Projects Family Affair...resurrecting an AD Chevy

I sleeved the bolt hole so as not to crush the tubing when the cab was bolted down.


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Front cab mounts installed
Swinging the cab back in place

Me bolting back cab mounts



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I don't have a pic, but the entire underside of the cab was coated with POR 15.


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You guys are doing a nice job! Great to see several generations working together.

 

My son goofing off after setting the cab

Bolting on some rollers




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Garage night

We decided to hang the doors back on so it would start looking more like a truck



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I went back and read it all again. What a great build. Thank you for sharing.

Neal

 

In this pic you can see kick panels and inner cowl installed, but lots of work left on the outer cowl and firewall

The rear is out of a '69 Mercury Montego, narrower than most people use on these trucks



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Looks great so far! Lots of hours fixing rust.

 

cool project

 

Differential was in good shape, but we replaced bearings, seals, brakes, etc.
Here's Dad bolting the rear end in for the first time.
Springs are from Chassis Engineering



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Gas tank installed

While Dad was bolting in the rear my friend Tim put a skim coat on the cab corners.



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I found this interesting repair on the tear down. Not one, but two safety pins.




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Haha - well, you can never be too safe you know!

 

What's the big deal? It's just the gas pedal....

 

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Sorry I've not updated in a while. For some reason the app wouldn't let me upload pics. I reinstalled and seems to be working.


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Here I am welding up all the extra holes in the firewall. There were 50 of 'em.




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Priming cab corners




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Firewall primed





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Nice....I feel sick everytime I look at pics of others doing the rust repairs. I am so glad I am past that part.

Are you going to try and match the paint on the corners to the og paint? I found a Rustoleum hunter green that is almost a dead ringer for the og green, so on mine I am going to use it to spray the spots I repaired and then wet sand it to try and match. I eventually want to do a rear paint job but that should get me by while hiding some of the work I did. Should be too hard to find a black that matches...

 

Such a great project.

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Yes, blended the paint. Base coat black with no clear matches the sheen well. I WILL NOT paint this truck. I want it to look like it did when I was a kid.


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Test fit of engine and fabrication of motor mounts



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Another angle

Here's how I made the motor mounts



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The seat is out of a late 80's Chevy pickup recovered in oxblood red cause that's the color it was when I was a kid. I remember my Mom making the seat cover and matching steering wheel cover for it in the 70's.



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Here's a pic of Dad behind the wheel as we're getting ready to load it up to take it to get exhaust.



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Great thread! I'm building a 54' myself. Love lookin at other peoples work


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Here's where I cut the original brake pedal mount.



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After cutting the brake pedal mount I made a template out of 1/4" plywood for the new master cylinder.

After welding the new master cylinder mount in, this is the way looks in the frame.



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