Thanks for all the positive support and comments.
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Originally Posted by jjzepplin
This is going to be a nice truck! What color is that Blue?
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I have no idea what color that blue was. The truck was originally white, painted over by the previous owner with a red-oxide primer and then that
blue. We sanded it, covered the whole thing with a high-build, light gray, metal-etching primer, and then he hit it with the Light Jadestone
basecoat/clearcoat. It's a factory Metallic Green color, just not how this particular one was delivered.
After rebuilding the SM465, we went to install the top cover and realized the 3-4 shift fork was bent so we got that one and the 1-2 fork as well.
There was really nothing on this truck that hasn't been mangled and cobbled back together. The bellhousing had a chunk broken out from where the clutch
fork came through, visible in this older photo from when we pulled it all:
Here is the repair:
Welded inside and out:
And here is the engine a little closer to going in:
