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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Members Rides => Topic started by: hotrod24 on February 08, 2011, 11:13:53 pm
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Ok well for the the last two years I have been seaching for a truck and I have found a few and went and looked at them but it seemed that none of them would work out till I called a local relative that has a few junk yards and asked him what he had and he said that he had an 86 2wd short bed, but when I asked him how much it was over my budget. So I asked him again if he had any other trucks and he said that he had a 1980 1/2 ton short bed custom deluxe straight 6 350 automatic for $800 bucks so i started gathering up some cash and i thought it was going to be another 3 weeks but yesterday my dad went and talked to him and gave him $200 down and brought it home for me and i dont have to give the rest till the end of march. :o
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I hope your relative has some parts trucks you can pick! Can't beat the price man!
What kinda love you planning on giving her?
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Looks nice, thats a good deal!
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Yea he has a few more trucks i could get parts from ;) The truck needs a new floor, rockers, cab corners, kick panels and the firewall needs patched plus the bed needs some attentation...But the frame only has surface rust that makes me feel alittle better lol anyways my plans are to change the headlight bezels to 73-78 and grille and do maybe a bed gas tank filler conversion to match the bezels and just maybe lowerd some because i live on a mtn so not sure on that one and also a paint job...
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Good find, keep us posted on your progress.
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I like it and I think a 2wd might be in my future to go with my 84 4wd with a 78-79 frame. I might look for a 73-79 2wd so that maybe I can do a body swap between the 2wd and 4wd.
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If you can source one out, I think the 73-74 grills look the best, you can get the center support from a 73 and side supports and yours might be indented for the the side supports like my 75 was then all you got to do is drill the holes. But I do love the truck wish my bed looked as good as yours seems to.
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Yea i like the 73-74 grilles to, but i am not sure what i am gong for yet. just depends what i run into. but yea the bed is in pretty good shape besides the arches...
Yamaha74 that would be a cool project to get into...
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Well for the last two weeks i have been cleaning and inspecting the truck for things that was not working right or did not work at all. So yesterday I starting on it and found out that my dash lights were not working but my warning lights were, so that told me that some of the bulbs were bad. I changed a few and presto dash lights :o and my radio was not working either, so I looked and it was not hooked up, I wired it all up and nothing happened so I switched to a jvc casset player that I had laying around and it works great...
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You almost got the whole interior tore apart, might as well go through it now. ;D
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id redo the interior and cab now and focus on the rest of it after its all done...
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Maybe my dash isn't so bad afterall...lol
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Shouldve held onto some of your parts there dusty like that blue dashpad you once had, ya couldve dyed it and wouldve been in a little better shape then that 1 that seen alot better days lol...Also i guess your truck was once yellow,Now that you got the dash out, get some masking tape, ,some newspaper, scuff sand the dash and paint it a color you`d like..
thanks
Pat
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Yea right now I am just fixing things as this is just going to be a fixer upper while I am driving it. Once I get my pontiac on the road I will get deeper in to it as it is in need of a tranny rebuild and tune up. I would love to just strip the interior and paint but that has to wait ;) Pat you are right, it used to be yellow then white and then blue lol but yea I wish I would have kept some of the parts I had because I could have used the dash pad, like you said and some others. Yall are right the dash has seen better days lol but there are others out there :) Today I started putting my cluster back in and getting things back in line but I ran into a problem with my gear inducter and column, someone broke the bottom housing of it so now I have to fix that and I think I have a pretty good idea how, till I get a replacement. I did fix my horn or should I say horns. I was testing my horn relay with a test light and it was clicking so that told me the relay was not bad and the test light was lighting up so I thought the horn was bad, but nope. I tested the horn with a wire to the battery and grounded it and it went buzzzz and then beeeeeeeeeeeeep lol so i guess it just needed the crap blowed out of it :o but i also hooked another horn up that I had on the passenger side so now I have an A note and F note horn...
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I also noticed your door post als ohas some rust issues, you gonna take a wire wheel and clean it up? Looks like a sweet lil truck to have n work on,I`ll be happy to finish mine soon, and then start on my convertible.
Thanks
Pat
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My 80 has about 4 or 5 stock horns hooked up all together!! ;D LOUD!!!
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Yea pat it has alot of nasty rust spots around the pillers, that is next after I get everything working and put back togather. Yesterday I pullled the seat and rubber mat out and insulation to find that my floor, kick panels and my cab supports need replaced. But i am just going to rivet some cab supports in for now so my cab does not drop and then later in the summer when I get a welder I can do it right along with floor, rockers, cab corners. Right now i am trying to get my dash back together and I am having a problem, someone put some nut bolts in my heater control lens to hold the switch and my bezel is not fitting, so I am in the middle of fixing that and cleaning up all the dirt and gram...
