In Primer

I hadn't posted any pics here, now that my whole truck is in primer. Enjoy.

 

Hopefully it will have some paint in the next few months!!

 

Jermey your 61 4x4 is one best looking 61 I have seen,its going to look real good after you paint it.

 

Very nice looking 61. Any idea of what color you are going to go with? Might look nice gray..

 

Super sharp 61
Lookin good

 

Thanks guys!! The color is going to be a blue, I have one picked out but I forgot the name of it!

 

Say is your truck an original K series or is the chassis from a different truck? The reason I ask is I am wondering if the K series had a boot over the transfer case shift lever and if yours is a K if it has a boot. Mine doesn't and doesn't look like it ever did. Just a cut in the floor mat.

 

Its an original 61 k 10 chassis. I had just a slit cut in the hump also for the transfer case shifter. I have seen other true 60-66 4x4's with the boot, but no one is reproducing them. The 68-69 had the rockwell transfer case also and I think the boots are being produced, so those might work. I'll check here on Classic Parts to see if they offer them. I think LMC Truck offers them, but I prefer to buy here if I can!! Jeremy.

 

Here is the part # for the 67-72 boot. http://www.classicparts.com/prodinfo.asp?number=40-641

 

Very cool! Will we get to see photos of the interior, too?

 

I love your truck man!!

 

Thanks for the info Jeremy. An original K series 61 must be fairly rare. Any idea of the production numbers? After I posted the boot question I went and looked in my 60-66 Factory Assembly manual and found the boot but I have not located one in LMC or here. As I remember with a friends 71 4x4 the transfer case (or at least the linkage) was much different from my 65. I remember because it took a gorilla to get it into and out of 4 wheel drive! Mine shifts like a dream compared to the 71 but has a much longer throw too what makes me wonder of the 70-72 boot would work.
On the transfer case subject, yesterday I changed out the rubber mounts as my transfer case had really bad slop back and forth. The rubber was very soft and disintegrating like rubber gets with oil on it. I put in the new mounts and they tightened everything up nicely. I was afraid of someday dropping that puppy on the ground at 40mph!

 

Its just bare now. I will as soon as I get my camera fixed. We dropped it and broke the lens!!! That sucks!!!

 

Thanks Joe!!

 

I don't have a clue on production #'s. I'm guessing they are low. Sounds like you got it back in good shape! I have a 700r4 and a np 208 tranny and transfercase in my truck now. With power steering and power brakes, its a dream to drive now!!

 

Looks great in primer cant wait to see it in paint Kilroy was here!!!