08-14-2004, 04:25 PM | #1 |
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It's Begun...
First days work. Got a great start. [EDIT 4/22/05 PRIMER]
Going to sandblast entire bed and inside of cab. No major rust, just surface. Figured I'd get it now. 53,400 original miles Truck needs a passenger side inner and outer rocker but that's it. We'll see how far it goes...probably a complete repaint by the time we're finished. Last edited by vtblazer; 04-22-2005 at 10:10 PM. |
08-14-2004, 04:51 PM | #2 |
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With rust like that I'd get rid of it as fast as ya can to 65066......
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08-14-2004, 05:20 PM | #3 |
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I'll Take Mudder's Left Overs, 38313 Here.
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That is a clean start! I've been working for months & have a Long way to go before mine looks like that.
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Hey nice truck, happy restorating, Doug
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08-20-2004, 08:22 PM | #6 |
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Rocker is done, both inner and outer, passengers side.
Passenger's side bed side is sand blasted and primed too. More to come... Last edited by vtblazer; 08-20-2004 at 10:04 PM. |
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VT QUIT THAT, UR DRIVING ME NUTS, I NEED TO CATCH UP.
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clean truck you have. lookin good!
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08-21-2004, 08:25 AM | #9 |
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Did you actually get the bed side off with the bed floor attached? IF you did, you are spiderman!!
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Wow, good work! When your done with that one, the green one in my avatar needs some lovin
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08-21-2004, 11:54 AM | #12 |
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Man that is one fine looking ride you got there, i would love to have a nice soild fleetside 69-70. looks like you did a great job on the rockers...nice work that's the way it's suppose to be done. did you blast the inner rocker plate and seal/prime it?
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[sat 8/21/04] continuing saga... Took the rear window out, and the bed floor off today also gutted the doors, now I have about two days worth of sand blasting to do... Have a slite bow on the inside panel of the tailgate to get out too. Frame looks pretty good. Really solid, needs a good cleaning then the Eastwoods or POR or something along those lines. Last edited by vtblazer; 08-21-2004 at 08:00 PM. |
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Dude, nice truck! Wish mine looked like that, but mine's FAR from it. I need both inner/outer rockers, left cab corner, cab floor supports, and the roof is almost patched up, but I'm not finished yet.
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08-22-2004, 02:46 AM | #17 |
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Great work! I'll be doing the same thing over the next month or two.
The bolts that bolt the bedside to the floor are doable if they are not rusted...but how did you get to the bolts that attached the bedside to the bed front? Did you use a special wrench of something? I looked at mine and I don't think I can get a wrench in between the bed and the cab. Jim Mt Juliet |
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I've been through 9 bags of sand blasting material so far.
5th pic) Took almost 6hrs to blast the bed floor, it's been metal etched and has the first coat of epoxy primer on it now. 4th pic) When I got the truck it had an aux. tank under the bed and never could figure out how they filled it...through the gas door in the drivers side quarter yep, found a sh*ty patch under a buch of bondo 3rd pic) Filling in all the holes the P/O had in the top of the bed rail's for a tool box I guess. 2nd pic) The truck as it sat by the end of the day today...remember this all started with full intent on ONLY doing the rocker. 1st pic) My truck full of "homework". Brought allot of the sheet metal back to my house to D/A it there. Trying to save a few bucks on labor. Last edited by vtblazer; 08-26-2004 at 08:56 PM. |
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VT Looking Real Good! I hope when I tear into my Truck my Progress will be as Fast!
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Looks great VT.
What are your long term plans for her? Stock? Custom? What color?
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Beautiful!!!!!
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Color: Same green/white two tone just like it says on the build sheet. The next project will be a rod. Looking for a big block short fleet. EDIT:[Got a 402 short fleet 2wd on 9/16/04!] Last edited by vtblazer; 10-02-2004 at 06:11 AM. |
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I'm sure you've seen Dean's 3/4 4 x 4 truck in the same color combo.
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08-26-2004, 09:30 PM | #25 |
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Hey you gonna need someone to keep your blazer company while you devot all you're attention to the truck...she might get lonely Great job. I know about how a little fixin' here and a little fixin' there can turn into a frame off resto. I plan on driving mine as soon as I got tags for it...............that didn't last. Keep us posted!
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