A '54 named Busty

[Gregski]

I quickly determined that was not enough holes to plug and quickly staged three more (clutch, throttle, and starter?) for pluggulating

and yes technically one of them was riveted shut already, but by golly I can't have someone else's shady work, it has to be all my shady work

[Gregski]

wait bro, what about that ugly patch on the trans cover hump?

I have no idea what you are talking about - ha ha

[Gregski]

and so I sliced them off or open what ever you want to call it exposing those lovely pockets for dirt, grime, and rust to fester!

[Gregski]

and then I used the square peg over the round hole technique to plugerize them - it was getting late when I snapped these pics so I will grind them tomorrow

[Gregski]

bed full of parts waiting to go back on the truck (or for the project to be abandoned for 2 to 6 years!)

[8man]

That's not a lot of holes, This is a lot of holes...
IMG_0456 by Robert Moorman, on Flickr

I agree on it feeling good to work in a "cleanish" shop. I had to sweep and vacuum 2 times last week because the grinding dust got so thick on the floor it was slick.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

That's not a lot of holes, This is a lot of holes...
IMG_0456 by Robert Moorman, on Flickr

I agree on it feeling good to work in a "cleanish" shop. I had to sweep and vacuum 2 times last week because the grinding dust got so thick on the floor it was slick.

Goodness, I didn't know they raised the Titanic!

[Gregski]

Captain's Log: Day 273 of welding in the holes in the firewall, when I started my kids were in pre school and Bush Sr. was President and Corona meant Mexican Beer

seriously though 3 days, it took me 3 days but I finally plugged the last darn hole, they aint perfect but that's nothin' standing 50 feet away can't fix

[Gregski]

removed the muffler bearings

[Gregski]

I hated the way this plate at the base of the 60-66 steering column fit or should i say didn't fit right, so I removed it so I could trim it and beat it into proper shape-atology

[Gregski]

and finally got the rest of the floor and firewall primed, so happy with all that incredibly hard work

call me a Dingleberry but I absolutely love this primer red/brown vs gray color combination it just goes together so well !!!

[Gregski]

then it was time ti fineshtiger with the guages

[Gregski]

so the idea is fill the big holes allowing us to install more common sized gauges instead of the 18" ones, ha ha

in the first pic I was just holding it up from the back before trimming it some more to make it fit nice and flush like in the later pics

[Gregski]

second verse same as the first...

[notsolo]

Nice clean work,perfect circles, whistling in the cab won't be from the holey floor. and That New truck smell has got to be good.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by notsolo

Nice clean work,perfect circles,

Wow thanks, if I could only weld as good as I can grind, ha ha

Originally Posted by notsolo

whistling in the cab won't be from the holey floor. and That New truck smell has got to be good.

And again, wow, I did not even think of those two, I was just going for no engine fumes in the cab for once, ha ha, but I'll take those other two!

[8man]

Holes plugged. Check. Inside primed. Check. Plugs made for large round gauge holes. Check. BTW, those gauge hole plugs are nice!

The list is shorter today.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

Holes plugged. Check. Inside primed. Check. Plugs made for large round gauge holes. Check.
The list is shorter today.

Thanks, mate, but none of those items were even on the list !?!?!? ha ha (what kind of operation am I running here)

Originally Posted by 8man

BTW, those gauge hole plugs are nice!

Thank you, not bad for doing it free hand.

[dsraven]

Going back to the state down, the chair and gin you should tie the hood down and run it like that just once. Ain't nobody gonna run up against that on the street. Looks like it eats imports for breakfast, haha. Just mean for no reason.
Keep it up and you'll be done in no time.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by dsraven

Going back to the state down, the chair and gin you should tie the hood down and run it like that just once. Ain't nobody gonna run up against that on the street. Looks like it eats imports for breakfast, haha. Just mean for no reason.
Keep it up and you'll be done in no time.

ha ha, I be lying to you if the thought hadn't crossed my mind, even considered tapering the front to match the hood Prowler style and running open wheels in the front (... but that's not on the list!)

[Gregski]

... and now a Quick Lunch Time Photo Update (QLTPU) from our field correspondent Lonnie Earl:

take it away LE

this morning we made the ceiling KRYLON semi flat black!... turned out, sooooo... [ahem] well, black! hee hee

[Gregski]

then we prepped the area behind the seat (I honestly don't know what it's called: the back wall?) to make that... you guessed it: Black

[Gregski]

and we shot this section Gloss Black ?! because it's what we had and it is going to get covered up with SEM Undercoating anyways

and we sprayed until we ran out of paint (two cans) and yes the first stupid nozzle got stuck in the spray position so I just sprayed it out on the cab floor which I didn't plan on painting yet (second can of KRYLON spray paint this has happened on, now I would expect this on a $4.00 dollar can of spray paint but not on an $8.00 dollar one, I mean come on right?!

[Gregski]

... and now this:

Quarantine beards and respirators do not mix, I was wondering why I'm sucking fumes in my trusty 3M mask, so I changed the cartridges and still I was tasting paint, and then it hit me, my ZZ Top beard had to go

[8man]

Nice paint work.

Tell LE that he's right about the beard interfering with the mask seal.