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Chassis and brakes look great! I look forward to seeing this truck come together. :metal:

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Thanks trying to get a little work done every night after work but that does not always work out.

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Started beginning of February working on the engine and transmission cleaning and then painting.

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Painted engine and installed steering pump and the alternator. New water pump, steering pump and brackets all painted.

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Installed motor mounts, Cleaned the transmission, changed filter and re-installed the pan.

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Yesterday we re-installed the clean transmission back onto the engine. Installed new oil pump and pickup, purchased new oil pan due to the old one was all smashed on the bottom. Painted the transmission, oil pan and fly wheel cover bright orange. Installed the oil pan and fly wheel cover now the motor is about ready to set down on the chassis.

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This is a 350, or is it a 327? I couldn't help but notice the alternator bracket is different than the one on my 72 with a 350, learn something new every day i guess.

Its been a nice built so far, are you caught up yet or do we have a ways to go yet?

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per the build sheet and the numbers on the block it is a 327 and yes the brackets are different, my 72 jimmy has different brackets.

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Looking good. Have you decided on a color yet?

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:metal:
looking at viper red with a reducer to make it a flat red.

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Yesterday we got the engine set down on the chassis and it sure looks nice. Got the radiator core support sand blasted.

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Primed and painted more parts over the weekend.

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Well i started messing with the box today removed both wheel wells gonna replace them. When i was removing some of the old bolts i noticed that the back support had some welds driver side welds were cracked and missing the bolts to hold on the quarter panel nice. Question i have is are the welds from the factory or someone added them.

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The welds are factory, all the fleet beds have them, usually you grind that off and unbolt a side to remove.

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my 67 had welds in those locations...you gonna re-use that side trim?

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Ok thanks.

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not sure yet if we are gonna reuse trim or no trim.

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Today we started messing around with the drivers door and looks like I will be replacing the whole bottom of the door, of course it didn't look that bad when i bought the truck so I thought. gutted the door out and man the screws were rusty but didn't break a single screw. the track material broke into many pieces trying to remove it.

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did some more sand blasting last week we have started moving on to working the sheet metal pieces. will be replacing the back end of the fender due to some one hammering in the rusty area and then filling with looked like a couple pounds of bondo.

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Scored some great parts today, got what i would call rust free cab withe factory rocker panels. Also got a few nice pieces for the truck. The pictures are of the drivers side of the cab.

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Passenger side of the cab and even has a slider window.:metal:

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More pictures of the cab the inner cowling looks great

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No rust in the heater box area and no rust in the drip rails:gmc2:

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Scored the drivers inner wheel well for $20 at the swap meet last saturday. Today I got a fender, wheel covers for the box, a nice front wall for the box and a good fender which just needs a new front nose.

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did you get that stuff at the 4x4 swapmeet? i only picked up a few small things...

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Looks like a cab i seen in Olympia! :) I really think you should concider removing the outer rockers if you have not already, its amazing how much rust can be hidden on these trucks..

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Wow, I'm so impressed with all the work and progress made. Would you please do my truck next? If you want to share, what do you expect this restoration to cost? It's also nice that you have your own shop .

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no didn't go this year. Got most of these from franks in oly.

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i did get them from olympia. i will be checking into the rockers before i get to much into the cab.

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thanks and i think i will be looking at around $10,000 to complete the truck i hope.

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Awesome Project hope your having fun and the pics are great!

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We swapped the old green rusty cab for the nice white cab

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Looking good!

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After putting the cab on the cart we started taking everything out from under the dash which included two white lights that were hooked up to the door buttons. I personally have not seen this before. We also took out the a/c unit that was installed in place of the glove box.

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This is the a/c unit after we removed it.

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The under dash lights almost look like a marine application.

Here's an old for sale thread that has what i believe are the original style under dash light at least for the blazer, thought if nothing else you may want to see what they look like.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=vanity+lights

Your making nice progress!

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Nice lights never seen those ones before

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We got some grinding and welding done yesterday, Lots of little holes to fill and a few larger ones.

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More grinding and welding photo's.:devil:

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Made a fillers for the aftermarket a/c holes. More grinding till the air compressor busted the inter cooler tube.:(