Project: Gay little white truck

[MMMills89]

I bought the truck back in late January and startd working on it a couple months ago. It is a 4 cylinder 5 speed with 206k miles and has a 5/6 drop done by the last owner and has zq8 wheels. I haven't made a whole lot of progress because I've been busy. My plans are to do all the body work and fix all the rust and then paint it most likely not white again. Then i plan on doing either a 6.0 swap or a free 350 swap lol. Ok here's some pics of the progress I've made so far.



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Here's the craigslist ad


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After i took off the pinstripe and debadged it


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The replacement tailgate i bought because the one on it had a huge dent


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you can kinda see the dented tailgate in this pic


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This is my first rust removal project


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took the bed off


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started cutting


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all cut out


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my new welder i'll be using


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mocking up the replacement panel


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tacking it in

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welding it all in


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grinding it all down


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ground all smooth


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all my body work supplies


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all sanded smooth


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primer applied


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Also decided to undercoat the frame since the bed was off
before:

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after:

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bed all back on

Thats all the progress I've made so far next i'll be fixing a couple other little rust spots and finishing up the replacement tail gate because it had a little rust and a couple dents. I also might be shaving the door handles and putting in poppers but not sure yet. Thanks for looking any comments or suggestions will be appreciated.

[Dr.pRymer]

good progress so far

[MMMills89]

Hey thanks it's coming along I'm thinking about painting it a charcoal color haven't seen one that color yet

[Stewzer55]

Going to be an interesting project, subbed.

[MMMills89]

Does anyone have any preferences on door poppers? Whether or not to go with it, any brands people prefer or anything I'm still undecided and trying to way the pros and cons I want the truck painted in a couple months so I need to get all my ideas sorted out... thanks for any suggestions guys

[BrandonR]

AVS.
good progress!

[gunther19820]

good progress, cab corner came out great. Just finished doing my DS cab corner, hope it comes out as straight as yours did

[MMMills89]

Yeah I was thinking I'll prolly go with the avs ones I just wasn't sure if it was worth it but I like the shaved handles so I will prolly do that but I'm saving for the roll pan first.... And thanks on the cab corner it took about 5 hours, most of which was fitting it up because I wanted it really tight for the weld, and it really didn't take a lot of bondo to straighten it out it went pretty smooth that was the only panel that needed replaced that u can visibly see I'm hoping not to hit any other ones when I'm fixing the other dings and stuff though... I'm going to try and get the cab straightened and primed this weekend too I'll post more pics if I get it

[mattmac2007]

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[MMMills89]

My buddy had to upload pics for me I use my phone and don't have Internet at my apartment yet but basically I was going to start and just do one bed side this weekend... Well I got carried away lol. Right when I started grinding on the lower box side I found bondo aparently the trucks been in a wreck before the lower box and cab corner still have dents I'll just have to redo that and there's a lot of dings in the truck as u can see... I borrowed my buddies nail welder it's a harbor freight one and works just as well as our snap on one at work pretty sad lol. I decided since I have to primer the whole truck for the dents it'd be a good time to make my own filler plates and weld them in over my door handles... I don't have poppers yet so I rigged a wire out the bottom of the door it works for the temporary purpose it's being used for and there's a pick of my large amount of clearance going into the garage lol

[slammedyota91]

Looking good, Good to see someone doing body work during pics are the ones that tell the story Good job so far!

[Stewzer55]

Body work looking good!

[MMMills89]

Thanks guys there's plenty left to do that's for sure I'm going to weld the other handle filler plate in tomorrow then dyna glass the welds and get moving on the dents hopefully have it in primer in a couple weeks taking the day off today though spending some time with the kid and girlfriend lol

[MMMills89]

Has anyone used these avs bear claw latches door popper combo? http://www.avsontheweb.com/product.p...cat=579&page=1
If I'm not mistaken most people go with these? http://www.avsontheweb.com/product.p...137&bestseller
I was just curious cuz my driver side latch is kind of worn and thinking of spending the extra 20 bucks or whatever and wondering if anyones used them and how they worked and if there any harder to install? Thanks for any input

[MMMills89]

today i got the passenger door filler plate welded in but had to stop.


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in action welding.


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all tacked in place


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almost done.


