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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.:(

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Hell of a job so far. You guys are really getting after it! Looks like a good score on the cab, Wish I could have started with one that nice. Neat project to do with your son, that's great.
Ps, nice jimmy!

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thanks its a big project but we are moving along pretty good.

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awesome build thread man. love how many pictures you post. making it look easy

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Didn't get a lot done Saturday on the truck. Did do some welding on the center hump trying to fill in the messy torched cut hole that was put in for a manual transmission. I did put some new headlights on my farm truck with 260,000 miles the headlights were shot.

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We were in spokane this last week and came across this killer truck.

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Picture 1 a couple holes that looked like a bullet blasted thru, now welded smooth.
Pictures 2-5 old holes from after market a/c plugged and welded.

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Today took a break from working the cab and started to repair the driver's side fender.
Picture 1 bondo filled rust
picture 2 pile of rust after removing skin.
picture 3 -5 sub frame had some rot so made a replacement for the rusted pice all ready to weld in.

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I'm guessing bullet holes from road hunting with the safety off...

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You do know he has a build thread here right? Trucks name is Drill Sargent.

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Yes that is were i seen the truck at his shop.

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Photo # 1- 2 welded in the structure patch
Photo # 3 - 4 made the patch for the outer skin
Photo # 5 fit check the new patch looks like this will work.

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Bryce is doing the grinding and I get to do the welding. Nothing better learning how to weld by grinding a lot of welds. Patch is all welded in and ready to go.

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We also did a little bit on the cab Bryce welded up some more of the little holes around the back window. We also took out the front windshield.

Anyone got a good way to remove all the sticky tar/glue from around the frame??

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Bryce and I messed around a bit and decided to air out the inner cowling and this is what we got out, a lot more than i expected.

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After cleaning out the inner cowling I noticed the passenger side lower door hinge mount only had 1 nut showing photo 1.
Decided to cut into the lower part of the hinge post to find out the nut assembly spun out of the mount. With a little help with the punch and hammer we got it back into the mount and all is good.
While the hinge post was cut open we sprayed rust encapsulate into the opening. now we have the cut out prepped and ready to weld up.

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Nice fix! Must be nice having a helper in the build too.

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Got a few more pieces primed with epoxy primmer then primed with high build primer.

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New photo of the chassis with rails temp attached and radiator core support temp. attached. Starting to look more like a truck

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Got some sand blasting done on the cab today.

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making good progress. :metal: always cool to see a GMC getting a little love. :gmc2: