'52 Rot-box turned tire roaster.

[aLaFleur]

Fast ass progress man!

[Belvader]

ahh man, she looks beautiful dude!!

[M.Doban]

Good Lord, Jeff, that just looks so freaking boss. GOSH.

[floatingdino]

Hey, it actually looks like a functioning vehicle now! Fat as!

[HooWybrow]

We kinda ran out of material so tonight I got anxious and decided to half-ass throw the body on. It was beyond motivated, even though I haven't lost any motivation, this helped a lot. Probably going to leave it look like this for the week and tear it back down next weekend and finish the back-half.













The bed is sitting on the axle and a single jack-stand holds up the front, the front panel is bent all to rat shit so I have no idea how close the bed is to being where it's supposed to be, but it looks kinda right. There's a swap meet local to me this coming weekend, and I've found a set of southern running boards for sale that I'm picking up on the way next weekend.

Overwhelmed with how far this truck has come in the three short months we've been working on it.

[bluetweedsuit]

hahaha I'm just bugging! $80 is a wicked deal! Trucks looking great. Love that you have a bunch of pre-made tabs a plates for bagging hanging on the wall.

[HooWybrow]

you and your friends dedication to this build is bad ass please drive it around all of ontario as often as possible so i can get the chance to see it in person!

thank you!!!

My shop is in St.Agatha, like 3 minutes west of Waterloo. I work in Kitchener. We're there every weekend. Swing by sometime.

Whoa whoa whoa! I recall someone giving me crap for wanting to run on drop spindle on my truck!

"I just think it's cooler to be able to say that it's on stock spindles." - Hoowybrow

I still think it's cooler to use stock spindles. But this is the way it has to be for it to work better than just "well". I never gave you shit, either.

I can't wait to get a real tour! not too far away now

Hell yeah, man!

Y'all really have a killer shop setup. I wish mine was in as good of order, but sharing it with my dad who never picks up a tool is a bit of a killer. I can't wait for you to finish this thing though. Going to be one slick looking truck.

Also, congrats on the new debt. I really miss having a big truck.

It gets out of hand here a lot, usually it's a pretty big mess but my OCD is really bad and I'll have to clean for hours. Hahaha.

Thanks, man. This is the first big truck I'll have actually ever owned, minus the '52. I really can't wait for it to show up.

[aLaFleur]

Y'all really have a killer shop setup. I wish mine was in as good of order, but sharing it with my dad who never picks up a tool is a bit of a killer. I can't wait for you to finish this thing though. Going to be one slick looking truck.

Also, congrats on the new debt. I really miss having a big truck.

[fitted_fit]

I can't wait to get a real tour! not too far away now

[bluetweedsuit]

Whoa whoa whoa! I recall someone giving me crap for wanting to run on drop spindle on my truck!

"I just think it's cooler to be able to say that it's on stock spindles." - Hoowybrow

[MrViicc]

you and your friends dedication to this build is bad ass please drive it around all of ontario as often as possible so i can get the chance to see it in person!

thank you!!!

[HooWybrow]

Looking good buddy.
And fuck you! lol

Fuck you too, pal.

Still no tire roasting... disappointing.

Nah, but seriously looks fucking rad!

Rome wasn't built in a day. I lose a considerable amount more sleep a week due to this truck than the average person would give up.

[Kioes]

Still no tire roasting... disappointing.

Nah, but seriously looks fucking rad!

[DC Customs]

Looking good buddy.
And fuck you! lol

[HooWybrow]

I miss the 2x4...

How's your phone?

awesome work man. keep it up B)

Thanks.


Hi, fellas. Got a lot done on the weekend but I have been entirely too busy and tired every night since to update this thread. Sorry! Anyways, I chipped away at the welding spatter on the rear end on... Monday (I think) and installed the rear end. For the first time ever, the truck laid-out Monday on tires that are about 3" smaller diameter front and rear than what I will be running.

I am fucking stoked.











Last night I went out for a couple hours and finally got that god-awful factory crossmember knocked out for good. Then I got curious and sat down and did the math on how much original frame is left, keep in mind I added in all 5 Crossmembers that were removed. I have 21% of the original frame left. Yeah, that's it.





Ignore the bolts, I have a bunch we use for building the link bars and stuff, I'll be replacing them all with stainless button-head bolts.



Also scored a set of drop spindles for an S10 this week for $80, which in the world of drop spindles is CHEAP. They'll allow me to run a higher air pressure in the front while still riding super low, which is the best of both worlds and exactly how I like it. I didn't take a picture of them, they aren't exciting.

NOW, for the really exciting news. Over the last few weeks I had some shit luck, my winter beater (a 2004 Grand Am my mom bought new and replaced last fall with a 2013 Cruze) shit the differential out in the transmission. I decided it was time to get a fullsize truck for a daily, I am pretty sick of continually borrowing one of my friends to tow a trailer, etc and I think they are too. After browsing the used ads I found nothing but junk. I started pricing out new ones expecting to get my hopes up and not be able to afford one/be declined by the bank, etc. Well, long story short, I just ordered a 2014 GMC Sierra "Double Cab" 4x4 completely loaded with a 6.2L v8 and 3.73's to boot.

8-10 weeks will take FOREVER to show up. However, I'll have new suspension and some other goodies sitting waiting for it to show up. This is the height it will sit.



Mine is all black and a Sierra, so really, only pay attention to the height. Haha.


Next, someone in my other build thread mentioned our bench/fab area and I decided to share. We built the bench when we moved in. It measures 18'x3' deep. Honestly, not sure how tall. It is built entirely out of 2x2x1/4 wall tubing, with 1/4 gussets and a 3/8" sheetmetal top. It is heavy as fuck and no matter how hard you're reafing on something in the vice it does not budge. I love it.





All the attachments on the bench are actually drilled and tapped into the bench top, we are planning to build a few different sets of control arm jigs for the bench and also a sheet-metal brake.

We built these two rooms also when we moved in, the one on the right side houses the compressor (which is wired, but still not plumbed 6 months later ) and my laptop for music to the stereo upstairs. The room on the left is the "engine closet". It's a safe spot for our engines and stands to sit clear of dust and grinding debris.



There are three different welders in the shop, a Miller 180SD TIG machine, a ThermalArc 220V MIG and a Lincoln Electric 120V MIG, we can pretty much make anything stick together. There's also a King vertical and horizontal combo bandsaw under the bench, it gets used a lot.


I think that's it, you guys got a little mini-tour, sorry about all the pictures. More to come this weekend.