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Dusty,
i hope this truck of yours doesnt become like the other 1 you had.You know what i mean.(Taking it apart only to junk it later).Now that the nicer weather is upon you i say put it under the carport and do little by little.If i hit any junkyards i`ll see if i can scavange some parts for you and ship them to your place.But right now i really dont need anything for the truck, just my dads black eagle vision.
thanks
Pat
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Yea man that is not going to happen to this one lol I am just doing a little cleaning up and checking out things, my 78 did get scraped but I had to do what needed to be done to live ;) This 80 is going to get a make over but a little at a time i am going to start at the front and work my way back and then in the end it will look alot better...
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Ok well for the past few weeks i have been cleaning and checking out things, making sure things are hooked up right and in working condition... and in the middle of that, putting my dash back together, but I ran into a problem with my heater controls, someone put bolts in the lens so the bezel was not lining up correctly. So I got a heater control from a friend on here, but it was from an 85, and my cables would not work with it. So I rigged up the old controls with a little JB weld, lol. So now everything is working correctly...
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Ill send the cables out friday.
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Well it has been a while, So far I have got my interior cleaned up and back together and i gave the truck a wash job of course I ran in to some problems with the heater switches, but I fixed that and everything works nicely. Anyway, now that I have my interior back together, I have started on rust repair, starting with the firewall. It has some nasty rust that I am going to try to fix for now, but I am going to need a new front clip and cab. The front passenger side of the truck has been wrecked and that ruined the radiator support and lower panel. The radiator support was not even bolted to the fender it was welded to it and the hood has braces that someone welded to it. So I think it was in the wreck or it was from weak hinges or springs and someone grabbed it and bent it trying to shut it, plus it has a softball size amount of bondo on the driver side of the hood. So that is why I need a new front clip. Now for the firewall, I did not think it was that bad until I started wire wheeling the rust and I found that the holes were a lot bigger than what I thought and that the inner coil and under the dash had rusted though, The lower part of the lip of the firewall has some nasty rust there to I would have to fab up all the replacement parts and i dont have a welder or the tools to do So it would come out alot cheaper just getting a new cab.
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Still wish you had the 78 huh? All the parts you couldve had were at your fingertips.As for the firewall i say do like vile did.Make a 1 piece panel and weld it.Just cause it has some rust i wouldnt jump the gun n say its junk.I seen worse get repaired.You could cut pieces from other trucks for like the door channel, but its really all on what your budget allows.I can see what else i got laying around i can let you have, i know i dont got to to much, i know i got a lower stone guard shield and the upper radiator support.But pace yourself and see if your uncle will let you go parts picking at his yard once you decide on your outcome on the trucks repairs.
ttyl
Pat
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Don't jumk it if you can help it, I would almost kill for one with as little rust as yours has, compared to an iowa truck and the price you got it ;D, but if you have to do it, its your truck. ::)
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i say do like vile did.Make a 1 piece panel and weld it
Actually mine is two pieces. I made the tunnel too but let me tell you...There's enough work in there to complete a restoration.
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Yea pat I sure do, I could have used a lot of parts from it, I have thought about alot of diff options and I would like to just rebuild the cab but there is some bad rust in places that does not have patch panels but its like you said I could get the piece from another cab and I can make the rest, but I need a welder, a brake and a shrinker, stretcher, but that would be out of my budget unless money starts getting better, I guess we will see and yea if you have any parts laying around I will be happy to take them off your hands...
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I`ll see what i can come up with.It may not be much but it may help you out.Give me a lil time and i`ll see what i can do for ya.
thanks
Pat
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Ok thanks man...
I`ll see what i can come up with.It may not be much but it may help you out.Give me a lil time and i`ll see what i can do for ya.
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Pat
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Ok been working on the firewall more and the rot, Sanding and wire wheeling fun fun lol anyway i am about to the point of bondo and sealing things up so i can put the fenders back on...
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You really need to invest in a welder dusty if you plan on doing any type of metal work.What your really doing is putting a band aid over a dirty wound.If you plan on doing any type of metal work you really need it.
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pat
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I know man I am going to try and borrow a mig, I really need to just buy me one but cash is so tight right now i can't and i need to do it right the first time. But if i can't borrow one i guess its bondo lol... for now anyways...
