Firewall Prep

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by mr48chev

Boy Howdy Dan, the PO's of that truck drilled an extra hole for everything.

Not to be suggesting running out and spending several hundred bucks on a mig but quite often if a guy has a good welder he also has a buddy who will do the welding for bragging rights and occasional use of the welder in your garage.


When I picked it up I told him that I had saved the money to buy a Hobart 140 the next time they came on sale and he opened a cabinet in his spotless garage and there was a Hobart 140 that he had used before buying the 175 Lincoln that I bought from him....

Funny, I bought a used but nearly new Hobart 140 just to do rust repair on my truck.

My truck was sold to me by a guy who bought it from the original owner since 1955. He'd gotten too old to drive it any more and it had sat un-registered and undriven from 1999 until 2010. He'd realy done nothing other than rebuild the carburetor and gets it running. I bought the truck in 2011.

The guy used it only to commute to work. He'd welded a 1/8" plate covering the bedwood which was actually pretty solid, just cracked. I have no idea what the deal was with the heater. The one i took out of it was a generic little square box with a manual water valve in the engine compartment.