Scott's 1972 Chevy K-20. A place to start.

[67cheby]

truck looks Tough !

[Mustard72]

Thanks for providing another thread that makes me wish mine was 4wd

Looks great. I'm working on a work truck, too, just not an off roader. Mines a trailer puller.

I know that's still the primer coat on the tail gate, but are you considering painting it black? That looks sort of cool back there, too. I've got lots blacked out on Mustard, too, but hadn't considered the tail gate until I saw yours.

And one more thing. You may have the hot days in the summer, but around here, once the Christmas lights go up (in reference to a few of your pics), you don't back the truck out of the garage to work on it in the driveway. I'm a bit jealous this time of year.

[gerfunken]

Originally Posted by Mustard72

Thanks for providing another thread that makes me wish mine was 4wd

Looks great. I'm working on a work truck, too, just not an off roader. Mines a trailer puller.

I know that's still the primer coat on the tail gate, but are you considering painting it black? That looks sort of cool back there, too. I've got lots blacked out on Mustard, too, but hadn't considered the tail gate until I saw yours.

And one more thing. You may have the hot days in the summer, but around here, once the Christmas lights go up (in reference to a few of your pics), you don't back the truck out of the garage to work on it in the driveway. I'm a bit jealous this time of year.

Thanks Nick, it looks like you've really got your hands full with the rust repair on Old Mustard. I'm fortunate that I didn't have that level of cancer to deal with.

As far as the color goes, when I bought the truck, it had been painted with orange on the top, and the PO had put the black swamp cooler waterproof paint from the bottom body line down. After much contemplation, I think that I'm going to keep the color that way, and think it'll really work with the bumpers being blacked out. Here's an old picture of how it looked right after I put the 6" lift on it as an example:


And, yes, while I'm looking forward to the temperature being in the low 70's this coming weekend, I really hate the summers when the outside temp is 120. All things being equal, you get to work on yours in the summer, I get to work on mine in the winter. Not quite sure which is really better...

[gerfunken]

Well, it would seem as if I have run into yet another problem. So, when I put the new doors on the cab (without the hardware) I found that the door rubbed in the back, top and bottom, and the door would not close in the sill.

Ex. 1, circling the spots that were rubbing.


Ex. 2: The obvious remediation is to drill out the spot welds on the back of the window frame, and lower down the top part of the door to get the door to fit.


Now, all of that seems easy enough, and I was able to get the door to fit in the sill, so everything was good.

Well, I started installing all of the components into the door, reverse order from how I took them out. The first thing I started with was the door latch and handle. However, when I put everything together, the door would not unlatch...

Ok, this is perplexing.... struggled with it for a little bit, until I decided to get wise and use my cell phone to take some pictures of the situation:

Ex. 3: Note that the screws have been backed out of the door latch. I found that I could get it to work (barely) when it was very loose in the door.


Ex. 4: And if you didn't see it in the picture above, you'll get a better idea with this picture.


Ex. 5: So, it looks like I get to spend my weekend cutting out the following.


I'm guessing that I'm going to have to find a way to take out about 1/4" of the lower part of the window channel, which would probably be about equal to the 1/4" that I had to lower the back part of the window to get the door to fit.

Fun

Fun

Fun

[gerfunken]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

truck looks Tough !

Thanks Mike. I have to admit, I was in awe of your build, and that's a well deserved TOTM and TOTY award. Thanks for stopping by and checking my build out.