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all done have to grind it tomorrow

[Nitemare]

Sick bro

[dJcHiKo]

look at this sick lil gay ass mudaf#%ka!
keep up the work

[mattmac2007]

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[MMMills89]

I got my driver door dynaglassed and bondo'd I forgot to take a picture of the dyna glass but it's under there lol... I bondo'd a bigger section then u might think u have to but I had a lot of little dings there and if u try to fix them all separately it'll be one big wave and no one wants that so I had to brake out the long board to sand today and I fixed one random dent on the bed because I had some extra bondo when I mixed it up and no ones likes to be wasteful. I might have got more done but I had to cut my buddy's u bolts and help him a little on his bravada he lowered at my house today too... That's who uploads my pics for me... I've got my other door ready for dyna glass and I'm going to have to take the bondo out a little farther on that door there's even more dents and dings in that one but it's better then a wavy door... I'm pretty happy with how it's all coming out for my first shaved door handles and all.

[Tuckin15's]

looking good damn fine body work!

[MMMills89]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tuckin15's

looking good damn fine body work!

Thanks it's coming out pretty good I'm happy so far but so many hours of blocking left lol... I tried checkin your truck out and that page but I'm not up with the times and don't have Facebook lol

[MMMills89]

I don't know if anyone would be interested but I still have that tonneau cover that came on my truck it needs a new handle but it's 25 bucks at a truck place here locally and I'd be willing to give the thing away if someone came and got it it's in my parents back yard and my dad loves his yard so he's getting impatient about it lol...

[Tuckin15's]

http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f213/2...xt-cab-492394/

There is a link to a thread.

[MMMills89]

Thanks for the link I checked it out that's a nice truck... So I went to the garage today with every intention of at least getting my driver door finished and I had to stop and go get some more 36 grit sand paper, Like sanding with gravel, and completly lost motivation after that and just watched/ assisted my buddy do his end links and rip his e brake off because it decided to lock up on him on his bravada. So I didn't make much progress I still have one small low spot in the top right corner of the door and I got the passenger door dyna glassed I'll take pictures tomorrow I'm goin to work on it after I do my u joints in my drive shaft on the cummins and put my front drive shaft back in so I'll update with pics again tomorrow... I know the pics are kind of boring yet but this is the most interesting part to me personally to see it take it's shape... Sorry bought the long post here guess I felt like talking lol

[mattmac2007]

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[MMMills89]

I got the bondo all shaped out right now and got the door sanded and feathered out ready for some poly. I put a yard stick up there to show it's nice and straight I got the dyna glass on the passenger door I usually just grind the dyna glass down because it's so hard to sand even if u get on it right away so that first thin coat will get ground down for sure then I'll get to that door she's coming along nicely I got a dent on the box fixed too I mixed up extra bondo so I just decided to fix one of the other ones that needed bondo'd too

[mattmac2007]

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[MMMills89]

That's a dodge polara 500 I got to fix the right quarter on he hit something it put a big guage about a foot and half down it I had to fix it's a really long car so I'm glad it was only a little pushed in but it was right on the lower body line u see. but just thought I'd share it's a rare unique car u don't see much... Haven't done much to the s10 I've been paintin a house in my free time for some extra money hoping to get moving on it this weekend again though

[mattmac2007]

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[MMMills89]

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I haven't updated in a while I've been busy with other things but I got quite a bit more done with the truck and I had my boss order me a gm rollpan I like it a lot more then the aftermarket ones personally it looks more like it belongs there and I noticed all the holes are already marked out for u on the bed kind of nice too. I'll have to get some more shots of what else is done I know it's slow going and boring but it's going to be getting primed soon then it will move faster... I shot a color I had custom mixed because I'm trying to decide on color and how to make it do what I want but I'm apparently not a tinter so anyone that can help with that feel free to chime in lol

[MMMills89]

Does anyone know what bolts the factor rollpan used I know all the holes are predrilled but I want to use somewhat stock bolts I don't just want to zip sheet metal screws or self tappers in there?...

[MMMills89]

its been quite a while i got side tracked and broke my thumb putting a lift on a jeep so I had to put the s10 on hold for a while which was fine cuz it was like 100 degrees everyday for a while... but ive been back working on it for a while and its just about ready for primer... now for the pics

All sanded and ready for poly:

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The cab corner and lower box side had pre-existing bondo that I ground out and redid.

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The drivers door needs one more skim coat of poly and it's done.

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Passenger door still needs some work.

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Starting to poly the passenger side of the bed.

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Passenger side all in poly.

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Drivers side in poly.

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Top half of the drivers side of the bed all sanded.

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Top half of the passenger side is sanded but still has a few low spots.

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The passenger side of the bed is nice and straight now.

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The back side of the drivers door was a little low so i skim coated it again. So just need to sand it again and it should be done.

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I was looking at my paint code today and I told my buddy Matt that he had to remember it and he noticed it had a ZQ8 rpo code that's pretty exciting.

