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Not new, but I don't post much. I'm bored so I'm gonna start a thread about my truck.


Picked it up in December. Have done a bunch of work and she's on her way to getting fully sorted into a respectable truck. Tune up, battery, starter, calipers, new used fuel tanks and brackets, new sending units with pumps, fuel lines, switching valve, new used wheels and tires, countless wiring repairs, LED's in the cargo lamp and dome lamp, new tie rods and drag link, master cylinder, put in the tinted suburban windows, new used mirrors, four new power window motors, new used grille and head light windows. I'm sure there's a bunch of other junk I've fixed on it that I'm forgetting.

I'm off next week and I'll be replacing the front and rear bumpers, installing a early 2000's factory CD player and some 6x9's in the back, cleaning up the gauge cluster and installing LED's so I can read the gauges at night. I'm currently eyeballing CL on the reg because I need pretty much a whole interior. This truck isn't a crew cab, it's a bonus cab so it never came with a rear seat, seat belts or carpet. Might attack below the beltline with a rattle can to make it look less like a POS. Prolly gonna spend a day next week hitting junkyards. I haven't spent a day junkyard doggin in years! Enjoy.

Here's how she looked when I picked her up...

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And as of yesterday after i finished putting the back windows and the new used grille...
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Way to go -stew-! Specs & year on the truck?
 
Thanks! It's a 1990 One ton. 454/400/205/60/14. Loaded. Air/cruise/tilt/power windows/power locks/AM/FM/cassette. It's pretty clean for a Wisconsin truck, but it still needs rockers and inner fenders due to rust and front doors and a bed due to damage. I'm just kinda pecking away at it making little repairs here and there. When i get some other projects done and get a better place to work on it I'd like to do a Cummins swap.
 
nice truck, never heard of the bonus cab, i guess you do learn something everyday.
 
Thanks! I don't know that I've ever seen a bonus cab before either. By this time next week it should be fully converted to a 3+3. Found a couple burbs in the local junkyard that I should be able to piece together an interior.
 
Looks good. Always wanted a Crew cab Long Bed.

If you're ever in need of a hand, I'm in New Berlin, just half hour from Milwaukee.
 
cool... me likey CC's.....

was that used grill what they would call the dark gray and chrome one? I noticed LMC has that in a repop, and an all chrome..... I'm gonna get the gray/chrome one for mine...
 
I would call it grey and chrome, its an OEM GM part. Just couldn't justify the $200+ it would have cost from lmc. Plus now I have an excuse to make a baller bow tie!
 
I'll never find that grill clean used in my area...
 
Very nice. Love the crew cab. As for the rattlecan, spray away. I had similar issues, albeit more severe, in the lower sections of the doors, bed, etc. And since I didn't have much to lose, I picked up a good brand of black paint, and masked off everything above the upper body line, and sprayed it down. Once I reinstalled marker lights, badges, etc. it made a world of difference in the looks, and honestly with the black that I used, it could pass for factory paint from 5 ft.
 
ryoken said:
I'll never find that grill clean used in my area...
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They're hard to find here, too. No one wants to sell one without the core support, and they all want $200+. This one was listed as with the core support, but it was rotty so I got him to come down on price and I got the grille, two headlight windows, marker lights and 4 headlights with buckets for $60.
 
blackbronco92 said:
Very nice. Love the crew cab. As for the rattlecan, spray away. I had similar issues, albeit more severe, in the lower sections of the doors, bed, etc. And since I didn't have much to lose, I picked up a good brand of black paint, and masked off everything above the upper body line, and sprayed it down. Once I reinstalled marker lights, badges, etc. it made a world of difference in the looks, and honestly with the black that I used, it could pass for factory paint from 5 ft.
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Pictures?
 
nice.... I need to find one of the roof marker lenses too, one is smashed.. mine are the same as yours, but i didn't see them listed at LMC surprisingly...
 
-stew- said:
Pictures?
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I'll PM some to you so as not to clog up your post, let me look through some old files to see if I have some right after it was done. :waytogo:

It lasted for about a year before the rust began to bleed through, but hell, what's $20 and 2 hours of your time once per year, ya know. I'm due for a respray as soon as I finish the front end.
 
ryoken said:
nice.... I need to find one of the roof marker lenses too, one is smashed.. mine are the same as yours, but i didn't see them listed at LMC surprisingly...
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I got to hit a few junkyards next week I'll snag one for ya if I come across any.

blackbronco92 said:
I'll PM some to you so as not to clog up your post, let me look through some old files to see if I have some right after it was done. :waytogo:
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You might be the fist person in internet forum history to do that!
 
Might as well throw this up here, too. The factory radio was shot and I wanted to get something with some more power. I hate aftermarket radios; they look like **** and are hard to use, radio placement on they old squarebodies makes that even worse. I did some looking into putting a later model radio in and this is what I came up with. Sounds great, doesn't look like it was born there, but looks at home. Fitment is as good as factory. And no one is gonna blow out my window to steal it. And since this radio came from a truck with a remote cd player in the dash, I can buy a. iPod interface that lets me control my iPod through the radio for around $80.

Picked up an adapter plug and antenna adapter from replacementradios.com $25 well spent. Plug it into the back of the new radio, plug the factory wiring into the other end and your done. Stole the old radio my buddy took out of his '99 Silverado, AM/FM/Cassette with the aux in for a remote CD.

I don't know how the bracketry attaches to these newer style radios and couldn't see a whole lot of spots where the factory would attach it. Anywho... Pulled my factory radio out, it is held in by one L-bracket on the right, one on the bottom, and a long brace that goes from the the back of the radio to the bottom of the dash. Kinda took the new radio apart to gain access to drill some holes. Took the clip in studs out of the original radio and took the clips off the studs and put them onto the newer radio. The whole right side of the newer radio is a heat sink so I took part of the old radio chassis and made a bracket to affix a stud to the right side. These pictures show what I did to make the new radio sit right at home like it was born there.

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Upon putting it in the hole I had to do some grinding on the right side stud to get it through the notch in the dash. It's a snug fit, but it goes in the factory hole. Had to adjust the rear brace and drill a new hole to attach that to the bottom of the dash (I actually enlarged one of the 37 random screw holes in my dash.)

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It fits behind the trim just like the original one and looks great. This radio makes a lot more power the the original the truck cranks pretty good with some 6x9's in the cab corners. There is a guy on a Chevy truck forum that makes corner brackets to mount 6x9's in, a great improvement over the stock 4x10's and more money well spent. Gonna paint them next week and stuff some insulation behind them.

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-stew- said:
Thanks cool. I found some blue that I like, but it's not close to matching, and it's too close to matching to be a contrasting color. I might pick up some dark blue.
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Did you get the PM that I sent? I wasn't sure if it went through because I had some weird error and it didn't show up in my sent folder. I resent it and it said it went through but still 0 in the sent folder. Didn't want to send again in case they DID go through and I ended up flooding your box with 55 pm's.

Anyway I was out in the garage yesterday and found a can of the stuff I used. It was Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch. Like $5 something a can, but the end result was well worth it, and like I said before, lasted way longer than I expected.

If you end up going with a dark blue, let me know how it turns out. My factory color was Dark blue, so the black from the body line down looks kind of nice, but I want to spray the upper section too, so I was going to go all black, but if Blue turns out as good as black then I will respray the black on the lower section and spray the upper blue.
 
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