Project Penicillin~ 68 crewcab build up!

[Rokcrln]

Originally Posted by qksilver

I couldn't believe it when i firs saw it........
They are out there,somewhere........every once in a while i have found them

That cab sure looks long with four full size doors! I am glad ours is 6" shorter in the 3dr and 4th doors. Being a long bed it is too long as it is.

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[sixty8c10]

Originally Posted by qksilver

I couldn't believe it when i firs saw it........
They are out there,somewhere........every once in a while i have found them

well why can't i ever find one?

[qksilver]

Oh it's a monster, if it would have fit on my car trailer, I would have left the burb and taken that. I have a 17 ft trailer from front bulk head to rear. The wheel base was 17 ' 6" and a 2000 mile ride back.
I think of it as a chevy answer to the new dodge mega crew cab

[john@thepier]

Something that rare should not be sitting outside!! Get that thing under cover.

[qksilver]

it is sitting out in the desert, probably better for it then under mu equipment shed here with 70% humidity!

[Rokcrln]

Well not alot of progress but any is better than nothing. I got the new pass side windshield post cut out of the donor cab and also finished teh inside of the fourth door. All that is left is to drill for the door handle and stitch up the leading edge.

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[Dano69c10]

Great job on that 4th door!
Keep them pics coming.
Dano

[72armyswbtruck]

Man, It's like a soap opera for macho men, I am addicted to this build, You are doing awesome work

[crazy longhorn]

That is "BAD AS HELL".....man that 4th door really rocks L

[Rokcrln]

Sorry that it is going so slow but I have alot of irons in the fire at one time. I am trying to work on my own 71 (project slow build) and I just picked up a 2wd blazer that is my next company truck build for how to DVD's and I am trying to get the rest of the Tip & Flip dollys designed for the other years (and now blazers). I hope to get a good bit done this weekend on the crew cab. I think with all this sunny California weather we have been having, NOT is getting my motivation is down a bit. I like hot weather and long days and right now we have neither.

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[70rs/ss]

Man, I am in AZ just across the line from you and I can feel you. It got warm (like 60 instead of 20) and the suns up earlier and down later, so I got started and then it snowed (2 weeks ago, did you get anything from that one as well?) It rained yesterday and is supposed to rain all day today (but no clouds, so we'll see). I am trying to finish messing around with my rust 67 from KY. I had a 3/4 ton sitting around so I took every part off of it I could and I am now transferring them to the 67, when done the frame will be perfect (some of the parts I pulled off the 3/4 ton still had chasis black on it from the factory! Gotta love rust free AZ metal) I hope we both have better weather, I may look you up in July if I get out your way, LMK.

[longhorn70gmc]

This is going to be a sweet truck when done!!! I am impressed. I wish I had the knowledge and tools to do this to my bed. Good Luck!
Respectfully

[Rokcrln]

Ok we are in the home streach with the fourth door Today I welded up the lock hole on the door skin and grafted in the door latch area for the inner handle. I also treated the leading edge with a rust inhibitor before I weld the second layer of the leading edge on. This is the area that makes up the door gap between the front and fourth door and the last thing I want is rust to start up later at this spot. The pain in the a$$ part of the day was when I noticed that the pull up lock nob needed a full on lever and bell crank set up to work and look stock. You see on a third door of a burb it is at the front of the door so th efront passenger can unlock it. So the drivers side needs to be the same way. This involved taking a third door apart to see how it all works (and clears the windo set up) and then build the same thing in a mirror image. It was not all that bad just time consuming and somthing I never even thought of before. I mean I set the door top up for it to be this way with the lock button but never thought of how it would get from their to the rear of the door latch. Their are two bell cranks and three rods that make it all up. Both bell cranks had to have a notch cut in them since they will be working backwards from the factory layout. One had even throw on the bell crand arm so it was left alone. The rear on however had one arm longer than the other one so I had to grind off the back of the factory rivit so I could flip the arm side for side and weld it back together. Then it was just a mater of laying out the mounting holes which I found out if you are 1/16" off it will not give enough throw to fully lock the latch. But it is now done and working great and that only leaves the leading edge of the door to seam up with a second skin and the dor will be complete. Also I added a pic to show how full my shop got today with a nother customer project stuffed inside. Heck my 2wd blazer has to sit out in the rain right now

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[Rokcrln]

A few more!

[Rokcrln]

A little more progress tonight. Small floor patch at the bottom of the B pilar where the last owner thought fiberglass was a fix all! Then I connected the two driver side rockers. I had to form a filler piece since the two ends of the rockers are not exactly the same. If I had just joined the gap it would have left a 1/4" plus void for bondo. With the patch done it will only take a skim coate and primer.

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[Rokcrln]

Sure is nice cutting into somthing and no longer finding pounds of rust. This area was coated before closing up and I opened up the two rockers to each other so we can spray body wax inside the entire area. We will do this from the round access hole in the front of the rocker before the fender goes on.

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[krue]

Nice work!

[sixty8c10]

looking great

[Rokcrln]

Sun shine This is the first time I have been able to pull this thing out side in weeks! Well the only thing left on the drivers side now is to rebuild all the hinges and rehang the doors for final gap adjusting. Then it is on to hte passenger side and that should be a slam dunk. We need to replace both rockers (inner and outers), the rear cab corner, build the upper window rail for the third door and the worst part of this side will be the windshield post. All in all it is going real well and this truck is turning out great! It will have a real stock look to it even know we have adjusted just a few things . Should have the hinges finished and blasted next week and start choppin out more parts. I can't belive almost 10,000 views so far and we have only worked on one side!! I can not wait to get this thing off to the blasters and start body work and just even get it into primer so we can see the full affects of the work.

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[boundstaffpress]

I think your getting close to god status on this forum. Few of us are able to dedicate the amount of time you can to being skillful and finishing projects.

Thank you for contributing so many good pictures, and letting us vicaiously live out your project.

[Canadian694x4]

I agree with that Statement! Thank You!!! Best Thread Ever!

[FRENCHBLUE72]

I agree with what was said above ,but you gotta remember that this is turning into the baddest krew cab ever built of this bodystile and its not even in primer yet...

[Rokcrln]

The only part that sucks is it isn't even mine But wait untill you see what I am planning for my next full ground up build
Thanks everyone for taking the time to check out this thread. All the feed back helps me try and stay focused on only 5-10 things at once

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[glock35ipsc]

What's the blue stuff on the right edge? Awesome work by the way!!!!!

[chevy_fatman]

Simply amazing what you can do!! I wish I lived near you to pick your brain!