[Snake72]

Little change in plans, instead of sending out for blasting my FIL bought a blasting cabinet and good pressure pot. There is so much stuff we're finding that needs to be blasted we decided to invest and do it ourselves. Spent a saturday blasting the frame, amazing how clean that nasty old rusty metal gets with blasting. Used black blast coal slag, you can get it at menards, works awesome. Frame came out great, brushed on POR 15 and looks brand new. The rear end was also cleaned up and painted with POR. I ordered new leaf springs and shackles as old ones were completely shot. Bought the new springs from General Spring, by far the cheapest I found them, easy to order and shipped same day. Delivered in 2 days, excellent customer service.

This week I took 2 days off work and hope to have a rolling frame again with cab set on. Lots to get put back together but I feel good that its the turning point in the restoration, all clean painted and new parts going back together.