Recent content by Wyatt Pine

I had replaced the front leaf spring bushings when I had the front axle removed for resealing. When I attempted to install the front drive shaft I was unable to move the splines on the drive shaft. At ALL. I am assuming the front add-a-leafs were so stiff that the suspension never really...

I also spent a lot of time removing wire nuts and extra wiring from the engine harness. A chevy 1-wire alternator was swapped in at some point. The dash light was never connected, causing constant Brake and Charge lights on the dash. I also bought a trail-gear chevy alt bracket. Someone had used...

At this point, September 2024, I had worked on getting the 'Nekbone' to operating condition, mainly afternoons and weekends, for 5 months. I had only driven it a mile. I was really itching to get out and use it. I planned a trip with my Father and Sister to go to Frisco, Outer Banks NC and drive...

Have you given this a shot yet? I am interested to see your results.

After putting the cab back on the chasis, I started finishing up the body work and getting this thing driveable. I still haven't really driven the truck at this point, so I am itching to get it driving. I still had the windshield from the junkyard truck that donated its windshield frame so I...

After painting the frame and most of the cab (at least primer) I placed the now rust free cab back on the mostly rust free frame. With some beautiful help. We ended up using an engine lift with a block of wood secured through the shifter hole in the floor. Worked out GREAT would highly...

After wrapping up the majority of the rust repair I started stripping the green paint, and multiple rattle can paint jobs, off of the truck. I ended up using Aircraft stripper, none of the "environmentally Friendly" paint strippers would touch that green paint. I have no clue what kind of paint...

After fixing up the frame and floors I moved on to the windshield frame. I found a cab and chassis pickup at my local pick n pull, so I sawzalled the windshield and frame out of it to cut apart for my truck. I ended up needing to cut out most of the windshield frame. I was able to do the...

we tried hot wiring it so we could activate the pump while trying to bleed it. It did not go as planned. Now we have a noise.

My dads truck does that too. Its the ABS pump running for a second. I think we may have messed his up trying to bleed it. His is getting louder as well, but ABS still works and there is not light on the dash...yet

I appreciate it, I now have chunks of frame sitting at my dads place from a donor chassis, next time I have another reason to remove the bed, I'll swap out the crossmember. The rest of the repairs went well and are hopefully permanent.

I then set my mind to the many (mostly smaller) frame repairs. I had a couple holes under each cab door and where the frame kicks up behind the cab. I blame my dad for not rinsing out the frame 20 years ago 😂 . I also plan to treat the inside of the frame. I have had decent luck with eastwood...

The drivers floor was worse than the passenger side, Both needed rocker work and the body mount replaced. neither side was attached to its frame mount anymore. I was able to find a decent set of floor boards locally, from an 87 I think. After drilling out the spot welds, for days...

At this point I was neck deep in frame repair, floor and body repair and was contemplating how I was going to replace the metal around the windshield with the truck still on the body. I decided it was time to dig deeper than I wanted to and remove the body. I had never removed the body off of...

Ideally, I guess. however the rest of the rig is mostly rust free. frame and underbody don't have any rot. Definitely not a reason to take a good running rig off the road.