1965 c10 budget build

[kristianbolster]

today i worked on my truck for a while and i still have some stuff to do but put he bed on there. its not mounted up but its sitting there and ready to go.

[kristianbolster]

tomorrow i am going to get under the rear bags supported, make shock mounts for the rear, and put in my shocks all around and then finish up the raised bed floor and some other super minor stuff and that thing is ready to get out of there

and then its on to the extremely time consuming part of body work and paint...

[kristianbolster]

today i put together the M3s suspension that was taking up room on the lift and pulled my truck in to get some stuff on the underside tidied up and while i did that my dad got to welding the under side of my bed.

[kristianbolster]

today was a mild day on the truck. i had all the measurements for the mounts on the bed and so i got to cutting some tubing and modifying some of the bars that i already cut for some slight design changes. i also cut the pieces that i need for the center hiding section of the bed.

[iadubber]

Very nice!

[kristianbolster]

and all finished up

[kristianbolster]

with the brace cut off the watts link started going on quickly. before making the bottom bar and mounting the brackets i had to get the old pan hard bar cut off

[kristianbolster]

i head to cut the brace by the notch off because of course the universal part that i bought didn't fit right.

[kristianbolster]

today i pulled the bed off again to get the bottom of the bed floor and i also got the watts link in the mail from BC Fab and so i put that on tonight to and got that dialed and couldn't be more happy with it.

[kristianbolster]

i changed the design that i am doing for the raised bed lucky i didn't cut any bars that i couldn't use for the new design. i got the hole base structure cut and welded in. have few more pieces to cut for the mounts to the frame and i have to build the middle section that i am building so it will tilt up. so you can see the notch and air ride.

[Hayce]

Looking great mate. Isometric sketch even!

[kristianbolster]

taking some more measurements and adjusting some things





my wife made me some dinner so i took a little break. i thought it was funny a nice looking dinner sitting on a nasty work bench so i took a picture:






my helper keeping me company while i eat

[kristianbolster]

heres me cutting up some metal:

[kristianbolster]

ehhh nevermind i have some time. ill update it now

as you have seen so far in the build we only use the most up to date and expensive tools on the market to build such an amazing vehicle like this and her is a couple more examples of our top of the line drafting program for the bed floor design and ways to catalog measurements to remember later:

[kristianbolster]

i started measuring and cutting the metal for building the raised bed today. will post more photos tomorrow but here are a couple for tonight: