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03-27-2021, 07:00 AM | #1 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Nice work so far.
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03-27-2021, 10:14 AM | #2 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
damn fine work here sir! Love the 63 dash dbl hump.
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03-29-2021, 01:21 AM | #3 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Thanks guys, for looking in and for the encouragement.
Spent a few days filling holes in the firewall. Unused aircon holes, clutch linkage holes etc. There were a couple of holes looked like they were drilled with a pick or maybe a chisel. I know you gotta do whats necessary with whatever you have sometimes. Part of the charm of "secondhand" Pretty happy with the end result.
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03-29-2021, 12:44 PM | #4 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
I just read your thread and I don't know how I missed it. you do some real nice welding and the project is coming along nicely. I am a little disappointed that you decided to make it a short bed since I am a fan of the long beds but I'll be following your work. Excellent.
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03-31-2021, 04:28 AM | #5 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Thanks for coming by and thanks for the positive vibes.
Gotta say the decision to shorten wasnt an easy one, I really wanted a long. Until I actually got my hands on this truck I had never seen one up close. Its BIG. Too big for my available space, both for storage and workspace. A few random odd jobs while waiting for some rust repair panels to arrive. I bought some "inner rocker " panels, absolutely useless Bought a different type from another supplier, even more useless. Fair dinkum if anyone can make these actually work, they are capable of making something out of flat sheet, why bother buying this junk. Was trying to avoid buying outer floor sections. These are 3" too long for the post office so end up costing 3 times their value in shipping. So I bit the bullet and ordered some. 3 months later theyre totally lost somewhere. Ordered again from Summit this time, more expensive but they arrived in 2 weeks. Next week original order turned up. So I'm over $500 into these panels now. So in the meantime working on heater, stripped, needs new core, easy to get. Hooked up parking brake cables, had to shorten due to chassis cut, got some swaged connectors from a yacht rigging supply guy. Also got all the top end bits on the motor,
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03-31-2021, 11:18 AM | #6 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Seeing builds like this makes me wish I knew what I was doing
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04-08-2021, 09:57 AM | #7 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Glad to see that Ray is there for quality control purposes.
Can never be too careful.... Looking good, like the idea of ageing the newly stained bed wood, will be borrowing that. Do you have a picture of the bed stained? Interested in how the Tea treatment turned out. I am thinking about using Danish Oil on a wire pad but open to other options. My bed floor is old oak reclaimed from a barn so have several options. P.
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04-08-2021, 07:30 PM | #8 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Hi Paul,
i did a bit of experimenting with the tea and the steel wool/vinegar and combinations of which one first. I thought the steel wool/vinegar gave me what I was looking for best and a second coating enhanced the first. A second coat of tea didnt seem to do anything extra. Either one gave me a nice grey weathered look, but as some time has passed it has turned to a brownish like baltic pine look. Dont know if thats from the natural yellow pine tannin coming to the surface, it might be that the steel wool residue is actually rusting. The wire brush I used was on a drill and dug out the grain pretty heavily so all the soft pine is gone and the hard bits of grain are left, like its been sandblasted. The results I got with the stain may have been influenced by having very little soft parts to get in to. Heres a pic from a little further up the track, the board across the back is untreated to compare colour.
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04-09-2021, 01:34 PM | #9 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
I like the effect you have achieved on that.
Mmmm.... might have an experiment over the weekend. P.
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04-15-2021, 06:08 AM | #10 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
So here we have some extremely rare pics of rust in a C10.
Outer floor sections, lower a pillars, lower b pillars, footwell sides, outer rocker panels, lower cab corners.
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04-15-2021, 06:11 AM | #11 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
pics tell the story
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04-15-2021, 06:16 AM | #12 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
what can I say that hasn't been said
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04-15-2021, 06:21 AM | #13 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
cut, grind, weld,
repeat on the other side
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04-15-2021, 08:42 AM | #14 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Nice work, I know that took some time!
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04-15-2021, 08:39 PM | #15 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Thanks
Yep a month of part time work condensed to 4 posts. Looks easy
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04-15-2021, 10:54 PM | #16 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
I'm so glad I'm done mine.
Good job!
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05-12-2021, 06:22 AM | #17 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Life has been getting in the way again for the past few weeks, back to medium complicated as per usual again now.
So heres some more repairs.
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05-12-2021, 06:34 AM | #18 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
And more repairs.
Got some paint matched up to some of the original green that shws through in a few places. So been priming all the repairs, then first coating in the green, then over that with a matched brown. The rockers are likely to get knocked around a bit, so then the green will be exposed like the other knocked about parts of the truck.
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07-08-2023, 09:02 PM | #19 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Hi,
havent been on here or updating for a while now. Just letting anyone following know that all is not lost and the old girl went in for roadworthy test yesterday and passed. Should have registered next week. Its been a struggle getting to this point, with covid lockdowns and associated lack of money, but we're here now. Seems like too many build threads just stop at some point and you never know if it got there or was part of the "unfinished project" statistic. So count me out of that statistic. Although it never ends, actually drives pretty nice, but 4 turns lock to lock isnt doing it for me, so steering upgrade is on the cards. Thanks in advance to everybody who has contributed steering upgrade info on here, its going to be valuable to me.
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07-09-2023, 03:35 AM | #20 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Congratulations on that, also for posting a degree, I've finished mine too and am enjoying driving now
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07-11-2023, 09:54 AM | #21 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Thanks for checking back in with the exciting update. Hoping the registration goes well and you get to enjoy your hard work.
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07-15-2023, 08:26 PM | #22 |
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Re: Upside down, back to front, long low 63 fleet
Thanks Harald and Joe,
actually got registration this week, picture of the prize, brand new plates on the old girl. Probably the best color matched plates you could hope for, too bad about anyone else with an actual colored car. Pretty happy with how the grill turned out, would have been happier to be original but you can see in earlier pics what I had to work with and getting a replacement wasnt panning out well. A few engine bay pics just to show that its not just a rusty old survivor but everything under the outer skin is either new or reconditioned. I have a stack of other pics that I must put up that got me through the last year or 2. For the sake of my mind I had been avoiding posting for a while, it felt like a bit of a hopeless case for a long time. Very happy to get to this point now.
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