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Figured I may as well post the progress of my other project too seeing as how I finally got the pics resized and ready to go. Some of these pics are pretty old but here goes,but 1st a little background on the truck. My dad bought the truck back when I was 8 or nine not sure which anyways we moved from cali to oregon with it and when I got done with h.s. my dad gave it to me for completeing school and then I moved out and have had it ever since... So on with the pics and history lesson..

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Finally here we go The truck started out with a 350 and muncie 4 speed but I blew that up and then went througha few 305s the last one was 7 years ago and I have not driven it since. First things 1st I had to swap out the frame cause the one under it was bent so I got a3/4 ton truck and stole the frame out from under it got all the 72 sheetmetal bolted up. I dont have pics of any of that as I did not have a digital camera back then so here we go with the rebuild........... Heres a few pics of how it looked before it really got carried away... Started shaveing the bed pockets,door handles,and heater box, and started looking for a new tailgate..

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Not a new tailgate but one that was in better shape than the one I had. And some pics of the firewall..

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Another rear shot still needs better bedside but I got the lwb for free so I cant complain. I had also shaved the cowl vents but the cowl has since dissapeared not sure what happened to it but I have got another one..

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Finally had moved into the new house that has a garage and managed to get the new bedside on..

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So I cleaned up the 454 and bought some cheapie valvecovers and decided to get it runnin before I took it back out..

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Heres a shot of the motor and the shaveing has began.... Also a shot of the made just for you clamps that I used to hold the braided fuel line on the frame.

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Some shots of the 68 front clip I scored and its finally looking like a truck.

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Looks really good, love the front clip. keep up the good work.

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Thanks some of the pics are not in the right order but when your looking at pics from 3 to 5 years back its hard to remeber what was when?

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Heres a few videos from when I had it running shes almost ready to fire agian cant wait..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5J_rTtYM8c


http://www.youtube.com/user/frenchblue71

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3chfA7Ln7c

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Looks like I have someone else giddy to get the truck back on the road.. Heres the start of the 1 1/2'' front crossmember chop. Cut it apart and then since im no pro I had to make filler pcs...

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One thing to remeber when you do one of these chops lots of welding and grinding and liberal use of the tape measure..

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Finally some por 15 was laid on and she was ready to go back into the frame.. One thing you got to remeber was the dropmember was not out when I started this otherwise I would have gone that way..

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So I figured that since that por 15 looked so good om the crossmember I may as well change the frame from gray to por 15 black... Got the crossmember fitted and when I was happy with the fit off it came agian.. And I figured while I was at it I may as well weld up all the holes in the frame now that I have been going back through these pics I see why these things thke so long.

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A few pics of the front clip shinning in por 15 and then it happened nate joined the board and it was time to order some parts and heres what showed up..

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Great Job!!! Ain't this fun!!!

Alex

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So now its time to install the airride tech strong arms bags and shocks...:metal:

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Ya its fun but I should have done this pic thing along time ago cause it sure is some work...

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It was at this point that we had found out that they had sent the wrong front shocks and mounts. I had also decided that I needed to order some drop spindals and new rotors along with new lower u-bolts and new uppernuts and alignement shims.

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I got all the front end stuff done and back together and had a few steering issues to deal with but as xxl says nothing a little grinding cant fix and you can see why I need new lower u-bolts. I powdercoated the a-arm nuts with my new eastwood kit...

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Heres pics of the completed front end and the start of the firewall shave...

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I decided everything on the firewall had to go so I broke out the welded and metal working tools and got to work ... Little advise the top gutter fill is a pain in the azz I cannot believe how long it took.

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Time to break out the mudd for the firewall...

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Not sure how many hours I had in to the cutting ,welding and sanding of the firewall but it felt like forever.

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Even with all the cussing about sanding and welding the firewall it sure turned out killer... And I got my new pulleys,new oil pan,new timing chain and dipsticks on and I thought it was going back in for good but its been out a few times since.cover

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Got the bradided fuel ine installed used the made just for you clamps the are pretty sweet. I still need to pull the cab off and weld up all the holes and por 15 it... I used silver por 15 on the cab floors and black por 15 on the inside firewall too..

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Heres a couple of shots of her sitting out side and some shots of the rust that I gotta get repaired..

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More rust and some more por 15 on the inner rocker and on the inside of the outter rocker.

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Amen on how long it takes to shave the firewall and cap the channel. Hours of welding and grinding, the your result looks good. I still have a lot more welding and grinding, then filling and sanding to go. The look is worth the work. Good Job!

Alex

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Here you can see the outter rocker is ready to be welded on(still not welded yet) Some shots of theinside of the cab with all the holes in the floors patched and the tranny cover shifter hole welded up and smoothed. And more of the killer por 15..:cool:

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the truck is really coming along nicely. i wish i would have shaved the channel on my firewall. keep up the good work.

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Lats of the por 15 shots that I have. One word of caution is to to this stuff in a well vented area. Now for some:bling:stuff foe the motor... New tranny pan from summit and lokar th400 kickdown set-up ..

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A shot of the painted tranny and the summit tranny pan along with the lokar kick down set-up. My new lokar dipsticks installed... Bought all this stuff from summit when I went to hot august nights I think it was called peer pressure..

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Pic for the above post could not get them to attach for some reason maybe ive been at it too long this a.m.:blah::blah::blah:seems my attachment button is broke...

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Finally the pics..

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And the last of the pics for today this will be the color I paint it....frenchblue.

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nice looking project.

and i love your yota

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ya more progress........ vacation rocks.. I decided that I needed wider tubs to clear the wide rear tires I d like to run. So I broke out the cuttin wheel and zipped em apart and added some metal from donar tubs I had and welded em back together.

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I cut the inside of the bed to make way for the future wheel and tire combo and finally installed my new intake (from mike nutt thanks.)and new valve covers. When I tried to install the carb the fuel outlet ran into the side of the valve cover so it looks like I ll have to look at other options.