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You've got some talent bumping those dents. :metal:

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Thanks, I used to work in a body shop so it's certainly not the first time I've done it lol.

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Got some more stuff done over the last week... Yanked the bed and aux tank, cut the old welded on ranch bumper off and cleaned up the rear frame rails where it was welded. The frame under the bed is in immaculate shape. No pitting and what appears to be factory paint all the way back with the exception of where the bumper was welded on. The biggest fun I've got to sort out other than the rust in the cab floor is the floating 14 bolt hack job... I'm hoping I can come across a 4:11 ho52 in the not to distant future of not I'll buy new perches and re perch and re center the 14 bolt. I don't have pics of the bed but I'll probably ditch it... If not I'll at least throw a passenger bedside at it. I also scored a nice set of straight rust free doors for $150 from my neighbor(details posted in another thread). I plan to start to clean and repaint the frame and repair cab floor pretty soon. Gonna pull the front clip over the next week or two and start thinking about rust repair. Kinda on he fence about the complete floor vs. patching the existing one. Patching will be a faster process I believe but the floor will be a cleaner build, patching is better on my budget, patching is less work, replacing is the better way to do it... Haha the thoughts of a mad man!!! Pics to follow!

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Non leaking (1/2 full of old gas and water) NL2 tank.
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I cleaned the rear horns of the frame up pretty nice but I don't have any pics of it on my phone.

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Got some more progress pics to add. Been working like a dog 60 hours a week for the last several weeks so it's a little slow right now but I should slow down in June. My little family also takes priority over the old iron... Pics to follow! I've started to order patches and I bough the seat and the bed from this truck:http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=666266
I go to pick them up next weekend. I wanted a tool box bed, who knew I'd get one in the right color and all. I'm gonna have to cut a hole in the drivers bedside for the nl2 filler however. I'm shooting for sept-oct for a running driving truck minus paint which it will get later down the line when I can afford a body shop to do it. With a booth I could pretty easily do it my self but I don't have access to one here in New Mexico like I did in Virginia, so I'll let someone else worry about it later on... Any who enough rambling haha pics incoming!

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Both cowl bottoms were cut/ bent to heck for the speakers so I cut the spot welds on both sides and straightened/ repaired them. I still need to weld them back in but they both fit nicely.
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The lower firewall on the passenger side separated from the side of the cab. I assume because the lower Seam is rusted out. At any rate I'll plug weld it back together when I put the front floor pans in. IVe decided that I'm just gonna patch this floor up. The supports are still mostly intact so I'll patch it up rather than replace it all.

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I cut the rockers off on both sides to see what was gonna need to be replaced. Not really any surprises. Both front pillar tips are surprisingly really solid with minor surface rust. The rears... Not so much I'll have to patch them.

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Cleaned the frame up. Looks to be original paint thru out! Absolutely no rust(except the surface rust on the rear horns that I havnt touched up yet. No pitting anywhere.

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I pulled everything but the gas tank,glove box door and wiring from the interior. I had to hose the whole inside of the truck out fire wall and all, the dust and dirt was so thick.
At some point the frame broke by the steering box. It's welded and plated forward of the crossmember, I guess they missed the broken rivet and tweaked crossmember. I'll fix that with a grade 8...

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Front clip off and my 3100
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Here's a shot of one of the front pillar tips. They are both Solid as a rock!
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Motor cleaned and degreased... Well sorta. Both valve covers were hand tight, wonder why it was leaking so bad???
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Are the frame side cab mounts supposed to be bent like this one is? All of mine are. I'm guessing they should be straight but wanted to make sure.
I'll update more once the patches start going in!

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When you get done this truck will be ...

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Another NM K20 !! Awesome work :)

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Subscribed, cant wait to watch this build take shape!

Hey when you get a chance can you get me the numbers off of the water pump pulley and crank pulley set for me please!

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sorry I havnt checked this thread since Monday. I'll get the part numbers tomorrow. I'm honestly not sure they are original or not.

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Thats ok, i'd still like to have them, Thanks!

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Here's the numbers you were after,
Crank: 3751232bb

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Water pump

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Thank you sir for taking the time to get the numbers for me!

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Update time! Got some treasure and swapped some parts!!!
Pics incoming!
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I hung the doors from my parts 72 cheyenne. They fit and shut decent (probably have to play with them some more in a couple weeks when the clip goes back on) They just have some very minor rust spots in the lower corners. Should be easy to fix. I've got an almost perfect set of 67-71 doors with no rust but I want it to have 72 doors so that's why I used to orange doors. I still need to replace all the glass channel and such on them but they work for mock up. I also need a drivers sof-Ray window. I acquired the nearly perfect tool box bed in dark olive poly from member otsenre. The near perfect oe olive seat came from Ernesto as well. I've got patch panels in the mail and I'm picking up a nice oe four core radiator from dirts72/vintage windmills tomorrow. Also got an alleged real nice oe black steering wheel for free.(hasn't come in the mail yet) Been aquiring parts like crazy... And I've started to put the inside back together after I hosed the dust out of it(steering column, gauges, seat, etc) hopefully a month from now it'll be rust free and nearing road ready. Shooting to be driving it by the fall. Not gonna have a Purdy paint job for another year or two but it will be road worthy so I can enjoy it with my wife and daughter for the time being.

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GMC Paul's has a high hump floor, I looked forever for one till I found him, he's a member here and says he doesn't sell junk, any posts I've seen with his parts seems to be positive. I haven't bought the floor but plan to.

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Hey Tyler nice truck certainly taking shape nicely good to see another one saved keep the pics coming

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Jeff, ya it's coming along slowly but surely. It's a whole lot easier to find decent parts out here than at home that's for sure!

Feller I should have said in here that I found the floor thru gmc Paul's website a while back but I just decided to patch what I've got instead. Thanks for the advice however!

Here's some 4 core pics:
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Well ive got a teaser pic:http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/...psyahbct1n.jpg

The fender isnt bolted down at the lower rear tip so the gap is really better than it appears in the pic.
Im going home to virginia for a few weeks at the end of the week, more pics will follow in August when I get back to New Mexico.

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Any updates Tyler?

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Actually I've been meaning to update this thread for about a month now. I've got quite a bit done. The front floor is done but I need to finish the rear still. I've rewired (with nice used oe harnesses) both the fuse block harness and the under hood harness and converted it to a 10si internally regulated alternator. I slapped the four core I got from you in and it runs pretty good considering it's not been tuned up in only heaven knows how long. I've got it to the point that it will run around my property but it is far from being back together and road ready. Mainly I need to get the rear cab body work and rust repair finished, i.e. Cab corners, rear outer cab supports and rear outer floor sections. Cold weather came to fast to get it all finished up. I took the tool box for the bed apart last weekend and the door and liner are in amazing shape. Not a spec of rust any where on the door at all. The hinges and liner are also in excellent shape. I was pretty surprised. I'll get some pictures up in the next week or so. I've got to go thru my camera and round them up.

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Glad to see your making progress.

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Updates with pictures coming to this thread this week!!! Warm weather has been here for a week or two and I'm hoping its here to stay for a while! Gonna take some pictures of the progress tomorrow!
I'm nuts deep in passenger rear cab corners, outer floor and rear floor supports. The rust is almost GONE!:chop:

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Looking forward to pics .

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Yeah, this weather has been awesome. You know we're in for the sucker punch sometime soon though... it's going to snow all March long. Maybe rain down your way. (Hopefully I'm just plain wrong.)

Looking forward to photos too!

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Tyler can you take a few pics of the side mirror mounts. I just picked up same mirrors and not sure where to mount and don't want to mess up. Pics would be awesome. Thank you. Russ

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You got it Russ. I'll get some pics tonight. I hear ya Joey. I'm just livin it up while it lasts!

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Incoming!!!!
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I'll post a better explanation soon.Ive still got a ton of grinding and metal finishing to do and the welds aren't nearly as gnarly as the camera makes a few of them look.(that's what they all say right?) The floor panels on both sides required a fair amount of tweaking as you can see, but what else is new?

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Nice K20 and great work on it so far! It's getting really hard to find a decent K20 to start with anymore!

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Thanks for the update!

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Strong work Tyler! Hope to see it in person soon.