Well I'm deep into it.
This was a multi colored truck. (hood yellow, drivers door rusty, pass fender gray, top of cab red, 1 moulding on pass door, white bed and driverside fender, big @$$ rusty work bumper.)
This was driving my wife crazy and was an embarassment for my kids.
The neighbors didn't like it parked on "their" street.

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So I'm not going for a show truck, but more like a one color paint job and new components. Also changing from a straight six 3spd combo to a v8 th350 combo. If time permits I'd like to shorten the frame and maybe use a 67-68 front clip.

First I removed the bed;

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Now time to start the front clip removal.

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Wish me luck!
Dano

The 2007 truck is now my temporary daily driver.

Just because the neighbors don't like it, hasn't stopped me from parking it on the street :D


Mike

Tell them if they dont like it to come over and start wrenching! Good luck on the project man!

One of the neighbor ladies kept calling the police to tow away the "abandoned truck" on her street.

Here in the south dano we just invite our buddies over for a B-B-Q and set up lawn chairs and spittoons on the front yard.No one can have more than on strap of they're overalls connected,and coon dogs is welcome.After a couple of those kind of parties the neighbors seem to think ol'trucks ain't so bad.

I just finished a truck for a customer, so now I'm back to my truck.
The 250 engine and 3-spd tranny are out and gone to a fellow board member.
Front clip has also been removed.
Here's some pics.
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It might not seem like much, but I know every step forward counts.
Next is cleaning the garage, and getting all of the body/bed parts out of the garage, then I'll start removing everthing inside and outside of the cab.
Dano

My "neighbor" thinks he owns the street and complains if anybody parks in front of his house. I like the bib overall idea.

my neighbors leave me alone..after the last truck i had that had 14 inch cherry bombs warming up at 4am every moening to go to work,,even though i didnt need to leave that early,,they stopped complaining..then the thing to complain about was the lawn clippings in my truck from my bussiness..when they mentioned the,,i told them i could put a 4 foot box on it and leave them in there all summer..thank god they didnt make me do that..about 3 weeks is all i stand,,before the truck smeels to bad for me to be in it..lol
but anyway you making progress,,looks like you might need to clear out some more space so you can walk around it...

I will follow the build.... Good luck with all those Darn neighbors

Yeah, I don't know what it is about my garage but everything gets thrown in there. The back of the truck has a bunch of stuff on the rear frame that I have to also get rid of. Thanx for the support.
Dano

It seems you have one of the problems I have every time I do something with the truck more stuff un related to my truck appears in my garage. It multiplies. I spend more time cleaning to work than working.
good luck with it

Keep us updated bro! I'm definetly subscribing to the thread!

Good luck on the build!

This project was going nowhere fast, I didn't have a clear vision for the project. I have been angonizing whether to do a frame up resto, but the wife needs the garage back so I'm just going for getting the truck 1-color.
I already have a 70 swb and I was going to convert the lwb to a swb, but after seeing some really sweet lwb's around town I'm going to keep her a lwb. Also, after going out to the Pomona swap meet, it seemed like every truck had a 67-68 nose. I decided to keep the 69 front clip. Now I feel back on track and hope to post some progress soon, like tonite. Gonna grab some brewski's head out into the garage even though it's 100+ degrees outside, gonna get something done.
Dano

Well it was about 107 degrees when I started and now it is 94 degrees. I did manage to strip out the inside of the cab.

Took out the seat and gas tank. The PO had a camper so I have to take out about 30+ snaps from the boot around the back cab window.
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Took out the gauge cluster, headlight, wiper switch, heater control, ash tray, radio delete, wiring harnesses/fuse box etc.
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And I decided to stop for the night after scraping out the tarpad stuff on the floor of the truck when I discovered small rust through holes by the passenger kick panel. This is California cab rust damage! The horrror!
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Tomorrow night want to get a new set of springs on the truck, front and rear.
Dano

Got new stock height springs installed on Saturday night (9/1/2007), man I must've lost 5 lbs in water weight. I couldn't get them to sit right, but I learned to fasten the top of the spring first then fasten the spring bottoms second. On Tuesday I'm gonna order new rear tracking bar bushings and panhard bar bushings. While I wait for them I'll install the new front springs. Then hopefully shocks, then I'll wheel the frame out and give it a good washing.
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Plus after looking at the horrible phone pics, I'll be using a digital camera for the rest of the thread.
Dano

Any updates looks like she'll be a sweet ride that the neighbors are gonna hate because it"ll be nicer than there econo cars..

Keep up the great work! It's coming along.

Well I hit another delay in the project.
I had built a SWB/stepside for a guy who uses his truck for construction. He said the small stepside bed is not working for him. He talked me into a trade. My LWB frame/fleetbox for his SWB frame/ stepside box. I'm waiting for him to remove his cab, motor/trans, suspension and bring the frame/bed over to my place.
I guess one-color will now be a SWB stepside.
More to follow...
Dano

This is California cab rust damage! The horrror!
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Dano

OMFG! You have no idea what cab rust us! Check out the pics of MY cab and bed on my build page. A amall hole is NOTHING compared to the gaping canyons and crap I have have had to deal with in my POS!

Kidding aside, good work and I hope to see the finished project soon!

Don

I was wondering how long it would take someone to say something about my rust. Actually as I was doing some investigation, it looks like both inner and outer rockers and kick panels will need some rust repair. I have to start stripping off the paint to see the extent of the rust damage. The cab corners look OK, so I'm lucky there.
Dano

I also got my trac bar bushings and rear trailing arm bushings in the mail, so this weekend I might try to get out in the garage.