Next step was the box of the truck. I did the easy stuff first sanding and painting the bed floor underneath and above. mixed trimclad. (I believe you Americans call it rustoelum) and acrylic enamel hardner and brushed it on. The bed floor has a Duraliner in it and underneath will be undercoated once the build is done. The hardner was a amazing addition to the trimclad it was dry to the touch In hours and I even think it helped the paint flow out on the floor
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Now come a big chunk of time that I don't have great photo documentation. I installed wheel arch trim. Fixed most of the dents as best as I could with I had installed the fuel tank with a new o ring and sending unit lock. Started running a 3/8ths aluminum fuel line
Another big part is me saving up money for some expensive parts and looking for parts that are hard to come by.
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Found out ac Delco was the only supplier for backing plates for these trucks. Bought 2 new ones. Basically everything for the drum breaks except the drums themselves. Often wonder if a disc brake swap would've been cheaper. Installed new axle seals while I was in there
I ordered wheel cylinders for a 1 ton dually and I'm going to order front calipers for the 2500hd/3500. I have hydroboost on the cab so I should be fine.
Nows as good a time as ever to mention the interior. theres a few things that I'm changing in the interior I've been slowly collecting the parts to do it.
I had to find a Silverado steering wheel (leather wrapped) and the rest center chevy horn button. Because the wheel in the truck wasn't mu style. Neither is the gauge cluster but il talk more on that in a bit.
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The gauges where the oem radio would've been are ok and same with the bigass tach but the gauge cluster and steering wheel had to go.
While In a local junkyard I noticed a truck had a consle for behind the seat that held the jack and stuff. I grabbed that and maybe paid like 26$ for "odd trim pieces" or something but I'm missing the lid picture shown.
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The truck has a lovely silverado trim bench seat. But I really wanted low back buckets and a console.
Thanks to what I've read on the forum the seat Mounts are different from a regular cab to a extended,crew,suburb,blazer.
So I patiently waited for a set to come for sale on Facebook marketplace. Ended up finding a fella parting a regular cab truck out that had a set only problems were the seats were cheyanne trim or w/t and there was a few tears but at the price I paid I bought it for the console and the seat brackets
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I had a rear seat out of a Silverado ext cab and I stripped the fabric off it along with the fabric on the buckets. Hopefully a upholstery shop can make me some Silverado buckets out of the fabric.