Our '66 Short Fleet Build

[scotts62]

Dang guess it does get colder there!
Its 17 degrees here today with freezing rain

[kizer]

20ish or so and its supposed to snow tonight some and tomorrow.

To bad I have a 2000sqf shop with no heat. hahahah, so I wasn't thinking straight when we built it and said we will insulate it later.

[joe231]

kizer, give me your thoughts, likes, dislikes about POR15...
I saw your thread, your frame and cross sills are looking SWEET!
I'm trying to decide if I wanna go with POR15 or ZERORUST.
ZERORUST is much cheaper, so ?????
anybody else with experience with these, feel free to chime in also

[kizer]

Welp I've only painted the rear frame and the cross supports so far. When its warm the base coats goe on very smooth and self levels pretty well. Well so does the top UV protectant layer.

The only problem I had was after putting the 1st coat on its shinny, very shinny and when you goto put on the second coat well its shinny and hard to tell where you put on the top from the bottom.

Then you get to the Chasis, which is flat and is a UV protectant it goes on shinny and dries flat. I really and I mean I really like the flatness of it, but man there are some sweet rigs out there with shinny frames. I just like flat.

The only thing I didn't like about it if you try and brush it on below 60 the paint felt kinda thick and the instructions say to put it on around 70 so I'm kinda on hold to paint the rest of the frame this spring.

I didn't take any photos, but I did let a brush dry and attempted to bend the bristles and well I ended up snapping the paint brush handle before I could get the bristles to bend the slightest. I was rather impressed.

I used a quart of the base to do two coats of the rear frame basically under the bed, all of the bed supports and the rear axle. I used around 1/2 quart or maybe just a bit more of the Chasis black to do the samething. I"m guessing I used more of the base because it had to fill in little imperfections or whatnot.

I was tossing up between RustBullet and POR15 myself, but I decided I really wanted something I could brush on and I more or less flipped a quarter and picked POR15. hahaha

I didn't post some photos on my build either because I forgot or well I got lazy, but you can see all of them in my Build Diary just click on the Archive button and it will show you every post I've done in order. Bottom up that is.

[joe231]

cool, thanks for the info!!

[TimE]

Hey Joe, like the new avatar!! So are you gonna go with the "Wiggles" theme on the 66, the 80, the 48 or Mom's Suburban?

[joe231]

yeah man, all of the above

[protrash64]

Hey Joe, is that the 'picture police posse' in the avitar?

[joe231]

yeah, and they are in "Hot Pursuit" cu, cu, cu

[TimE]

Any progress/updates?

[joe231]

well i got a jig built to lift off the cab and bed.(no pics yet)
been cold in the garage.
supposed to warm up this week and I have 4 day weekends the next 2,
so hoping to get some progress and pics then......

[LuckyHenriksen]

The truck is looking great

[joe231]

Thanks Lucky!

[LuckyHenriksen]

I really like the first few pics with the dog and the fam

[joe231]

yeah, this is one of my favorites

[LuckyHenriksen]

Haha that is awesome. My Border Collie is so scared of my truck cuz its loud as hell. If I even walk toward it or she hears the door open she heads for the hills. What a weeney. Im trying to train the new pup to handle loud noises, like all my cars, tractors, and guns =]

[joe231]

our little one there, Molly, is very skid-ish also.

we got an auto water thing with a big 3 gallon upside down jug like the culligan bottles. it gurgles as the water goes out and air goes in, if she is anywhere near it she runs like hell,

[joe231]

well...the wife and I worked on her for 5-6 hours today, made some good head-way
pics!!









bagged and tagged

[joe231]

[joe231]

SCORE!! mud daubers nest and two large and apparently pointless holes

[joe231]

short fleet bed......just "compacted"




here is the cab lifting jig i built, thanks to suicide63 pointing out the afore mentioned thread

[joe231]

what's left of the PO's cobbled bed wood

[joe231]

somewhere along the line, a bolt was ripped though the frame




here you can see the two holes that still need to be drilled from the cross member swap

[joe231]

hope that is enough pictures (for now) for all you picky picture bastards.......

[ChiefRocka]

Originally Posted by joe231

hope that is enough pictures (for now) for all you picky picture bastards.......

I'm jealous...you got the wife up in there wrench'n.....SWEET !!!

Looks good man...what's up with the pics, though....Is that all you got ?!?!




Keep up the good work !!