My '95 RCLB C1500

[Canadian Rust Bucket]

Both my trucks are regular cab, so I haven't wanted a sub box, but I like that design. It still has storage space. I might have to duplicate that for Roscoe.

This box is 53" long, 14 1/2" tall, 2 3/4" deep at the top and 6 1/2" deep at the bottom.
Any taller or deeper and it hits the seat back at the top. It fits a 10" sub in a ported box.

If you build one, I'd weld something up for the shelving portion. This box is fiberglass so the material is fairly thin. If you switch to wood you lose a lot of the storage space.

 

[Erik the Awful]

Awesome! I saved the pic and specs to my build folder for Roscoe.

 

[Canadian Rust Bucket]

The template worked for me, and after a lot of measuring and checking with the protractor, I built the box and checked it for the fit.

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Like a glove!

My box is a little smaller than the original to give me a little more storage space on the driver's side and to accomodate the amplifier mount over the right rear cab mount.

Because I made it out of plywood, the box's internal dimensions are smaller than the fiberglass. This caused some grief with the driver magnet making contact with the rear of the box.

To fix this, I put some grease on the magnet and put it into the hole, wherever the grease was left on the plywood I cut it back until no more grease made contact, then took an additional 1/4" for better clearance.

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The speaker sits in the box nicely. Despite being as old as the truck, the speaker and amp still work and I'll keep them in until they fail.
I'm very happy with the sound system after four hours of testing it while I worked on the interior trim.

Since I'm recolouring the interior to black from the original blue every piece of plastic and carpet has to be dyed. I got out the rear trim for woofer fitment checks, and since I had it in hand decided to colour it.

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Washed, scrubbed, sanded, then washed again.

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Gloss black to match the dash, two coats per piece.

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Washed, scrubbed, and steam cleaned. Drying for at least a day before I paint. When I did the door panels I found the carpet retained a lot of water.

Not bad for a few hours after a shift, I think.

 

[Erik the Awful]

Sanding's unnecessary. I scrubbed my interior bits with Barkeep's Friend or Comet, rinsed them thoroughly, and shot them with paint. It holds up exceptionally well.

For painting the carpet, once it's dry paint it spraying all in one direction and comb it. If I remember right, I used a dog grooming brush with the fine wire bristles. Once it's dry spray in another direction and comb it. You're going to need three or four coats. I used more cans of color on the carpet than the rest of the interior, and I still have to touch up the driver's side floor once a year.

 

[Canadian Rust Bucket]

Sanding's unnecessary. I scrubbed my interior bits with Barkeep's Friend or Comet, rinsed them thoroughly, and shot them with paint. It holds up exceptionally well.

For painting the carpet, once it's dry paint it spraying all in one direction and comb it. If I remember right, I used a dog grooming brush with the fine wire bristles. Once it's dry spray in another direction and comb it. You're going to need three or four coats. I used more cans of color on the carpet than the rest of the interior, and I still have to touch up the driver's side floor once a year.

Thanks for the advice! With any luck I won't have to touch this carpet again since it goes across the back wall and won't see any foot traffic.

I sand the plastic more out of an abundance of caution than necessity. With this textured stuff the paint seems to stick well but on smoother spots, like around the dash cupholder above the glove box adhesion was poor when I first did it. Could also be user error, not clean enough, etc.