1985 GMC K10 build

[1967KaiserM715]

Finished cover, looks alright, few minor things that could have been done better. But for about $45 total, and 4 hrs time, I think it went pretty good. I may add a pocket to the rear of the seat for small storage later.







And a small issue with the driver side seat mount-it's broken, and I tried hammering out the stop pin, but no luck, I thought about welding it as it sits, but am afraid of it not being a lasting repair(like more then 6 months) Is the only option to replace? Or have I just not hammered hard enough on the stop pin?




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[1967KaiserM715]

So I pulled apart the seat track adjuster and rail, you do need to drill out the rivets-and when putting together you either need to sacrifice a socket or get creative to hold a bolt and thread a nut on.





Welds don't look pretty, but they hold pretty good, held it in the vise and leaned and pulled it pretty good, didn't seem to flex.

Here it is back on the seat-some white grease and it acts pretty good and smooth sliding




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[1967KaiserM715]

The seat is in, 4x4 shifter is back in, need to get a new trim plate for around boot, and a shift boot for my transmission.



I need to pull the full size kick panels from my parts truck-I'm leaving a sizable edge on the vinyl, and the full size kick panels will hid that edge-If I don't like the look I can trim back the edge later. I also need to get the dash pad back in and figure out a radio. I'm thinking about experimenting with one of the enclosures and mounting it top side of the dash-just need to make sure the enclosure doesn't have predrilled holes in the rear for wires.


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[1967KaiserM715]

Re-sanded the fenders and doors, hoping for some time this week to re-paint. Once the fenders are on I can mount the batteries, and I should be able to drive it around. I do want to try re-bleeding the brakes too, the pedal feels soft, no sign of fluid loss though.




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[VileZambonie]

What did you send it with a wiz wheel? You need to block it before you shoot it

[1967KaiserM715]

I did block it, maybe its just paint dust from after I wiped it down quick? I wet-sanded with 600 per the paint recommendation, that pic really makes it look bad though, I'll look at them again tomorrow, maybe I'll go over them one more time.

[1967KaiserM715]

Time is flying away...work is full bore, no easing into it, 56 hours Monday to Friday. Saturday I didn't do much, had everything all set up to paint outside, but the wind was whipping around, so that was a no go, ended up tearing apart my Honda Big Red instead-gonna paint the frame up quick, fix a few things, and do some detailing.

Anyways, today wasn't bad, no threat of rain and the wind was better then yesterday-I elected to clean out the garage and sweep the floor, and mop it, then ran air through it to get all the dust out. Put my fenders and doors up best I could. I'm only respraying one side, don't have enough paint, or time to have re done the whole truck. If it ends up being a twenty footer that's fine for now, it'll be covered in dirt soon enough.




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[1967KaiserM715]

Quick update for the past two weeks. Got inner and outer fenders mounted, battery trays in and hood almost lined up-lost my body shim notes, so have to redo that.



Redoing vent window seals, tore apart passenger side first, threw on some fresh paint. Didn't take a before of passenger side, but looked pretty much identical to drivers side.
Drivers side


Passenger side after paint





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[VileZambonie]

Having nice functional non-leaking vent windows is well worth the time and aggravation of rebuilding them.

[1967KaiserM715]

Having nice functional non-leaking vent windows is well worth the time and aggravation of rebuilding them.

Agreed, I am having trouble trying to find the grommet/gaskets for the latch mechanism though, I have the locking latch, but every place I looked says the grommets are for the non-locking latches. Would those still work?

One of those grommets was so deteriorated you could actually grab the outside cover and turn it enough to unlatch the window-definitely something that needs to be fixed.

[bd]

Do you need the plastic bushings or the rubber gasket?

[VileZambonie]

You can buy a new latch kit which comes with everything. That's the way I do it.

[1967KaiserM715]

You can buy a new latch kit which comes with everything. That's the way I do it.

It may come to that, I was hoping to reuse the latches

Do you need the plastic bushings or the rubber gasket?

I'm guessing both, I just tore into the drivers side-it was opposite the passenger, the plastic bushing was to the outside, where-as the passenger had that bushing to the inside. I was originally thinking of cutting a bicycle tire tube for the gasket, but I don't know what to do about the plastic bushing now. I have a couple more vent Windows I will take apart to see how they are assembled, but the gasket and bushings on those are definitely hurting, you can see chunks missing.

Edit: rubber gasket on the outside for the other passenger vent I have, meaning the drivers must have been assembled wrong-makes more sense to have the gasket to the outside.
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[1967KaiserM715]

Little update, only rebuilt one vent window, minus latch, tore apart drivers and painted.

 

Got new batteries, was running engine, started ticking and smoking-lost the tip on one of the injectors, they were pop tested ok earlier, little low on pressure but general spray was ok. So getting 8 rebuilt ones.

Was planning on mounting doors-but rereading my threads, it doesn't look like I test fit the drivers side before paint??!! Could have sworn I had it all together-I definitely had a body shim sheet. Anyways, drivers door hinges need to move back, as the door contacts the front fender now-so I can't close it. Will have to check passenger later-but that side was previously on the truck before with no issue, and I am positive I test fit that side.

But the truck does move under its power, moved it over a bay, injectors should be back by Friday so I can get those changed out.




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[VileZambonie]

You definitely want to fit the doors before installing the fenders. I would remove the fenders, get the doors dead nuts and then put the fenders on.