Grandpa’s 63 C10 build

[J Williams]

Well day 4 of my 14 day quarantine..... started out hooking up the rest of the wiring under the dash, installed glove box and heater switches. I don’t know if any of you have or had an issue with your heater valve at your heater core froze up with rust... but mine was and bad!

Looked all over on the internet and found a guy who rebuilds them. He wanted 119$ plus shipping. Not a bad price but I decided to give it a shot. Put it in a paint mixing jar and let it soak for several hours pulling it out every once in a while to run a tiny brush through every crevice I could.

After soaking and a little PB blaster it moved again. It was hanging up and I noticed an adjustment screw so I adjusted it. Works great now! Man it feels good when you run into an issue like that and you find a fix without spending $’s!

Then I started welding 12 bolt holes on the passenger door from Grandpa’s mirrors gone wild days! Then started to put some body filler on. Got some work still on the door but it’s starting to look good.
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[J Williams]

Got the first 3 coats of primer on the doors. Love how primer shows your mess ups! But better now then after paint goes on. Did a little more sanding on both doors to remove some scratches from heavier sand paper and found a good sized dent I never noticed before. Where the heck it was hiding?! But after some dent removal, little body filler and some sanding hopefully I will get the last coats of primer on them today.

Engine mounts are supposed to be here tomorrow!! Can’t wait to get the engine in!
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[LT7A]

Originally Posted by J Williams

Then I started welding 12 bolt holes on the passenger door from Grandpa’s mirrors gone wild days!
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That cracked me up and got my day started off right, thanks. Great project and you've made a lot of progress since you decided to do the paint and body work. Very cool that your son's involved. Hope that you're out of the woods soon with the covid.

[J Williams]

Originally Posted by LT7A

That cracked me up and got my day started off right, thanks. Great project and you've made a lot of progress since you decided to do the paint and body work. Very cool that your son's involved. Hope that you're out of the woods soon with the covid.

Thanks man, I appreciate the compliments. I will be honest, I am surprised every time something turns out good. All the glory goes to God. As far as the COVID I tested negative and am back at work. But our department has been slammed with it. We had 11 officers out total. Doesn’t sound like much but we have a small department.
It’s an honor to have my boy helping with the build. I laugh now because my daughter is now trying to compete with him for the truck. She always asks if I am going to work on her truck. Good to have their interest in it. Hope to get some more progress soon. Spent since Thursday up camping with the fam.
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[J Williams]

Well I have been busy between work and projects at home. I haven’t accomplished much but I finally was able to get some more body work and then lay some more paint down.

My lines on my color break are not as crisp as I would like. Any tips here would be great. For some reason my white paint bled through the tape. I am using 3M tape that is supposed to be designed for this so I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I would like to figure this out before I paint the cab with the two tone.
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