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Feel for ya on going to the dentist. Not one of my favorite things.

Sorry if I missed something but you do have plans on building a second truck?

Your work looks amazing. Good luck with the dentist.

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Wow! I missed alot of progress. Nice work! Hope all goes well at the dentist.

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There my be a little more work to do as far as fine tuning. My brother in law , he is a body spec. he is going to fine tune it for me this summer. After the cold weather is gone. I am going to leave it to him.

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No I just have the cab setting on the 72 frame. As a work table. I have it on line in the parts section for sale as a rolling chassis and other parts also.

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thanks a lot and as far as the dentist goes it will be monday but what the hey only time and a lot of pain. Just like my litter project patches. That is what I call her. I put patches here and patches there and patches on top of patches.

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Picked up a few parts today. Front calpers and rear wheel cly. and calpers paint. red. I think they turned out real nice. next I get the front pads and the rear shoes. I sent the rear drums out to be turned today. I will pick them up tomorrow. They were new when I bought the 72 frame so I just turned them. 8.00 per drum verses 56.00 new.
Also while I was there I looked at some new brake lines. they are made out of. Nickle and copper and iron. They look like bronze. He took the brake line and almost tied it in a knot. and it did not kink and it straighten out like normal and it don't need a bending tool. No rust either. Has anyone seen these line before. I will post a picture of them tomorrow. I am going to look up them on line. The lines come in a roll and you have to flair them to you size or length you want. Tomorrow we are going to have the coldest temp here in florida since 1983 in the teens. So no work on patches now till it warms up.

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Picked up the rear drums from the machine shop.One was bent. So off to the bone yard or the auto parts place for another one. I will weigh the price difference

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Just buy a new one because it will cost about the same as if you bought a used one then had it turned.

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I would if I had your budget. But I am working within mine.

drum 15.00
turn drum 8.00
total 23.00

new drum 59.36

but thanks

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Picked up a few more parts today.

rear brake shoes
front pads
front grease seal
rear grease seal for pinion

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I Went to my neighbor's bone yard today. Found a good brake drum for a 5 lug wheel and had it turned. It only cost me 20.00 total. It looks brand new after I sand blasted and painted them. I sand blasted both rotors and brake drums and vent doors and step for the stepside bed today. I primed the vent doors and painted the drums. I don't like the color of the drums, but it will do untill I get satin black. Silver is all I had on hand. At least it want rust over night here in Florida.

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Tomorrow, I am planing on finshing up the rockers. I have put it off long enough. Maybe Wednesday I will mount both doors. Get it ready for my Brother-In-Law to do his magic on the fine tuning on the body work.
I also installed the new seal on the pinion shaft in the rear end. Had to replace the 72yoke with a 68 yoke. I had on hand. This way I did not have to redo my u-joint bolts. It works for me no cost, but a seal which I was planing on replaceing anyway.

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New drums aren't $59 where I live, you need to go to O'reillys or NAPA, I think I got 2 for $60 so call around and ask for the OEM equivillent replacement part.

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Man looking fantastic my friend. You have been busy. I understand the budget thing all too well. Thankfully I've had a little extra $$ lately for a few things, but its come down to many times to where I just didn't have squat for the truck and had to just work with what I did have...time and no money. Parts that COULD be cleaned up and made to work just fine, got just that. Time is free and wire brushes and paint I seem to always have. :-) Keep the pics and progress coming I'm enjoying your thread and it's inspirational!

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Thanks. We don't have but one parts place near me. Advance Auto and that is their price 59.36. I live too far from any big name parts houses. I 1/2 hours from Tampa and ocala

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Thanks. I do try and save money in anyway I can. Ihae been working on my Project for 7 months. I have spent 7000.00 so far and my wife said that I should have bought one already done. She just don't understand my reason in doing it myself. But thanks for the build up.

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Re-painted the drums and rotors today. Flat black 2000 degrees paint. I also painted the crow vent doors orange. That is going to me my color for the truck. I also cleaned up the brake parts and painted them Blue, red and black. I alo painted the inter grills top and bottom. It fits on the inter grill.
I got side tracked today. I wanted t mount the doors on the cab, but I started working on the rotors and drums and it just turned out this way. Maybe tomorrow.

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things just don't seem to go my way when I plan on doing a certain project. So I think there will be no more planing.

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I like it!

Looking and doing a great job.

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Yeah it isn't cheap to do a frame off restoration on any car or truck and the more particular you are the more expensive it gets.
If you can stay under 12 grand on one of these trucks you are doing well.

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thanks mean it man. I enjoy your comments and the word are up-lifting

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Yea I am learning the price of everything. I figure I will have between 15 to 18 in the truck when I am done

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Today was a lazy day. I installed the calapers androtors and pads.

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TadaI had to do a honey do list. I put bands around the house 32inch from grown.

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Front looks great!
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:lol:

That there is a sig-worthy quote.

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I understand the honey do part. I think. What the heck does the 2nd sentence mean?

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I was trying to figure that out too!
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It has nothing to do with trucks. It is a 8 inch band of stuco. It breaks up the the top from the bottom on my home. It s common here in Florids. and thanks for looking at my build.

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Today I installed my rear brakes. It was 7 months since I took them apart. I forgot where the three springs went. So I got on line and it was a sinch when I looked at the picture.

also here is a picture of one of my grandson's heis a real treat t watch. never know he was even there. He is a good baby 5 months old.

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Get him a wrench to hold while ya work! :lol:

Looks like your getting close!
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One day I will give him a wrench. But, not today, Only kidding.

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Well, I almost finshed the cab floor today. I still got a small repair on the kick panel about 6 to 8 inches. I did finsh the step for the bed though it came out real nice. There was a small place where it bolts to the side wall that was a little rusty. I replaced it with new metal. I did not want it to give when I use the step.

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I do have a set of step supports for sale. They came out of a short wheel base 1967/68 I don't know what else they fit. They have been sand blasted and primed and painted black


Asking 45.00 for the pair which includes shipping.

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Today, I started to replace the kick panel with a patch. My mig welder took a dump. I am going tomorrow and get another one. I am luckey I took a extended warranted out on the welder.

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Today I worked on the other side of the step bed walls. Had a few dents on the top rail. Welded and grind and bondo and sand and bondo and sand toget it right. I wanted to get my replacement welded today. The fan went out on the welder. It did not happen. Looking like tomorrow I think.

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Sorry to hear about your welder dying. Little set backs are never fun.
Bed side looks great.

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I went to New Port Richie today. A 1 1/2 hour drive to Harbor Freight. Picked up another welder.
They did not even twitch in giving me a new one. So I bought a new 2 year replacement warrantee for only $ 11.77. Nothing like a little insurance.

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So got my new welder today. It rained here the biggest part of the day. So I thought to myself I might as well go to Harbor Frieght. When I got back, I started working on finshing the bed side, that I started the other day. I primed it and now it is ready for fine tuning on the body work. So guys if you are looking for parts I have posted a few in the parts section.

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Today I Did nothing on my truck. I started to run the brakes line, but got side tracted. I boxed up the pos traction rear end to ship to to Ill. After that I just done somemore of my honey do's. I painted the dog house. The problem with that is we don't have a dog. Just a dog house. I figured I might be in it before this project is over with.