70 Long bed Build thread

[Mr Handy]

a little more progress... my front passenger brake cylinder has been leaking so I took the chance to replace both front cylinders. it took 1 call and 3 different auto part stores to get the cylinders for the front drum brakes... apparently everyone younger then my truck does not believe that there are drums up front. I got rained out yesterday after noon and ended up finishing up this afternoon... while I had the wheels off I took advantage and greased up all the suspension and steering points. now Betsy stops like a dream and though I didn't notice a difference with fresh grease I cant imagine it hurt her.

Friday I had some time and some 1/4" ply scraps and decided I needed a glove box... the following pictures are the design process. My wife saw the pics I took and said I have to post them in this manner.
Pic 1 "yay my gloves fit"
pic 2 "hay my oil can is a perfect fit on the side"
pic 3 "hmm I have space at the top"
pic 4 "OMG my fire extinguisher fits perfectly!!!"

In all seriousness it basically did get built like this. My oil can will eventually get painted and get a custom label, kind of like a shop logo, only will be a quirky play on my instrument brand and an oil company, guitar and ukulele oil...

[bruceman1968]

Andy, That looks awesome. Nice work! Good idea for the fire extinguisher and the oil can is too cool.

[Barleynose]

I like what you've done so far and your woodworking is beautiful! You could probably make a small fortune selling those toolkits!