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I'll be here from now on as far as the progress of the truck.

So far I've spent $2000 buying the truck, and $300 working on the suspension / front end work. I still owe a bit more. Homer will give me the final bill tomorrow.

My best guess from searching the net is that I'm looking at somewhere between $500-$1000 in gauges, depending on which way I want to travel.

Probably another $600-$800 on tires.

I think I might need to replace the radiator to get it back to closer to original. But with a 350 in a 67 truck who knows.

Lots to learn.

Scared to drive the truck very far until I get the gauges working. Don't want to break anything.

Tailgate won't open, need to replace parts in that area.

Heater doesn't work. Fan won't blow. Not sure about this issue just yet.

Radio doesn't work. Somebody bondoed over the hole where the antanna used to reside. Gotta fix that, and hook the radio up. The hole that someone "carved" in the dash panel is very rough and ugly. I'll fix that.

Kick [censored] power in this truck. No doubt about it. I'll get her fixed in a manner of time.

Just a lot of money.

Weatherstripping needs to be replaced on both door windows.

Lots of sanding here and there on the body, especially in the bed box, before I can ever think about painting it.

More time, more money.

But, I think when I'm done with her, she will be a very nice looking truck. Give me about a year.

I have to learn as I go on this. I will get it done.

Davey

sounds like a lot of work, but it will be a cool truck when you get done. i too have a lot of sanding before i can get to painting, but i am waiting for better weather. good luck.

Thanks for the reply Fort Knox.

The majority of my issues are money related.

Some are things that I'm trying to decide if I can do by myself without messing anything up.

Just looking around and trying to decide on a direction.

I have to re-iterate. This is one sweet truck!

I'll get better pictures this week.

I want to do some sanding this week, but it's pretty cold here in Georgia this week. So I guess I might have to wait a bit.

I don't have a shop, or any type of cover to work under, so that makes everything a bit difficult.

It'll get done.

As I said, give me a year, and Venus will appear.

Thanks to everyone here for all of your assistance so far.

Go Dawgs!!!!

Davey

Davey.
I also just picked up a 67---$200.00. Lost title, last registered in 1982. DMV fee's for new title and reg. was only about $90.00. The guy I got it from bought some property and found it sitting in one of the out buildings. She's complete, everything bone stock with a frozen 295 under the hood. I have a fair amount of front body to do, otherwise she's pretty straight the rest of the way back. I'm going to be dropping either a small or big block in it with a th400. I feel your pain on the money thing, but in th eend it's all worth it. Just keep looking around at the local junk yars and the internet for those deals.

HR

Davey, drop by your local parts store, you can pick up a set of bolt-on underdash gauges for around $40. Get you back on the road.
Also, on my '72, my fan didn't work either. Pulled off the connector, lightly sanded the terminals, and presto! Fan worked ...two speeds anyway.
Just take it a little at a time, and enjoy your truck!

Got the final bill today from Homer for "Round 1". Almost seven hundred dollars. OUCH! I wasn't expecting that, but then I did know I was gonna be spending money to get this truck into driveable condition.

I managed to do a bit of light sanding and priming today. Just a few areas that were bare metal beiginning to rust. I still have a few nore to do. It's really still a bit cold here to be doing the priming outside, which is the only place I have to do it.

But, I figured what the heck. It will hopefully stop the rust from spreading, it does make the truck look a bit better, and it's all gonna hafta be redone anyway before I can paint the whole truck.

I bought a water temperature sending unit, but couldn't install it cause I don't have a big enough socket. But, when I located the unit, I realized the wire wasn't attached. I hooked it up and ran the truck for a while. The gauge moved a bit as the truck warmed up, but never really made it to where Homer expected it to. I'll replace the sending unit when I buy the socket and try again. If that doesn't work I'll go ahead and buy a gauge.

I don't wanna drive the truck very far without knowing the water temp.

This truck has quite a few wires under the hood that aren't connected to anything. So, I'm hoping that the heater fan wire is just disconnected. I'll take a look under the dash when I get time.

