1968 GMC - Ol' Blue

[TA_C10]

Thanks for the info! And funny i'm in same boat with pedal. I already welded up the original nuts in firewall... Check out what this guy did with his. Although it doesn't show how he mounted it to firewall, I was planning on modifying the pedal like this to get rid of the adjustable stuff. Then I will probably do the same as 1971Stepside to mount it to firewall.

Pedal Idea:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...2&postcount=18

[MDPotter]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

Thanks for the info! And funny i'm in same boat with pedal. I already welded up the original nuts in firewall... Check out what this guy did with his. Although it doesn't show how he mounted it to firewall, I was planning on modifying the pedal like this to get rid of the adjustable stuff. Then I will probably do the same as 1971Stepside to mount it to firewall.

Pedal Idea:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...2&postcount=18

I saw that one too and forgot to mention it, that's a cool mod. I have to spend some time with it and mount the brake pedal bracket and pedal temporarily to mock it up.

[MDPotter]

Doors are epoxied, driveshaft is in, and I'm done reworking my LS harness. I spent hours and hours working on this harness and I'm pretty happy with it now. I initially just pulled out all the unncessary wiring and reloomed it, but then I decided I wanted to mount the PCM in the cab so I ended up shortening or lengthening pretty much every wire back to the PCM connectors. I didn't want to have the LS power wiring made up in the engine bay, so I bought an American Autowire bulkhead with enough terminals to run the merged pink and orange wires through the firewall so I can make the connections in the cab.

[TA_C10]

Originally Posted by MDPotter

Doors are epoxied, driveshaft is in, and I'm done reworking my LS harness. I spent hours and hours working on this harness and I'm pretty happy with it now. I initially just pulled out all the unncessary wiring and reloomed it, but then I decided I wanted to mount the PCM in the cab so I ended up shortening or lengthening pretty much every wire back to the PCM connectors. I didn't want to have the LS power wiring made up in the engine bay, so I bought an American Autowire bulkhead with enough terminals to run the merged pink and orange wires through the firewall so I can make the connections in the cab.

Nice work on all of this. Cool to see inside of doors. I did my harness same as you and made it standalone. I really wanted to rework to put in cab but for sake of time I think I'm going to leave it under hood, build a bracket for pcm, relays, and power and ground distribution, and mount all that on the core support, call that a day... Maybe in stage 2 I will redo harness and put inside cab ...

Looks great man, your re-motivating me. I'm headed out to garage with a NOS blue and I'm going to prep my cab for paint dammit

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[MDPotter]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

Nice work on all of this. Cool to see inside of doors. I did my harness same as you and made it standalone. I really wanted to rework to put in cab but for sake of time I think I'm going to leave it under hood, build a bracket for pcm, relays, and power and ground distribution, and mount all that on the core support, call that a day... Maybe in stage 2 I will redo harness and put inside cab ...

Looks great man, your re-motivating me. I'm headed out to garage with a NOS blue and I'm going to prep my cab for paint dammit

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Thanks TA. I hope to be where you're at in a few months! It is hard to find time with a full-time job, vacations, and keeping your significant other happy. But even an hour or two a night makes a big difference!

[MDPotter]

Hope everyone had a great 4th! I was able to get quite a bit done over the four-day weekend.

-Peeled back the ends of the cowls so I could pull out all the leaves and debris, weld shut the vent, and spray rust encapsulator.
-Cut a hole in the dash for the center A/C louver and committed a sin and modified the dash for a double din radio. Nevermind the ugly welds, I tend to leave my joints a little low.
-Copied 1971Stepside and fabbed up a bracket to mount my gas pedal. I cut off all the bulky pedal assembly (adjustable pedal) and I will fab up a rod and use a custom trim pedal.
-Fabbed up a new bracket for my hydroboost so it can mount to the brake pedal assembly studs.
-I was scraping all the seam sealer out of the interior and was digging at the firewall to floor pan joint and they just came apart. Seems whoever was working the line that day didn't do a good job of welding the two together so I fixed that.
-I was able to get one door reskinned as well. I'm pretty happy with the repro door skin, it took minimal modifications for a good fit. The key here was to not remove the door bottom so that the new skin could be applied to the factory shell and achieve the right profile. Don't mind the mangled rocker-I did a quick and dirty removal so I could verify the rust repair panels so I could place an order.
-And I've got a pile of parts going to the sandblaster today.

[MDPotter]