Not Another Rebuild Thread....

[57truckguy]

I was so impressed with the frame work I totally spaced the front. I,ll have to check it out.

You rocker rebuild appears to be coming along great. Keep up the good work.
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[flips72]

i have heard of people using that great stuff for sound deadner before but thats the first time i have actually saw it, i bet that was hard to get off. floor looks really good, your doing a great job especially for -40 below weather.

[allaboutchevelles]

The inner rocker/floor repair is looking good. Nice Job. You have more motivation than I do. I cant stand going down to my shop at night when its 35degrees outside and 45 in the shop. Even with the heater running everything still feels like ice cubes so I go back in the house and get on the comp and look at what everyone on here has been doing, LOL

[Alan's Classic]

Looks like some good progress. Remeber to fit your door before welding the outer rocker.

[daverod]

Ya what he said.

[Alan's Classic]

I use self tapping sheet metal screws to tack a panel in place.

It doesn't hurt to have your door on when doing the cab corners. If you run a straight edge down the rear pillar it will get you close. I always use the sheet metal for alignment. It takes the guess work out.
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[KroAutomotiveInc]

hey man it took me a few days to remember where i seen that truck at but im pretty sure i seen it in the How about some pics of 60-66 Trucks and ive just read that a lot of those pictures where lost for some reason maybe someone eles seen it and has one of it it was a 1961 Chevy with the 1961 hood molded in where the bummer goes had a lame paint job lots of pin strips if i remember right anyone remember this truck?

[KroAutomotiveInc]

seems like it was maroon with gold was real mexican like

[chevy_man5]

I kind of remember seeing it somewhere on here too. Hopefully someone will remember where, too many threads...too little time to look through them all!

[chevy_man5]

Found it!!

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=295064

[chad64chevy]

i think the one your all talking about is on the bottom of post #36 of this link!! http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=402277&page=2

[KroAutomotiveInc]

yep thats the one

[McMurphy]

Thanks for the links guys!
People do some wicked badazz stuff with classics !!

In one of those links it shows the stepside bedside rail mod I want to do too with the rounded tube end at the tail gate.

Ahhhh to work on my truck the next 2 days; after I replace my d-side mirror on my 03 Sonoma....grrrrrr I got tail slapped on a 2 lane road by a school bus this morning, luckily he only got my mirror. I thought these guys had to know how to drive those things before they were allowed to pick up kids in them ?!?!?!? He was turning onto another 2 lane and his extended azzend came into my lane as I was going by.

Freekin side view mirror disentegrated.

[57truckguy]

Hey I thought all the kids went to school on dog sled.. LLLLLoooooLLLLL

[flips72]

even the dogs have more sense than to get out in forty below weather,think i will go build a fire now brrrrrrrrr

[McMurphy]

Well guys, we had dinner with friends on Saturday which limits my time in the garage, on top of the temps dipping down to -50*. So in short, I took this weekend off from the truck, first one so far since September when I got it.

So no updates and my rockers and cab corners are still waiting for me down there.

Visability right now is about 100 yards, and less at night. Oddly enough when it gets this cold there rolls in some ice fog, and it is a motherhumper to drive in.

This pic is the view out my front window, notice how you can barely make out the neighbors place across the street...
Hopefully this week I can get home early enough to do some stuff, but next weekend is for certain as it is my last weekend before the Sierra tear down marathon!

Thanks for looking !!

[66ChevyMax]

There's a street in that pic?

Beautiful place.

Originally Posted by McMurphy

Well guys, we had dinner with friends on Saturday which limits my time in the garage, on top of the temps dipping down to -50*. So in short, I took this weekend off from the truck, first one so far since September when I got it.


So no updates and my rockers and cab corners are still waiting for me down there.

Visability right now is about 100 yards, and less at night. Oddly enough when it gets this cold there rolls in some ice fog, and it is a motherhumper to drive in.

This pic is the view out my front window, notice how you can barely make out the neighbors place across the street...
Hopefully this week I can get home early enough to do some stuff, but next weekend is for certain as it is my last weekend before the Sierra tear down marathon!

Thanks for looking !!

[flips72]

like i said brrrrrrrrrrrrrr, nice picture though, but wheres the snow man?

[chad64chevy]

mcmurphy those pictures look great, the wife loves the snow but cant drive in it at all!! i hate the cold but can drive in any weather, lol!!

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by chad64chevy

mcmurphy those pictures look great, the wife loves the snow but cant drive in it at all!! i hate the cold but can drive in any weather, lol!!

