1981 K20 Project - The Blue Ox

[Smniekamp]

An old car guy once told me that the key to working on a project vehicle is to do something with it every day. Even if the only thing you do is remove a single screw, it helps keep the project moving along. So, as much as I didn't want to today after work, I went out and gave The Ox some love.

My plan for mounting the bed is to weld some flat bar to the frame of the bed, and bolt it to the frame of the truck. That way it can be removed from the truck later on if I change beds. Today I wire wheeled the rust off the mounting points on the bed frame, measured my truck frame holes, and drilled my flat bar mounts.

The bed frame sections cleaned.


Drilling holes in the flat bar with my drill press.


Cleaning the bed surface up, one square foot down, 55 to go....