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Did some catching up on your thread, wow wow wow! Everything looks amazing, and the dustless sandblasting looks like the way to go. I couldn't help but notice your Mustang II adjustment slots are nearly maxed out just like mine. I've been doing a lot of reading on them, and apparently the top spring pocket should be welded on an inch further back than what the instructions say, The bumpers look amazing!!!

Finally moved the stuff over to the paint booth.

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Took the Fordy Stalker out for a burn while we had it out since it was parked in the paint booth.

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Got the cab all mounted to the rotisserie, now to come up with a game plan, I think we will tackle the bed first, got our work cut out.

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If I do a crazy build again I'm definitely going to look into a rotisserie!

Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

If I do a crazy build again I'm definitely going to look into a rotisserie!

It's definitely going to make the final body work and paint a lot easier, they used this building the 57 wagon as well.

My brother has been laying down all metal on the worst areas of the truck before we do primer, the bed subframe has been painted with some single stage that I used on the chassis. I got a bunch of days off in June I hope we can start getting to laying down the paint.

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I had to catch up on your progress too. I absolutely love those split front bumpers, the rear gravel shield work, all of it. It is looking fantastic. I thought for a minute about putting split bumpers on my 40 but I think I'm just going bumper less. The grill chin will get mashed with or without a bumper. My car sets so low the bumper might protect from curbs but not much else.

Yeah I opted to not do the drop spindles on my truck so I don't think I will have chin scraping problems, My brother took his off the coupe cause of tire rubbing but he wants to go back and maybe try a different tire/wheel combo to prevent the rubbing. Bumpers are purely cosmetic, I do think they look great bumperless too, I am just going for being a little more unique out there.

Had to take a little mini vacation and get a break from truck stuff before we go to town on it the rest of this month.

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Wonderful pictures! Thank You.

Crikey!
That second pic makes me think you fellas have so much land you had to stack it on edge to get it all in.

Originally Posted by johnboy

Crikey!
That second pic makes me think you fellas have so much land you had to stack it on edge to get it all in.

Just part of our best idea? National Parks and these were taken in the first one that began 150 years ago now. Yellowstone.

Beautiful pics! I'd love to get out that way within the next 10yrs with the family.

My bro removed some logos off my inner fenders and patched them since we modified them to be able to remove my radiator without tearing the whole front end apart.

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Got the last of the large stuff moved over to the paint booth to prep for primer, running boards, front fenders, inner fenders.

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I also spent some time disassembling a bunch of the small parts, boy is there a lot of them.

It's looking so nice! It's a good thing you went to Yellowstone when you did. The flooding and landslides look like a terrible mess.

Haven't made huge progress on the bodywork stuff, waiting to install a new air compressor for paint booth, got some hammering to do and then we should be ready to seal everything. Waiting on the compressor we decided to revisit the engine and get the new hydraulic roller cam put in, took out a solid mechanical flat tappet that was for drag racing.

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Degreed the cam, put in all new springs, tested springs, all new pushrods, new timing chain (which I didn't even need) new timing chain cover, new smaller diameter damper, everything is going back together slowly.

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As well I decided to start a project at home for those weekends I am not up at the shop and have some free time. I have had this old Jeep for 23 years, needs a lot of TLC. Putting all new steel tube flat fenders/flares, new exhaust and I need to drop the AX-5 transmission and see if I can rebuild it (blew out third gear a couple years ago) It's just running and old AMC straight 4, have many other things I would like to do to it but for now would just like to get it drivable again.

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