My Build: Home Depot Machine

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1st coat of POR 15

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Had a few hours to put in today, tomorrow will be great progress, I should be able to devote 5 hours of labor to it.
The bed is getting rust repair and getting squared up.
The front suspension is going together.
The firewall will be installed tomorrow.
The fabricator is doing a wonderful job cleanup up the frame, filling in all unneeded holes.
Just a few pics for now.

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Today was a big day. The front end was reassembled. We got the bed rust repair tackled and will mock it up next week to the truck.
The bad news, the tires are still not perfectly centered in the wheel opening. Also the lower porterbuilt control arms dont let the truck lay full frame, like the cupped lower ones did. The suspension geometry is point on though!
This left me and the fabricator scratching out heads. What we finally decided to do is handle all the problems at once. Since we where planning on shorting the bed to cab gap and doing bumper tucks we are going to move the cab back 1" and drop the cab mounts 1/2". This way the factory bed goes back 1/2", then adjust the rear trailing arms accordingly, tighten the cab/bed gap. This will get the tires far off the firewall and perfectly dead center in the wheel opening.
It may seam like a lot of work but at this stage it is now or never. I cant wait to show the progress in the next 2 weeks as it is all forward!!

All hardware is allen bolts and stainless


Finally on it's own 2 wheels


Setting up steering rack. I think this is a good ride height, any opinions??

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Putting a little POR15 inside the frame before we box it in.


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Filled all the holes and grinding down.

[60chevyjim]

how's you truck coming along ?

[baggedbigblock]

Its doing great, Getting very serious about getting it done so I sold my other toys.
Getting frame finished and painted. Doing a frame mount brake booster. Also finishing exaust. DR Gas X pipe, and borla XR-1 and all piping is ordered. Waiting on a gas tank from Boyd Weldington.

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Finished transmission plumbing

[siggyfreud]

Looks awesome! What's going back in place of the front crossmember?

[baggedbigblock]

Thanks! its nice to get back to work on it. I will install a tubular brace right under the radiator.
The radiator is a 22x19 that sits under the front cowl. I will eliminate the hood latch and upper rad support, and use Qwik latch hood latches.