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Best thing in this case is pull the cab off and set it on jackstands, roll the frame out and throw some tarps over it and work on that cab.Putting filler over them areas isnt good either.Put the stuff called all metal over the areas you fix and then some quality filler.Worse comes to worse , send the cab this way n ill repair it for you.ill go easy on the labor.
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pat
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Yea i dont think i am going to be pulling the cab off just yet lol, I think if i can get a mig i am going to just go ahead and rebuild the cab if i can, just get the floor, rockers and all rebuilt. All i would have is the firewall and coil, which I could get a peice from a another cab like the link you gave me, but yea i would love to just send you the whole truck and that could be your next project lol becuase what your 80 is turning out to be i would like mine to be that clean and nice maybe one day...
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By the looks of those pics, you need a different cab. Anything can be done, but that's some bad rust in some hard to fix spots.
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Keep a lookout on craigslist for fenders and a hood.But if you want your truck to look good and ride good you need to start trying to spend some money of your own and get cracking on this cause if you dont this truck will end up like your 78 did.
thanks
Pat
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Yea I have been looking on craigslist and ebay some. I think when I get everything settled with the truck, I am going to go back to where i got it and search his yard for a front clip and a cab or just get some peices from a cab so I can rebuild this one. Just depends what he has. Yea I am going to have to start selling some more parts to make some extra cash to spend on the truck and get it looking better and riding better...
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Ok got some more pics of progress not much but its getting there lol, My planes have changed i am sanding all the rust and just primering it all and saving up for a mig and fix it right the first time but. Anyway i am going to finish the firewall and cowl and put the fenders back on and drive the truck until i get saved up and then just pull the whole front clip off and rebuild the cab and by that time hopefully i will have a new front clip as well as a mig...
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WoW it has been a long time since i last updated lol. So far i got my fenders back on and hood, I had a battery tray that i had made for my pontiac a while back so i thought i would use it because mine on the truck was rusted out but the pontiac tray was too short so i added to it. A lso my headlight houseing had been welded to the core support so i cut the welds and rivetted it to the support. After i got the front clip back together, I started on the windsheild with taking it out and cleaning the channel and wire brushing with a angle grinder and it was not that bad, a little surface rust. After the channel was all clean i taped the opening and then i sprayed rust converter and let that dry then masked it off and primed the channel and top coated it ater that was all dry. I started putting the windsheild back in and almost had it in; when I was almost to the corner of the passenger side, I put my knee on it to try to hold it down while I popped it in and it CRACKED down the middle. I guess it happens to the best of us lol!!!
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Update! When I took out my windsheild and I put it back in, I did not have the lock strip tool to put the lock strip back. So last week I ordered the tool and put it in yesterday and the tool worked great! Very easy, just took a little soap and water. Now that I got that done I can move on to more rust which I have already worked on a little. More updates to come..
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Thanks for the pics, it sure helps to see what someone is talking about when trying to follow some install like this.
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Thanks and your welcome bake74 I like to be up to date on what i do. Update, ok starting with the firewall and cowl, which I had already sanded and primered, but left the holes and they are fixed now. I riveted up some peices of sheet metal and sealed them with silicone but I am not sure if I am going to leave the sheet metal or not because I might just fiberglass the firewall the same way I am doing the cowl, so it looks a little better. Besides that I am getting good with fiberglass. Lol.. This is all temporary, so I dont want to do to much work and just have to take it all back off, but I want it to look good for the time being.
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I hope them patches you put on with rivets is a temporary fix cause truthfully that wont last long..Take your time, take the front clip off, take the motor out, and tackle it from there.Or take the cab off and go from there..
thanks
pat
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Any updates bud? howz it holding up??
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Bitzer thanks for checking in i know it has been a while but, I have been working my butt off around my carport and getting ready for my new apartment. But now it’s the 80s turn.
OK Update...
So I have got the pass side firewall sanded and primered and then sanded it again lol. I finally made my mind up to just fiberglass the cowl and I am debating on fiberglassing the outside firewall. I also edited and updated the top post a little bit, if you want to check it out. Anyway after I am done with the cowl and firewall, I am moving on to the floor taking care of more rust and putting in some slip on floor supports and patching the floor. I don’t want to feel like Fred Flintstone anymore, lol. My wife has to put her feet on my dash because she is scared she is going to fall through the floor lol… The 80 is finally going to get what I have been planning for so long and it deserves it because it has been drove hard…
Alright enjoy the update.. Here is some pics
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Update. Well i am almost done I did not have much time today so I only got to fibersglass one hole. I have just one more and i am done under the dash then its to the outside and bondo and primer...
