Crash's 69 K10

[VA72C10]

Nice progress.....gotta love rust....NOT!

[Crash_OK]

Originally Posted by VA72C10

Nice progress.....gotta love rust....NOT!

Thanks...


Rust and poor fitting patch panels.. Makes me drink...

[mcbassin]

I hear you Mark, these old rust buckets will drive you to drinking. It looks to me like you have it going your way on the driver side. Keep it up! I didn't touch my cab today or rust just golf clubs

[Crash_OK]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

Mark,
It looks like your pass. side cab corner fits much better now. I know how frustated you are about now with the patches and rust. I think we may have been better off using Tabco parts on all it.
I really like your cab dolly BTW.
Oh and I have a few blood stains on my shop floor too. WTH, were we thinking???

This is a lesson learned.. If I ever do another one of these.. I will use tabco or something other than what I used on this one. The parts are that bad.. they just don’t fit..

I have no idea what we were thinking.

Hope you are making progress on you cab…

[Crash_OK]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

I hear you Mark, these old rust buckets will drive you to drinking. It looks to me like you have it going your way on the driver side. Keep it up! I didn't touch my cab today or rust just golf clubs

Thanks Mike...


It was a good day for golf.. or just about anything outside.. I was tempted to take the cover off the boat and go for a little boat ride.. I still might tomorrow...

[mud.man.rj]

Nice work Crash, loking good, body work does suck though doesn't it, so slow just a picking away and picking away, sure cool to get a part over and see the difference on the old rusty parts to new.

[k5xjfiles]

Subscribed!!! You are doing an awesome job. I recently bought a 71 K10, and Im going the LQ4 route myself. Ill be in the market for a 6.0. Ive had it with SBC and carbs. Plus Im going to wheel it, so the fuel injection is the only way to go. Great job on the bodywork. I was lucky enough to find a decent cab and a restored frame.

I guess I need to go back thru your thread and write down all the steps for the proper progression....unless some great guy on here...hint hint...has already made a decent list of all the steps in their somewhat proper order for a frame up rebuild.

Keep it up!

[notsolo]

Originally Posted by Crash_OK

Thanks Mike...


It was a good day for golf.. or just about anything outside.. I was tempted to take the cover off the boat and go for a little boat ride.. I still might tomorrow...

Hey Mark The truck will be waiting for your attention when you get back, a little R&R is always good. body work looks great, will look better with paint... have you picked color scheme.

[BeefyJoeDirt]

I have been following your build and am in the process of doing the exact same thing. The only difference is I am using a 67' cab with a small back window, but have a 1972 frame cut down from long to short and am replacing the same sheet metal. I started with the sheet metal first because I hate it so much. I wanted to leave the fun stuff until last so I didn't get burned out or bitter about the project. You are doing great and the LMC panels are hit and miss with fitment. I put up a fight with the driver side inner rocker for hours last night and am still not happy with it yet. Keep up the inspiration man!

I wish I could find the bottom 3 inches of toeboard like you cut out of your other cab. I have the same rot there, but dont have a good spare cab to steal from. I wish they sold they section as a patch instead of the entire firewall. I dont need 300 bucks worth of sheet metal!

[mjensen]

Your progress is awesome! I love the detailed photos.

[Crash_OK]

I got a few hours of work in today before I left the lake for home..

Welded in the front cab support



Used some aluminum paint to see my scribe marks.


Ready for Por15 and weldable primer




Then I fitted and welded the floor pan in.







I thought I would show how much dust is in the air when you are sanding and grinding.. new on the left and old on the right.



I need to replace the u-joints in both drive shafts.. However it looks to me like the yokes are not indexed correctly… Is this normal for these trucks.. I don’t think it is, but I want to get some other opinions.






Any thoughts on this..

[VA72C10]

nice progress on the rust repair!!!

[Crash_OK]

Originally Posted by mud.man.rj

Nice work Crash, loking good, body work does suck though doesn't it, so slow just a picking away and picking away, sure cool to get a part over and see the difference on the old rusty parts to new.

Thanks mud.man.. You are right about it being cool to see the rust go away and new metal in its place.

[Crash_OK]

Originally Posted by k5xjfiles

Subscribed!!! You are doing an awesome job. I recently bought a 71 K10, and Im going the LQ4 route myself. Ill be in the market for a 6.0. Ive had it with SBC and carbs. Plus Im going to wheel it, so the fuel injection is the only way to go. Great job on the bodywork. I was lucky enough to find a decent cab and a restored frame.

I guess I need to go back thru your thread and write down all the steps for the proper progression....unless some great guy on here...hint hint...has already made a decent list of all the steps in their somewhat proper order for a frame up rebuild.

Keep it up!

