Here's a few shots, need a wide angle lens ! You can see a few former repairs and a bulge or two but they are hidden under the fenders!:LOL:
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Here's a few shots, need a wide angle lens ! You can see a few former repairs and a bulge or two but they are hidden under the fenders!:LOL:
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Worked yesterday stripping paint off the truck hood. Managed to reuse the wood bed platfrom I maid, by simply adding a layer of plywood over the open structure to make a nice table for the truck hood and tailgate to work on. Plan to stripp them to metal this week and do some small weld repairs before epoxy primering them too! At least the hood has been easy going getting the old paint off! For the hour I had on THursday, I got about a third of it sanded to bare metal on the top side. One of the under framing supports is loose and will need a spot weld to take the wobble out of the metal with it loose now. Other than that went to golden state nats today and had a good time. Met Pat and Walt there(stucool and volksrod) both nice fellows with very nice rods.:D
Here's a shot, not very exciting, but shows that a picture is indeed worth a thousand words!:LOL:
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I've seen a few F1 trucks since starting this project, but wow I mean WoW this guy did some nice work!
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Neat truck, sort of--all that chrome on the front is a bit wide for me....
Dave - Definately diferent from stock!:D
Today it was back to the grind stone, sander, grinder, and impact screw driver!
I took the underframe out of the hod. I was amazed I got all of the standard screws out without too much hassle. 62 years of rust usually means pain + frustration=skinned knuckles, but I came out intact today!:LOL:
I managed to strip all of the paint off the hood, and a fair amount off the inside before night fell and I ran out of sand paper for the random orbital! I welded some structural cracks with mixed success. One crak in the sheetmetal would burn two holes for every one I welded back together!:CRY:
But eventually I managed to shore it up, will need a little filler, but not too bad. All in all it felt good to use a few tools and make some head way. It seems as I progress I find more things that need attention. Best thing is I figure I rather take my time and do it right rather than rush it!:whacked:
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Fun, isn't it, Steve? :rolleyes::D I guess if it was easy anybody could do it.
Just a suggestion. If you have one of those air chisels you can make up the tool shown below in about a half hour, and it makes screws come out like butter on a hot knife, even rusted ones. The idea is, the hammering of the chisel shakes the screw loose, then you turn the handle counter clockwise to remove the screw. You would be amazed how much work it saves. The bit at the end is one you buy at any hardware store with a 1/4 inch shank, and the socket you weld on the end of the chisel is a 1/4 inch drive 1/4 inch socket.
Excuse my writing, I can't draw with a mouse very well.:o
Don
Thanks Don. Nice diagram. The hammer version I have worked o.k., but definately not as slick as your custom tool! One of these days I'll invest in a pneumatic chisel from HF. For the price I should of bought one years ago! By time I'm done with this rust bucket I'll probably have just about removed every original bolt and replaced them with grade 8's. I know I must be over 300 dollars in small bolts alone!
Well as summer draws to a close, I've managed to finish stripping the bed to bare metal and then epoxy primering it. This week I took the hood apart and did the same to it, only instead of treating the rusted areas with Marhyde rust converter, I painted the entire under surface with Por 15. I figured there was some heavy rusting under there in tough to get at spots, so the Por 15 offered better coverage and levels out by itself when painted, plus it sticks to rust like it's welded on. Anyway after that I primed the hood and parts with epoxy primer. Nothing too exciting, but that just about covers the whole truck with epoxy primer which should let me get body fill done now, and hopefully a chance to paint before it gets too cold or wet!
Here are a few pictures of where I'm at.
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It's funny the only part that came out spotty and rough was the top of the hood. At that point I mixed my paint differently. Instead of filtering the thick epoxy primer into my mixing cup through a filter, I mixed it with the catalyst first to thin it out, and then, filtered into my paint gun reservoir. On all the other painting I'd filter the primer first, then mix the catalyst directly into the filtered paint. The only other thing I can think of is one of the flow knobs on the gun got changed or, when I shot thinner through the gun between reloads, I might not of cleaned it good enough?
