My 1st build 70 CST Project (insert cool name here)

[ewoody625]

Well I'm a little late at starting this thread as I have already started my project, but I thought why not? Better late then never right? lol. So here it is my 70 CST project.
Little background on my project. I started out with a 71 Cheyene I had wrecked and was gonna fix that. It had rust issues in the normal places, so I set out to find a cab for it. I wanted something rust free so I started looking in the south. I lived in AZ for about a year and saw some nice stuff while I was there, so I looked real hard in that area and got in contact with t korinek he had a cab I was gonna get but ended being no good (not what I was looking for anyway). Well to make a long story short, he told me about a whole truck he had for sale; sent me some pics, price was right and so I made the trip down to AZ to pick it up. Drove straight through round trip 60 hours. I will never do that again. Well its now in pieces waiting to get put back together. I'll get to the pics now lol. It's kind of a take 2 to make 1 project.
Ok not sure how to post notes under pics but anyway the first to pics are the truck before i picked it up. The next is my two trucks of course lol(when I got the new one home). The next two pics are how the truck looked a couple weekends after I had it, tear down started.

[ewoody625]

Some more pics.

Took the carpet out and started gutting the interior, pulled the gas tank; the 3rd pic is the gas that came out of that tank. It sat for just a bit huh? LOL. Then started on the front suspension. I was changing the drum brakes to the disc brakes off my 71. Had it all torn apart then was told it was easier just to swap cross members, oh well a little extra work never hurt anyone.

[ewoody625]

Pushed it out for a wash, then brought the 71 in pulled the motor and took the cross member off. Swapped cross members, swapped the 5 lug axles out of the 71 as well and put my new 2/4 drop suspension from CPP on.

[ewoody625]

Then the body work started, sanding, sanding, sanding, and more sanding lol

[ewoody625]

More sanding revealed some dents and dings but nothing major. Dash was a little rusty as well as a spot under the windshield.

[ewoody625]

I got anxious and want to some paint go on so I cleaned and preped the underside of the hood and had my dad spray it. It came out good but I don't like it, it's to glossy so I'm gonna have him spray it again with a semi gloss and see how that turns out.

[gixxerpymp]

Awesome work man... Keep us updated!

[ewoody625]

Originally Posted by gixxerpymp

Awesome work man... Keep us updated!

Thanks way more to come lol.

[ewoody625]

Time for sandblasting. I wish I could have started sandblasting sooner, its so much faster than sanding.

[samwise68]

That is an incredibly clean truck, you have your work cut out for you! It should turn out looking great - keep up the amazing work!

-Sam.

[ewoody625]

Originally Posted by samwise68

That is an incredibly clean truck, you have your work cut out for you! It should turn out looking great - keep up the amazing work!

-Sam.

Thanks, Arizona rust free can't beat it lol. It did have its issues though, it wasn't spotless but I didn't expect it to be. really looking forward to the finished product.

[ewoody625]

Well I did some work this weekend. Got the rear window out and attacked the corner full of bondo. I should have taken more pics, the bondo in that corner had to be at least 2 inches thick! Whoever had this truck before didn't understand the concept of metal working. I don't have any pics of "during" grinding all the bondo off but I think I have some before pics and of course afters. I took a before and after of the floor to show how much bondo was on that corner. Oh P.S. all those holes were under the bondo. The after pics are after some beating lol.

[ewoody625]

More bondo pics. The 1st pic is actually after griding before beating. Then before and after floor pics. We got it looking pretty good now, straightened out and what not. I'm gonna attempt to weld up the holes and tears, the metal is super thin in some places so I dont know how thats gonna work out.

[ewoody625]

I know its been awhile since my last post so heres an update... I'm coming off a weeks vacation got a lot done but not quite the results I was looking for. It seemed like it was set back after set back, but my buddy came in from Texas and helped out a bunch. The air compressor motor went out on Tuesday and was down for 3 days. Luckly my bro had just come into one he wasnt using yet so we borrowed it. Much smaller than my dads and we were working it hard, but it got the job done. So we were able to finish up the sandblasting in between the rain. 3 days and 3 new air compressor motors later we finally got the right one and got the big compressor running again. The goal was to get all the big pieces in primer, I wanted the cab in primer too but I guess that will happen in the next couple weeks. So anyway I guess I'll stop blabbing and get to the pics lol. Oh, and I finally got my right inner fender.

[Dieselwrencher]

Very nice start! This will be a nice truck very soon. What color are you going with?

[ewoody625]

Thank you. I was thinking of something like this...it wont be that low and instead of the white stripe i was thinking of a silver stripe and maybe not that wide. To answer your question though, I was told that is "chevy orange" which i guess guess is the same as hugger orange. I was given a few gallons of omaha orange which is suppose to be very close to hugger. Then black and the silver stripe, I dont have exact colors picked out for the black or silver. The 71 I wrecked was that color. It had a black roof and the rest was hugger orange, which was the factory paint scheme, so I was trying to redo that with a little customizing.

[ewoody625]

Well its been awhile since I've updated this. I haven't gotten to much acomplished since the last post, well I shouldnt say that, I've been doing a lot of mudding. But a quick update, mudding up welds and that nasty cab corner, still got some more to do. Hung the doors back on to get the body lines straight. After months of sitting bare metal I finally started getting some flash rusting going on so I cleaned it up and my dad I and sprayed the epoxy primer on it. I actually got to spray it. This was my frist time painting. I dont think i did a bad job.

[ewoody625]

Starting to work on the bed now. got it put back on the frame. I think i'm gonna have it sand blasted, but i found some rot in one of the floor supports, so im gonna cut that out and weld in a new piece.

[Dieselwrencher]

Nice progress!

[ewoody625]

thanks! still a long road ahead though, but it will get there.

[ewoody625]

ive been doing some job hunting lately so i havent had much time for the truck but i finally got the rot cut out of the bed support and the new piece welded in. im not sure if my welding has improved or if its the fact that im using a different welder but it doesnt look bad, for an amature lol. still gotta grind down the welds a little then hopefully off to the blaster within the next week. its slow progress but its better than nothing lol. no pics yet, ill try to get some.

[FRENCHBLUE72]

Looks like you are moving at a pretty good pace keep up the good work.

[ewoody625]

thanks for the kind words. i know they arent built over night, but the end just seems so far away. or maybe im just impatience

[ewoody625]

Well I got the rot cut out of the one bed floor support and welded in a new piece. My welding still leaves something to be desired, but its underneath no one will see it lol. Got it back from the sand blaster the other day. They left the sides for me to sand cause they didnt want to worp the metal. What a pain, that stuff doesnt want to come off. You can see in the one pic where I started sanding, I've got about 5 hrs into it now I think. I wish it would just magicly fall off lol. Ok heres the pics...

[ewoody625]

Well I made some progress on the bed. Hoping to get it in primer today.