Well I've made some progress getting the truck back on the road. I pulled the front bumper off along with the bumper brackets, the grill, and the grill shell.
This is how bad just the bumper was!
Then we had a big swap meet here a couple weeks ago and I found the following:
New grill shell -
New rechromed grill - (only $220!)
And a fun side mirror so I can actually see behind this beast! -
After some work this nice long weekend I was able to get the brakes fixed, bleed, the trans temp gauge installed and working, and the gas gauge finally finished. Then I got to stripping the grill shell and not it looks like this:
The goal for the week is to get some glazing putty on the shell and get it finished out and sprayed black for installation. Hope to have it all put back together this week. The ultimate goal is to actually mask off the fenders and running boards and do those black to match the grill shell and break up some of the green on the truck.
-Panelrodder