1972 gmc 2wd highlander with original paint

[kehstr]

Originally Posted by dieselwrencher

very nice work on your truck! I have seen a washer and a spring in between the intermediate shaft and the lower bearing on the column, but haven't noticed a lot of washers in between them. Do you have a better pic of this by chance?

I believe this is what you are talking about

this is what I was referring too

sorry that these are bad pictures, couldn't really get a good one with it being dark out

[Dieselwrencher]

The top pic looks correct, a large washer and a spring. The 2nd pic i'm pretty sure is not factory. Maybe they put those washers there to keep the lower bearing from falling out or something?

[kehstr]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

The top pic looks correct, a large washer and a spring. The 2nd pic i'm pretty sure is not factory. Maybe they put those washers there to keep the lower bearing from falling out or something?

that would make sense, but do you know what the use of the spring and washer is?

[kehstr]

Got even more done on my truck this weekend.
I siliconed in some freeze plugs for my "flow enhancers" for the center vent

Then painted my defrost vents

Put my new felt and chrome balls in the AC vents. It amazes me how stiff they are to move with the new felt in them.



then painted and installed both of my kick panel vents

[kehstr]

I also sandblasted my core support. I hate doing that, it makes the biggest mess, and gets sand everywhere!!

Then finished up my last bit of rust repair on the core support

Then here is a picture of my brother masking off my new gauge cluster so we can get ready to paint it.

Then we sprayed the paint down, and it wasn't even close! I took the glove box to NAPA before we touched the original paint to find a paint that was close to the original color, and found a color that was really close, but either they messed up while mixing it, or the paint chip was a MILE off!

Here is a picture of the color out of the can (left) and the color we finished with after mixed some orange and black into the original color (right), for sure a mile off.

[kehstr]

Here is a picture of the finished glove box door and the gauge bezel after paint

Then the gauge cluster all assembled together

Then I installed the dash pad

And through the glove box door on because I'm running out of safe places to put things unless they are installed on the truck

Then I put the core support on (because we had too many other things in the shop to spray paint it) and the driver side fender to figure out where we are going to mount the fuse box, just so I could get the length of wires figured out, then pulled them back off and connected the fuse box to everything.

[kehstr]

And then here are some pictures of the core support rust patched together because I forgot to post them a few weeks ago when I did it.

[kehstr]

Just a small update. Got to work on the wiring this past weekend and got a big portion of the engine wiring done.

[Dieselwrencher]

nice work on it. That stinks that the paint was off. I hate when that happens.

[kehstr]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

nice work on it. That stinks that the paint was off. I hate when that happens.

yeah, it definitely is annoying, I'm just glad I have an awesome dad that was able to make it work!

[ls1nova71]

Looking good! Your dash and gauges came out nice.

[70LonghornCST]

Great looking progress!

[kehstr]

Originally Posted by ls1nova71

Looking good! Your dash and gauges came out nice.

Thanks, I really appreciate it! Thank you for coming up with that awesome speedometer, it saved a lot of work for me!

Originally Posted by 70LonghornCST

Great looking progress!

Thanks!

[kehstr]

HUGE MILESTONE TODAY!! My dad's glass guy came today and got the windshield in!

[Dieselwrencher]

Very nice!

[kehstr]

This weekend I spent more time on the wiring







also got the OBD2 connector mounted and started to get it wired up

[kehstr]

also got my new blower mounted when I needed a break from all of the wiring

[Dieselwrencher]

Good choice on replacing that now. It isn't fun after it's all together. Not horrid, just not exactly fun. Haha The wiring is looking nice too!

[kehstr]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Very nice!

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Good choice on replacing that now. It isn't fun after it's all together. Not horrid, just not exactly fun. Haha The wiring is looking nice too!

I really appreciate your compliments! I have looked at replacing a blower motor on these trucks with them all assembled, and they don't look like much fun! (plus my dad told me he has done a few and recommends to do anything you can to prevent having to do one)

Also, i forgot to post these pictures of the trim I got off of the local classifieds. They are in great shape!

[Dieselwrencher]

Very nice! Are those Longhorn upper bed moldings I see there?

[kehstr]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Very nice! Are those Longhorn upper bed moldings I see there?

haha if only my truck was a longhorn to need those! No, they are just long bed, the picture does make them look a lot longer, though!

[Dieselwrencher]

Yeah, it almost looks like they have the end extension piece on the end. If you see any around let me know. I'm always on the hunt for extras.

[kehstr]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Yeah, it almost looks like they have the end extension piece on the end. If you see any around let me know. I'm always on the hunt for extras.

Haha every car guy is on the hunt for extra pieces! But I will tell you if I find some!

[kehstr]

My mom gave me a bunch of pictures she has taken of me working on my truck, so now if any of you were curious if I was actually doing the work you know I am

here is me getting ready to pull my trans crossmember out to cut the "lift" out of it (sorry it is flipped I don't know how to fix that)

Cleaning up the sun visors

working on the never ending project of wiring

[kehstr]

This past week I had spring break, so whenever I wasn't sleeping or working I was working on my truck.

I threw my core support and fenders on to mock everything up

The passenger fender on a stand so I could take the moldings off



The passenger fender appears to have been backed into at one point in time, it's going to be quite a bit of work to fix, but it is savable