cseby

you are doing a great job.can't believe how nice the crew cab is.but even in that shape i'm sure it's still a lot of hard work. keep the pictures coming.

brcron007

Hi, Thanks for the positive feedback. She's an automatic. So far only minor repairs are needed. I've removed all the seam sealer on all the door jamb joints, the exterior roof seam, cab corners and the roof drip rail. The interior seam sealer is in excellent shape so I won't remove any of it. It does have a dent on both sides of the cab corners from a topper, but their minor. Some holes in the firewall and a couple on the floor to weld up from an aftermarket cruise control from the gasser that was in it. The cowl has cacked on the passenger side but not the drivers side. But I'll be welding them both up to reinforce them. Sure is nice to work with a rust free body though. It really was worth the effort to drive to Arizona to get this truck!

By the way anyone that's going to mess with removing the seam sealer. After trial and error I've found that using a heat gun and craftsman tools pick tools work the best removing the old crappy stuff. I'll post pic's of the picks I use tommorrow.

DJ Turbo.

Wow you are going to have one heck of a solid ride when your done!

brcron007

Hi DJ thanks. I sure hope so. It's an 18 year face lift. So to speak.

So here's today's progress on the Crew.

The floor pan's been all sanded down and ready for primer.

brcron007

All the original paint's gone, finaly.....

gyman98

Looking really good!

brcron007

Wanted to gain access to the inside of the cowls. So the first thing I did was went to the u-pull-it and cut out some original cowls and trimmed them down for panel covers for the big holes I cut out.
This is how it turned out.



The passenger side first.

brcron007

And the drivers side. Now I have full access to clean up in the cowls and reseamseal.

DJ Turbo.

U gonna sound proof the interior and run a sick custom sound system through er since you are doing a complete resto

bryson711

Im at the same point your at with my crew, im ready to start the body work and paint, im just having a hard time gettin motivated to paint a 4 door longbed truck.:

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brcron007

Hi Bryson, Yeah it's a boatload of sheetmetal to prep isn't it.......... I'm doing more of a resto than an all out wild conversion. I like the classic look of these trucks.

My stereo is a clarion CD system that thumps pretty good but nothing exotic.

I planned on some dynomatt for the inside. But I have an idea for the oil canning of the roof that I'll be sharing in a couple of days.

brcron007

I wanted to upgrade the cargo light. Here's a couple pics of the original

brcron007

Seen it's better days.

So here's my solution. First off I wanted to add a new cSargo light but I also wanted to add a third brake light. So this is what I did.


















Watcha think ? I mounted it a littl low becaose I didn't want to cut the body line sandwich seam of the roof. I'll just trim the back slider weatherstrip to accomodate that it's a little low. I think it looks good.

bryson711

Oh ya! I have got my body work done on my bed and front 2 fenders and in the first coat of primer, lots of blocking and re primeing to go though! I have been thinking about the oil canning issue to. I was thinking about getting expanding foam and a long hose of some sort and seeing if I could fill in the layer between the 2 roof panels using the light hole in the back that you just replaced. I will be interested to see what your thinkin!

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DJ Turbo.

Just me but I think the cab light would look better turned upside down just me though haha