Builds 3 days and 3300 miles later

buckroseau · Sep 7, 2006

Nothing major to report, got a couple hours last night and a couple hours tonight...so obviously a total of 4 hours.

Last night I pretty much spent stripping the cab down to the base with nothing left. Not a lot of pics, but not really that exciting either. Everything pretty much came apart fast and easy as expected, it was real nice working at chest height with the cab up on that stand I made.

Took a few photos of the inside of the cab, still actually looks pretty good. Around the A pillar it looks pretty rusty and is a tad worse than I thought, but still really not that bad? I imagine it was a little worse on the drivers side when the snow melted and ran down in that corner.

Tonight I pulled the lower cab out and went after it with the sandblaster. I blasted the inside anywhere there was surface rust. It will all eventually get blasted, but wanted to blow out any surface rust and see where I stood. I tipped it up on the rear and started blasting on the bottom. I think that would go really good except for that undercoating crap on the bottom. I guess it's a good thing since I think that's what salvaged the majority on of the cab and floors on this thing. Just takes time to scrape all that stuff off

I have to work tomorrow evening so in the morning I'm going to start scraping more and blasting more....maybe I'll get it all blasted and then I can shoot some DP over the entire thing before I goto work on the sheet metal.

Matt

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MDH33 · Sep 8, 2006

That's a lot cleaner than I expected. Great news. You'll have it back together in no time I'm sure.

Is that John Deere Green? Are you going to keep it the stock color?

Rhinoliner · Sep 8, 2006

Did you end up torching the 4 bolts that mount the cab to the frame, or were you able to get them loose?

Moving right along, keep up the great work.

buckroseau · Sep 8, 2006

MDH33 said:
That's a lot cleaner than I expected. Great news. You'll have it back together in no time I'm sure.

Is that John Deere Green? Are you going to keep it the stock color?

Yes, it is pretty clean. The drivers side A pillar area will take a few days since there are so many panels coming together in 1 area, but it really isn't that bad. I blasted and scrapped this morning for 3 hours, pretty much totally cleand and bare metal. I didn't take any pics, but I'll take some tomorrow night. Have to work all day tomorrow, but hoping to shoot some epoxy primer over the whole thing tomorrow night.

As far as the color.....I had in my mind that if I got a lpb I was going to paint it olive green/653, the same sh-t brown color as the one in that eddie bauer catalog last year, I love that color.

But since then this green color/681 has really grown on me? It's stock and it's different, I am really torn on what color to shoot it? Either one would be cool

Thanks, Matt

buckroseau · Sep 8, 2006

Rhinoliner said:
Did you end up torching the 4 bolts that mount the cab to the frame, or were you able to get them loose?

Moving right along, keep up the great work.

I did have to torch the left rear one, the right rear came off. The front 2 were torched also, but they weren't bolts all the way through the cab...they were standard 40 mounts. And yes, they were torched off ;p

Thanks, Matt

buckroseau · Sep 9, 2006

Nothing really done tonight...decide to goto a movie with the wife.

I did manage to get the body wheeled into the booth and tipped up on some saw horses. Didn't want to mix up primer and spray tonight since it was late, but it is ready for tomorrow. Little green here and there, plan on taking that off with the zip wheel, just didn't feel comfortable blasting those flat areas with the blaster.

Pics as promised of the sandblasted cab...few shots of the bad areas, although really not that hard to fix.

Matt

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cruiserdan · Sep 9, 2006

Considering the condition of the frame, the cab is remarkably intact. Much better than the 45LV.

Based on your previous accomplishments, the cab repair should be relitively easy.

Could you possibly extend your repair techniques to the frame?

Radd Cruisers · Sep 9, 2006

Looks great, sandblasting is a good way to go.

My only convern with sand is it gets in every nook and cranny, real SOB to get out of voids.

My new restoration I might entertain dipping the body, it will remove all rust between sanwiched panels and clean out all that crappy factory seam sealer.

Rob

Radd Cruisers · Sep 9, 2006

Realistically thats not a bad idea, put the frame on a home made jig to keep it square and go at it.

Locally a fellow built a whol front section on a mud track jumping rig, no joke he but welded boxed tube and has thrashed it hard with over 500HP and jumping the truck. All this was done with a 110 welder here at Metal Super Market.

The weld prep nwas perfect with 100% penitration throught the tube.

cruiserdan said:
Considering the condition of the frame, the cab is remarkably intact. Much better than the 45LV.

Based on your previous accomplishments, the cab repair should be relitively easy.

Could you possibly extend your repair techniques to the frame?

buckroseau · Sep 9, 2006

cruiserdan said:
Considering the condition of the frame, the cab is remarkably intact. Much better than the 45LV.

Based on your previous accomplishments, the cab repair should be relitively easy.

Could you possibly extend your repair techniques to the frame?

I think the cab should be a realitively easy fix once the wife let's me get started on that

I honestly believe that undercoating crap is what saved the cab. Wherever that crap was still stuck on, the floor was absolutley perfect underneath it.

As far as the frame....yes I could repair it, and still might? I am still holding out hope that a couple of my leads are going to come through...and I believe they will. But, if they don't I have a plan and I am prepared to fix what I have.

Matt

apeterson · Sep 11, 2006

Hi Matt-

Looking good... speaking of the under coating it was under everything on the 40 also... was that stock or do you think that guy put it on there... I believe that is why the floor pans and fenders are in suck good shape on that truck also...

buckroseau · Sep 11, 2006

Got a little done on the lv last night and tonight. About an hour last night and about a half hour tonight.....so 1.5 total.

I didn't get any pics yesterday, but I had the body on saw horses straight up and down and primed the bottom and inside. Went pretty good, shot a couple coats of DP50LF on what I could get at, which was everything, but the as end.

Tonight I tipped the body back onto the stand and sprayed the back side on what I couldn't get at yesterday. I still have to clean off that green paint on the back side, but wanted to get that steel into epoxy primer before I did anything else.

Tomorrow I want to make a brace on each side that goes from the A pillar to the B pillar. I don't anticipate anything moving, but you never know once I start cutting those rockers out and drilling out spot welds in the floor....just in case I want it stabilized. After that.....I can start hacking out and fabbing in new sheet metal at anytime

Matt