Ian's Tennessee Honey '64 Short Box Step-side - England

[DPowers]

Love the color. Very nice work.

[clemdaddy]

nice work on the hood… you seem to be a man thats on a mission. keep after it, you'll be driving her soon.

looks good.

[ibrown50]

Originally Posted by mjh1965

It's starting to take shape at the front . Like you , everything I have had from POL has fitted nicely . It won't be long before you are driving it Ian

Thanks Martin, wonder who will be driving first

Originally Posted by DPowers

Love the color. Very nice work.

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

nice work on the hood… you seem to be a man thats on a mission. keep after it, you'll be driving her soon.

looks good.

Dwane, Clem thank you, your comments are much appreciated


Made a little more progress today, I've got the trailing arms welded up,





As planned I've welded about 1" in 6" top and bottom plus fully welded the ends. I'm amazed at how much stiffer they are and how much more solid they feel. I'm now debating whether to add the strengthening plates or not, I'll sleep on it and decide tomorrow.

I also removed the old bushes, the new poly bushes use the outer tube from the original bushes so I had to remove the old rubbers and inner sleeves without damaging them. To do this I ran a drill through the old rubber, it was so hard and perished it drilled great.



Then pulled out the centre tube with a pair of vice grips.



Once this was removed the remains of the old rubber pushed out easily leaving a nice clean tube for the new bushes.

[Grizz1963]

Looking good Ian.

A lot more finesse than me burning mine out.