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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
Mick: I admire your tenacity, but I just fluxcore welded holes shut
I used a 6 inch piece of ¾ copper pipe, hammered flat, for a backer and just welded the holes closed Cutting a bigger hole, to tig weld in a plug, seems like a waste of time After grinding, neither hole will show
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cool, an ogre smiley ![]() how to put your truck year and build thread into your signature shop air compressor timer |
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
I would think it is very possible to warp the rail doing that.
Brian
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
So Twelve years ago I had NoLimit (back when they were in Southern California) install their Wide Ride IFS and Fat Bar rear suspension with a Currie 9" on my bare Chassis .
After I got it home I installed my New Wheels and Tires , but something just didn't seem right . It looked like the distance between the tires wasn't great enough to clear the bed sides . Well other projects kept me busy for the next five years then Life got real with my wife dying . In 2016 I met my future wife and we were married the next year . Life was great again ![]() Meanwhile the chassis was on the back burner . Over the years I collected parts and dithered on witch of my 3 TF trucks would get the new chassis , the original plan was for the '56 Chevy LongBed . But How cool would it be to put it under my '56 GMC Suburban PU (Cameo)with just a little slice and dice of the fiberglass quarters it would be a long wheelbase . Or perhaps put it under my '57 GMC NAPCO . Well this debate went on for years until I finally decided to sell both '56's . Now that that is settled the '57 gets the chassis . BUT my '66 Dart is in the shop now and I have to put it together and I've been dragging my feet on that project since 2018 . Life jumped up and bit me in February and by late April the surgery is done and I'm recovering nicely . OK enough about the past Today I went out and measured the width of the step side body (51") and the distance between the tires on the chassis (50") . Just as I suspected the Currie was to narrow . Well the fix is to add wheel adapters not spacers but adapters from Trans-Dapt , Speedway to the rescue a pair of 1.25" adapters gives me 2.5" to make the space 52.5" that's 3/4" per side . At least the tires will clear standing still . But a bit close for range of motion . I may have to add a 1/4" spacer to each side . Gad that was a long way around to say I think I solved the problem today . Who knows when I'll get around to putting it together .
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
Gee Mick all the welding of holes in a chassis seem counter to making holes to lighten the chassis like they did back in the day .
I say make them bigger lighten that chassis ! OK ... I'll go to my room now and be quiet and think about what I said . ![]()
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
Every time you think you can just about jump over the bar Mick runs out and raises the bar a couple of notches. Now I am not sure that sand blasting, high build priimer and lots of block sanding before the shiny black goes on is going to be enough.
I did start digging the blue cab that doesn't have a roof out from under the fallen down shed to see if I want to use the front half of it. The snow knocked the roof down a couple of years ago and life got in the way of cleaning it up. My buddy gave me the cab 30 yeas ago and I have wagged it around all over the place but it has been sitting there for close to 20 years. I cut the dash out a few years ago because I am going to put the old dash that was in my 51 Mercury that I bought when I was 16 in it. I don't know if the other windshield post or top of the cowl got damaged but the cowl and floor are pretty well rust free in patina truck terms. The back is solid, and straight except one dent at the belt line over on the right side below the window. That panel is going to be up for grabs to anyone from the PNW who needs it when I get the floor cut in two.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
Poor cab, never did anything to anyone.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
c'mon Brian, you can fix that little mess in your sleep. it would make a cool rat rod style covertible. tidy up the corners, stick it on a chassis with a driveline and go for it. some huge rear tires with a tiny box in between, a couple of cut down doors with no worries of glass etc, open wheels out front, a straight axle, done.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
LOL
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
It was a pretty decent cab before my buddy decided to cut the roof off to use it on his truck to fix the roof because he didn't like the way he had done it the first time. I had it sitting on a trailer with the green 49 cab that another friend gave me for probably 10 years before it got put in the shed.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
At one time I did think about making a topless short bed pickup with no running boards with it. Pretty much what my buddy did with his truck with a cut down 3/4 ton box but not having the tilt nose.
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That goes with the back panel of the cab that is free to a member who needs it plus I'll have a bunch of other left overs. 53 cab with 53 3100 door post tag that won't be free but won't be very expensive either.
Hopefully it ends up pretty much like this cut and tape illustration. ![]()
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I wanted to do this to my 5 window, being I'm 6'1"and have either extended cab trucks or SUV's, but my brother talked me out of doing. Was prepared to extend the frame, doors and everything. Lengthen the cab and frame and it will look like a chopped top.
Now I'm working on reducing the stock steering wheel down to a 15" so my slender belly(195lbs) wont rub.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
Darn! That primer will absorb the oil. A thorough degreasing and re-prime will probably be required.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
I'm in the process of moving. The truck is going into storage for about 6 months, so I guess a thouroughn clean up and re prime will have to wait.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
I feel the pain there. I had to shorten the water pump shaft to run the 250 with not near enough fan.
As much as I do not care for electric fans on old vehicles mine is getting an electric fan this time. I don't like pusher fans but may run one for clearance and appearance. I never had a cooling problem with the V6 Dodge Grand Caravan van I had and it had a pusher fan. Wife totaled that one or we would still be driving it. All wheel drive, V6 and room to haul stuff in the back.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
I feel the pain there. I had to shorten the water pump shaft to run the 250 with not near enough fan.
As much as I do not care for electric fans on old vehicles mine is getting an electric fan this time. I've never been much of a pusher fan person but my BMW has an auxillary pusher fan and my old Dodge mini ram van has a pusher fan.
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It's been a while, but I'm back! My '56 is the car show image!!!
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
You must have a good marketing guy!
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
POR-15'd the undersides. Then zinc treat the opposite sides tomorrow to halt the rust.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
I made a mount for my NOS distribution block on my 292. It was less money to buy the kit and make new lines than to buy the parts. Their line layout doesn't work for me because my blower hangs on the passenger side of the engine and has to have the lines closer to the blower. For some odd reason nobody makes this kit for a 292. I also don't like the idea of it just hanging off the lines. Now I get to make the lines.
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Re: What did you do with your truck today, Part 3
Finished stripping the red oxide primer off one panel at a time and spraying SPI white epoxy primer.
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