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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Members Rides => Topic started by: Jesse Walter on March 06, 2010, 09:34:01 am
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Here are some pictures of my 86 K20 4x4. I bought the truck 2 weeks ago. It has some rust on the rockers and bottom of the passenger door. Yesterday I started cutting off the drivers side rocker. I didnt really plan on doing body work to it right now but I bought brand new doors, fenders, inner fenders, rocker and cab corners for dirt cheap from a guy on Craigslist last week. The funny this was he lived about 5 miles from me and had all this stuff sitting in his garage.
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A couple more...
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nice truck.
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Congratulations. Craigslist is a great place to find good parts for a good price, especially when they are close to you. Nice truck.
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Nice truck but is that another garden hose I see
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nice Rig!
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Nice truck but is that another garden hose I see
I thought so too, but its actually heater hose. I think its the hose you find on police cars.
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Got out the sawzall and cutoff wheel this past week and started on the drivers side rocker. There was a little rust at the bottom of the interior kick panel too so I cut off the bottom of it.
I got everything screwed on for test fitting with the door. Everything seem to go pretty good. The inner rocker was a little tricky but I think I got it. I might have to do some trimming of the underside of the inner rockers where it meets the floor pan because I dont like the way it looks under the truck.
After I get all this welded on I have to do the cab corner.
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Are you going to replace the cab floor support? Now would be the time before you weld on the inner rocker and repair the bottom of your footwell (kick panel). Surely its rusted badly too, right?
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Some how the cab support and the rest of the floor has no rust.
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Boy that sure helps!
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Inner rocker, rocker, kick panel and cab corner is on. Now I just need some seam sealer.
First time I ever welded or did body work. But luckly, I've been around people who do and kinda payed attention. :)
My welds were not the greatest in the world but they look good as any body elses after I hit it with the grinder.
Going to start on the passenger side tomorrow. That side should be ez because I just have some rust where the cab corner meets the rocker. I should be able to cut that area out and weld in a patch.
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Dang that's looking good already. I'm gonna need to do the same to mine.
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nice work.
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Put a little primer over the new cab corner and bolted up the new fenders. I might put the new doors on this weekend.
Man, I'm really liking the black fenders. I planned on painting it white but now I'm not sure. I know once I hang the doors its going to look good. I just don't know if I'm up to doing a color change. The interior would be a pain in the ash to paint. I guess it all depends on how much I like the black.
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Looks like mine now! lol
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Finished the passanger side today. Might swap the doors tomorrow if the weather is ok.
If everything goes well I'll take the truck down to my storage warehouse next week. The previous tennant was a body shop. There is a paint booth there but we just use it for storage. I'm going to clean it out, pull the truck in and shoot some paint on it!
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Got most of the body work on the cab done. I put on the new fenders, doors and inner fenders. I need to do a little work on getting the fenders and doors perfectly aligned, or at least to a place I can live with.
While the I had the bed off I cleaned up the bottom of the bed and primered the bed supports with rustolium. I also bought some Chassis Saver and coated the frame from the cab back. I have a lift at my company's warehouse and I plan on painting the rest of the frame on the lift in the future.
Over the next couple weeks I'm going to be working on the small rust spots on the bed and install a used drivers side gas take I picked up yesterday to replace the leaking one I took out. I'm also going to attempt to fix the AC. Looks like everything is there but I assume that the compressor might be bad because the belt is off.
The next big project will be the paint. I'll start that in May.
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looks good. nice to get rid of the rust for sure.
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Great progress man! Its amazing how some new metal makes such a change.
If you want a color change, ask the body shop how much... When I had mine painted, they did the inside of the cab for $50 extra. The paint was in excellent shape though and they only had to scuff and shoot.