Johnny Cash the Crew Cab Update. It Bad and good at the same time. 

this is unbelievable! you are the absolute mechanic and you have the best wife in the world.

We need to crowd fund for a new pair of jeans for Steve!😀😀😀

Friday with my favorite people, Steve, Elizabeth, and Johnny Cash.

Hi from sunny Dorset, UK!

Steve, Thanks for the up-date on Johnny Cash. A lot of work has been done indeed, You & Elizabeth have been busy for sure. It definitely shows and is looking good. Both of you should be proud and I'm happy for the both of you !

Happy Saturday Steve, Elizabeth, Cora, and Grits!. The scope of your talents and skills is endless. Great attitude, eat an elephant on bite at a time. Thank you for sharing! God Bless

Needle scaler for massaging that curve...brilliant.... probably a bit harsh for a stiff shoulder tho' ;-)

A little panic, had to check it wasn't Saturday. Great content as always, thank you.

Steve I have watched I think all of your video's and by far this was one of the best. Thank you so much for keeping me entertained. It was also nice seeing Elizabeth helping getting the job done. I can wait for the next video with this old truck. You gave a lot of people something to think about when restoring or repairing their own vehicles. Keep them coming Steve , Great job.

Great motivational speaking! You are damn good at plugging away at big jobs, until they are done. Always great to watch your content. Thanks.

Thanks for the update, Steve... Excellent video. Johnny Cash is on his way Back...!! Russ

Steve, you are a man with boundless energy and motivation...lol. I'm a long time follower of your channel and look forward to every week's episode. Keep up the great work.

“A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step.” You and Elizabeth are already miles into this one. Very cool teamwork that I doubt many could recreate. Enjoy the project, I’m sure you are…

"all sorts of cow stuff". Outstanding!

Great job, as usual, Steve and Elizabeth. Thanks for sharing your passion

Steve and Elizabeth, Way to put a bit of shine on Johnny Crash, also know as “The Can in Black”.

Hello from TEXAS!

Great advice on getting started, thats always the hardest part.

Awesome refurb... Cant wait to see how it pans out

Hi Steve. The crew cab is coming along nicely. You made a lot of progress since we saw it last. It's great feeling to have rocker panels that you don't cut leg on every time you get out of the truck! Plus, it looks way better!

thank you Steve love your videos

Son in law and I picked up and started on a 87 Dodge D150 4x4 for him last weekend. After 2 and a half days we have it running, all the front brake parts are in so tomorrow it should be kinda drivable, still waiting on the rubber line for the rear brakes. Once it's drivable it will be heading to his house for the little stuff.

and your dogs are very nice too

Very cool trick with needle scaler

Love these types of videos, good work Steve.

Love the body work and truck videos

Thanks, Steve. Enjoyed. Fucking mice, right? Oops, mustn't get obscene, right? But mice? Gnarly little buggers. Thanks again, Steve. And Elizabeth, I hope you give Steve a nice cuddle after he's all done making your truck nice. A man needs a cuddle every once in a while.

With plasic parts that are faded, hit them heat, i use a torch, but a heat gun will also do the job. Also helps keep the parts pliable. Then use the dye if needed.

A great deal of progress Elizabeth and Steve! You'll make a spray painter of her yet!those rear bearings run in axle oil I take it? I was saying to myself Steve you've forgotten to grease up the bearings when you went to press the seal into the drum. Looking forward to seeing more on Johnny Cash ! Cheers from the UK

Awesome as Always..Great Update.Pleasure to watch..

Steve, you do nice work buddy! 👍

Great video, but I'm STOKED to watch the big DoAll come back to life!

Nothing like getting your lady involved in car projects. She seems to enjoy it. Looking forward to seeing this thing on the road.

Hi from good ol" Germany.

"Squeeze and go" he said. Three sweeps later Elizabeth had realised that it's better to "Go and squeeze"

Thanks!

Howdy Steve always well pleased! Thats what she said!

