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seems like it was maroon with gold was real mexican like
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I kind of remember seeing it somewhere on here too. Hopefully someone will remember where, too many threads...too little time to look through them all!
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i think the one your all talking about is on the bottom of post #36 of this link!! http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=402277&page=2
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yep thats the one
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Thanks for the links guys!
People do some wicked badazz stuff with classics !! In one of those links it shows the stepside bedside rail mod I want to do too with the rounded tube end at the tail gate. Ahhhh to work on my truck the next 2 days; after I replace my d-side mirror on my 03 Sonoma....grrrrrr I got tail slapped on a 2 lane road by a school bus this morning, luckily he only got my mirror. I thought these guys had to know how to drive those things before they were allowed to pick up kids in them ?!?!?!? He was turning onto another 2 lane and his extended azzend came into my lane as I was going by. Freekin side view mirror disentegrated. |
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:lol:Hey I thought all the kids went to school on dog sled.. LLLLLoooooLLLLL:lol::lol::lol:
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even the dogs have more sense than to get out in forty below weather,think i will go build a fire now brrrrrrrrr:lol:
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Well guys, we had dinner with friends on Saturday which limits my time in the garage, on top of the temps dipping down to -50*. So in short, I took this weekend off from the truck, first one so far since September when I got it.
So no updates and my rockers and cab corners are still waiting for me down there. Visability right now is about 100 yards, and less at night. Oddly enough when it gets this cold there rolls in some ice fog, and it is a motherhumper to drive in. This pic is the view out my front window, notice how you can barely make out the neighbors place across the street... Hopefully this week I can get home early enough to do some stuff, but next weekend is for certain as it is my last weekend before the Sierra tear down marathon! Thanks for looking !! |
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mcmurphy those pictures look great, the wife loves the snow but cant drive in it at all!! i hate the cold but can drive in any weather, lol!!
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Squarebanks sucks!! ;) Posted via Mobile Device |
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that pic is amazing i would love living there
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There's a street in that pic? :lol:
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like i said brrrrrrrrrrrrrr, nice picture though, but wheres the snow man?
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Yea I'm with Max... There is a street out there... LOL:haha::haha:
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Wow, great work McMurphy! It takes a lot of motivation to get those panels replaced, but it sure feels good when they get there. I still have the passenger side to do on mine...
You got some good advice on hanging the door and checking for fit. I had to do a lot of fitting to get things even close and I still feel like they are off a bit. Moral of the story: take your time and test fit the doors a bunch. Also, I had issues with my doors rubbing the outer rocker. I put some masking tape in the areas that I suspected and then confirmed where they were rubbing by noticing damage to the masking tape where it was touching. Hopefully you don't need to do this, but it may come in handy. Good to hear you're surviving in the great white north :) |
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Wow-that is a great picture-I would love to be able to see that in person some day. Not a lot of snow in Houston. :lol:
I know it sounds corny, but at least you're able to see things like that. I know you're military so I'm assuming Alaska isn't permanent. I consider myself lucky to have traveled to europe with the Army, and been able to see and experience different cultures. :flag: I'm sure that cold is hard though. I'm in Houston-I don't think we've gotten below freezing at all this year. I have a small propane camping heater that I turn on in my garage so I can go work in my shorts and a t-shirt. :smoke: |
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I feel like such a dork sometimes.... I changed out my destroyed side mirror on my 03 Sonoma today. It was going to be a quick 30 min job of popping off just enough of the plastic door panel to get to the 3 mounting bolts for the mirror. Everything was going great until I dropped my socket into the door. So my 30 min project turned into an hour and 15 min.... only to find that I could have just undone the 3 screws in the bottom of the mirror hinge, and done a partial swap. It literally took me more time to find the right size star head screw driver than it would have taken to swap the mirror..... Thanks for reading my humble ramblings guys! I hope this week goes swiftly so we can all spend more time with our projects !!! |
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Nice to see some Alaska people on the forum. Liking the thread. Hope to see you next summer out and about!!!!!!!
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Ok wow, talk about a dork...
You guys said to test fit my door when doing these rockers, so I did. I tacked the rocker in, tossed the door up there and it set right in place, no problem. Man I rock!! so I thought~~~~ No one said to bolt it on and test open the door.... Le Sigh. I have to undo the spot welds on the front end of the rocker, because the front bottom edge of the door catches it and the door (all bolted up this time) only opens about 9-10 inches before it binds. It shouldn't be too much of a pain to fix, just a tad more time consuming than I expected. Getting all my practice in on the p-side so mebbe I can look like a pro when I get to the d-side. Yeah riiiiiiight !!! LOL Otherwise it was an easy install, was actually one of the more fun things I have done as far as welding goes. I got my cab corner in on that side as well. I will make another post with pics of how that has come along.... |
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Duh.... usually when we said put door on we mean on the hinges
I hate to say this but the snow you posted on daves thread is as close as I've gotten to snow this year... we've virtually have had no snow and we usually get at least 25 inches or so over the winter...Only thing is this will not fill up the lakes for the summer unless we get a rainny spring. you are getting pretty good at welding thoes panels! Are you using 22 gage wire?? or which one... I'm out of the small stuff and the 30 just burns a hole in the sheet metal.. LOL |
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So this poor cab corner/shoulder has had to be a major training ground for me, on top of the obvious beating it took many many years ago.