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Steve,
Your making progress, the underside of the hood looks good. A few times of washing the hood it could level out other wise you might be able to sand it lightly. The parts look a lot better with primer. I wanted to prime the 50 Ford with fresh primer to get it to looking better I think I'm going to have to sell it. It's too hard for me now to work on cars. The por is tuff I put some on the rear end of the 67 Nova in the garage that was a mistake very strong smelling stuff.
The good thin is you keep plugging away when you stop it's hard to get started again. I know that for sure.
Richard
steve that looks really good.
Hi Steve,
Spent the better part of this afternoon following your build. Too cold in the garage to work on mine.
Wow, what a journey, eh? There's something about taking a common, old vehicle, and turning it into something new and unique, that can't be explained... it can only be experienced.
Love the Special K project... can't wait for more pics.
I was thinking about this build the other day wondering if you had made any progress recently?
Thanks Guys. The holidays had me working quite a bit at work. Also the rain has been endless here. Trying to do body work in the garage leads to everything being coated with dust. Plus the temps here are hi 30's to low 50's, so motivation to do anything is low. I did fire up the engine and let it run for about 20 minutes the other day. I guess I could work on the wiring harness, in the garage(at least on one side) :) Mainly I've been a little down and tired. I'm sure once the sun pokes it's head out again, I'll be hitting it with some energy. I'd really like to get it to street legal status before summer.:eek:
you're in the same boat as me Steve..too cold to work and trying to have it drivable by spring. I tried the other day to work outside because I saw 46 degrees in the forecast, but it sure didn't feel like it was out of the 30's :HMMM:
Its the same here in my mancave in Non sunny Calif, nothing but cold 38 degree fog for the last week, tired of it....:(
Today was even colder! I did bottle some octoberfest beer i brewed over christmas!
Its comin along,Steve..I have the opposite problem here at the moment..Its nice and warm..:D,,and I am doing the lawns,painting a bit more of the house..and I got in a couple of hours on Lyndas Customline this afternoon..Keep going guys,,I am here battling too..:LOL:
Don't know if you guys keep up with all the crazy gun laws of California, but Old Governor Arnie passed a law to ban internet sales of ammunition to the entire state of California. On the surface this seems not a big deal, until you go to the store to buy ammo at rediculous costs.
Well the law was to go into effect Feb 1 2011, so a lot of us gun enthusiasts and hunters who can only get the ammo we use from specialty stores have been buying ammo trying to stock up in bulk. My hunting rifle for instance uses expensive rounds from Federal premium that go for about 70 bucks a box if I order them locally, and I have to buy at least 5 boxes at that price to get my gun store to order them. On the internet they go for as cheap as 43.00 a box, and I can buy one at a time. So I decided to buy these and other rounds before the law went into effect, spending money I had saved for the truck, once again putting off buying stuff for it and the Harley, based on this new law.
Ironically the law was just ruled unconstitutional due to the ambiguity of the language in which it was written, but after I've ordered my recent munitions!
The law also had stated that all future handgun ammunition sales would require being photographed and finger printed for each and every purchase. A bit extreme considering I go through a 10 day FBI background check and hold, for each and every weapon I purchase, along with fingerprinting each time, and if it is a hand gun, registering of that weapon for permanent state records.
Sooo, that nice suspension kit setup for the Harley that Ken invented, is on hold for installation, and the truck gasgets for the fenders and cowling, window installation, second gallon of color and other items on the list for the truck have to be put on the back burner for a few months while I save up again!!!!
Did I mention the 15 year anniversary gift for my wife in March? Boy all this stuff adds up!:D:D
On a bright note it's not raining and its 55 degrees outside!
