What did you do with your truck today, take 2

[57chevyman]

Originally Posted by Fleet58

Mustang tank, What year?

mine? its a '65 universal mustang tank from Tanks, inc. nice kit, came with sending unit that works with the stock fuel gauge.

[57chevyman]

finished building the wood bed!

[OrrieG]

Like I used to tell my girls when I posed them with my cars, every old car picture needs a beautiful girl in it. Nice work on the bed and good looking helper.

[ME.]

I finally got it started again.

[Atommik]

Installed the bed floor.

[Rambow]

Drove it 30 miles to work this morning...



Gonna pick up a new sheet of plywood for a new bed floor at the HW store at lunchtime, and my new 3point seat belts & some other goodies should be waiting for me when I get home tonight, so i'll have a few small projects to goof around with.

[bowt1ed]

After 6 months of repairing sheetmetal and replacing panels on cab, finally started working on doors. Got the first door hung back on to fit new inner bottom/outer skin before welding. Got back gaps close. Now working on slicing the front, top area to fit. Still a long ways to go....

Cheers, Jim

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by bowt1ed

After 6 months of repairing sheetmetal and replacing panels on cab, finally started working on doors. Got the first door hung back on to fit new inner bottom/outer skin before welding. Got back gaps close. Now working on slicing the front, top area to fit. Still a long ways to go....

Cheers, Jim

make sure you hang your fender to check that clearance too. Your will find from the factory 3 out of 4 are close, one will be off and you either live with it or start cutting or adding material.

[roger55]

SEM Pro-Tex tintable. Tinted with the same RAL-6009 Fir Green that the truck is painted with.

I sprayed it all this morning. I was out there before 6AM.
There were warning labels packed in the bed-liner box about spraying it in hot, humid conditions which is exactly what we had been having. Pot life is severely reduced and flash times have to be well longer.
So, I put the bed-liner cans in cool water last night and started early. It worked out perfect. Normal flash times are 20 minutes but because the humidity was 90%, I gave each coat an hour.

Because the whole prepare process took me longer to do than I had figured and I was getting later in the recoat window of the SPI epoxy, I decided to scuff it all with 180 sandpaper just to make sure I wouldn't have any adhesion problems. So, that took me even longer. I've worked on this every day this week and finished the final step of masking yesterday evening. I did that well. I didn't want to take any chances getting the bed-liner on anything I didn't want it on. Here's yesterday's photos:









Today's photos after removing the all the masking. The directions have you unmask as soon as the final coat is complete.























This SEM Pro-Tex is good stuff. I'm impressed. I had enough for 3 coats of everything. It called for 2 to 3 coats and you have full-coverage by the second coat.

It sprays easy and is easy to make it look just like you want with how heavy you put it on and how close you hold the gun. I backed the distance off and went a little lighter on the last coat to give it a little more rough look. If a person wanted it to look more smooth, it would be easy to do but I liked it better a little on the rough side.

I think the color came out just great too and my wife (truck is for her) is extremely pleased with the whole look.

Make no mistake though. This makes a mess of your shop. Oh well, nice to have a room I built for abuse.

Next I will work towards getting the bed painted so I can mount it on the truck and get the room back to work on the paint prep for the fenders, doors and hood.

[57chevyman]

painted my bed with Rustoleum Seaside Gloss.

[yoshi]

Went out for a run today https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n5UaTe...ature=youtu.be

[Whumbachumba]

Got the bed cleaned out of parts and the bench seat stripped down.

[57chevyman]

got the flip down license plate bracket done today. i used a stock bracket and a generic flip down bracket. the finished product looks stock with the correct license plate light!

[yoshi]

I didn't like seeing the rust on the chrome rocker covers

[yoshi]

So I took 1 off, blasted it & painted it

[thebebop]

New shoes and the correct hood...

[Whumbachumba]

Cut out the rusted floor getting it ready for the replacement panel.

[mdpaulson1]

Originally Posted by thebebop

New shoes and the correct hood...

nicely done!

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by thebebop

New shoes and the correct hood...

Yes, the hood does fit nice. Looks good.

[twinsemi]

I found a nice used roll bar for a stepside on craigslist. Now I can make my new diamond-plate bed and put that on top of some frame brackets for the bar and I will be solid.

[donandal]

I started this panel below the dash for the A/C vents and switches.

[Coupeguy2001]

changed my toilet paper oil filter,, and drove over to meet my wife for lunch.
raced some guy in a mustang, went head to head, but carb ran out of gas.
I need to put in a bigger electric fuel pump.
This one is reliable, but cant keep the carb full at wide open throttle past 3rd gear.
I have 5 gears, seven if you want to work the overdrive and shift a bunch.

[rgunlock]

Originally Posted by donandal

I started this panel below the dash for the A/C vents and switches.

That panel looks really sharp! Is that aftermarket, and if so from where?

[donandal]

Originally Posted by rgunlock

That panel looks really sharp! Is that aftermarket, and if so from where?

thanks,
it's not aftermarket,
I built it from scratch from flat 18 gauge steel.

[Tomb23]

I think the true definition of it is ART WORK ! Nice Job!