I posted the pics from what it was when I found all the bondo, to what it looks like tonight after I have sanded down my very first slinging of da mud !! weird to think the pics in date order are: 26 Nov 11 26 Dec 11 30 Dec 11 04 Feb 12 07 Feb 12 I guess that says I dont focus on any one thing for very long any more, eh? |
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Trucks coming along nicely!!!!!
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looking good:metal:
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that looks a whole lot better! i hate when people try to use bondo instead of fixing the metal! a light coat is one thing but when you fill holes with it thats going to far!! i had the same problem around my tail lights, had a small dent and someone desided to put 1/4-1/2" of bondo to smooth it out! it took me 10-15mins with a metal tire spoon to push it all out, it was hard to get to!
keep it up, your really doing a good job!! and if you need more practice you can come on down and do my rockers, lol!! |
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Surprisingly up here I have come to learn that Tundra, is a grassy word for Swamp.... Yes 22ga wire. Though I need to get a block of brass or something because even with my gas turned down to 5-10 psi, I still blow holes in the sheet metal sometimes. |
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I am totally with you on the bondo. I swear to put in as much metal as I can and am only using the bondo to smooth out the welded spots and fill the pin holes. I will be down in your neck of the woods in the next couple years, we have a rental down there in Lawton I will be getting ready to market soon after I retire. Will that be soon enough you think?? :lol: :mm: |
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[QUOTE=McMurphy;5175255]"on airride" ?? Not sure of the reference, sorry. Is your '68 a show car/truck?
I will be parting out a '85 GMC Sierra 3/4 ton next week, let me know if you want or need anything for your '72 there will be a ton of body and frame parts I will not be using as well as most You can do a Internet search for David neals 68 chevy c-10. It will probably pull up the classic trucks article on it.:metal Posted via Mobile Device |
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lawton it 4 1/2- 5hrs. from me, but you would be closer, lol!! i'm planning on having my truck on the road by this time next year, with alot of the bodywork done! if i would have found this site a few years ago, i think i would be done with it by now! i've learned alot on here, and i put off buying stuff for my truck over the years because i didnt know what i know now! we you do head this way we will need to meet up so we can check each others trucks out in person
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Looking good McMurphy. Your moving right along with the metal work. Just remember the only people that dont make mistakes are the people that do nothing. I think its only a mistake if you cant correct it. Your doing a good job. keep up the good work.
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I'm still fighting with my passenger rocker right now. The gap in the rear is perfect...but the front keeps hitting. I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what is going on that is causing it to lift up as I press the rocker into place.
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I used small self tapping sheet metal screws to press down and hold the rocker down firm against the inner rocker. then I used clamps at the bottom, I guess its called the pinch weld to pull it tight and that solved my problem with mine hitting. hope that helps some.
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Hey Sarge,, I took an old piece of copper pipe and split it, it was split already from a freeze, and use that to back up my welds.. It works great and (fancy word) inexpensive.. LOL It bends to any shape I need and gets in some pretty tite spots as I made three or four(can't seem to find all of them all the time, must be the ghost) of them in different sizes the back up makes a big difference as I can lay in a puddle and let it cool to grind down later.. I use metal plugs for anything bigger then 1/4 inch at least for me that seems to work better then trying to fill in a big hole.. I also did some lead work on the firewall , found it to be a lot easier then we're led to believe. Just have to make sure the area is clean for the lead to stick.. Takes some practice but doable by almost anyone... the only problem now is that getting the lead has gotten very expensive. When I did mine 10 years ago only cost about a dollar a pound now its a lot higher and the EPA is all over the place trying to get it banned all together.
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Ok guys, on page 4 I put up pics of a '85 Sierra that I had gotten for a donor rig.
Tonight I drove it home and got it into the garage. Tonight it is defrosting, and tomorrow I start a 10 day marathon tear down on it. The plan is to get as much stuff off it that I think I will want or need then push it out into the yard. Then I will start in the detail work on the parts that I took off it. Having said that, I hope I will be into the rebuilding stage of my rig soon. I still have to redo the front end of my p-side rocker that I goofed up, and totally do the d-side floor pan, outrigger, rocker, and cab corner. But starting tormorrow morning it will be about stripping the GMC down as fast and efficiently as possible. Luckily the temps have jumped up to 35* !! The snow was actually melting today ..... I know ..... like WHOA ..... right ?!?!?!?! LOL More to follow, and as ever, thanks for taking a look ! |
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Seems a real shame to tear down such a good looking vehicle.. Not being criticle just an observation as 10 years from now someone will wish they had that vehicle.. In a while I'll be getting or bring home an 82 that belonged to my dad.. less that 30000 miles and still driven once in a while. no rust and garaged since day one, I drove it home that day dad bought it.. Will be not touched and only repaired and driven regularly. My son has already said it belongs to him... LOL
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Having a heat wave... LOL time for a party..:b69::b69::five::five::five::tim::ennyd::ennyd::barn::splat::cf::cf::bike:
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Good luck with tearing down the GMC and getting all of the parts off that you need. It has been nice with the temps warming up. We jumped about 65 degrees in a little under 2 weeks time.
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