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11-07-2017, 10:59 PM | #1 |
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Re: 73 gmc short Sierra Grande C1500
Hood and fenders mounted up!
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11-08-2017, 08:08 AM | #2 |
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That looks great ,love the color too.
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Maaan, that's gonna be gorgeous. Nice work.
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I finally got the ac condenser put together, and installed! The last time I worked on it, I was lacking sleep and after putting it together wrong 3 times, I gave up. With that in, I thought I would see how some of the shiny stuff fit. Not bad at all. I have to repaint, and spiffy up the grille a little before that goes in. I decided to go with a color matched bedliner, instead of black, but I think that will be last on the still pretty long list of things to do.
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I also tightened the tilt up, cleaned and painted, and installed the steering column. Does anybody know where that wire goes.......
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Wow! It looks amazing!
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Thank you Sir! I am enjoying watching your build, you guys are doing top notch work!
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It blows me away how much they get to rebuild the vent windows! I was nervous about trying it after reading about how difficult they are to rebuild. There are a few high end specialty tools that make the job pretty easy. A plastic pry bar, and a mini bar clamp. I'm not in a huge hurry, and it seems to take about 25 min.
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Great work! Appreciate the intel on the vent windows. I’ve been tripping over a junkyard set for my crew for two years that need a rebuild and dreading doing it.
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They were a piece of cake!
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I just drilled out the 2 rivets that hold the top of the hinge to the frame so I didn't have to mess with the hinge rivet, then used 1/8x1/8 rivets to put it back together, and they are hidden in the door. I did use the vise to clamp down on the hinge rivet to tighten it up a little. 1/8"x1/8" rivets for the post seal as well.
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Great info on the windows Jayson, they look amazing as does the rest of the truck. Mike
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What was your impression of the door panels when you popped them out of the box for the first time and put them on the truck?
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Damn! Truck is looking great!!!!
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Adam, thanks again for the NOS body panels!!!!
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Thanks guys. Mike, when I pulled the door panels out of the box I thought, wow, very thin, light, and flimsy. But they seem to fit perfectly, the woodgrain insert is metal, and very nice, so I think once they are fully installed they will be fine, a little self adhesive mass backing might go along way also. I would buy another set.
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This truck is coming together beautifully! An idea to consider on the bedliner. Difficult to color match the metallic paint because the different material and finish is going to throw the light differently. And being a gray in lieu of a "color" you will probably need to darken it up some to get it to match. What do you think of doing a non-metallic gray a couple of shades darker than the paint? It would be clearly not be the ubiquitous black, but still look purposeful. In my line of work sometimes a "near match" doesn't look nearly as good as a purposeful shift in shades.
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Your truck is looking great man! Keep at it!
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Well, I had to get the rear of the truck lowered a little before I could mount the vintage air box under the dash, you need to level it up so it drains correctly. I pulled the box back off and installed 2" shackles. Now the truck sits just how I like them, just a little higher in the rear, but not jacked up looking. Working mostly in the shop at nights, I had to take the time to fab up a box lifting jig for the engine hoist, my buddies will thank me. It turned out good, and seemed to work good! I have had this on the to-do list for awhile. I had to notch the cross member to clear the shackles while I had it up in the air. Now to finish up installing the vintage air....
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That stance is perfect!
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Looking really good! What size square tubing did you use for the attachment?
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It is 1 1/4", and the adjustable ends are 1". I used what I had leftover from building a welding cart, its pretty light tube, but it seemed to work fine.
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Thank you sir! Looks like that will be my next project.
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Looking good!!!! You didn't lift that box off that freshly painted truck by yourself did you?? Scary!! Great job Jayson.
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