Steve,
Even though I'm in law enforcement, I'm not much of a 'gun guy'. Several of my co-workers though, are in the same situation. Spent quite a bit stocking up on ammo, only to find out the ban didn't happen. Typical California politics! :whacked:
I am however, in the same situation as far as anniversaries go. Celebrating our 25th this month, so we decided to go big. We've been collecting photographs by a certain wilderness artist for a couple years now. The gallery offered us a killer deal... 5 large panoramic prints for the price of 2. Too good to pass up. But that means no goodies for the project until the pics are framed and hanging on the wall. :CRY:
Happy Anniversary.:LOL::LOL::LOL:
Happy 25 years to you guys too! I guess having too many interests can be a problem!:LOL: But everything gets done eventually!:cool:
Steve,
Happy anniversary!
If you bring your bike down I would be happy to put your suspention on. Think of it as your wifes anniversary gift :LOL:
Ken
Ken you are too generous! Thanks, right now I think I'll have enough saved up by the end of the month to shop around some local repair places I've worked with in the past and see if anyone is willing to give it a shot! I've almost payed off the anniversary gift, and I am also getting ready to get going on the truck again this week if this awesome weather holds out a few more days! I really want to get it road worthy by this summer!
Well we had a break in the rain last week on a day off, where I actually got to work on the truck. It was nice and warm so I thought I had to at least get something done on it. I pushed it out of the garage and fired it up for the first time in months. It ran great once warmed up, so I decided to try and clean up some of the wiring and get rid of some of the packages hold ing the wiring clips. I had bought some spark plug wire loop holders that I finally got installed, though I still need to trim the wires to length. I also had some wire conduit from HF that I thought I'd give a try on the distributor wires. It actually cleaned up the engine quite a bit. I'm off tomorrow, and if the weather holds, I plan to get the transmission linkage connected, so I don't have to keep pushing the beast back into the garage. I guess I'll get to see if the brakes work too!:3dSMILE::LOL:
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Its looking good, when will the maiden voyage happen,,,,,?
That reminds me of this joke.
NORWEGIAN FIRE DEPARTMENT
One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota , a fire started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact."
But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.
Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret files.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire company composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone's amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past all the newer sleek engines that were parked outside the plant.
Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire fought it back on all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the fire and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave fire fighters.
The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, asking their chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Vell," said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da first thing ve gonna do is fix DA brakes on dat focking truck!"
Lol.....:lol::lol:
Ken that was great:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::3dSMILE::D
Wires looking great man! Warm weather is just around the corner, dont worry.:) Whats your next plan of attack for the project???
Don Jr. :3dSMILE:
Changed plan of attack to getting everything bolted back on then, finish wiring, and get it on the road to see how it works. Technically just need to hook up linkage to be able to drive up and down driveway. But alot more to be street legal! Would like to get windshield installed too, but, I think it would be easier to paint it without the glass installed.
Wire coat hanger makes a perfect throttle cable, Steve, and it's traditional. Throw some on there and take that puppy down the driveway. :D
Your engine really looks nice, love them Fords. :)
Don
Thanks guys. I worked on mounting the B&M truck shifter yesterday. I was making headway(even with a massive migraine headache) when I needed to drill a new hole in the floor pan to route the new shifter cable. I needed to drill a 1-1/2" hole in the sheet metal. Well I had a step drill bit just for such occasions, but couldn't find the @$#% thing for the life of me. I ended up cleaning up my work area for about an hour, with no luck, digging thru parts boxes and all. I figured it's got to be in my drill bit box, so for the third time I looked thru the box, only to find it was in there, just smaller than I remembered(yep only cuts to 7/8") so I figured I'd try that, only it wasn't quite large enough in diameter to route the cable thru. So I figured I'd call around to see what the locals were extorting for a new bit. Ace didn't have it in a big enough size, Masseli had one for 90 bucks, and OSH had one for 49 bucks. Alas I contiplated a drive up north (minimum 1-1/2 hours round trip) to Harbor Freight who has a set of them for 14.99. Then I remembered that the car was in the shop getting the tranny flushed and the rear brakes replaced! Frustration took over, I ordered a set from HF on the internet to be mailed here by my next day off. Went to lunch with a friend who showed up, and called it good for the day. It did bum me out to push the Beast back in the garage over the 1/2" rise that snags it every time!!!!!!!!!:LOL:
Hopefully this weekend the weather will be dry, though rain is once again in the forecast! It will be nice to have a neutral start switch that works and a gear indicator to avoid problems I had with the old shifter!:rolleyes:
You sound like us, Steve. Half of our time is spent looking for some part or tool we "put where we KNEW it would be when we needed it." :rolleyes: I swear that garages are haunted by some Gremlins who come in every night and hide stuff. Sometimes I am using a tool, turn around, and it has disappeared! :eek:
About a week ago I started looking for the 56 Ford pickup steering box I had set aside for my new rpu project. Now, this isn't a small part, it has 4 feet of steering shaft sticking out of the top! I looked for days, and did a section by section, process of elimination search of every part of the shop. No dice. Even went back and rechecked the entire shop a couple more times. Finally, I decided my mission that day was to find the d*** thing, and after a while saw the shaft sticking out between some lumber in the loft. I don't remember even putting it up there, but it sure felt good to find it.
