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Went back and read the whole thread, lots of thing seem oddly similar! Keep your good roll on, you're doing great!

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Wife and Life has a way of getting in the way of these trucks

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So there has been progress! The bathroom is painted and we're finishing up staining the vanity!!! The Boy has the front end pretty much back together but we've got an issue with one of the ball joints. No biggie, just another delay. The biggest setback now is that we picked up a little pickup for him. It wasn't 24 hours and he had it in the shop tearing A-arms apart! He cut a wrap of the front coils and put it back together then talked the Wifey into taking him to the bone yard for some rear blocks. He threw 3 inchers in there. Looks sweet, but there goes my slave labor!!! Here's some before and after pics.

Again! promise to put up some C10 pics soon!

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Looks great! I'm kind of an s10 man at heart. Good to gee a motivated kid that doesn't need his hand held to git 'er done! No better feeling than getting a house thing done so you can do what you wanna do!
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Had to share this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=4G3cPqThtos

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Ah, yes, the Farm Truck! That thing's awesome!
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Glad to hear you've got the bathroom done and getting back on the project! Looking forward to the updates! And check out my new build...have some custom touches planned for it!

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Not much to put up here but have snuck in a little work. Got the new ball joints in, all the No Limit stuff resolved and it's back on springs! Ran into some issues with the front springs and the LCA relocate mod. Nothing big, but have some figuring to do. The steering stops now ram into lower control arm instead of the bump-stop mount/bracket/thingy. I'm thinking I'll just lop those off and build my own bump-stop mount/bracket/thingy. I'll have to lop off the steering stop from the spindle casting and am thinking of putting some type of adjustable "jack screw" type setup on the LCA. Haven't had much time to search it up but maybe there's someone on here that's already been there? I'll keep looking and hopefully find the sweet setup. Also need to sort out the best way to plumb the front brakes. The tab where the hard lines transition to rubber now crashes with the upper control arm! I'm sure its on here too.

Vanity is done (not bad for a contractor's saw and a belt sander!), tile is done, just have firewood to get now!

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Man I wish it was done. Still just finishing the grout and have to install the vanity and all the fixtures. Wifey bought a bunch of fancy towel bars for me to put up too. Did I mention she dosen't like any of the moldings they have at the box stores? Looks like some mill-work coming up next! Love sanding and finishing that crap. I've also gotta go out in the woods and put up about 7 cords of firewood or we'll be freezing this winter. At least I get to romp on the big fella doing that and I've got a bad-boy Stihl that I love to run. I'm still set on getting paint done before the snow flies. We'll see! Congrats on the new build and thanks for looking!

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Kitchen, bathroom, Bah! Git out in the shop! What kinda Stihl? Uncle Matt has a Farm Boss that's a pain to start, but is a bad mother when it does. Vanity looks great, I did a complete gut to the studs remodel at out old house. Nice when its done.

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It's coming... All I have is some base molding to stain, finish and nail up and a couple towel bars. It'll take me 4-5 truck loads to stock for winter. Some years thats easy, others not so much. The boy and I will get the bikes up there first to scout it out. Saw is the MS440 with a 28". I modded the exhaust port and silencer slightly and it tunes spot-on. Most of the time its almost rediculous, but I do hunt for the big firs and when we get on one it's a beast! The 1 ton is just as much fun too. We've got lots of wire rope, blocks, chains and such. That dude will yard some big stuff up the hill.

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Just read through your build. Nice work ! any restore takes a lot of time, but you have a good plan. keep up the good work. I planned on finishing mine in a year. at @ year and a half now. those damn might as wells.:lol:

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Thanks for the read!

Wifey and I just got back from three days camping with NO KIDS. That was a well deserved break for both of us. We talked bathroom, firewood and TRUCK. The goal is to get me going asap as I'm going to dump my current daily driver. I should see a shot of truck cash from that and free up a ton of monthly moolah. That'll allow us to dump her POS Mitsu and get into a newer SILVERADO 1500 baby! :chevy: Runs deep, WAY deep!

