its 6th coat of epoxy. Hopefully, it will only need blocked once more and it should be ready for paint.
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Re: Son's 68 c10 Short Bed
Put it on, sand it off, put it on, sand it off. You guys have really been attacking the bed!
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Re: Son's 68 c10 Short Bed
Yes sir, you got the sequence of events down for sure. I probably should have bought new bed sides.
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Re: Son's 68 c10 Short Bed
New bedsides require work too. They can have fitment issues and/or shipping damage like mine. You know the factory sheetmetal fits!
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Oh for sure, bought a new bed for the last one of these we did. It's all work. I'm pretty sure I would have been money ahead on this one though.
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We got the truck out of the shop on Saturday and I let my son drive it around a nearby neighborhood. Pretty exciting to me. The truck sounds really good and drives nice. Be forewarned, there's a lot of my face in the video - sorry about that.
https://youtu.be/sRIGDZNOKqg
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Sweet. Nothing like the first drive!
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We went ahead and sanded the bed again in 220 dry. Came out MUCH better this go around. We also added the 7th and 8th coat of epoxy. Should block one more time in 320 wet and be ready for paint.
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Re: Son's 68 c10 Short Bed
You need MDPotter to knock this thing out for you
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Haha if you want it to be somewhere between driver and show quality
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Re: Son's 68 c10 Short Bed
Umm, how hard of a worker are you?
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Ha - that sounds like the last thing I need. Trying to balance building a pretty nice truck, on a budget, for a 16 year old kid......
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Have you set the wheel tubs in the bed and checked the fit? I did my bed similar to yours with the two sections but wasn't paying close enough attention and had to rework the area where the flanges bolt. Lots of work going on for sure. My dad and I built a 64 swb for my first truck in 89', awesome memories for sure!
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I see you're from Bartlesville. I grew up visiting my grandmother who lived there and still have some family in those parts. Fond memories.
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I figured you had checked it all out, being that you have built many of these trucks. I had never done a floor in a truck before so I made all the mistakes possible. Tons of clean up and welding the braces in. it is a long to short conversion so I used one of the smaller braces to cover the seam on the underside. After all that work I bedlined the bottom of the bed and cab. My family has been in Bartlesville since 1873, the Buford building downtown was built by my great great grandfather.
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We finally got some color on the inside of the bed this weekend. Sprayed the bed sides with some tintable bedliner. I also did the underside of the tubs just because. I wanted to do the bedliner on the inside of the bed sides like this so there would be a little contrast in finishes. Hopefully next weekend we’re able to paint the rest of the inside of the bed. The rest of it will be in base/clear like the the truck.
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That truck is looking great, ...and I love that color too
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