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That is looking much better.
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Update: Ok I finally finished fiberglassing under the dash and firewall. All I have left is a coat of paint and then on to the outside firewall. The fiberglass might not look its best but that is because I ran out of resin. Lol.. I told yall that I would keep this thing going from now on.
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Update... Ok the cowl and firewall is done for now lol and boy am I glad I have never worked on a spot that was that hard to get to with bondo and that was not really the hard part it was the sanding I had to take a paint stirrer stick and rap sand paper around it to at least get into the holes in the firewall. The last hole was a pain because there was not a hole there so I had to just work in the cowl its self and that was fun lol but I got it and it might not look its best but its good enough for me. After the layer of bondo and sanding, I put a coat of primer just to make it look a little bit better. I also put the sheet metal back because there was no use in fiber glassing the firewall when I am just going to take it back off anyway. So I just re-riveted the sheet metal back. Like I said, it might not look professional, but it will do for now. ok heres some pics. injoy...
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OK i hope that the fiberglass does seal the rust off, but it does not matter if it does or it doesnt because this cab is getting rebuilt and that means that the floor, firewall and cowl is getting replaced. Yea I just said that...lol... I know yall probably think I am crazy but anything can be done with one of these old trucks, so I think it is worth a try. To start off, I had to take my gas tank out because it has a leak and I did not want to blow myself up and also I took out my seat so that I would have more room. Ok now for the update. The whole upper toeboard that goes up in the firewall is mostly gone. Except a little bit of the middle and the driverside. So you can sit on the seat hump and you can make the whole floor go up and down. So, I thought I would make some brackets out of 24 gauge sheet metal to give it more strength and I plan on building a floor pan and inner rocker, that will give it strength. I also removed the floor support and cleaned up the main cab support. Ok here is some pics enjoy.
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You're not gonna buy a floor pan? How about Rockers, inner rockers, cab floor support, footwell? These parts are pretty cheap if you consider the difficulty and time of doing the job without them.
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Dusty you NEED to take that cab off as well as the bed and nose and start all over. Like I mentioned your putting a ban daid over a dirty wound. You really need to do that to the cab and find some better parts.
thanks
pat
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Oh yea I plan on buying all of the replacement parts for the floor its just I dont have a welder yet and I wanted to wait till then lol. this is just all temporary. Pat I plan on taking the front clip and cab off. The cab will go on my dolly to rebuild it when the time comes...
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Oh yea I plan on buying all of the replacement parts for the floor its just I dont have a welder yet and I wanted to wait till then lol. this is just all temporary. Pat I plan on taking the front clip and cab off. The cab will go on my dolly to rebuild it when the time comes...
Not meaning to offend but every cent and second you spend on that cab, firewall, ect is a waste of your time. You could have a cab for cheap that needs less work, a floor pan isnt hard to do but there's a lot of hard to reach areas and simply filling them isn't going to work. I'm not sure what your trying to do but as I see it, the truck does have potential, any does, but is it really practical? Not really. Again, not trying to offend but your best luck is selling that cab for scrap money. It's a lost cause, even if you manage to fill every hole in a year (if that) everything will fall out and assuming you paint over the filler, you just wasted good paint too.
It's best to do things right the first time so you don't have to do them the second time, eventully your just going to have to do it right and if you do it right the first time, your saved time, money and headaches. Find a half decent cab somewhere, buy some new front fenders and get the front clip you want. A dash pad isn't very expensive, throw a seat in there and when you have the body off might as well give the frame a proper POR15 treatment as well. A box isn't too bad, a few patches in the floor, some patch panals on the side and maybe a few new box ribs but really, the cab is where you need to replace it. Heck, if you don't want to spend too much don't even touch the box, let it rot right off the frame which is what it will do eventully anyways, that's free! But really .. that cab, do it right please.
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Wow I have been busy, I appreciate your input man but I have thought this over pretty good and I want to try and rebuild this cab. I know alot of people think I am crazy but I come from a very hard past and I dont give up very easy so I just want to give it a try and if I screw it up, sobeit but if everything goes as planned, I will have a solid cab. This is all temporary just so I can get the truck on the road and when I get a mig I will try and rebuild the cab the right way... Also the bed is getting rebuilt too, but that will be later. I am just doing what I can for now...
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I want to try and rebuild this cab. I know alot of people think I am crazy but I come from a very hard past and I dont give up very easy so I just want to give it a try and if I screw it up, sobeit
I think you should give it a try for practice and then if you ever find a better cab you can replace it. That way the second time around rebuilding a cab won't be so hard especially if you find a cab that needs minimal work.