Thanks K5xjfiles.. I am with you on the fuel injection.. I started the engine up for a visitor today.. it had not been started in a couple of weeks... it started right up and idled great.. I have not made a list of steps.. What in particular are you refering to for steps? The whole build or something else..

Good luck on your build.. have a great evening..

[Crash_OK]

Originally Posted by BeefyJoeDirt

I have been following your build and am in the process of doing the exact same thing. The only difference is I am using a 67' cab with a small back window, but have a 1972 frame cut down from long to short and am replacing the same sheet metal. I started with the sheet metal first because I hate it so much. I wanted to leave the fun stuff until last so I didn't get burned out or bitter about the project. You are doing great and the LMC panels are hit and miss with fitment. I put up a fight with the driver side inner rocker for hours last night and am still not happy with it yet. Keep up the inspiration man!

I wish I could find the bottom 3 inches of toeboard like you cut out of your other cab. I have the same rot there, but dont have a good spare cab to steal from. I wish they sold they section as a patch instead of the entire firewall. I dont need 300 bucks worth of sheet metal!

Thanks BeefyJoeDirt.. I feel your pain with getting some of this to fit.. But I have to admit that I am feeling better about the way things are working out.

I agree with you on the patch panel I wish they had more to choose from.. I really hated to cut up the other cab like I did.. I could have repaired it about as easy as the one I working on.. But I am sure it will be used to fix other cabs... I think McBassin may use the drip rails for a cab he has..

Good luck with your build..

[Crash_OK]

Originally Posted by mjensen

Your progress is awesome! I love the detailed photos.

Thanks.. I am getting there..

[Crash_OK]

Originally Posted by VA72C10

nice progress on the rust repair!!!

thanks

[mud.man.rj]

I have worked on many many cars and trucks, all years and have never seen ujoints not indexed the same, just slid the slip yoke end off and back on so it lines up with the other end then it will balance better.

[67c10rustbuket]

Nice work on the rust removal, man I hate the rust issues on these trucks and the repair panels aren't much help, you doing a great job. amazing how bad some of these parts (don't) fit. Later

[BeefyJoeDirt]

I just noticed in some of your new pictures that you posted....The cab you are repairing doesn't have a high transmission tunnel hump. Does the original cab? Hopefully youll get lucky and keep the low profile hump and not have clearnace issues. Less work that way...

[mcbassin]

Nice work on the drivers side rust repair Mark. It looks to me you are a pro at this stuff already. It also looks like your floor pan fit pretty good. Not sure about the u-joint indexing? it makes sense to me that that should be indexed a certain way.
Keep it up!

[Crash_OK]

Originally Posted by mud.man.rj

I have worked on many many cars and trucks, all years and have never seen ujoints not indexed the same, just slid the slip yoke end off and back on so it lines up with the other end then it will balance better.

Thanks mud.man… I agree, but I wanted to make sure. The truck drove really smooth with the drive shafts like this. I will go ahead and change them to the way I believe they should be. If they need to be changed back I will.

Originally Posted by 67c10rustbuket

Nice work on the rust removal, man I hate the rust issues on these trucks and the repair panels aren't much help, you doing a great job. amazing how bad some of these parts (don't) fit. Later

Thanks… I have adjusted to the poor fitting panels.. now I look at what is the best way to make it fit.

Originally Posted by BeefyJoeDirt

I just noticed in some of your new pictures that you posted....The cab you are repairing doesn't have a high transmission tunnel hump. Does the original cab? Hopefully youll get lucky and keep the low profile hump and not have clearnace issues. Less work that way...

BeefyJoe.. I have a high hump from the old cab.. I did some measuring, I will need it….

Originally Posted by mcbassin

Nice work on the drivers side rust repair Mark. It looks to me you are a pro at this stuff already. It also looks like your floor pan fit pretty good. Not sure about the u-joint indexing? it makes sense to me that that should be indexed a certain way.
Keep it up!

Pro.. is not the word I would use… The floor pan fits because I forced it to fit.. I showed it who the boss is...

Hope you are making good progress on your truck..

[Crash_OK]

Back to the rust.. Started the day with cutting and welding the new front pillar support. Be careful when cutting the old pillar. You can get into the plate that holds the nuts for the lower door hinge. I did but was able to fix the problem.



After that I started on the toe board.





I cut the replacement from the old cab.



Next up is the rust near the seat belt area. I will be cutting a replacement out of the old cab.





Spot welded the floor pan to the toe board. Thanks for lending me the spot welder Mike...



Starting to look better..







I still have a lot of weld to grind down and cleanup..I still need to fit the Driver Side Cab corner and both rockers. Hopefully I get the rust on the cab all repaired by the end of this month.

[mjensen]

You're work is looking very good! Much better than mine

[67c10rustbuket]

Excellent progress man!