and so it begins

[lrall]

Well, for those of you who didnt see my thread on the 48 chevy truck im restomoding, here is an update. Instead of buyin the Mustang II front suspension, were going to drop the '48 body onto his '85 gmc s10 chassis. The kit we are buying is 1095 from http://www.ad-engineering.com/, its probably the sickest kit ive seen in a LONG LONG time. This will save us tons of money, originally to put the Mustang II IFS in it was gonna be close to 4 grand just for suspension. The cool part about this, for me at least, is that i will be doing the entire thing by myself for the most part. It will be my project at the HS. For being 17 and starting a project like this is incredible, i cant wait to get 'er running. I will be building a 350 and using an auto trans. onto a couple pics

this body(chitty pic i know)
onto this frame...my gpa loves this truck, it will be TONS better after the 48 body is on

 

[Danimal]

That's pretty neat. I'm excited to see it work out, keep us updated with some pics every now and then, eh?

-Dan

 

[Mr. OAM]

Pretty ambitious project for someone so young. Congrats for taking on the challenge. My daughter's boyfriend has the same truck, I think, the '48.

Steve

 

[lrall]

well i did help a buddy of mine do a cordoba front end swap on his 46 ford, along w/ engine work and get that running and driving. So im not goin into it blind, but itll kick me in the pants im sure. Best part is, my gpa is funding it. I like to work and im being 'forced' to enjoy life and the auto industry...which is great

 

[Matt94GT]

sounds like quite a project, should be pretty awesome when shes all done. keep us updated!

 

[scarface]

man, thats a great project. I cant wait to see updates.

 

[lrall]

all i did today was steam the bejesus out of it, tomorrow starts the fun....tearin it down > oh, an dwe get to use air tools hehe :angel: should be a fun time

 

[lrall]

well, I got the box off today, along with the hood and a couple front clip things. The box turned out to be a pain. Could hardly get the impact on, but when i did it didnt have the juice to get em off. So i took a breaker bar to em. It felt good to get it off. Tomorrow will be the front clip, fenders, lights, grill, maybe cab if we get around to it.

 

[95KBGT]

looks good man, i tell ya when my father and i did my 55 it tok us 4 years to actually complete and enjoy and technically its still not done.

Thats prob a smart move with the s-10 chassis seeing as there are tons of aftermarket parts to get those things on the ground.

 

[lrall]

yea, $1100 for a 48 truck on an s10 chassis is a steal of a deal. We were lookin at like 4 grand just to get the thing rolling the other way and this way 4 grand will get it close to done

 

[lrall]

Updates for those that care, its kinda slow, but yet fast. The fenders had something like 20 bolts in them a piece, and i learned why 'J clips' are referred to as jesus clips now....the damn thing kept spinning. We finally got it out, then the fenders came off, with a little persuasion of course. I busted open 2 of my knuckles today, im sure that is just the start. Slowly but surely its coming. Radiator and such is tomorrow.

 

[scarface]

its not a good project without a lil blood shed

 

[lrall]

^^^ thats for sure, i really wanted to take that bumper off when i hit it haha, or take the torch to it. I couldnt believe how many sharp pokey things there were. Im having so much fun its almost sad. Couldnt ask for more in my senior year of HS :dancing6: (project wise)

 

[Lightning Struck]

its not a good project without a lil blood shed

yea gotta have the scar's to go along with the work, I like this project keep posting pics of your progress O0

 

[gt96stang]

Hell yeah, that's badass... I wish my H.S. had something like that when I attended it... But we we're really not that large of a school so eh, whatever cheap bastards :hammer:

 

[lrall]

haha yea, its nice, the kids really dont know what they have here. Sorry no pics today,got the radiator and random things off, cab is tomorrow along wiht starting on takin the motor/trans out. Im in a bit of a mood cuz my mom is havin a fit about how much 'car stuff' i do, shes worried my academics will fail. Im doing great so far, Shes worried cars will take over my life and ill become some $10 an hour mechanic, which isnt what ive always wanted...but whatever, im still planning on engineering

 

[Anrev]

Sweet project man. Have fun with it.

 

[lrall]

Update pics, got the cab off today, obviously. You wouldnt believe how much of a pain the E-brake cable was. When i was takin off one of the cab mounts it started spinning, but its basically a big screw. I guess it rusted at the end and wouldnt come out. We just lifted it over the mount haha

 

[lrall]

I then torched and ground off the body mounts makin the frame all smoothy smooth

These next couple you can see the frame prep we did, "marine ready" to get rid of the oil and grease then "metal ready" to help it bite into the rust, the white residue you see is zinc that promotes adhesion

TIG welded on by my autos teach...stack 'o dimes

theeeeeen, we threw some paint on....HUGE difference, even painted the spings and spindles n such

 

[lrall]

Ive also got one shock and one strut bar 'rod' in. Along with the spindles and spings. Basically brakes and shes done