'69 stepside

[killakobra]

deceided to take some pictures of the rust area's and some of the mod's i've made to the body.






both drivers door



yay, good factory paint! too bad it's not visible when it's all together...



could use a new radiator support.



recapped tire and cab mount

other cab mount.



fender i cut off to get rid of the rust. i plan to make a bumper that will wrap around and go under this so it won' look so high.


cab corner.... yea i know it's bad.


this is all i have the patience for right now. i'll get some more later.

[SteveC]

cab mounts are rusted as well... that can make your doors open hard and creak as well as make the hood be a pain to open

[killakobra]

one side don't close right but that's because the pins had worked loose and the door would fall off if you opened it. just havn't gotten it aligned right yet.

[72stepside]

You got a pic of the whole truck?

[killakobra]

i need to take a decent one. i may even be able to get a video of it movie around. may be later today or tomorrow since my camera takes 4 AA's and is very hungry.

[killakobra]

hey guys. didn't get to move my truck because it's still a bit early to be starting it with no muffler so i just got what i could. 72stepside was asking for some full truck pics so here they are.

now, before anyone asks, the piece over the engine is what i'm going to use for my center support for my folding hood. i'll get pictures of the 2 halves later.











here you can see some of the stock state truck yellow.



if you look closly at the end of the frame you can see where we flipped the rear bed mounts to lower the bed ~6". the fron will be cut to level it
out in the future.


shot of the two front fenders. i'm probably going to replace the two tone one if i can't replace the rust. not sure about the other yet.

[killakobra]

just doing a quick update, no pictures this time. decided to take one of the inner fenders off to fix some minor rust and found out that they don't come out unless you take off the core support. these things are worse than rubics cube X_X. so i decided to take off the wrinkled bumper but to bolts wouldn't budge. to sum this up i ended up trashing the lower valence panel but that's not a great loss, it was curled under at at the ends and warped all to **** everywhere else. i'll have some more up soon. school starts in 3 weeks and i want to get it drivable by then ...

[killakobra]

great... just went out to see if i could take another shot at the bumper and somehow the radiator is leaking now... anyone know how much a replacement should be?