Great to find this today my friend. You're a really well knowledgeable fella when it comes to these square body Chev trucks. Elizabeth as well. She sure isn't afraid to get right in there whenever she is needed. Neat use for our needle scalers. A trick I can apply to an upcoming project of my own. That sure is one really nice looking body parts technician you have there my friend. Not only that but a squirrel whisperer and pretty too. The girl of your dreams my friend. Do you no longer have the squirrels hanging out there ? It has been quite some time since we have seen anything with them now. Timken have been my go to's for years. Quality bearings and seals for sure. One thing I like to do with new brake cylinders is once they have been blead is to take a syringe full of copper coat never seize and fill them (bleeders) with that. 12 years from now the cylinders are still easily bled. I have always had a chuckle when we take these grimie, dirty componence's apart when they go back together they have to be hospital clean. I sure like your approach to this one my friend. Anything worth doing is worth doing it right eh. Thanks a bunch and I look forward to seeing more of this project you and Elisabeth have taken on.

Thank you for that great update on JOHNY CASH, well done to both Elizabeth and yourself I enjoy all the content of your video's😉👍.

That was a neat trick with the needle scaler, I'll will use it at some point. Ellis

Ole Johnny is coming a lone "One Piece at A Time",,,,:-) Elisabeth will be the envy of the neighbor hood soon! My Sammie and I loved working together for near 50 yrs, cheerish every moment with you wonderful Bride, Bear.

Steve try the string trick on the springs (a loop of string used to pull stretch the springs into place) using pliers will mark or scratch the hardened spring metal and they will brake at the marks. hope this helps for next time. good channel content

Way to go Elizabeth. Getting err done. Don't be afraid to try anything. Confidence comes with practice. Everyone starts knowing nothing.

Yep. How do you eat an elephant .... one mouthful at a time. Great to see the update on your work with Elizabeth on the crew cab.

Anyone else want to see Steve’s kindergarten class photo?? The only 5yr old with a Viking beard must of been bad ass!

Tremendous amount of work- great work as always

Steve must spend a lot of time on his left knee😂😂 I think that is 3 pairs of jeans with the left knee blown out😂😂✌

Thank you for sharing. Very nice👍

Thank you for this video. I enjoyed the other square body refresh and this one is no different, other than the fact that Elizabeth is doing quite a bit of the work along side you. Enjoy this type of video along with building the shop.

the truck is more presentable than a lot of trucks made in the past 10 years

Hi Steve The truck is coming very nicely. Little by little I agree it's amazing how quick things come together.

You talk about sand blasting and powder coating things. And than state you cleaned and sprayed painted them. However, for a very reasonable amount you could easily have a media blaster capability AND a hobby type shop powder coater setup and easily do the smaller parts with powder coating. It not only is the best rust protection, but actually fun to do those things as well. Look into such a setup. Not as expensive as you may think... Thumbs Up!

Needle scaler was a surprise!

Job well done SR. Johnny Cash Will definitely turn some heads.

very cool project you are working on. long time viewer/sub. i thought i should mention when you are dealing with mouse/rodent droppings, the Hantavirus should always be a concern. it's a good idea to where a mask. thanks for sharing.

Awesome Video Steve

VHT used to make ( not sure if they still do) a vinyl paint prep spray that promoted adhesion between the paint and the plastic panels. I’ve done many color changes or touch ups on those square bodies and it worked great.

Well...we just got somethings things off the list for you, my husband made silly little jokes on the gifts, you should get them Sat, Sun, and Monday...So hopefully next week we can see them going in! Maybe...maybe least 1 of them. Enjoy you guys!

I was looking forward to this video.

Very neat 'needlework Steve! 👏👍

Drum brakes are always a pain, only positve thing for them that they are quite powerful, even without a brake booster. Great progress so far, I see you cruisin' around in no time... 👍👍👍

Great job on the truck so far. How are your kids doing now? We don't see them in your videos much anymore...

Great progress. Can't believe you got so far without cussing at it. Thats the only way I seem to get things fixed.

Good Stuff

Most people refer to your doghouse as removing the front clip. I think more people will relate to that more than the doghouse. You're doin a nice job 🙂

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Why did you keep that hack on using a needle scaler to form metal a secret from me for so long? Brilliant. I was going to suggest you use Fluid Film or Wool Wax but, there again, you beat me to the punch. Glad I viewed the short so, I know Elisabeth was responsible for those front shocks .

