Thread: Work junk, and junk... at work. By 'junk.

Then maybe he will let me at Daisy lol.
I really didn't do anything to that truck but take it apart and weld up the bed floor.

Had the right fender off for a little while, to cut loose the spot welds at the bottom mounting area and re-position that corner of the skin for improved fit. It sticks out a the bottom. Still does, but less now. Anyway right behind that was this corner of the rocker. I don't know why the rockers are made this way but I welded in a patch and the seams and threw some mud up there.





Tossed the fender back on to re-check and about that time the new hood showed up. So I put that on and cleaned up because it was time to go. Looks promising.

I know there's ALOT more to be done, but with the hood finally in place it looks like it's in the home stretch lol

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Might be a train headlight, though. Ha

I'm supposed to have it all in final primer endo next week. Should be do-able even if it is a 4-dayer.

Looks great Matt, keep fixing them up!

Will do that! Thanks for droppin in. That blue Ford truck was running today.

I installed the new striker assembly on the new hood and reset gaps again without drama. Screwed down the cowl's front edge and established the correct position for that part. Nice clearance on everything up front with no cutting required.

Then I located any problem areas on the hood and surrounding panels. Such as this low area at the front of the hood on one side-



..and this wedge-shaped cowl gap-



...then this wavy area at the rear on the other side-



So I worked on all that stuff-

(Re-worked the bend on the edge of this cowl, FYI.)













That was all yesterday. Today I wrapped up loose ends and took it apart. Sorta multi-tasked, ha ha. Painter can start grabbing stuff anytime now. Theres still a dent in the driver's rocker somebody will fix. I'm concentrating on getting all the front end stuff ready to prime.

In the first pic.. Low spot looks like someone dropped something on it.

Well, every hood we've all seen... all brands, even GM... kinda has problems there. Theres two stepped places at the front of the hood's shell, where the skin has to be clamped to lay flat against the shell. The halves don't fit perfectly there, and when the pinch welder grabs the unclamped layers, it distorts the skin. Then zaps it in place. Could have cut the welds loose instead, but the low area extends up the scoop a bit anyway. It was minor so we chose to mud. There was no marks on the primer to indicate any direct impact but yep parts do get tossed around with only one layer of cardboard on before they get here.

Didn't get pics yesterday, wasn't much visual to show. Here's today's lot. Won't be back at it until next Thursday and not sure what I'll be working on then, so... enjoy yourselves over the Independence Day weekend.





























Thats all Omni MP243 polyester primer, 2-3 coats. OK, maybe 4 on the hood. I applied DP90 first, over all the bare metal areas.

If you're putting this type of scoop on a car that never came with them, be sure to mock up your plan in posterboard and masking tape or something so you can adjust the proportions of the scoop. Might increase chances of visual satisfaction in such a venture.

Spent today blocking fenders, not much to show. Jake sanded the inside. Its getting Lizard Skin in there.

Back at work today, I went to the other building for something...

Kinda glad I didn't draw the '34 job. This body may have sat on the ground for awhile. The rear fenders are toast, theres no rockers, old partial floor has to come out, etc.











The rockers were just fiberglass. Tank cover is glass on steel. Oboy.

Somebody brought us this to assemble. Thats all I know. It has a four link.

Looks like someone is going to have fun on that 34....not

The ol guy only has so much $ to spend, its gonna be awful tight. An attack plan does exist as of today.

Putting into the crusher? Kidding you will get it right. These old cars have more rust than grand prixs

Its a crusty one... because old! That 40s caddy was the same way- no rockers, just gone.

When the guy is at car shows, the story will start off...

"This one day I was walking through the wooded outskirts of a field and saw this shell of a car sitting there in the dirt. We dug it out and here it is."

I once saw a vid on a family that dug up some old truck in Europe. Searching was no luck, instead I found a cool Ferrari story
http://jalopnik.com/5872514/the-true...-someones-yard

I saw that story too. Very cool! Mike has all his '34 floor parts out and is playing with them. What a mess. He is fitting it together atop the frame, along with rockers.

Today I applied 2 final coats of (urethane) primer to all the front end's outer sheetmetal. Took me awhile to block some of the polyester-primed areas out, but I believe it all worked-


















Painter fixed the rocker dent while I was away, and has been doing all the other stuff to make it nice. Like seam sealer and what-not. The black sealer outside the weatherstrips is 2K, and the grey on the inside is softer urethane, both 3M brand. I think he has it ready now. Those parts I primed won't require much blocking, hopefully.





Tomorrow I start on a Datsun Fairlady...