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Thristy i agree. This cab will give me some good practice and that is what i am doing this for. For the practice and i like a challange lol. It might not be the best rebuild like i said but atleast i tryed and most guys would not try it either...
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Update on the old 80. Well I got the pass side floor all sanded and primered and sense I got that done I started on removing the old support and getting ready for the new one, well new to me lol. I was going to order a new floor support from chris but a buddy of mine brought me a firewall that I am going to use to rebuild some of the 80s cab and it had a good pass side floor support that I am going to use as soon as I get it cleaned up and primered and painted and the cab ready. Theres a lot more work to go but she is getting there...
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Hey guys and gals. Man it has been a while since I updated. The weather has been so crazy here I have not had a chance to go out and get much done and time has been tight. Anyway to start with I removed the inner rocker and let me just say it was a pain in the behind lol. I first cut it in half so it would be easier to remove, also I had to guess where all the spot welds were because the inner rocker was covered with rust but I got it out and now its a nice clean spot for the new inner rocker I made. I also primed and painted the bottom and top lip. Enjoy the pics and there will be more to come...
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Oh yea you can also go up above and see where I edited, not the one right above here with the pics, but the one above it with the pics of me taking out the floor support I updated...
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WOW, is all I got to say. You have more drive than I do anymore. At my current spot, I would not of even considered to start with that much rust. But I am glad to see you are trying, and like thirsty said, it will give you some great practice if nothing else.
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I wish i lived closer i removed a cab from my 78 k 30 ,i would give to you, I bought my 73 New Jersey cab with doors for $300. a trick an old guy taught me when working with fiberglass, buy a roll of wax paper, cut your screen or fiberglass mat and lay it out on a larger piece of wax paper , than mix up your resin with hardener then spread the resin mix on the fiberglass ,know you can pick up the wax paper and apply your patch like a patch on an inner tube. Using a bondo spreader to smooth it out.
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WoW it has been a while. I have had alot going lately and the 80 is still around and I am still working steady on it and you know I had to take pics lol. Bake24 thanks for the complement and yea thirsty is right it will give me some practice. Ralphhemi I wish you lived closer too, I have thought about it and I would like to just fix this cab so I can just drive my truck because its been sitting for a year just for now and then find a pretty good cab and rebuild this one. But like I said all this is giving me for now is practice. I have not painted much or done very much body work and I have not welded since high school so this is just giving me lots and lots of practice and thank you very much for the tip. Ok now for a big update. To start with I sanded the top of the rocker and primed and painted so my floor pans front inner rocker and rear inner rocker will have a smooth surface to go up against. After that I started drilling out spot welds on the kick panel getting ready for the new kick panel I ordered from chris. After a day or so of attacking it, I received the kick panel and started trying to fit it and of course just like any replacement panel it did not fit quite right. I just could not get it to fit so I asked on here and yall told me to trim it down but before I did that I came up with a new idea for my floor instead of trying to make it work with the floor pan and inner rocker separate, I made it together like you can get from chris and I also made a rear inner rocker to rivet to it and every thing seems to fit good together now. I just hope it holds lol. OK here is some pics injoy...
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Fair play to ya fella - that's a whole lot of work. I'd have to question myself doing that even being an experienced welder.
Quick tip - to find rusty old spot welds - run a scraper under a loose bit and gently work the metal up and down. Eventually it'll stop moving up when you get to the spot. Even with rust, if you sand the rust away you can normally see an indentation.
Good luck & keep practising!
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Thanks Bitzer! Yea it sure is alot of work lol. But the good thing about it I am learning alot to and having fun lol.
The spot welds was not that bad to drill out with my harbor freght spot weld cutter. I had some trouble with a few of them but it went pretty good and it was alot better then just using a standard drill bit that I used on my 78 k10 dash channel...
Thanks for the tip by the way...
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This runs, right? I mean, how many mechanical issues are you aware of?
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Oh yea it runs great. Just needs a tune up and I need to swap the integrated head and exhaust manifolds from my 67 250 over to it...
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I've just started stripping my '75 Blazer - your cab is mint compared to what I have!! Good luck with yrs, your welding skills should be impeccable by the time you finish!
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makes me glad i lif in calif
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I've just started stripping my '75 Blazer - your cab is mint compared to what I have!! Good luck with yrs, your welding skills should be impeccable by the time you finish!
Yea I know what you mean lol! I have seen worse. Alot worse. Thats way I am giving it a shot. So far so good...