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Bathroom is done! The boy and I have been hard on the firewood and brought this load home today. That big-o crummy is the shizz when it comes to yarding logs outta the woods. The boy has it down pat and I swear I'm gonna get some video next weekend. He literally had one front tire off the ground with the secondaries wide effin open. Only broke one chain!
Putting the VeeWee on the block tomorrow and my asking price will net me about $5500 to sprinkle on the '67! I'm driving the Boy's S10 this week until he gets his license on Saturday, then the crummy!
On a sad note, boy took his CR for a spin after dinner and took a hard spill over the bars, second gear pinned! Lost his way in the tall grass and smacked the backside of one of our berms. He came away with only a couple rasberries but the bike wound up with tweaked bars and a big a$$ shiner on his brand new works pipe :Own: He's bummed beyond words but I've got him on suicide watch tonight.

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Hey, bikes can be fixed! Glad he's OK. They can scare the jeebers out of you, can't they? I punched another spot off my ticket back in May on the blaster. Congrats on the bathroom! It feels so good when they're done. Hope your evil plot for truck bucks pans out, I'm on the hunt myself!
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Blew the dust of the project and actually got a little done! Very little that is. I did manage to grind enough clearance on those steering stops to make them work and they don't look all that bad. I threw one of the inner fenders on the bench and started cleaning that up. Both inners are zero rust, zero PO holes and not a ding in them! They do however have about a 1/4" of super hardened asphalt / tar on them. That is a PITA to get off. After about an hour, then looking at my rad support, hinges and other misc. parts I've decided to take a load to the blaster. It'll be way easier for Johnny and the results will be much better. So.... I put all the crap away again. I made a deal with my little sis on the VeeWee and she'll be here to pick it up in a week or two. That'll get me rolling on the project again. Back to the firewood today.

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Have done some work, just nothing really worth pictures. Finished up on the spindle clearancing, cleaned and primed my steering box, drag link and idler and the calipers. I'll shoot a little paint on those bits tonight. I also got motivated from XxCHEVYMANxX and started sanding the respray off my steering wheel. About an hour in and I've got 1-1/2 spokes clean. Should have my moolah outta the VeeWee here in a few days, so I'll be ramping up then. First off will be the rear swaybar from No Limit and shocks. Then I wanna get my wheels, rad support and inner fenders blasted and painted so I can get this thing on its real rubber!

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Woot woot! Progress!
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Yea I dont know if I'm just slow or what, but I have @ 8hrs in my wheel, and its just in the last coat of primer.:lol: for me everything is picture worthy. post 'em.

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I'm peckin away on this damn thing in the shop but Ima get busy here in a minute and will post up some photos after chow.

Need a little help here. I bought some little screw-in studs for the rear cab moulding (paint divider). My truck was plain-jane and didn't have that. I could prolly figure out where to put those buggers (spacing) so they'd work, but if anyone has any photos of a cab without the trim installed that shows where them things lay that'd be *****in! I'll just get back to sanding that steering wheel for now.

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This is the best one I could find, hope it helps.:chevy:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=333478

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That helps a bunch man, thanks for finding that! Just finished chow and Wifey is hitting the sack. I'm going to keep sanding on this wheel and then I'll post some pics!

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So here's a shot of those chassis parts I've got cleaned up. Working on getting this thing rolling again. Got all the old paint off the wheel and buffed it out with some P180. It's going to be nice! There are the typical 0.050" cracks in all three spokes at the hub, but also some hairline cracks around the wheel. I'm wondering if I should gouge these cracks out a little and chamfer the edges so that I can get the goo down deep and feather it out at the surface?

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Parts look good ! you could notch the cracks, but it just seemed like extra work to me. I used a wooden paintbrush handle to push that clay patch down into the cracks. with jb weld being more liquid like, you could get it in there pretty good by having the tube right against the crack as you apply. also use something to get the excess off, or you will have a lot of extra filing.:smoke:

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You're prolly right on that. I'll give it a go tonight and will report!

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More progress,,, looking good! I guess I'd better get busy. Sorry I missed you last time I was up there,,, I'll try and get together with you next time I'm in town.:chevy::gmc2:

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Thanks man! I'm really anxious to paint some sheetmetal. Just shout when you'l be around.

