Great White North 59 Fleetside Build

[Wheelie]

Good amount of progress. Good clean clip install also. What headers did you use if you recall?

[HiRMKin]

Blue57, the blue one is our demo unit and the other is my old truck and a customer’s BBQ.

Wheelie I use some flowtech headers from a 1981 Camaro that I got ceramic coated.

[HiRMKin]

I’ve been slow on my updates, I got the gas tank built and installed. I made it from 1/8 alum and it’s about 25 U.S gals.

[Kim57]

The tank looks real nice.
Kim

[_Ogre]

the tank looks real good!
nice simple and functional hydroboost mount too
i like the jig you made for locating the radiator supports.
a lot of builder fail on locating those, nice work

[HiRMKin]

Thanks Again Kim.
Orge I got the Idea from 56chevy1300 and his build of his truck MY Project 56 Chevy 1300.
It worked out great the front sheet metal slid right into place.

[HiRMKin]

I got a new rad a few weeks ago from eBay and it looks good. I got a Taurus fan from PnP and trimmed the factory shroud off. I then made a 1/8 alum ring to fit the fan. Next I built a shroud to fit the rad. I then tacked the ring to the shroud. I did a test fit and with a few adjustments I was happy

[Kim57]

That came out real nice.
Kim

[HiRMKin]

Got the rad support and shroud back from the powder coaters and installed.

[Kim57]

Looks good.
Kim

[Clarance J]

HiRMKin, In post 32 I know that you were showing how you formed part of your radiator shroud, but all I could see was the brake. Used one like that years ago. Now I see how that fuel tank got formed up. Very nice work on the tank and shroud. I miss those big tools. Keep the pictures coming.

[JML55]

Very nice work on the tank and shroud looking good.

[_Ogre]

nice work on your fan shroud

i have to ask... a pink truck? is that faded brown or red?

[HiRMKin]

Man would wood not believe how much I hate that colour. My wife tries to man up the colour and calls it pomegranate punch.

I started something I’ve been avoiding for a years, the front windshield brow. Frist off I measured anything to do with the window opening that I thought would be of any use to me. Then I started out by making a few different shape angles from 20ga cold roll. I borrowed a shirker and a stretcher to get the shape right. I fitted two angles together to make the outside piece.

[Kim57]

That looks like it came out real nice.
Kim

[dubie]

the boy's got skills!! Nice metal fab work man!

[Mac the Yankee]

That Pepto-pink is almost as bad as my dad's old 55 150 wagon. It was an original Coral Pink car that had been bleached/faded by the sun and elements- turned it into a truly noxious shade of puce!

Nice job on the patch- can't wait to see how things progress

[_Ogre]

nice fab work on windshield frame, handy having all that equipment at your disposal
as i remember my mom had a pink 57 ford wagon at one time

i always wondered what caused the top of a windshield frame to rust out

[HiRMKin]

Thanks guys. Above the window was full of that cotton crap. I clamped my new pieces to the original piece that was still on the truck to get the shape right then tacked the angles together. I cut out the old piece welded in the new piece and it all measured out perfectly.

[JML55]

Nice work

[Kim57]

Very nice repair.
Kim

[HiRMKin]

I got lucky and got the inside roof piece for 100 bucks, which I cut and use for the front portion. It didn’t fit that great but hammer and dolly I got it to fit not bad. It’s all in and I’m pretty happy with the results. While I was there I fitted up the outside visor.

[Kim57]

Looking good.
Kim

[_Ogre]

very nice
that cotton crap was your original seat made into a mouse nest
mouse poop is very corrosive
funny how easy a mouse can get up there vs how difficult it is to fish a single wire up there

[HiRMKin]

I think that cotton is put in from the factory I didn't have any mice crap up there. If you look at Tyler58 post 99 he has the same cotton as I did.