Please tell me that floor jack was not the only thing supporting the rear of the truck! I've know 2 people personally that were killed by a failing floor jack.

I would exhausted ALL of my vocabulary on those drums.

Johnny Cash aka the Hantavirus Hotel 😅

Don’t forget winter is coming and we know you don’t want to haul firewood in your show truck. 😂

Half the metal on my truck is selves from My Work university of Delaware throwing a way good stuff all the time and half of it still works fine

Great video Steve

next time grind the heads of spring holdfasdt pins two of them the rest will come with the drum. Just a suggestion.

Tip for those rears is to put a bit of molyslip into the bearings on assembly, and some in the diff as well. Helps reduce the noise of the diff, and keeps it from wearing much more. Normally i take tube and mix it with a tub of CV joint grease, to make it a higher moly content than it normally is, and the black goop works well in all sorts of uses. Use instead of wheel bearing grease on things like trailer bearings, where it helps a lot.

nice progress is your bro going to give it a lick of paint or you and Beth

I love you for using WAX!!! ❤❤❤

As I was drinking coffee and enjoying a FRIDAY video it occured that Elizabeth's Johnny Cash truck has now become Johnny Cash and June Carter Truck! I heard plenty of me, my, I, but not sure our! Good luck on the project and I understand the level of patch work. Safe, secured, proper function etc. One fair question does Elizabeth have a set of keys to your Truck?

Aren't you going to add a locker for extension cord storage? That truck can haul some BIG BATTERIES. That's if you're going electric.

I think my calendar must be broke it's telling me it's Friday but your video is telling me it's Saturday

Did you make sure that the parking brake cable was loose on those rear brake drums as quite often they are rusty and putting pressure on the shoes and making them tight.good luck

Put the axle back in and bolted to hub- remove the axle from the other side and use a steel bar to drive the axle and drum out.

You make me feel like a slacker.

What solvent is in the pressurized canister he sprayed the drum with? Thanks

I’m pretty sure that the outside bearings on all hubs are placed in front the front and not the rear for the outside bearings if the race loosen up the wheel could come off the pressure of the nuts holds them in place so if there’s a problem it can’t go by the nut worth investigating but I not a expert just a observation

Steve have you considered a disk break conversion on Jonny cash

Year one has the parts for those trucks

Shouldn’t she be in the kitchen? Im kidding !!! that’s awesome you guys can do projects like this together! ✌️💖&💡

I have to respectfully disagree on the panel patching. Like you said, it's always worse than it looks. If I find a rust hole I pretty much take for granted that there's another couple spots that are almost rusted through on the same panel. If I see rust I try to replace the whole panel because I've been bitten before putting a lot of work into something that then rusted through right next so where I repaired. Don't get me wrong, I'm not replacing a roof because there's a hole in a drip channel, there's always little stuff to fix. But on common cheap parts that are known for rusting (chevy rockers, chevy rear fenders) it's been my experience it's cheaper and faster to replace. Cool trick with the needle scaler! If you're looking for a cheap but good way to avoid doing bondo and paint on it, TCP Global sells DIY 2 part spray on bedliner kits for pretty cheap, and it's available in a lot of colors. Theirs is harder than the rubber LineX types, sticks to nearly anything, and covers a world of sins. The texture is entirely up to you, as is the thickness applied. I did the lower half of my SUV because my kids drive it, and it's much easier to get another $50 quart of bedliner and respray a bumper or quarter-panel than it is trying to slick it out and have it repainted.

My god, your Mrs. not only tolerates you having all "that shit out in the yard" (as mine refers to it) but actively helps mess around with it? Can we trade?

We need more Cora.

Wootwoot

I’m doing an 84 crew. Mine is worse. Rear rockers don’t exist in the after market.

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Better put a holly sniper on it because 5 to 8 mpg will hurt.

Could you have changed the rear brake to disks and saved on weight?

I don't understand how mice can get into the doors!

I'm not kidding, you should be wearing a mask when handling that mouse-infested crud.

Is this going to be the man in black or hurt?

Typical Steve, "I'm just throwing this truck together"... it's going to be nicer than anything I own.