rehab on the chevy

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Postby OldGreen » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:17 pm

I'm kinda starting to like that rusty pile of $h!t!!!!

Nice Job G. . .afer all the poo I've given you in the last couple of years, I really like the way the truck is coming along this time. 8)

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:59 pm

thanks jim

so far tonight i got the bed ripped off and im contemplating the boxing of the frame seems like its about 50 50 on weather to box it or not

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:41 pm

tonight guy here that im workin for in his shop gave me a 5pt harness to put into my truck (old late model race car stuff, see they have to replace every year per rules)

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:41 pm

well back of the cab is ready to be primered up may get to that tomarrow

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:42 pm

its gettin warm but i got my wisdom teeth pulled today so no painting no nothing........im just going to prime it at my place then its gunna go down to a guys house who is gunna help me paint it up nice (he paints corvettes and other nice rides)

then while my trucks there getting fancyfied were gunna order tube and hell start building his 53 cj (full tube frame airshocks, 39.5 swampers the whole shebang) and well put tube work around my truck

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:35 am

well havent really done a damn thing other than drive it up/down the driveway because i blew up a driveshaft in the DD so ive been fixing it and it need headgaskets now too :evil:

but last night i put on the full doors (reason why in a min) and fixed the heater blower no-go problem (its now got a 57 chevy blower motor) went through the truck and did up a couple odds and ends

will probly drop the bed back on the truck tonight too so itll be driveable for a few days before gettin tube/hi-steer put on it

and then i should be gettin plates today or tomarrow depending on what the dmv wants me to jump through

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:23 pm

well i found some puddy over rust holes in the bottom corner of the pass door so i cut it out and skinned it with some left over door skin from half doors. put on some fancy chrome valve covers (but found out my truck will fire up with 3 down cyl.) :roll: dang plug wires other than that just messin around in the shop nothin pic worthy

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:12 pm

i started to plate my rear section of 2x6 and gusset it on (it will be a mount for cage bumper and a pulling point, probly toss some d-ring mounts on it here soon) laid down IMO some really nice beads on it came inside to get the camera and mom has it in mertal beach so itll have to wait but part way through the first of the bottom two gussets my harbor frieght welder just took a dump been messin with it for a few hours and no go so maybe time to step up........maybe i can squeeze somethin for birthday?

ill try to find some pics of how my rear bumper will come out in the end

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:16 pm

fixed welder.....wish only one minor shock so workin on the last of the rear gussets will be tonight and i might finaly wire up rock lights

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:32 pm

well got the camera back and snapped some pics of the plates i added and d-rings
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plates ( i put the bed back on because i got it plated you can still see it some its just a 3x3 square across the frame/bumper)
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up close of the welds (too keep a harbor frieght welder from over heating just take off the cover and i use a small fan blowing on it seems to be workin awsome)
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Postby oltmann » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:59 pm

Lookin' good. 8)

I would think about putting down a couple more passes on each side of the D ring mount. Not that they look like they need it, just that it would be very exciting if they came off there during use. :shock:

But I tend to overweld :oops:

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:20 pm

thanks oltman i was wondering if i should or not....a guy here has a tig so i might get him to run the tig over it or big arc because i never trust my weldin at first i wasnt even gunna stick em on myself

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:19 pm

well i never made it to finish the body work or even paint it but ive been out wheelin and it seems to be having body to tree contact problems again so i just got done wackin the radiator core support down to the width of the frame and the driver fender is now pushed in will update more soon

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:00 am

update pics
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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:46 pm

im goin outside to cut the hood and make the hindges work and a batery tray and then maybe do somethin for headlights

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Postby oddball » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:04 pm

Classic quote, "it seems to have to have body to tree contact problems." The problem I see with most people is that they don't.

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:31 am

ok started gettin steering takin care of went and got some 1.5" solid stock yesterday cut it down and dropped it off to be bored and tapped for one ton TRE's and since my arms had 1" holes i went ahead and did some work on them
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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Sun May 04, 2008 11:32 pm

ive got my tie-rod almost on its hard makin time right now but gettin the swing of things goin again. got 52's installed on the front (way softer) should be out havin some fun before ya know it
things to do are get my 2wd box with ferd pitman arm get heim drill and tap draglink for heim

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Postby 79chevy39.5's » Thu May 29, 2008 8:56 pm

so I bootleg fabbed up a draglink drove the chevy outside and parked it next to the willys to start the major stuff then started strippin the body down hanked the bed and front clip got everything from the cab dissconected and will be takin the cab off tomarrow


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