I also got inside the bed box with a wire wheel on an electric drill to try to knock down some of the rust. After about ten minutes I realized that that method ain't gonna work. I got out my little palm sander and some regular old 60 grit paper and tried that for several minutes. Way too slow. I hafta come up with something much faster.

I might try a wire knot disc as someone else mentioned somewhere in the forums. There's got to be an easier way. I probably won't get to play with her again until this weekend.

Once I make some kind of significant changes, I'll take some more pics and add them to my site.

Oh, and although I'm against under the dash gauges for the end product, if I can get a cluster for around $40 I'll probably do it as a temporary solution.

hogrocket. Sounds like a cool deal! Good luck with the project.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Davey

I have a few new pics of Venus. It's not much really, but it's something.

Between my job and the weather, I just haven't had much time to do anything.

An inch at a time, I guess.

They're here, if you care to look:
New Venus Pics

Thanks!
Davey

that is a good lookin old truck. i bet it screams with that 350 in it.

Davey.If you want to make quick work of that box rust,get your self an angle grinder and a notted wire cup from menards or such.Be sure to wear safty glasses whenever you use it.

Thanks for the compliment Forty.

Slow Rider, I was planning on buying an angle grinder this weekend and doing some work in the bed box. Of course it's raining here, and I don't have a garage. [censored] that idea.

I'll look into the knotted wire cup when I get the grinder though. Thanks for the tip!

What makes it worse for me is, since I can't work on Venus due to the rain, I thought I'd work on a website. Can't log in to my server to upload files. I'm just flat screwed today.

Well, I do have plenty of cold beer, so all is not lost.

davey

Davey, lookin' good.

i too have a '67. well, rather, a '69 getting a '67 front clip. cost is always an issue, but, i have just about everything bought, so now its just a matter of the weather.

a little bit cold..in Georgia? LoL. pardon my laughter. today it was 30 below here, without windchill. so..needless to say. even with a garage, albeit unheated, welding on my "new" fenders is out of the question.

no real tips...just to take it a little bit at a time.

once again, good lookin' old turck. keep it up!

.later days.
.sam.

My first car was a '67 Chevy pickup with a 283 and a four speed. I miss that truck to this day, and I vow to own another. By the way, I hate to sound like anyone's Mom or Dad, but wear a mask of some sort when working with rust or any kind of airborne particulate. Your lungs are just like an open wound.

I've been breathing in sawdust on my job for over 30 years now. Never used any type of respirator.

But, enough people in here have mentioned the respirator when working with metal to convince me that I need to do it. I'll get one. Maybe just some of those disposable ones?

Thanks!
Davey

First of all, thanks Wrenchbender for your advice. I'll work on that soon.

Homer & I got under the hood today and started removing wires.

I don't know who did this to this truck, but it seems like everything is wired out of the back of the radio.

The radio, until about two weeks ago was hot-wired to the battery.

The starter is "magically" wired to a junction box on the firewall on the driver's side. Gotta fix that.

The heater moter wasn't working, and Homer hot-wired it off the battery for a second or so. It does work. Just so many wiring problems.

I'm hoping the fact that the gauges don't work is just a wiring issue. That would be nice.

Need a wiring schematic.

And Wrenchbender, I'm so stupid that I was crawling around under the truck looking for the gas tank to try the test you suggested. Okay, now I know. It's behind the seat.

We ran out of time, and I'll follow your advice this weekend sometime. Thanks again.

I'll learn.

Davey

nice

my first chevy, and second vehicle ever wasa 68 c-10 longfleet pickup, original 307 2bbl and 3 on the tree still in it, drove it home from a local dealership real nice shape but normal rusted rockers, original light green 503AA, base model, light green vinyl interior

was a fun truck, blew a rod out of the 307 bottom end so i put in a fresh 355 with 305 heads after a fresh rebuilt 1980 305 that i put in for a little bit, then it went to a th350 short tail in place of the sm326 three speed,

i miss it, ill own another some day, it RIP

owned a bunch of 67-72 since then but the first 68 was the best of them all

i know of a couple 68s right now im probably gonna buy one or the other real soon, a 68 C20 fleetside pickup or the 68 c50/c60 big bolt

dunno which

have fun


good luck with yours