SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
It's been awhile since I last updated this site, the reason? Snow, in fact over six months of it and working outside has really thrown a wrench into things. I managed to get the cab prepped and painted before old man winter showed up but that was it! I covered it with a tarp and left it for the winter until this spring when I went back to my Father-in law's (yeah, that's him in the picture with the "get that piece of shit out of my driveway" look on his face). Anyway I'll bring you up to date on how things 'went down' from there........... shall we?
Anyway, this is what I found when the snow melted, the kids had some fun with the primer and used my new cab as target practice all winter with snow and ice balls but overall no harm no foul. I figured I would start with yanking the front clip, prepping and painting it "ala spray bomb' of course and figure out how to do something with that cab in the meanwhile.
So off with the front clip! It wasn't bolted on in too many places anyway if you remember back to when I threw these parts on, just enough to handle the four hour drive to it's new resting area. The crew went to work sanding and priming and painting. My crew consists of my 8 year old son Mitch, my 10 year old daughter Brooke Lynn and my wife Christy, yeah it's a family project so it ain't perfect but the kids take a lot of pride in knowing they helped in the "restoration" (I use that term VERY loosely in case you haven't seen an 8 year old with a spray bomb, lemme tell ya......... it ain't pretty!) and will hopefully enjoy it enough to one day take on a project of there own but who knows.
With the clip off and the crew frantically working on getting it finished I decided to start getting the cab ready for removal. I removed the steering column, brake booster and linkage, tranny linkage, wiring harness, park brake cable, throttle cable, heater hoses, rear lights wiring and the actual cab mounts. Sounds like a lot of work but it really wasn't too bad. I then went ahead and started blocking up the cab, I was thinking if I got it high enough to get some 2X4's under maybe a group of four could simply lift it up and walk away............. dear old Dad had another idea...............
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Like a couple of Rednecks we just hoisted that old girl over ass over tea kettle so to speak. We rubbed up against the distributor cap, seems the distributor itself is OK but I'll need a new cap for sure. So we dragged the old cab out of the way with the old fellas Ranger and decided to call it a day leaving the inlaws with some serious lawn art. Who needs flamingos and those lawn midgets when you can have genuine Chevy parts strewn across the property? By the way, this isn't farmland, this is a nice upscale subdivision folks!
