49' Patina bagged in PA

[99 to Life]

9-28 Ok, well fall is in full effect and flying by wow. In a hurry to get some stuff in epoxy and painted bf it gets too cold. Speaking of, I got some single stage gold paint, will be for the dash, some interior and rims. We'll see how it goes, got white for interior too. dash should be in epoxy hopefully this week, then highbuild, sealer and paint. Going to be working on my custom gauges as well, will be keeping stock look, but instead of buying new gauge panels, I'm going to make my own and color coordinate them with the dash. I'm planning on making the speedo a tach. Also found some good vinyl suppliers, so I'll be ordering that too. Going to make some custom interior pieces myself and probably have a professional do my seat.

Got some 2600 lb airlifts off of dave aka 98layinframe, thanks for the hookup. Also got a bunch of tubing and a piece of 18g sheet metal for 84 bucks today, should be enough to all my mounts and work with my floor framing and start some patches with. Was going to buy all the DOM tubing and make my 3 link, and still will but do to time and welder, I'm going to get a bolt on link kit again from dave. It will be the same concept as I'd be building from scratch. I'm getting it for a really good deal compared to the 1200 new it sells for. Should be ordering bag cups and control arms soon as well, had these belltech drop spindles for a minute, should be able to lay this out no problem and hoping with minimal rear notch.

put the engine on the back burner for a minute, just trying to get stuff in primer and paint bf weather hits. I'm basically waiting on cam and timing gear bf I can really button things up. then I'll need waterpump, oilpump, pan, pullies, alt, and pws bracket, still got to paint it too.

[99 to Life]

10-2 Finally got dash and some other parts in epoxy. I'll get some better pics tomorrow. Might use a little filler here and there, then high build primer then sealer then paint. Waiting on rims from blaster before I shoot any paint. Got probably 40 plus hours in this dash right now. Don't ask me why I did this!

[69CST-V]

Looking good. Keep it up.

[99 to Life]

couple more pics with some stuff moched up. Should look really good with the paint scheme and new gauge clusters. Getting there. Hoping to have the front end of my frame tore apart and possibly cab and front clip tore off the 49' this weekend, get it inside my tiny new garage so I can feel claustrophobic.

[99 to Life]

10-6 Well, Didn't exactly get cab and front clip off frame and or my s10 frame tore apart. But I did get a couple lights wired up and some foam board up in the garage ceiling (free from the dumpster). The garage is almost done, just have some fine tuning to do, get electric fully ran, get garage door to work, get the windows buttoned up and some weatherizing for winter. But I should now be able to start working on frame and get cab in there and start moching stuff up. Sucks money has been holding back a few things so I gotta just work on things I don't need money for at the moment.

Dug out my extra bed, running boards. I'm probably going to find another bed and rear fenders rather than using some extra parts I have. I want to find something a little more solid and that matches this patina. I still need a drivers door that matches.

[69CST-V]

I've got a door you may be interested in.

[99 to Life]

bryce, yeah thats not too far off. I just hit up buddsauto out of deerfield ohio. he has a antique bone yard. waiting to hear back on him first. your a bit far outta my range, unless you wanted to drive the truck in your avitar out to PA and swap parts!!! Sad thing is I have 6 or more extra doors to play with, I'm just looking for something a little more like the patina on the truck. I really don't wanna fauxtina it, but with the bed and rear fenders I might have to compromise. Plus I'm putting new cab corners on it, so I gotta blend those in with the patina, that I can deal with.

[69CST-V]

Understand. Just thought I'd offer.

[99 to Life]

ahh man, I was thinking oh, I have a door that would work, but my luck again its not a drivers side. I do have another off red door that might work, I could maybe add some green to. One other one I had, I blasted and primed cause it is going to be for my painted truck, again it was a pass side. I got alot to do in the mean time, so I'll find the stuff I need. If anyone catches this, I love the writing on the door, but it's not a 49' door! But how ironic would that be if it was and just so happened to match the patina on the 49' I got.

[Marte_Mcfly]

Hey 99 to life, I was reading about your hard to reach rust when you were repairing the dash. Have you ever heard of rust removal by electrolysis? Maybe you have, but if not, Youtube "electrolysis rust removal". Pretty interesting and it does work, I've used it myself. There's also the old molasses rust trick as well, but that takes a lot of time.

[xpickup]

Henry, Looks like you a gathering things up. I like the back suspension design. You did a great job on the dash, it sure was a lot of fab work. keep up the great work.


Shannon

[99 to Life]

mcfly, yes I have heard of that process, but didn't really have a tank and or desire to do that with this dash. Its def cool process. I just got in there and sanded the stuff by hand good enough for epoxy to set over and should hold that from coming back. My sandblaster worked for a split second and it worked great, than it just wouldn't work.

shannon, thanks. kind words coming from such a good fabricator as you is nice to hear. I still have some work to do to get this in paint. Yeah things are slowly coming together and are long over due thats for sure. I gotta now come up with money for electric company to run line out to my garage, ontop of the new welder I need. Been catching alot of hard breaks lately, but I will get there.

that link setup is from ridetech. I had full intentions on doing my own from scratch. But I might still just go this route and fine tune it a bit. For the price I could get it for, its only slightly more to buy this kit than all the materials I'd need. We'll see where it goes soon.

