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Excited to see how you do! Sadly, those pillars and floor look very typical for most of these trucks. One day and one step at a time!

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I have a friend that works in a restoration shop that usually does a couple of these trucks a year, he figures he's done 9 of them. He came over for a look and said it was in much better shape than most of the recent ones he's done so that made me feel better about the amount of metal work it needs.

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Job well done, so far!!!
I’m with you, concerning keeping it road worthy, and working on it when possible!!!
My welding skills and yours are similar! Tell me some time what you have your welder settings on, and type of welder, if possible!
Thanks!
Jeff

Re: 70 C10 One Piece at a Time
 

Hi Jeff I'm using a Miller 180 Autoset with .023 wire. I had it set for .023 wire and on 20 gauge for most of that but noticed some porosity when grinding the welds so turned it up to 18 gauge for a bit more heat.

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Not much progress to report. Pics look about the same as last time but there is a lot more weld and grind filling all the pinholes which are pretty much taken care of now. Been working on planishing the weld joint to get the grinding smoother without thinning the surrounding metal too much. Getting a bit repetitive so will move on to fitting up some of the other repairs.

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Hmm truck has become a bit of a junk collector in the garage.

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But the family was out of town for a week so I decided to turn some attention back towards it. Finished up welding the cab mount as well as fitting and welding the lower A-pillar and inner rocker. Didn't really want to lap the inner rocker but the metal was really thin at the cut a previous owner had made, I didn't have a great patch panel, and I wanted to leave as much original metal as possible. I will seam seal joints and let it drain out the bottom.

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Solid start, good progress!

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Well that fell apart. Life happened and I didn't touch the truck for about a year and a half so I decided it was time to get back to it.

Fit the outer rocker.

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View of the cab support I replaced.
Also replaced nearly every brake line in the truck after having one fail while I was troubleshooting the brake lights so it has all new hoses and hard lines under the truck. I'm stubborn so I hand bent them rather than buying a pre bent kit. I also picked up a vacuum bleeder and wow I have been wasting so much time not using one over the years. :metal:

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Then I basically got the truck back to road worthiness without taking a single pic, oops. I have been daily driving it for a few weeks and waiting for a new radiator as this one leaks about a liter per day.