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I used the JB weld on one of the cracks near the hub. The stuff I used is in two tubes and mixes up pretty runny. I just put on a glove and smooshed it in, cleaning up all the excess. The stuff does shrink a bit but it sanded pretty easy and I'm satisfied. If you wanted a 10 out of 10 on a steering wheel resto, I'd get the spendy stuff and grind them cracks out. Be careful sanding too. The paint is pretty hard but once you get through that the black rubbery substrate that the wheel is made of is pretty soft. You can sand away detail pretty easy!
I also threw up picks of my high-dolla pneumatic power plant and spray guns! I'll give it a try with the black on the wheels, inners and rad support before I decide if I'll paint the sheetmetal with it. Got the steering box and drag link back on too. There was some PS fluid pissin through the process and some of the paint didn't stick real good by the fittings. I've got lot's of touch up do do on the front of that chassis anyways.

Goin out for sushi, firewood tomorrow and prolly Sunday too. We're on the verge here tho! Have a killer weekend!

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Looks good man ! you are correct about how easy you can lose detail. your making good progress keep up the momentum ! your guns look nice, with their own case and all.:cool:

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China's finest! I picked them up for $50 I think? I'll let you know how they work. I've got an old Binks siphon gun but It's full of dried primer and I doubt I could clean it up well enough for a re-pack.

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If it makes you feel better, every ounce of the primer on Yeller was shot with the big gun from that kit, with a 1.8 tip. I can recommend Nason epoxy primer (sticky, but good) for bare metal and Featherfill 2.0 for hi-build surfacer. It shoots good! Great for all kinds of GP stuff. I killed one of the noisy craftsman compressors doing the metalwork on the cab. Got a IR 2-stage v-twin 80 gal off clist. It's niiiiice. Suspension parts look good! Git up tha hill and git ta whackin'! Winter's a-comin!

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We did some whackin allright! Found the grand-daddy doug fir. Ended up breaking the truck tho! The Boy did a nice roll back hard on the gas with prolly 2500lbs loaded and another 2500 on the line in 4x4 low. Not his fault. The road was loose and getting real messed up. We had the second piece right to the edge of the road (the stump is about 150' from the road's edge, down a steep bank) and I told him to give it one more tug. Anyway, sounds like the gov-lock let go. We managed to get the rest of our load and limp home but it was NASTY sounding. In open mode the truck wouldn't move but then it'd lock (CRUNCH!!!) and we'd be rolling. Even a slight turn tho and holy smokes. Wasn't pretty. So, I'm working on the wrong truck again today! From what I can tell, the 14 bolt full floaters are basically the same for 3/4ton and 1 ton in those years so I'll see what I can find on craigslist.

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Daaaang, if that's firewood, you better have one helluva splitter! Sorry about the truck!
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The splitter is the tree hugger in the first picture! His name is Manuel. Got the crummy in the shop and the stank oil is draining. Here's my $1000 tires! Damn he's hard on $hit!

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Badaboom-badabing!!! Fixed the wrong truck.:metal::metal::metal: Test drove and all. Here's a few pics. Found a nice gov-lock outta a 454 burban at the bone-yard for $51. Cover gasket and new stank oil $35. Total time was less than 8 hrs. We'll get the other half of grand-daddy next Saturday! Next pics are some other gems they've got.

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:metal:

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So clearly, the "therory of open mode vs. locked mode" is bull$hit. When all those chunks were "flowing" around in that carrier it was "open mode". Once they wadded up into a knot that was "locked mode". It's amazing we made it home on the rear end and didn't have to go FWD! We even yarded that last log the rest of the way out on that heavy-duty $hit.

Chevy runs deep, WAY deep!

:chevy::chevy::chevy:

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Sorry to hear about the truck man, but anything can happen when you work 'em that hard !:metal: Cool pics of the bone yard !

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Did it kill the gear too? You're gutsier than me, i's eskeered of rearends, and Gawd, that stink! Hope you're back to dominating the forest soon!
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Ps- cool yard!
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