67 SWB First Build

[Andyking1203]

The paint stripping is a painful crappy process... your door looks like mine... think I'm gonna do the wire wheel on the rest of it..

Your truck is looking good

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by Andyking1203

The paint stripping is a painful crappy process... your door looks like mine... think I'm gonna do the wire wheel on the rest of it..

Your truck is looking good

Thanks man.

That's a good call on the wire wheel. I'll be doing the same thing on mine too. Also have a plethora of old mirror holes and trim holes to fill.

Your project is coming along nice, too. The rust repair and paint stripping is very time consuming.

[Andyking1203]

Originally Posted by Scurry67

Thanks man.

That's a good call on the wire wheel. I'll be doing the same thing on mine too. Also have a plethora of old mirror holes and trim holes to fill.

Your project is coming along nice, too. The rust repair and paint stripping is very time consuming.

I'm gonna fill the door lock holes on mine eventually.. and I think that's about it.. rust repair hasn't been that hard so far... (still have a lot to do!!!),

Thanks, this is my first time doing this major of a project as well...

[Scurry67]

Finished stripping the passenger door outer skin. Will run the DA over it before I epoxy prime. Started filling the trim holes in the door as well as the badge holes. There were also some small dents that the previous owner just used filler over. I used the stud gun to start working them out. Still a little more to do, as well as old mirror holes to fill.

Last night I used some body filler on the dash. Still a little more to go over.

I'm trying to decide on which suspension kit to go with. Really looking hard between the ridetech street grip kit and the QA1 coilovers kit. If anyone has any opinion on either, it'd be great to hear. I'm gearing up to start accumulating parts for the chassis.

Al

[Scurry67]

Spent the evening in the shop tonight while the lady was out of town. Had a good night out there with the body work on the roof and passenger door. Need to touch up that body line on the back of the cab better. I removed the dents in the door from the PO. Also nearly have all the paint stripped off the door. All those tight grooves are tough to get to.

Goal this weekend is to get the door, driver fender and tailgate in primer.

Cheers

Al

[raggedjim]

Nice progress. Where did you get the shrinking tip for the stud gun? I have a cheap HF gun and have oil can dent on my bedside.

Rg

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by raggedjim

Nice progress. Where did you get the shrinking tip for the stud gun? I have a cheap HF gun and have oil can dent on my bedside.

Rg

Thanks.

I got the shrink tip from my dad who owns an auto parts and paint supply store back home. He has really helped me get my tool arsenal put together. I'm sure your local auto parts store has them, or last resort you can get them on Amazon.

[Redneck Rydes]

Nothing like a cup of Jack to get the job done, looking good!

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by Redneck Rydes

Nothing like a cup of Jack to get the job done, looking good!

Nothing like a stiff cocktail on a Saturday night!

[Scurry67]

Didn't quite get everything done this weekend like I wanted to, but did make some progress. Finished stripping the passenger door and the driver fender. This afternoon I was able to get some 2k epoxy primer on the fender and door. Ran out of time to get the tailgate. Will try to get it next weekend.

Cheers

Al

[zicc1835]

Nice progress I’ll jump in for a ride if you don’t mind ����

[Scurry67]

Man it seems like I've been putting in the time but not much to show for it. I've been continuing with the paint stripping on the tailgate. The tailgate was pretty abused back in the day and there are quite a few little dings that have some surface rust in them. Trying to get in all of those little spots has been time consuming. Also I have been pulling the larger dings out with my stud gun. I'm half tempted to cut it open if it continues to be a pain.

While the air compressor is reloading for the DA on the tailgate I've been working on the grill trim. There were some small dents and it was sightly bent in a few locations. Used a hammer and some punches to work out those defects.

[Scurry67]

Last night I was continuing on stripping the paint from the tailgate and pulling some of the small dents when I made a discovery. It looks like the tailgate has a pretty large bow in it...

At this point I'm not sure it's worth my time trying to fix that, as well as clean up all of the dents. I'm leaning towards buying a new tailgate. Anyone have any thoughts or advice? I didn't take a very good photo. I would say it's close to 3/8" - 1/2" bowed at the middle of the bottom of the tailgate.

