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All paint work done. And am re-doing the front seats. Driver side is all done! This is where I currently am and hopefully it will be back on the road soon! My plan is to take the hardtop back off for the rest of the summer and patch a small hole in it and add a headliner.

Haven't updated this in a while here so I will try and catch it up. Ive decided this cruiser needed to be refreshed so I've done some work on it lately. Here is a quick update of where it is now. New quarter panels All body work done Quarters, rockers and fenders painted, the rest is the...

Updates! Dome light, Check! Wired my rear heating fan to a switch so my kids can turn it on or off from the rear seats. Mounted my maglite by the door. Tried to keep it somewhat hidden for when the doors are off.

Thank you! You guys were life savers with my power steering setup. Bryce is who told me where to find the replacement flange locally. Again you guys rock. The steering box that came with my truck was luckily rebuilt to 4.5 turns lock to lock so im hoping it works out fine. I will have to shoot...

Found my original fuse box cover hidden in a box and covered in dirt. Cleaned up really nice though. I bought an ammo can to use as a arm rest. Had to convert it from both sides opening to just 1 and letting it swing up. And added a lock to it, will be nice to have a lockable space when the...

The rear door latch had seen better days. it was very sloppy and barely worked. We pulled it apart and welded the back of the rivet in place. Works fine now and the price was right. After this i moved the 40 back to my house. Drives good, needs an alignment and some minor leaks fixed. Now im...

Motor 99% done. Need some minor things And LED taillights in. So far im very happy how they have turned out.

It drives!! Drive it around the block and so far everything's working like it should. You can see in the video the taillights aren't done but we are close. https://youtu.be/UmqW96r5YZc Added the most important part, The bottle opener! My kids got involved as well, They built me a new...

Thanks! its getting close! Updates! Got my new passenger side door handle on. And we decided that we needed to do something with the giant holes in the body. Eventually I will be going through the tub and patching everything but thats a while away so for now we will band aid the problem...

More progress, mostly cosmetic. The rear doors were missing a hinge but i had 2 of the older style hinges in the piles of crap that came with the truck so my dad was able to modify one to fit. Ugly but functional. It got sprayed black with some tough coat krylon. Ambulance doors on! No...

Got the top, hood and doors back on yesterday. Also got a fan control switch to operate the electric fan. Hopefully this weekend we can get all the wiring finalized.

Working on cleaning wiring up now, The factory harness that goes to the back of the truck has been cut out by the previous owner so we are replacing that now. Also started cleaning up the front bumper parts that came with it. I think its a factory bumper with an aftermarket bolt on brush guard...

Thanks i will take a close look at that! Lots of progress today!! It ran and moved under its own power! Got it started and ran it for 20 minutes at varying RPM to break in the cam. Made some awful noises and after breaking it in we pulled the valve covers to find i had adjust the rockers...

Update time! Front end all together Power steering lines all done. Back on the ground. All the brakes are done and functional, clutch system all works, power steering is complete. New master cylinders, clutch system and brakes are 100% new Just need to run the fuel lines and fix...

My power steering kit had a yoke that was to big for my steering box but luckily a local company had the right piece in stock. And all ready to be installed for good. Steering is completely done! Now onto the brakes. Everything was thrown into boxes so we have been piecing together...

Not sure about that, I will have to check once we get it down off the jack stands.

Finishing up my power steering conversion now. Almost there! Luckily CruiserOutfitters is local to me and has all the power steering components i need. This was very helpful. Box of linkage. Drop pitman arm, new draglink and gm conversion tie rod mocked up. Looking way better than with the...

Exhaust exits ready to be added. Little bit of high temp black and done! waiting on some bolt on exhaust hangers but other than that should be good to go. ordering the rest of the power steering components today. maybe get that all buttoned up next weekend!

My dad and brother both know how to weld, i however never really tried to learn. That is until now, one of my goals on this project is to learn how to weld so i attempted that with the exhaust. My first attempts were less than pretty. But after some guidance from my brother i was able to...

My dad modified the power steering pump bracket and got it all mounted up. Need to get some lines made still but its progress. All cleaned and painted.