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I wanted to poly prime the whole truck to get it as straight as I possibly can. I want to have it in primer within next couple weeks. They recommend going over that primer with a good high build primer so that will be the next step after the poly primer.
Here's a pic of the poly primer.

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sorry about the long post and a million pictures but people usually like pictures... i think lol... but im going to attempt to have it in primer in two weeks or so i dont get to work on it that often i have my kid a lot so im limited to nights on certain days but im going to reprime the truck in white after its all blocked out even though you dont actually have to prime over this poly primer. i also ordered my door poppers this week so those will be going in very soon also. thanks for looking guys any comments or even criticism is welcomed... the truck was pretty dented and dinged up just trying to bring it back to life lol

[BlazerZR5]

That is awesome!! very cool so far.

[MMMills89]

thanks i appreciate it not a lot of people seem to be into this big of a project i suppose i dont get a lot of comments lol but i wish i could find some of those rust free parts your always talking about

[tytotheler92]

the only projects that get any real traffic on this site are bagged and body dropped trucks. Otherwise theres not alot of traffic.

The body work looks great! Looking good.

[MMMills89]

tell that to blazer zr5 and his thread lol i need to find a lizard in my yard... but thanks i appreciate ive got some serious hours in this thing hopefully its worth it in the end

[tytotheler92]

haha blazerzr5 gets about maybe 10 people that keep coming back. its just how it works on this site. we are not awesome enough. lol.

[MMMills89]

all good though im not doing it for comments i guess. just trying to share it with some people who have a common interest and maybe steal some of there knowledge lol

[BlazerZR5]

Quote: Originally Posted by MMMills89

thanks i appreciate it not a lot of people seem to be into this big of a project i suppose i dont get a lot of comments lol but i wish i could find some of those rust free parts your always talking about

^I didn't at first either.people look,I looked at this before.your fixing the truck right and it's impressive.Id love to have you go over a few of my trucks.make them bitches lazer straight.

As for the rust free parts........move.

[MMMills89]

Quote: Originally Posted by BlazerZR5

^I didn't at first either.people look,I looked at this before.your fixing the truck right and it's impressive.Id love to have you go over a few of my trucks.make them bitches lazer straight.

As for the rust free parts........move.

thanks and i dont know about lazer straight but i do my best lol and i would love to move i even had an awesome job opp once in florida but cant do stuff like that because my kids here... cant leave him lol but i still think its the random animals drawing them all back in

[BlazerZR5]

^could be,lol.

[pwtr02ss]

I think your making great progress on the truck and I like the fact that you are using very good products and doing the work they way it is suppose to be done. I do body work on the side from time to time and its amazing how many do it with cheap products and just plain sloppy. Good luck on the project and your doing great!

[10below]

i think you are doing a great job, just cause we are not posting dosent mean we are not watching.

[MMMills89]

Hey thanks guys and I guess your right people do look at it... I had to order more poly what was left of mine isn't enough to go over that passenger door one final time so I have to wait till it comes in on Wednesday to get back out there but I'm hoping primer during next week or that weekend so it's getting to the exciting point lol thanks for the positive words the truck won't be a show stopper but I'm hoping it will turn some heads there's not a lot of nice s10s around here

[Nitemare]

lets see it in primer!

[MMMills89]

Haha nice that's what I'm saying it'd go a lot faster if my air compressor wasn't such a pansy lol I have to stop a lot and wait for it I can't believe it still works at all lol.... I still can't believe no ones noticed or said anything about the Crx or trans am in the back round of the pics yet usually people observe those things well lol

[BlazerZR5]

^im not a fan of tiny cars.

The trans am does perk my interests tho!!

[MMMills89]

The Crx is my brothers it's got a b16 and was turboed then he blew the head gasket and has really taken his sweet time getting it going it's sat for two years now I believe lol it's got a full cage and all set up for auto cross it was pretty nice... The trans am is my dads it's an 80 turbo pace car 4.9 turbo he just got all new interior going go in this winter it was restored a few years ago I actually love that car I'm not entirely sure why though. It's pretty rare and everyone loves it lol. I stole my moms parking spot for my truck she's starting to get impatient though. On Wednesday I'll take a couple pics of the trans am for you lol

[Stewzer55]

I thought it looked like a Turbo T/A from the wheels. From all I have seen, those turbo 301's are interesting, but tricky to make more than stock power.

[MMMills89]

yeah definitly is an interesting set up and ive researched them a little but not much my dad doesnt want to touch the motor other then a posible stock rebuild its all number matching and all that jazz... there pretty rare so i guess i dont blame him