What did you do to your truck today part II.

[Grizz1963]

Started this morning with painting the rear springs a red under coat...... what a carp job to do.

Tomorrow I will go get some red gloss enamel mixed up to paint them with, I only did the rears, as I am going to Hammerite the front ones in Black.


First coat of undercoat on.




Anyone remember the office remodel Mickey next door was involved in a few months ago, where I rescued some skirting boards that had been glued onto the drywalls with some serious high tech glues ??







Well, I have been watching Thicknesser/Planers the last couple of weeks, after manually cleaning some of the Oak sections for the resto I did on the cast iron furniture a few weeks ago.

Today I was planning on bidding on one on Ebay, but I contacted the seller to go inspect, and then typically, the day turned nasty, and I could not even get away to go look at it before bidding.

I did however get a call from the seller, Mat, a Police officer to tell me a bit about him. I told him that the machine was going to make a lot more than I would be prepared to pay for it. As I wanted to use it to remove all the glue and get all the boards the same thickness......

People continue to surprise me with their kindness.

During the chat, I had told Mat what I had planned to do with the machine. Next thing he suggested I load up the skirting boards and bring them over to his home about 10 miles/16km from where we live, and give it a go on the machine before it sells.

Where do you still get this sort of kindness and consideration ??

So a fast decision was made, Nicola and I moved cars off the drive, loaded all the planks into the back of the truck and I "raced" over to Rochester to meet Mat, and then we got the first, followed by the other 18 planks, each one got three passes through the thicknesser.



This is the result....

I am a very thankful and pleased man tonight.



Getting on with it.



And the result..... Before and after shot.

Now I need about 36 meters of 3mm X 15mm ally strips to fit between the planks and create the sliders.




This was a good day.

[steveb64]

Sail panels installed, thanks Ironhorse.

[steveb64]

Altman latches installed, much better door closing.

[steveb64]

Power brakes installed, using the Captains bracket, easy as pie.

[dstarrett]

Just ordered the altman easylatch for mine. Easy instal Steve.

[steveb64]

Originally Posted by dstarrett

Just ordered the altman easylatch for mine. Easy instal Steve.

Very easy with a cutoff wheel.

[earl84]

Originally Posted by steveb64

Sail panels installed, thanks Ironhorse.

Hard to believe how nice the sail panels make a truck look. Can't wait to be done with mechanicals on my truck and start doing some beautifying.
Grizz, nice fella you ran in to, glad it worked out, I can't wait to see how that wood ends up looking on your truck.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by earl84

Hard to believe how nice the sail panels make a truck look. Can't wait to be done with mechanicals on my truck and start doing some beautifying.
Grizz, nice fella you ran in to, glad it worked out, I can't wait to see how that wood ends up looking on your truck.

Thanks Earl.

The amazing thing is that he was just an unknown Ebay seller who contacted me back because I had shown interest in his machine that already had about 27 bids on.

Then offering to clean my boards up which was more than 90 minutes worth of feeding all of them through repeatedly to remove all that industrial strength adhesive ( I also stood with a spall hand axe chopping/skimming the biggest lumps off before feeding through ) THAT IS BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY.

[pimpston65]

we bought a 292 out of a 67C10 in pittsburgh for $100. heads redone but spun bearing, still can turn at the harmonic bal. thou. look out burban making you factory correct!!!

[cab_01]

Installed the Vintage Air system, radiator, shroud and hoses.

[Ronw435]

Well go to warm in the garage, so retired to the air conditioning. Got the bed off today and some of the interior. The first picture here makes me wonder what the heck they were trying to do.......................its the hump in the floor.

Found a little bit of cancer but I guess it is to be expected when people let the dirt pile up in the corners.

[Grizz1963]

As a follow on to last nights report on getting all the recycled skirting boards planed and thicknessed I thought I would unpack them this morning before packing them away in their spot under my motorbike trailer which just happened to be out over the weekend delivering a bike for a friend of mate Martin's

The shortest three to the right are the exact length of the truck bed, and the width they make up is again the exact width I need.

Clearly they need to be processed and cut etc when the time comes.




Today was time to attack some of the trucks wiring that must have been done by a blind badger with a crooked walking stick on a night with not much moon shining.

Mate martin had to return my trailer, and also wanted to join Nicola and I on our weekly bootfair trip. But of course we usually leave home between 06.00 and 06.15 as the first one is about 12 miles from home.
Martin was unhooking the trailer by 06.15 and I pushed it though to the garage while he reversed his tool laden car down to the garage.
By 06.25 we had a quick cuppa tea and then went to three bootfairs, getting home by 10.30 for a quick breakfast, an then down to the garage.
Martin managed a nice little haul, including an unused gravity feed spray gun for his primer work @ £5.00 and a complete, unused Airbrush kit for £4.00
We each also bought two 500ml cans of red gloss enamel spray paint for our truck springs, the result below.



