67 SWB First Build

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

I'm starting to fit all my panels finally. Curious. Are all those stock panels or do you have any new? I got a new core support and inner wheel tubs. The inners are off, gonna have to massage and manipulate to get them to fit right...

Looking good!

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Much appreciated. I had heard some nightmares about fitting aftermarket metal so I tried to keep it all stock panels. The only aftermarket I have on it are the tailgate and bed front panel. Cowl hood might be interesting trying to fit up. It came with the parts truck. Time will tell haha.

Looking forward to being out of the metal work and sanding phase of the build.

[Scurry67]

Small update.

Hung my new lmc tailgate. Awhile back I had split my tailgate in hopes of taking the bow out of it. Well I thought I had it fixed and as soon as I thought I was done, I stood it on its side and it had a slight twist in it... I suppose maybe I'll still paint it and turn it into wall art or something.

Anyways... The new tailgate seems to fit great. Passenger side gap is slightly larger than I'd like, but I'll be able to live with it I think.

Also started to fit my cowl hood. After messing with it for a day, I realized that this hood had some fitment issues. I did a search on here and I'm pretty sure it is an older cowl hood and they require some slicing and dicing to fit up... I'm thinking I'll give it a go at some point. In the mean time I'm fitting up my original hood. It fits way nicer.

[cornerstone]

Smooth bumper looks great. Thanks for posting all your progress... There's always some dude out there needing inspiration and or motivation to continue on with his project. Even though what I'm doing on my truck has been done hundreds of times already, I try to keep the pics flowing, because many times I have been the guy needing the inspiration.

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by cornerstone

Smooth bumper looks great. Thanks for posting all your progress... There's always some dude out there needing inspiration and or motivation to continue on with his project. Even though what I'm doing on my truck has been done hundreds of times already, I try to keep the pics flowing, because many times I have been the guy needing the inspiration.

Thanks for the compliment. This board has been great for inspiration for sure. Lots of cool ideas from different projects.

[Racer2172]

Nice work, great progress for a short amount of time your truck is coming along great

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by Racer2172

Nice work, great progress for a short amount of time your truck is coming along great

Much appreciated. It has been a fun ride so far!

[Scurry67]

Welp, the compressor finally called it quits. I think it's fixable but I needed a good excuse to get a bigger and better one. So I'll give it to my brother to fix and have. Compressor won't be here for a couple weeks (I hope), so not much progress going to happen I imagine until that's setup.

So for now, here's a picture of my dog getting a good feel for the bench seat that needs reupholstered.

[sfont66]

Nice progress! Keep the pics coming. A dog and his truck, what could be better!
Tell us more about the air compressor you have coming.

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by sfont66

Nice progress! Keep the pics coming. A dog and his truck, what could be better!
Tell us more about the air compressor you have coming.

thanks. looking forward to getting back at it!

[TA_C10]

That pan looks good! And doh! No tailgate access lol. I assume you mean that bottom bolt on the hinge? Yeah, let us know what you end up doing there.

Question on the gas filler stuff. Where did you get your hose?

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

That pan looks good! And doh! No tailgate access lol. I assume you mean that bottom bolt on the hinge? Yeah, let us know what you end up doing there.

Question on the gas filler stuff. Where did you get your hose?

The roll pan is pretty solid quality. Mar-K seems to have a pretty solid reputation. I purchased the hose from fillerneckSupply.com. I think the shipping was more than the hose itself.

Link:
https://www.fillernecksupply.com/1-1...sold-per-inch/

[Scurry67]

Quick update-

I think I resolved my tailgate issue. I had to notch the pan to remove the trunnion bolts. I purchased a set of trunnions from a squarebody parts truck on facebook market place tonight. Quick notch of the tailgate and a dry run produced some good results. Just a little clean up needed and will need to patch the pan back up.

[Scurry67]

Roll pan is completely burned in and the tailgate seems to be working great. Another item to check off the to-do list.

[TA_C10]

Nice, looks good. This makes me re-think my original thoughts on front roll pan WITH bumper. I think it really helps fill in the gaps. What are your plans for the front?

[May70]

This is an awesome project man. Love watching the progress.

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by May70

This is an awesome project man. Love watching the progress.

