The English are coming! Or..another C10 in the Motherland.

[Palf70Step]

Very nice work!

[Grizz1963]

Thought I would add this in while you are off to play at Goodwood...... Enjoy!!

I will be on yard work today and Swapmeet tomorrow.




How I want to drive my truck one day.......

[Paul Y]

So….This.



Applied to this.



Resulting in.



Which in turn leads to this…




Long way to go yet but stage 1 complete and feeling slightly confident that it wont end up looking like a Large Ladies Derrière.

P.

[mjh1965]

Looking good Paul . If all fails they do filler (bondo) in big tins on eBay.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by mjh1965

Looking good Paul . If all fails they do filler (bondo) in big tins on eBay.

Now that's funny.

Well done Paul, that takes some balls to do.


Still, it has to be an improvement, and while stuff is happening in the background........ You may as well do the side.

[Paul Y]

Thank you for the vote of confidence Gentlemen......

Compared to how it was this is a Kagillion times better, plus I have a secret weapon.

And on that bombshell...

Laters.

P.

[plainred65]

Looks better already Paul.

[Waynesworld]

Hello Paul,
I met you in a car park in Chelmsford and bought your old wheels! Truck is looking good! Mine gets shipped on the 24th,very excited! Here's a pic of what your old wheels will be going on!




Danny.

[Paul Y]

Hi Danny,

Car park dealings are always the best...

Once you get your truck here if there is anything I can help you with just let me know. Agree that Woodys wheels will look a lot better than the Wagon Wheels that are on there at the moment.

From the looks of it you have a big widow custom, cant see if it is a long or short bed. Nice.

P.

[Paul Y]

No pictures but just come in from a 4 hour welding session.

As a first attempt I would have to say that its a good job they sell this in 3.5L tins...



...and you get a multi tin discount...

P.

[Grizz1963]

Well, I suspect you are still way ahead of the most of us with the welding.

I fear for when I start of all the rust on my panels.

[Paul Y]

Right, a real quick update after another couple of hours in the shed.

Panel on and, remarkably, actually quite straight!







I have a number of pin holes in my welds, not sure what to do with them as I am chasing myself with trying to fill them up, plus I am worried about warping the panel.

A light skim and we should be golden, especially compared to what was there before!

Off too bed as all this welding has knackered me out.

Comments welcome.

P.

[Grizz1963]

Massive improvement.

Fortunately your weld lines are where you can mostly hide them like you said with a skim if pog.

Do you have a section of plate to weld over the side door section?

Been down to he garage this morning.

8.75" X 9" X1"

This what you need?




Hand for size perspective. It's quite heavy, so no good for posting.



Let me know what you need.

[ibrown50]

Paul, that looks OK to me, I'll be happy if my door bottoms end up that good
Rian, your garage is like Aladdin's cave

[Paul Y]

Rian, that is absolutely spot on for what I need. Can we arrange a dodgy meet up over the weekend?

Ian, I would be pleased if they were my door bottoms but it is the bed side....

Just noticed in the pictures that the part where the wheel opening meets the new panel is at a different level...

To quote Mr James May... Oh Cock...

P.

[Paul Y]

Oh yes, Rian if you have a suitable square that would be great as the only bits I have are crumpled.

P.

[Palf70Step]

Originally Posted by Paul Y

I have a number of pin holes in my welds, not sure what to do with them as I am chasing myself with trying to fill them up, plus I am worried about warping the panel.
P.

When I get to that point, I normally use some of the JB Weld. (I guess you have it or something like it over there). Then I use the bondo to smooth the rest out. I just think the JB Weld is a bit better to fill in the pin holes, than just plain bondo.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by ibrown50

Paul, that looks OK to me, I'll be happy if my door bottoms end up that good
Rian, your garage is like Aladdin's cave

Benefits of being an apprentice hoarder......



Looks like Martins truck is really helping people in all four directions of the compass.


A load of the panels went to Andy Übercool for his build.

I will cut the flat section off this piece and keep the curvy bits for my own repair as I am now scraping the barrel for repair bits for the holes I know my panels still have.

Will see when we can meet up over the weekend.

Maybe I can bribe Nicola with an IKEA breakfast of meatballs and fries tomorrow, followed by a bottomless coffee.



Alternately of course, you know where I have stored the bits for you.

[Bomp]

Oh I feel your pain about working on bed sides.

Came out looking like a keeper.

[Paul Y]

Originally Posted by Bomp

Oh I feel your pain about working on bed sides.

Came out looking like a keeper.

That is high praise indeed Sir!

Taking a night off and cracking on with phase 2 tomorrow.

P.

[Paul Y]

So… After way more hours than is probably economic may I present the panel, which….




When compared to….



is a vast improvement… However, I appear to have a rather large high spot near the arch which I am pretty sure was part of the original damage to the bed side. To quote the illustrious Mr. James May…Oh Cock…

Where I have stuck another bit of Martins truck into the flanks I have a rather low spot but that is a bit easier to fix with a heat gun and a spot of Mr Isopons finest.



Decided that I am making things worse by chasing the dents and pin holes so am going to wait until my good friend Mr J ( he of classic Porsche restoration fame) comes and makes it all wonderful. Or less like a fat girls arse…

During all of the pulling, pushing, welding, grinding, welding. grinding, swearing etc I made a bit of an interesting discovery. Can you spot what it is yet?



The bed side ‘stay’ on the damaged side was different by a total of over 2”, not sure, but it looks like a rear stay.

Anyway, quick measure. Cut, File, and stuck in a fixture



all was good and managed to get the panel pretty much where I wanted it. Well apart from the high spot… Grrr….



Now embarking on the next repair before the bed goes back on using, this…


this…



and, most importantly this.



Stay tuned Campers!

P. 😃

[Paul Y]

Looking for a little advice.

The bed damage was not the sum total of Woody's woe's. The B pillar had a fail hefty whack as well. Managed to pursuade the vast majority of the metal back into shape using the above but am struggling with the inner mounting surface, the bit that the cab corner attaches too.

It doesn't matter how hard I hit it, how big the slide hammer or, indeed, the volume of swearing, it refuses to move. Or rather it does but seems to spring back to its damaged position.

As per everyone's advice I am working the dent backwards ( last area to move the first to be pushed back) but it is this first area of impact that is not playing ball.

Any advice on what I can try?

Have pictures but had enough of it tonight.... Grrrrr.....

P.

[mjh1965]

Paul if any more of my old truck goes on your truck , you'll need to put my name on the log book

[Paul Y]

OK, Because I have now had a medicinal glass of Corona I am going to throw these pictures up and hope somebody can advise.

These are all before the beating commenced.



In this you can see the original damage, the part I am struggling with is the 'middle' and outer piece.Managed to get the inner (left hand side of the picture) pushed out and looking ....meh... but the rest of it wont move.

So, all you super heros of the metal shaping world, how do I fix that!

P.

[mjh1965]

Personally Paul I would cut out the panel straighten it and fit it back , or you could replace the bottom section with an outer rocker panel .