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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Members Rides => Topic started by: GUITAR1989 on August 03, 2010, 04:53:33 pm
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Hey guys! so ive been asking all of you to help me with my 74' stepside i just bought. I kinda figured its lame of me to ask yall to help me out so much and not even show you my baby....I have alot of plans for it as youll be able to see right away from my pics :P Shes a diamond in the rough but someday itll be as bad as they come. hope you like it :)
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Looks clean and solid, nice truck!
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Nice stepside!
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Cool truck ;)
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I see a ton of potential there, nice truck.
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Nice. It has a good stance to it.
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Great looking project. I'm diggin it.
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I got some 15x8.5 slot mags for it and im working on putting in some autometers...im having some trouble with the gauge wiring though :(
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Great looking truck, love that body style, thats why mine's a 74 k10
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nice truck man ,got the same model ;D
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Love the color :) what are your plans on this?
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well this is my first classic so im really just learning about it inside and out for now. Im planning on making this baby a cruiser. The interior needs a lotta love and im thinking black would look nice with that orange paint :) I bought some autometer traditional chrome gauges to replace the stock gauges that im working on getting in there right now. Ive allways liked those wood panel beds so when i get some cash ill slap one in there..right now its just a sheet of plywood ha ha. ive got some 15x8 slot mags that im polishing up for it right now so those will be on there soon. its got a 350 and th400 in it and im really happy with that set up. im thinking some day ill beef it up to a 383 >:) but its my daily driver so im really just gonna polish it up inside and out for now.
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The seats on my interior cost me 100 dollars flat :)..black leather it was ugly cloth before. Thing is i live in south texas..way south so i live right on the border. Everyything is cheaper in mexico :)
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So its been a while since ive posted pics of my truck up and im happy to say im making good progress on it. Ill be getting my slot mags put on in the next few weeks. I just bought a mothers polishing ball and some mag polishing compound to get em all spiffy looking. My new autometers and black bezel look so much better than the cracked plastic lenses and broken stock gauges that were in my truck when I got it. I also got around to cleaning up the interior a bit. I took the heater unit off the firewall an pulled it apart and clened it all out. I found some pretty interesting stuff in there. Drill bits, fishing weights, rocks ::) . I painted all the corroded metal bits with some black POR15 so I dont get any more corrosion on it. I also fond some surface rust in my cab on the floorboards and behind the heater-a/c unit on the firewall so I sanded that down prepped it and painted it up with some POR15 also. I found some pretty good insulation that i lined the cab with from the firewall to behind the seat. The ammount of sound dampening it provided amazes me. Knocking on the floor boards went from a PiNg!! ClAnK!! to a thud sound. I replaced just about everything in the lighting system...Hella H4 headlights, relay kit, headlamp switch, dimmer switch. now the lighting systems working like a charm. Ill post some pics up as soon as my new stearing wheel gets here and I install it. Hope u like what u see :)
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nice truck man, like the color very much.
do you know what colot it is?
grtz
Peter
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Sorry i dont know what the color is. The owner before me had it painted that color. I love it though you should see it in person. It looks killer when its in the sun :)
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Love the truck, and the color. i pulled apart my heater and found two shotgun shells... dont ask me how they got there.
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Love the truck, and the color. i pulled apart my heater and found two shotgun shells... dont ask me how they got there.
Glad your coolant didnt get too hot...
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Heres the scoop on my truck nowadays ;D
I got my melted wire sorted out. I ended up putting in a new...Headlamp switch, Relay kit, and Hella H4's in.
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Since i had my gauges and dash off. I got a really good look at what was up behind the dash and i didnt like what i saw. There was a thick layer of dust/sand and my firewall insulation was crumbling. I got all that cleaned up and decided to take my a/c unit off and clean it out. I ended up sanding down the firewall and floor pannels. I painted em with the POR15 anti rust paint. After i got the cab cleaned up i insulated it with a foam/aluminum matting. Then i installed a Vinyl floor
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I also got my new bezel and AutoMeter Traditional Chrom gauges in...once I saw all that in there my old beat to heck steering wheel just didnt look good in there. I ended up getting a nice one and slapping that on there.
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I have the interior about where i want it. next im gonna get a stereo system. Then im gonna paint the frame and engine bay with some POR15 and a layer of black over it to make it look a little neater and protect it from rust. After I get her protected from rust and looking pretty ill start messing with the engine >8D
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Finally!!! no more rear seal leak on my tranny. My brother is a logger so he has alot of free time in the winter and hes been helping me work on my truck. We crawled under it expecting to replace a rear seal in my transmission and ended up needing to get a longer driveline made....lol. It was a pain but I ended up finding out some interesting stuff about my truck like I have a 74' TH375 outta a chevy wagon..not a 400 -.- It turned out my stubby driveline was just long enough to go through the rear seal but not into the bushing behind it.
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Hey guys ;D Finally got my door sill plates in. Im pretty satisfied with the look of it. I couldnt get the vinyl to lay down quite right on the floors contours but it beats the heck out of the shiny insulation look lol
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Heres the new kick panels I got. Im waiting until I get my new radio in the mail this thursday to bolt in the kick panels so theyre just sitting against the wall for now.
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Thats where its at as of now :)
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Looks great man
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nice step side man, im buliding a 83 step side my self, i like the kick panels, where did you get them from? and do they get in the way of the e-brake working properly? thanks
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Well I bought mine from a truck prats website that it wont let me list on here..I know Chris here makes kick panels also so you could check those out. Im not sure if the e brakes gonna clear the speaker. I think it will by a hair but i cant say for sure cause they arent bolted in yet. Tomarrow ill check it out better and get back to u on it.
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Guitar1989 that truck is looking "SWEET" :o, it is funny how you start something small on these trucks and before you know it you have rebuilt the whole truck. Keep up the great work..
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ha ha yeah everything Ive done to it has led into something else :P I plan on cleaning it up inside and out though anyways so its all been fun ;D I still have alot of plans for it. So far Ive really only scratched the surface. I figured id start in the cab so I can get something done while im learning about my 350. The things Id really like to get done are......
1. finish the interior
2. Paint the chassis black
3. clean up the engine bay
4. put in a wood panel bed
5. replace all the wiring
6. build a 383 :)
im sure its gonna be years before I get my 383 in there cause I dont have the cash or knowledge to build one yet
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Really nice work! Do you have a bigger or close up pic of the sill plates? They're aftermarket, right?
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lookin good.i like your truck.
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Hey guys i just started cleaning up my chassis today :) Heres a pic of how it looks. I just wanted to post some up so when I get around to painting it you guys can see the difference.
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Actually that doesn't look at all bad, If I ever find time I want to strip the 77 k10 I picked up a week ago, you have a great starting point.
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Here it is :) Im really happy with the way it turned out...wire brush, brake cleaner, VHT Roll bar & Chassis paint, elbow grease can get some pretty nice resaults!
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Theres a pack of beer in it if you come down and do mine...
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deal!!! send the beer to me and Ill be there to do your truck soon ;) ha ha
Honestly man if you want to paint yours up it only took me a few days once I actually started on it...could be done in a weekend if you have all the stuff ready to go...and if you have a wire wheel itll be even faster ::) some day ill have nice tools so I dont have to do everything the hard way lol
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It would be done already if I had the room, but my garage is full and I dont have a back yard to store the bed while its off...
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ahh yea that sux..im in the same situation..but its been sunny and i had some cash laying around so i put my bed in one of the spots in my driveway and tore into the frame rust :)