Driving in this weather takes more skill than most people think. Sadly some of those live up here too. I dont mind the cold, but when it is too cold to do something then I start to mind.

Originally Posted by joe231

Yeah
Squarebanks sucks!!

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Yeah, well the Army doesnt pick all the good spots....

Originally Posted by KroAutomotiveInc

that pic is amazing i would love living there

It is nice in small increments, like anything else, you can find the good in it, but when it is time to go you cannot always be sad to leave eh? LOL

Originally Posted by 66ChevyMax

There's a street in that pic?

Beautiful place.

Yeah my driveway is just past the stump too. Going to dinner Saturday night and the ice fog was so thick that when a car passed you, its tail lights were no longer visible 75 yards away. That stuff gets dangerous when you come up on wrecks in the road....

Originally Posted by flips72

like i said brrrrrrrrrrrrrr, nice picture though, but wheres the snow man?

I think if you squint, you can still see some in that photo !!

Originally Posted by 57truckguy

Yea I'm with Max... There is a street out there... LOL

Meh.....

Originally Posted by b2948kevin

Wow, great work McMurphy! It takes a lot of motivation to get those panels replaced, but it sure feels good when they get there. I still have the passenger side to do on mine...

You got some good advice on hanging the door and checking for fit. I had to do a lot of fitting to get things even close and I still feel like they are off a bit. Moral of the story: take your time and test fit the doors a bunch.

Also, I had issues with my doors rubbing the outer rocker. I put some masking tape in the areas that I suspected and then confirmed where they were rubbing by noticing damage to the masking tape where it was touching. Hopefully you don't need to do this, but it may come in handy.

Good to hear you're surviving in the great white north

Thanks about the tape idea, I will keep that in mind. Right now my plan of attack is to get the rocker mostly fitted to its pillar contours, then tack one side in, hang the door and go from there.

Originally Posted by Chad215

Wow-that is a great picture-I would love to be able to see that in person some day. Not a lot of snow in Houston.

I know it sounds corny, but at least you're able to see things like that. I know you're military so I'm assuming Alaska isn't permanent. I consider myself lucky to have traveled to europe with the Army, and been able to see and experience different cultures.

I'm sure that cold is hard though. I'm in Houston-I don't think we've gotten below freezing at all this year. I have a small propane camping heater that I turn on in my garage so I can go work in my shorts and a t-shirt.

Chad I joined the Army because I knew the world was bigger than the little mountain community where I grew up, and I didnt want to be a rodeo stud or bale hay all my life. The Army promised to show me some of the world and it certainly kept its end of the deal there! There are places I hope I never see again, and some places I will miss, but none that I want to get back to more than home.

I feel like such a dork sometimes.... I changed out my destroyed side mirror on my 03 Sonoma today. It was going to be a quick 30 min job of popping off just enough of the plastic door panel to get to the 3 mounting bolts for the mirror. Everything was going great until I dropped my socket into the door. So my 30 min project turned into an hour and 15 min.... only to find that I could have just undone the 3 screws in the bottom of the mirror hinge, and done a partial swap.
It literally took me more time to find the right size star head screw driver than it would have taken to swap the mirror.....

Thanks for reading my humble ramblings guys! I hope this week goes swiftly so we can all spend more time with our projects !!!

[joe231]

Yeah
Squarebanks sucks!!

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[KroAutomotiveInc]

that pic is amazing i would love living there

[57truckguy]

Yea I'm with Max... There is a street out there... LOL

[b2948kevin]

Wow, great work McMurphy! It takes a lot of motivation to get those panels replaced, but it sure feels good when they get there. I still have the passenger side to do on mine...

You got some good advice on hanging the door and checking for fit. I had to do a lot of fitting to get things even close and I still feel like they are off a bit. Moral of the story: take your time and test fit the doors a bunch.

Also, I had issues with my doors rubbing the outer rocker. I put some masking tape in the areas that I suspected and then confirmed where they were rubbing by noticing damage to the masking tape where it was touching. Hopefully you don't need to do this, but it may come in handy.

Good to hear you're surviving in the great white north

[Chad215]

Wow-that is a great picture-I would love to be able to see that in person some day. Not a lot of snow in Houston.

I know it sounds corny, but at least you're able to see things like that. I know you're military so I'm assuming Alaska isn't permanent. I consider myself lucky to have traveled to europe with the Army, and been able to see and experience different cultures.

I'm sure that cold is hard though. I'm in Houston-I don't think we've gotten below freezing at all this year. I have a small propane camping heater that I turn on in my garage so I can go work in my shorts and a t-shirt.