Much appreciated! I've been following your build too. You have some serious skills with the panel replacement. Lots of work!

[cornerstone]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

This makes me re-think my original thoughts on front roll pan WITH bumper. I think it really helps fill in the gaps.

You read my mind sometimes TA. I can't say that I've ever seen that mod, but It's run thorough my mind a time or two... I think having both roll pan and bumper could look incredible.

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

Nice, looks good. This makes me re-think my original thoughts on front roll pan WITH bumper. I think it really helps fill in the gaps. What are your plans for the front?

Thanks for the compliment. I'm pretty happy with the fit. Didn't take much tweaking or busy filler. The tailgate comes off and on pretty easy now too.

I purchased a front roll pan awhile back but I wasn't happy with how the fit was going to be. My dad talked me into going with the front bumper, but it'll be painted to match the truck.

If you do go front roll pan, it sounds like the two piece front pan would be a nice piece.
https://www.vannattafabrication.com/...4pc-p144963201

[TA_C10]

I watch a lot of shows. Iron Resurrection and Texas Metal are my favorites as far as the personalities but I also really like the quality that KindigIt puts out. And all 3 of these shows have badazz C10's they built. Seen em all like 2-3 times so I catch a lot of details on them, especially details they don't even mention. pause, play, rewind, pause, play LoL. Anyways, some of these guys have done this mod, roll pans front and back along with bumpers. It looks REAL clean.

KindigIt and Martins Bros both did camaro bumpers along with the roll pans(if my memory serves correct). Foose did this too pretty sure, on his white c10, youtube. He did another mod I am going to be taking advantage of on my turn signals too

We need a new sticky on this site that only hosts "cool mods" with pics that we can just scroll through skipping all the extra stuff in between normal posts lol.


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[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by TA_C10

I watch a lot of shows. Iron Resurrection and Texas Metal are my favorites as far as the personalities but I also really like the quality that KindigIt puts out. And all 3 of these shows have badazz C10's they built. Seen em all like 2-3 times so I catch a lot of details on them, especially details they don't even mention. pause, play, rewind, pause, play LoL. Anyways, some of these guys have done this mod, roll pans front and back along with bumpers. It looks REAL clean.

KindigIt and Martins Bros both did camaro bumpers along with the roll pans(if my memory serves correct). Foose did this too pretty sure, on his white c10, youtube. He did another mod I am going to be taking advantage of on my turn signals too

We need a new sticky on this site that only hosts "cool mods" with pics that we can just scroll through skipping all the extra stuff in between normal posts lol.


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Also I totally agree that it would be slick to have a page full of mods. That's probably one of the more enjoyable things I've done on my project. It's cool to look back and see all that extra time behind the helmet pay off

[Camaroguy]

I just read through your build and I like the progress you are making. Solid work on mating the bed floor sections and doing the braces before the floor was a good idea.

Keep it up.

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by Camaroguy

I just read through your build and I like the progress you are making. Solid work on mating the bed floor sections and doing the braces before the floor was a good idea.

Keep it up.

Hey thanks for the compliment. I've enjoyed following your thread, too. Your thread gave me the idea to do the bed floor in two pieces. Was a wee bit more work but I think it turned out alright.

[Scurry67]

Small update-

Installed the latches on the tailgate and it ended up shutting and lining up half decent. Just needs a little tweaking.

Also I haven't been too crazy about the reproduction front bed panel. It doesn't seem to sit close enough to the top rail. I'm going to try and salvage the original panel. It ended up not being as rusty as it looked originally. Just needs a small patch on the bottom flange. Went to town with a dolly and hammer too to take out the dings from it's previous years of abuse.

I'll swap them out and if there isn't much change, I'll just plan on selling it.

[TA_C10]

Dam that front panel is ugly lol. But that just means it's gonna look better than new by the time your done with it

My hood is uglier

[cornerstone]

I'm in the same situation with my front bed panel.... a bunch of heavy dings and dents, and I'm not going to replace it with aftermarket either. The factory steel feels like it has a lot more integrity than a re-pop. It'll be a fairly new challenge in shrinking metal for me, but its not that complicated. I had pretty good results using a torch to get it cherry red then smack the high spot with a hammer before you quench it with a wet rag.