[99 to Life]

10-9 So I'm an idiot as I realized I have three doors to choose from on the driver side. I'm thinking the middle door. Maybe take the vent window out to make it more like the 49' door, but I dunno yet. Have to add a little fauxtina to it. Still gonna be on the hunt for different bed and rear fenders I think, but I'll cross that bridge when I get her all moched up.

Planned on getting cab in garage but to no avail yet. Was planning on that and tearing the front end apart on the frame but I believe most my work day sunday is going to be taken by a car show.

Sending rims to the sandblaster and will have them in paint soon, can't wait.

Lastly, here is a sneak peak on my calendar for 2014, should be available on my site by December I'm hoping. Would like to get some more guys involved from this site on my next one. Should be doing one every year. Just need to retake a few photos and finalize it for production.

[99 to Life]

10-15 skim coat of filler on there, hoping to have it in high build primer tomorrow. Rims still need sandblasted, hoping to have the done soon, get those in primer and paint rims and dash together. Couple weekends behind on where I wanted to be, but thats life. Getting some more air ride stuff next week and hopefully get my front end going in November. Hoping to get body in garage before snow flies too. Scored a nice set of white walls I been looking for. It was a drive by fluke, seen them from afar and the owner at his mailbox. So got one more thing checked off my list.

[99 to Life]

10-16 got the dash, rad/hoodlatch guard and drop spindles in high build primer last night. Hoping to have these parts and rims painted before snow comes.

[msaintg]

are you going to paint the dash before you install it? don't you have to weld it in?

[99 to Life]

msaintg, yah I'v contemplated that. I was just gonna spot weld back in. I think it would be fine. Plus there is a good 1-1.5" with the lip that gets welded and the area that the trim will cover, so any blemishes can be touched up and will have the trim covering it anyway. I just think it would be much easier paint the dash out of the cab. Also I really gotta see if the paint lays out how I want it and the tone is right, thats why I atleast gotta get rims and some other stuff in color. I'm just running outta days.

[99 to Life]

10-23 Well my daughter is 8 months old today, crazy time flies. Anyway, finally located a missing rim, had them blasted and I through some epoxy on them. Hoping to be in paint very soon, so I can mount my whites on em and get cracking on the frame and suspension. Debating on getting my frame blasted or not. Price is good, but I just don't want to wait to have it done, say they have a hang up and keep it for a couple weeks, I'm gonna be jacked. But it would save a lot of headache for me and they would epoxy it in house. For me now its getting too cold I can't coat it or anything probably till spring, so that leaves me with less options on say, finalizing fuel, brake, and airlines. If they coat it the only down fall would be welding on a few things to the frame afterward, but I could bolt most alot of stuff on instead. So we'll see.

[PurdueSD]

All you need is a Mr Heater big max for the garage. Best garage investment ive made!

[99 to Life]

purdue, here is my problem. I have two garages, one where I spray right now. A little more of a controlled environment, but I do have a space heater in there and I can get it to about 60* max in the winter because it has 14' ceiling. So maybe I just need another heater. The garage my frame and cab are in is metal. I'm already having sweating problems in there, I'm almost afraid to heat it this winter, on top of that its a flat roof. Its been the biggest/worst thing I'v put time and money in. The only good thing about it is the thing will never burn down. Thats it, its small and a PIA. Where did you get your heater? I'll check it out.

[PurdueSD]

Insulation! You need insulation and the sweating problems are gone. Ive got an 1800 sq ft shop I built thats got r19 on the walls/r30 in the ceilings. I keep it at 50 when im not in there and bump it to 60-65 depending on what im doing.

75k mr heater /250 gal propane tank needs filled every other year. $160 a year is the best money i could ever spend!

[99 to Life]

yeah maybe someday I'll get around to the insulation, its an 18x24 and its used and 25plus years old, so its already got some problems. But I'll make do like I always do. It officially snowed today, so for me that could be a better thing than rain, as I'm chasing down leaks still.

On a decent note, I picked up some air ride stuff today, going to use some for the 49' and whatever parts I don't use I'll use on my 51' when I eventually bag it. Got some more air ride stuff to pick up soon.

[99 to Life]

10-24 Just shot a few things to see how the color was gonna turn out. Hard to tell by the photos because of camera, light and them being wet. But overall its not as gold as I'd thought, it's more like a bronze which is ok. Not sure if I'll play with mixing some colors or not. Started sanding dash, so that and rims should have some color pretty soon.

[99 to Life]

10-31 Well rack another month closer to snow, which I'v already had some. Sneak peak on the gauge cluster for the air ride system. Probably will paint the bezel to match the dash. Got an AVS controller and some other stuff. Close to getting some actual content worth looking at soon.

[FarmerSid]

Some snow already? Sucks to be you. None here yet. Slick gauge cluster!