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Pulled the truck out today! It's coming home Friday.
So there's good and there's bad news. The good news is that the frame is solid. The transmission is still full of good looking fluid and isn't siezed up. The truck has a 390 in it. The driveshaft and diff were both unharmed and look to be in good condition.
The bad news is that the cab floors are BAD. I they are falling apart as I touch them, the only solid places are the roof, A-C Pillars, firewall, and the rear of the cab. However, unless someone is in Ohio, West Virginia, PA or Indiana and wants to sell me their extended cab, just the cab, I'll be rebuilding it. The doors are saveable, the hood is scrap, the bed is scrap. The carb is missing, but I have a 650 cfm Edelbrock 4 barrel on the way from a buddy. The engine has some... Debris... In it. I'll be pulling it apart step by step when I get it home. So I'll keep everyone posted
Sweet. I was actually wondering about this truck today. Glad to see there's some salvageable body. I had the 390 in my 75. I couldn't kill it, and i tried. Lol. Stupidity as a high school kid. It should have the C6 behind it IIRC. Strong trans. If i were you, I'd disassemble the rear end and replace the bearings/seals. They went out on mine.
She's pretty clean. Vacuumed out the intake and put the shop vac to it, everything seems good. I'm gonna dig a little deeper once it stops raining but this motor may be better than I thought. So atleast I've got solid frame and (so far) good looking motor. Trans has good looking fluid and slides through all gears, and I got rid of the drums, the drive wheel does turn the drive shaft when I move it. Updates as I move along. I'm currently in search of a somewhat solid cab, though my friend knows a guy who may have one. But if anyone sees one let me know
Have you checked the restore websites for a floor pan? Might be cheaper than another cab, and would be new sheet metal. @EcoBoostedF100 might know of some places to look. [MENTION=45175]BrowningSCrew[/MENTION] might know of a few places as well. Check out his build thread.
Last edited by Manuellabour247; 05-18-2015 at 06:04 PM.
It's pretty bad. She's rotted all through the cab. The only solid place is the hump in the center, and the firewall is rotting around the top behind the dash and the floor is almost completely gone. The stringers underneath are shot and the cab mounts are non existent. It'll probably save me time and money to get a cleaner cab, I will be restoring this if the right one for the right price doesn't show up. But as my buddy who helped me bring the truck home said. "It's not a restoration, it's a resurrection."
Just remember that the title goes with whatever cab is on the truck. That's not a mess you want to get into. And sheet metal is sheet metal. It's fixable, although it's more than I thought it was gonna be. Look at it this way, you now have "floor AC". Haha.
That is a little rough, if you can find a new cab, that would really help things along. Like manuell said though, you'll need the ownership with it.
One good thing about removing the body is it makes it SO much easier to get all the mechanical things fixed up. here's a pic of a 95 ex cab with the body off (if it loads ok) :
Obviously it will be way simpler to get your driveline, steering, suspension, exhaust and everything else just the way you want it before you set another body on top of it.
She's pretty clean. Vacuumed out the intake and put the shop vac to it, everything seems good. I'm gonna dig a little deeper once it stops raining but this motor may be better than I thought. So atleast I've got solid frame and (so far) good looking motor. Trans has good looking fluid and slides through all gears, and I got rid of the drums, the drive wheel does turn the drive shaft when I move it. Updates as I move along. I'm currently in search of a somewhat solid cab, though my friend knows a guy who may have one. But if anyone sees one let me know
Complete trucks with rust free sheet metal can be bought here for a fraction of what it will cost to fix that cab alone. There are enough challenges to restore a truck that is rust free.
You are simply wasting time and money trying to fix any of that sheet metal.
Cabs, boxes, doors, fenders, hoods are very cheap here. Anything with a pinhole or more than a minor ding gets thrown in the trash here.
I just saw a very nice straight rust free truck for under 2k a week ago.
You could spend 10k on sheet metal repair and it will never be the same again . .
You would be much further ahead to spend 5k or more for a solid body.
I figured he'd have some good places. The biggest pain would be shipping of the cabs to Ohio from the desert. But that's where the "golden boneyards" are. Lol.
I figured he'd have some good places. The biggest pain would be shipping of the cabs to Ohio from the desert. But that's where the "golden boneyards" are. Lol.
05-13-2015, 10:25 PM
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