While pondering that decision I decided to switch gears. I temporarily installed the driver front fender to see the fit with the door. That revealed some additional bodywork I needed to do to the door. I'm pretty sure this door used to have the large camper style mirror and at someone it was side swiped because there was some damage where it attached to the door skin. So I'll start working those dents out this weekend.

Al

[SIXTY9]

I got mine thru Nsane Hotrodz 856-761-0460, Great service and easy to deal with. I got the one that is plain.

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by SIXTY9

I got mine thru Nsane Hotrodz 856-761-0460, Great service and easy to deal with. I got the one that is plain.

Thanks. I'll have to look into them. Hoping if I go the route of a new tailgate that it's a quality product.

[Andyking1203]

Maybe search ebay or the for sale section on here.. shipping might cost a bit.. but it would be original

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by Andyking1203

Maybe search ebay or the for sale section on here.. shipping might cost a bit.. but it would be original

Yeah that is probably the route I'll go. It would have been a cool patina tailgate, but unfortunately that's not the route I'm going. Fingers crossed I can find something local.

[Andyking1203]

Originally Posted by Scurry67

Yeah that is probably the route I'll go. It would have been a cool patina tailgate, but unfortunately that's not the route I'm going. Fingers crossed I can find something local.

Craigslist or Facebook for local I guess... good luck.. I got luck on mine..

[Scurry67]

My dad came up for the day to give me a hand with some of the bodywork. We started putting some glaze on the fender and cab. Things are starting to look and feel pretty dang straight!

Also used my little sandblaster gun to clean up backside of the grill trim. Worked pretty good.

Will continue on the bodywork for the cab and body panels for the time being.

Also ordered a new Boyd fuel tank for the rear of the truck. Will slowly start accumulating parts for the chassis. I'm feeling pretty good about having the cab and body panels in primer by middle of spring

[TA_C10]

Looking good man. I hope to have mine pretty ready for paint by then too... I'm off for a few weeks so that helps but your looking like your going to hit your timeframe no problem.

Are you building a DD or a trailer queen?

[Andyking1203]

Could just remove/sand the rust and then paint it...

[a.c.ward]

when doing our builds, we prep as if for paint, Direct To Metal (DTM) primer, then color match exterior paint with Raptor Liner.

The picture shows the underside of the hood and the front fenders, but we do the bottom of the cab, underside of bed, underside front fenders, and wheel tubs in the back the same way.

[Scurry67]

Spent a few hours in the shop this weekend. Used that time to finish sanding the passenger fender. Something about sanding makes progress seem so slow... Going to start on the body filler for the passenger door this week. Once I get the doors all sanded I'll get ready to spray some high build. Giddy up!

Al

[Scurry67]

Well I started sanding on the passenger door. It went pretty smooth for the most part, just time consuming. Today I decided to swap out driver side doors. The one I had planned on using just seemed to be a bit too much work and it also didn't match the passenger door, as I think it is a '72 door with the extra screw hole by the wing window. So instead I started stripping the paint on another driver door I had. I played around with fitting it and I think it should work pretty good. I'll continue stripping it then hang the matching fender and start body fill filler. I figure this will help me with my panel gaps.

[TA_C10]

Scurry nice progress! Looking good. I'm dreading all the paint prep I have coming...

Originally Posted by a.c.ward

when doing our builds, we prep as if for paint, Direct To Metal (DTM) primer, then color match exterior paint with Raptor Liner.

The picture shows the underside of the hood and the front fenders, but we do the bottom of the cab, underside of bed, underside front fenders, and wheel tubs in the back the same way.

AC Ward, seeing your hood advice makes me wonder do you fill the gaps between the hood skin and the supports? What do you put in there to both level it nicely and also stop the wobble? Someone mentioned to me a while back about this and sure enough I looked at my hood and it wobbles like crazy and he said use the black window sealer they use on modern windshields. Said I could level it first with paint sticks while putting that sealer between the skin and supports.

Thanks.