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![]() A little more deconstruction this morning. Got a couple spots left to cut out on the back of the cab and we'll be ready for blasting and epoxy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Re: 1966 F100 Short/Fleet Full Stock Resto Build Thread
We blasted the inner channels and painted them with Chassis saver to help prevent future rusting.
![]() ![]() Made, fitted, and welded in the driver side kick panel. ![]() ![]() Patched the inner rocker, it's fitted and ready to weld in. ![]()
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Re: 1966 F100 Short/Fleet Full Stock Resto Build Thread
Just found this thread and read through it, now I'm looking forward to more updates. That's some beautiful work going on there.
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Re: 1966 F100 Short/Fleet Full Stock Resto Build Thread
Love looking at your work. Where are you at now on this one?
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Thanks, I've been working on the International mostly so it's slow on the F100. I have welded up the other inner rocker piece and trimmed it to fit, the wheels are prepped and ready to paint, and we are working on getting the bed ready to take to the media blaster today. We hired a new guy to help with bodywork so things should start rolling better now, I'll be doing the cab metalwork and he'll start on the bed once it's blasted. He's done restoration work for years so he's a good fit for us. ![]() The passenger bed side has some cracks in the paint, so we figured it had some old damage repair coming through... It's been hit at some point and packed with bondo. It was a hair over 1/4" in a couple places! ![]() ![]() ![]() Measured the mask lines and documented the grease pencil marking on the header panel. These will be replicated exactly. ![]() ![]()
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Re: 1966 F100 Short/Fleet Full Stock Resto Build Thread
I dropped off the bed, tailgate, and inner fenders at the blaster this morning while the new guy painted the wheels. I think he did ok for having never sprayed much single stage, and never sprayed with a gravity feed gun.
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We picked up the tailgate and inner fenders from the blaster and started straightening the inside of the tailgate.
![]() This is what you do when stud guns/slide hammers won't work! ![]() ![]() Ready for epoxy and bodyworking. ![]()
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Re: 1966 F100 Short/Fleet Full Stock Resto Build Thread
I like that trick!
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Looks like I learned a new trick today..
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Where there's a will, there's a way!
![]() Picked up the bed from the blaster today. The left side won't need much at all to be perfect. The right side is caved in pretty bad and the corner has been "worked on" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Ah that's nothing for you, whatcha going do after lunch
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Looks great man! What color are you going back with on the body? Wasn't it a vanilla color?
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I actually started on it before lunch. Just started... it'll take just a bit longer than that!
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We prepped and primed the tailgate and inner fenders today using PPG DX579 Metal Cleaner, DX520 Metal Conditioner, and DPFL epoxy.
![]() I used a shrinking disc to straighten between the letters on the tailgate. Only high build primer should be needed to get this area 100% flat. ![]() Inner fenders. We'll bodywork these tomorrow and shoot them with high build primer. ![]() Bent wheel arch on bedside. ![]() Started straightening that area. ![]() Found rust in the front of the bed floor, so we cut out the floor and found more hidden rust underneath. We'll have to patch up the bed floor and replace the front floor brace, and bottom of the header panel. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Finished cutting out the front brace and bed floor this morning. Having a fab shop bend a new brace, just the center part since the outer edges bend up. The outer bed floor panels weren't rusted through but we knew they'd be hidden rust so we went ahead and cut them out.
![]() ![]() Brace and header bottom cut out. ![]() Drilled the spotwelds out of the bed mount plates and crush spacers to swap onto the new brace. ![]() ![]() Inner fenders bodyworked and shot with black high build. ![]() ![]() I taped over the stamping details to keep the primer from covering them up. This way the details stay sharp. ![]() ![]() ![]() Started working on the fender lip, smoothed out a crease on the right rear corner, and did some heat shrinking and hammer/dolly work below the lower body line. Forgot to get after pics. ![]()
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We had a local fab shop bend a new floor brace using the old one as a pattern. We blasted the end pieces, then I aligned them and welded them on.
Set the middle section on a flat table and checked the angle with a level. A very expensive level. ![]() ![]() Used a note pad as an adjustable shim to level the two end pieces. ![]() .15 degree difference. Within spec. ![]() ![]() Tacked it in place on the table, then fully welded and smoothed. ![]() The floor panel had plenty of rust holes, and it isn't reproduced. I used copper tubing as a backer on the curved areas, and copper tubing with one end flattened for the flat areas. The welds won't stick to copper and keeps the metal from blowing through. Less cleanup on the other side too. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Prepped and primed all of the floor pieces. Ready to weld these back in. ![]() ![]()
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Got the floor back in place today. First the corners of the floor, then the brace, then the center section of the floor.
Outer panels clamped in place. ![]() ![]() Welded in. ![]() ![]() Welds ground down. ![]() ![]() Inner crush sleeve and outer mount plates welded in place in the new floor brace. ![]() Floor brace clamped in place. ![]() Spot weld holes line up perfectly. ![]() Center floor section aligned and clamped in place. This was a CHORE to get all the ridges exactly lined up since the panel "grew" when it was removed. Each hump had to be hammer/dollied in place starting from the center and working out. It took about two hours just to align and tack weld the center floor in place. Time spent here will make the bodywork that much easier though. ![]() ![]() Slight dip in the center that will be worked out before fully welding the panel in. ![]()
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Good god what happend to that phone.. Awesome work btw thanks for the details..
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Monday's progress. We finished welding the bed floor and header panel flange back in, and started grinding the welds.
![]() ![]() Header bottom flange ready for welding. ![]() Before welding the header flange on, we slipped a sheet of .060" aluminum between the bed floor and header panel to keep an even gap all the way across. This kept the weld from blowing through on the back side of the header flange, and will allow enough room for seam sealer later on. ![]() Header flange after welding and grinding. ![]() Tailgate bodyworked and shot with Slick Sand. I masked off the center section to preserve the spot welds, and also the details of the letters. Slick Sand is too thick for those areas. We'll mask off the letters themselves and shoot normal high build on that area. ![]()
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I worked on the right bedside today while Rodney blocked out the tailgate and fixed any high/low areas that showed up.
This is the bedside after working with it for awhile using a porta-power, various hammers/dollies, and a shrinking disc. It's still popping in and out, but it stays out and has the overall shape back. With some more time we'll have it ready to shoot epoxy and skim coat it. Using a straight edge during the metal shaping helps find the major high/low areas. One the overall shape is there, I'll switch to using a long sanding block to find the high/low spots. ![]() The seam at the bed corner and bed side was really badly repaired... they didn't even fix the inner spot welds that had broken loose! The only thing holding the bedside to the corner was the brazing in the seam. Once that was cut through the two panels came apart easily. ![]() ![]() ![]() This pic doesn't show it well but the two panels weren't flush with each other. ![]() Flange removed, this shows the busted spot welds. ![]() These two show how much the bedside could move. ![]() ![]() Straightened and blasted the corner flange. This is test fitting it to check the shape against the bed side. ![]() After reshaping the flange with a shrinker/stretcher. ![]()
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Re: 1966 F100 Short/Fleet Full Stock Resto Build Thread
I would say I hope that the owner is aware of your attention to detail but I'm sure they already know, that's why they have you restoring there truck.
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They come by and check on it often, and we upload all of the pictures to our shop's facebook page so they can see all the details there. They've seen the '65 C10 and the '55 International, and also a buddies Jeep that I helped do the body/paint on.
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Where's the link to the pics of the jeep.
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