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Can't wait to get it back all 'pretty'. Got lots of parts I can't wait to install... Hopefully by Christmas. I occupied my time though with working on the valve covers. I painted them with a high temp black and then polished the top only. I think they turned out looking pretty nice.

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V/C's looking good! atleast they are pointing you in the right direction, and did the right thing by suggesting to get it blasted.

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Originally Posted by my67chevytruck (Post 3649277)

V/C's looking good! atleast they are pointing you in the right direction, and did the right thing by suggesting to get it blasted.

Yeah, that was cool that they did point me the right direction. I'm not used to getting treated well by a body shop. Definitely liking the one I'm with now.

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has some old school brazing going on......

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looking good, your doing it right it might be a little more money now but in the long run you will be glad you did.... This is how i justify all of my upgrades anyway LOL !!

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Originally Posted by my67chevytruck (Post 3649507)

has some old school brazing going on......

No kidden!

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Originally Posted by 67cheby (Post 3649508)

looking good, your doing it right it might be a little more money now but in the long run you will be glad you did.... This is how i justify all of my upgrades anyway LOL !!

Yeah, I hear ya. It's the whole "While we're there....."

Originally, this was going to be a $15K truck at most. Hahahahaha hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha

Sorry, where was I? :lol:

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Originally Posted by es67chevy (Post 3650131)

Yeah, I hear ya. It's the whole "While we're there....."

Originally, this was going to be a $15K truck at most. Hahahahaha hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha

Sorry, where was I? :lol:

Yeah, not many ppl hit the projected budget they start with!

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Originally Posted by my67chevytruck (Post 3650207)

Yeah, not many ppl hit the projected budget they start with!

Oh, I hit it alright...Right out of the park. Haha!

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Originally Posted by es67chevy (Post 3650257)

Oh, I hit it alright...Right out of the park. Haha!

Yeah, me too! looking forward to body work progress pics...

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Been lazy about posting pics. Time to start throwing them out here....

Here is what we found when body shop removed the passenger rocker panel. PO had elected to just put a new inner rocker on OVER the old rusted out one. Gee, I wonder why that didn't last?

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And here is the passenger bedside after some much improved bodywork

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Here's some shots of how the cab looks now. We decided we are going to replace the cab corners too. This will get rid of the rust holes and the brazed brass work.

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Here's how the doors and cab seam look now:
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Looking good! PO did the same thing on me...we replaced the inners and outers to do it the right way....

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Originally Posted by VA72C10 (Post 3752751)

Looking good! PO did the same thing on me...we replaced the inners and outers to do it the right way....

Yep, got both inners and outers for mine too. When you're spending as much as we both are on our trucks, might as well do it, right? Love the bags on yours by the way. Maybe a future upgrade to this truck, once we've enjoyed it with the static drop for a bit.

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can tell you the ramifications of you ball joint dust cover not going on all the way. What's holding it from seating all the way? Is it just the angle?

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Originally Posted by es67chevy (Post 3752793)

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can tell you the ramifications of you ball joint dust cover not going on all the way. What's holding it from seating all the way? Is it just the angle?

I'm not sure....the driver's side one doesn't want to seat either...haven't tightened down the spindle on that side though...waiting to figure out if I'm okay like that....the upper ball joint dust sleeves were already on...these never fit over the ball joint from the beginning....

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nice body work progress....

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Originally Posted by my67chevytruck (Post 3766562)

nice body work progress....

Thanks! Going back next week to see if there is any more progress. Would love to get to reassembly.

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Motor is back together. Now if I only had the truck to put it in. :)

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Last update for the day - the passenger bedside is no longer swiss cheese. Just about to go in for primer

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looks good. Nice progress. When is the estimated paint date?