What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ?

[dubie]

Holy hell, that looks just like my wife 58 fleetside sitting in the yard, Now THAT'S a driver!! nice one man!!

I cut out the rust in the other step side fender last night and welded in new metal. I ran out of gas shielded wire after my first 2 tacks so I had to do the rest of it with flux core. After a couple burn through, I got the heat dialled in and got it done. The bed is now ready to be roughed up and shot with primer.
I took a stripping disc to the lower part of the front drivers side fender thinking there would be some rot hiding behind the apparent bondo abuse and yet, the metal was clean. This truck does however have a ton of brazing done to repair some older front end damage. I've come to the conclusion that I've been over thinking the body on this truck and need to stay on task with my original build plan and have a rough body on a modern chassis and powertrain set up.

I have this entire week off work so there will be some major progress happening on this thing. Wiring and mounting body panels are on the top of that list