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More sealer photo's

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Painted the inside of the cab silver.

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Removed cab from the frame and prepped for firewall paint. reapplied epoxy primer and then applied sealer.

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Painted the firewall blue.

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Worked on the cab the last 3 days. The last picture is the seal coat

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Today we painted the cab

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Cab looks really nice ,love the color .

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thanks it is starting to come together

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Re-skinned my first door, turned out good.:metal:

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Driver's door done now.

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looking good.

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cool project, it's helping to give me hope for mine!

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Thanks for the commits hope to have id done by April for my son's b-day.:metal:

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We have been doing some inside rainy day stuff. Rebuilt the passenger wing window and both kick panel vents. Looking for a drivers wing window i broke the post off the bottom trying to remove the nut oops.

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Rebuilt the gauge cluster, worked on cutting bigger hole for the fuse panel and installed the under dash insulation.

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Your gonna like that color looks good

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Wow. Very nice job. I am also in the same boat as you. But yet still far behind. I only get to work on my truck a few hours a day sometimes none at all. I have a 67 C20. I cant wait to see your finish product. Great project. Cheers!

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Nice to see this thread at the top again!

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Truck looks great. Can't wait til the end to see her done.

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We have been working on the engine compartment getting close to starting. Today we prepped and sprayed the cab floor.

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Looking really good! I'm subscribed to keep watching the updates!

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Nice work! Since it's kind of my thing, can I suggest you get rid of all of that rubber fuel line and install a pre-bent steel line, or bend one up? You only need to have one fail before you get all religious about rubber fuel lines :-)

Here's my build thread of a C2500 Custom Camper, if you're curious. Lots of similarities:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=507395&page=1

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Junior needs to lose the "flip-flops" and wear shoes.

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^^^^ These guys have done a phenomenal job, and this is your only comment?


Awesome job so far, you gotta be pumped this thing is ready to come to life! It's great also your boy has taken such an interest.

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It is going great thanks.

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We got the windows installed yesterday,

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Looking good .

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Looking awesome! Love the blue.

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Over the Christmas holiday we painted up a bunch of small parts.

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We even stretched the paint booth by 2 feet. While we had no rain, but then it snowed.

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Nice day to get some work done sand blasted the fender and both doors

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Prepped and epoxy primed the fender and both doors

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looking good.

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Looks good but I always heard you weren't supposed to sandblast fenders. :confused:

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The parts always look so nice when they have a new paintjob, even when it's primer. Drewbert, I have heard some folks having trouble with warped hoods from sandblasting, but not so much on other parts. The fenders are pretty stout, and especially doing it yourself, where you're not using 300psi to sandblast, I don't think it's a real problem.

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I sandblasted every piece for this truck and have had no metal warping.

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Yea its the hoods that have been a problem but i would be a little concerned if i was doing the roof of my truck too.

Tim did you blast the parts yourself? can you tell me what media and grit you used please? Thanks!

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I got the black $10.00 per hundred pounds media from kleenblast down on the tide flats in Tacoma off Portland ave.
Then i got some media from Mcclendons they have white sand with some glass in it for $10.00 per hundred pound bag.

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Did it have a grit? or was it the only black one available?

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let me look it up in my receipts to see if it is written