Gremlins, I tell you, Gremlins. :D
Don
Hey guys, it's not Gremlins, it's "blue people." :D There was an episode of Twilight Zone, "A matter of Minutes" where it was explained that the "blue people" are responsible for constructing the next minutes in time. (They travel faster than the eye can follow so no-one can see them.)
Sometimes they forget to move something and, when they catch the error, it appears where it wasn't a moment before.
Happens to me all the time. **) (Either that or it's CRS and I won't admit to that!!):LOL:
I was a gremlin once! When I was going to school I lived in a apartment complex. I was on the first floor and this guy lived above me. Every night at midnight he would exercise with this wheel that he would hold onto each side and it would roll on the floor. This wheel would roll out away from him than he would pull it back . Really noisy. So one night I hade enough. Then next mornig I waited for him to leave. I crawled up from my back porch to his balcony, opened his sliding door and went inside. His exercise wheel was laying on the floor. I took it and hid it in his closest.
He moved two weeks later. Have you upset anyone?
Ken
Not sure if it's Gremlins, bluepeople or just me! I swear about 9 times out of ten I'll search an hour then ask my wife who'll denie ever seeing what I'm looking for, but 1 in ten she'll admit to putting it away! But alas the Garage has been deemed the Man Cave, and for the most part it's the Gremlins fault out there!:LOL::LOL::D
Ken I have a coworker who is really anal about stuff, to the point of how straight everything on his desk is in relation to stuff nearby. He once got quite a few of us really upset, so for about a month I'd randomly sneak in his office and tweak a paper 45 degrees or move a pen, etc.. His secretary was a friend of mine who used to love coming into work and hear him rant about Gremlins, or rats or something that was getting in there at night and moving his stuff! Gotta love the little moments in life! I think once he was convinced it was an earthquake. But alas justice of a higher being really got him in the end, a sewage line broke in the ceiling above his desk! After that I stopped torturing him, I mean I could never top the sewage line!:LOL::D
:LOL::LOL::3dSMILE::LOL:
Looks like a clear day to hit the truck once again!
Had a Sgt. once who was not well respected. His nickname was Sgt. Bozo due to his bright red hair, receding hairline and comical (unintentional on his part) behavior. A couple of deputies learned the combination to the lock on his locker and replaced it with an identical lock. :cool:
Sgt. Bozo worked himself into frenzy trying to open the new lock. :eek:
The 'simpathetic" deputies offerred to help and were able to open the lock on the first try, thuroghly frustrating Sgt. Bozo. Over the course of six months, the locks were switched many times, with the Sgt. Bozo begging for help each time he couldn't get into his locker. He never caught on.
When the deputies grew tired of the game, they filled the top of his locker with pingpong balls decorated like Bozo the Clown. They came crashing down on his head, sending Sgt. Bozo into the Lieutenant's office demanding an IA investigation.
He was eventually given a stress retirement.:o