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Re: 71-95 G Series Dash FAQ
kursed #773177 March 19th 2021 7:15 pm
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Im impressed ... thats a LOT of work to refurbish/rebuild a vehicle and your doing it so systematically.


SUNSHINE VANS-VAN DIEGO
ADRENALIN BY THE GALLON & CHASIN RACIN
ONE FOR THE DIRT & ONE FOR THE STREETS
'93 CHEVY G30 454 4X4 SPORTVAN EXT 146" WB
'92 CHEVY G30 454 BEAUVILLE EXT 146" WB
Re: 71-95 G Series Dash FAQ
frscke1 #773186 March 19th 2021 8:22 pm
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Originally Posted by frscke1
Im impressed ... thats a LOT of work to refurbish/rebuild a vehicle and your doing it so systematically.

Don't be too impressed. All of this just to strip down a front clip that I'm eventually using the fenders and hood from for a bar or desk build. LMAO!

I am keeping some of the parts and refurbishing them for spares for my van, and selling other parts that I won't be able to use. I have always enjoyed doing how-to techs and helping people fix their stuff. I know vanning is on the rise again at the moment, but it's still a struggling auto sub-culture compared to its heyday. So any way I can pitch in to keep some life in the party I will gladly do.

I'll keep adding to this thread as I get new parts to refurbish or disassemble.


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Re: 71-95 G Series Dash FAQ
kursed #773194 March 19th 2021 9:23 pm
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Well then I take back my "like" .... lol


SUNSHINE VANS-VAN DIEGO
ADRENALIN BY THE GALLON & CHASIN RACIN
ONE FOR THE DIRT & ONE FOR THE STREETS
'93 CHEVY G30 454 4X4 SPORTVAN EXT 146" WB
'92 CHEVY G30 454 BEAUVILLE EXT 146" WB
Re: 71-95 G Series Dash FAQ
frscke1 #773201 March 19th 2021 10:33 pm
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Originally Posted by frscke1
Well then I take back my "like" .... lol

lol cheers


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Re: 71-95 G Series Dash FAQ
kursed #773206 March 19th 2021 11:31 pm
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Thanks for sharing this kursed.
I didn't give much thought to the kick panel vent/cowl vent system but a cleanout is now high on the priority list

Re: 71-95 G Series Dash FAQ
vaNsquared #773208 March 19th 2021 11:37 pm
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Originally Posted by vaNsquared
Thanks for sharing this kursed.
I didn't give much thought to the kick panel vent/cowl vent system but a cleanout is now high on the priority list

You're welcome. Glad it helped. I thought when I started writing this up it might not help anyone, but if it could even help one person that would be enough justification for doing it.

Yeah, I'm guilty of leaving the old crotch coolers uncleaned when I was younger. I'd let my trucks sit under the trees all fall and winter, then crack those things open on a spring drive only to get a face full of leaf debris.

The first time a friend of mine had his C10 stripped to the frame, I got a good look at the rot on the outside of the kick panel area that's typically hidden by the fender. He explained to me that a lot of C10s got like that because of the junk left in there from the wiper cowl. I started cleaning mine religiously after that.


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Re: 71-95 G Series Dash FAQ
kursed #773220 March 20th 2021 8:39 am
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On my mid-Dodge, I took off the cowl and undercoated that whole area and went in through the air vent doors on the inside of the van and had that undercoated also. Every few years I refresh the whole area with chain saw bar oil. All that debris gets in there over the years and plugs up the weep holes or water drain holes, leading to the area always be damp and causing rust.

Re: 71-95 G Series Dash FAQ
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Not sure how the Chevy vans are, but on my Dodge I can remove the sunvisor's inside the van above the driver and passenger compartment's and I take a coat hanger with a rag attached to it coated with chainsaw bar oil and run it into the windshield pillars and toward the center of the windshield area and also through the air vent doors I can run the oil coated hanger upward into the pillars. I seen the pillars on many vans rust out to the point where when the door was opened, the rotted pillar pulled away from the windshield.

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Re: 71-95 G Series Dash FAQ
kursed #773225 March 20th 2021 10:55 am
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Indeed, the trucks do the same thing and yes you can get into those areas the same on Chevys.

Not going to lie, when I read your first post I got through "Every few years I refresh the whole area with chain saw" and winced in horror thinking "WTF is this dude refreshing with a chainsaw!?!?!!" lol

I hadn't heard of using the bar oil before, I will sometimes spray a little penetrating oil in there and other hard to reach places just for the extra bit of rust protection. I'll give the bar oil, coat hanger, cloth trick a try sometime.


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