The main reason for Martin coming over was to help me identify why my passenger indicator had gone on the blink again (well, it did not blink anymore)

While he was at that job, I did a load of other odd jobs in the garage.

It soon became clear that the truck did not have side lights, which in the case of my truck are both in the bonnet.

So after a load of testing, breaking old oxidized wires and also finding the one fitting was useless, Martin went home to take Amanda, his other half out grocery shopping etc, returning three hours later with his spare fitting to use so that we could get a bi-filament globe fitted.
Unfortunately, both fittings were so buggered that he had to solder small tabs onto the bulbs so that they would make sufficient contact to be functional. After which he renewed some of the wiring which was broken.

This left us at 19.30 with working indicators, side lights etc.

Through the day we also solved another few problems of my and his rebuilds.

These are the fittings we now need to find replacements for from the USA.






And so a greatly productive weekend came to and end.

Next weekend is MOT time, and I do hope the truck will pass its test.

[Dillon Rock]

Looking damn good grizz. I plan on doing my bed with old rough sawn lumber from my neighbor up the road from my folks house in Michigan. They hold an antique engine and tractor show every year and have a sawmill demo and no one wants any lumber so his son in law takes it to his dad's place and stocks it. I figure rough sawn white oak would be good just to keep the rustic look of an old farm truck.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Dillon Rock

Looking damn good grizz. I plan on doing my bed with old rough sawn lumber from my neighbor up the road from my folks house in Michigan. They hold an antique engine and tractor show every year and have a sawmill demo and no one wants any lumber so his son in law takes it to his dad's place and stocks it. I figure rough sawn white oak would be good just to keep the rustic look of an old farm truck.

Thank you Dillon Rock.

I am pleased so far.

It would be easy to go out and buy a new bed wood kit, but where is the fun in that?

I always get a kick out of making something old, new or different.

The strips will probably cost me a lot more than the rest of the job but may just bring it all together.

[Jeff La]

Originally Posted by Dillon Rock

Looking damn good grizz. I plan on doing my bed with old rough sawn lumber from my neighbor up the road from my folks house in Michigan. They hold an antique engine and tractor show every year and have a sawmill demo and no one wants any lumber so his son in law takes it to his dad's place and stocks it. I figure rough sawn white oak would be good just to keep the rustic look of an old farm truck.

What show do they host?? I've been wanting to go to the Allis show up that way but I like them all.

[bj383ss]

Rear suspension mocked up.

[Dillon Rock]

Originally Posted by Jeff La

What show do they host?? I've been wanting to go to the Allis show up that way but I like them all.

It's in Hartford Michigan. Van Buren county fairgrounds. Just look it up. Has a lot of good turn out.

[forestb]

A little off subject, but what is this for? 2 bolt holes and an indentation.

[pimpston65]

Originally Posted by forestb

A little off subject, but what is this for? 2 bolt holes and an indentation.

the foot controlled dimmer switch goes there...

[hopped up]

Originally Posted by Dillon Rock

That looks real great man. Especially with the white walls.

Thanls man. I really like the new hubcaps .

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by steveb64

Very easy with a cutoff wheel.

How about the linkage connections inside the door? Any particular problems in there. I have NOS latches and strikers and although they work reasonably well, I'd love to have something that works like a new car. Any issues adjusting the latch after installation?

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by forestb

A little off subject, but what is this for? 2 bolt holes and an indentation.

I'm thinking those holes look more like they were for attaching the original fuse panel. I was wrong, looking at the wrong angle. Those holes are on the toe board, not the vertical part of the firewall. Definitely not for the fuse panel.

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by bj383ss

Rear suspension mocked up.

Man that looks pretty. Now you just need to throw a truck on top and started zipping around in it!

[steveb64]

Originally Posted by markeb01

How about the linkage connections inside the door? Any particular problems in there. I have NOS latches and strikers and although they work reasonably well, I'd love to have something that works like a new car. Any issues adjusting the latch after installation?

No linkage issues, very straightforward. The adjustment is very tunable. I set the jamb plate and then fine tuned with the latch bolt adjustment.

[markeb01]

Originally Posted by steveb64

No linkage issues, very straightforward. The adjustment is very tunable. I set the jamb plate and then fine tuned with the latch bolt adjustment.

Thanks for the response. I'm going to have to get a set for my truck.