Well, yesterday wasn't the best day, it started well, but went downhill pretty fast.
I started by painting the inside of the headlight buckets with POR15, then since I had it out, I did the inside of the lower valance under the grill.
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Shawn Wallbridge, on Flickr
They turned out great, I love POR15.
As you can see in the picture, I started to look into my options for the battery tray. Unfortunately, the Jeg's tray that I bought isn't going to work on the firewall, so I need to figure out what I can do with the one I have. It has been hacked up already, so I may look at buying a new one, and modifying it. Or I might just make my own, who knows.
Since I had the wire wheel out to get the rust off the valance, I decided to clean up the paint and rust on the upper valance, it's primed now. But I don't have a picture.
But then I decided to just get the rust that was forming in the passengers side door opening. Which escalated very very quickly. I was just cleaning up where the rear cab wall panel meets the door opening, but when I got to the bottom, where the panel starts to wrap below, I started to see just how bad of a job they had done on the replacement. So, I decided it had to be done....
IMG_20190504_191447_817 by
Shawn Wallbridge, on Flickr
And it gets worse...
IMG_20190504_191447_818 by
Shawn Wallbridge, on Flickr
A whole lot worse...
IMG_20190504_165028 by
Shawn Wallbridge, on Flickr
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Shawn Wallbridge, on Flickr
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Shawn Wallbridge, on Flickr
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Shawn Wallbridge, on Flickr
So, that sucks, but what can you do, the joys of old trucks, you never know what's under the makeup.
I am not going to fix it right now, at this point, the whole back of the cab needs to be replaced, so I will just weld up the holes, and spray it. I am not going to try to hide it.
I did get the fuel pump installed, and started working on the plumbing.
IMG_20190504_191748_119 by
Shawn Wallbridge, on Flickr
That pump is pretty nice, but it's annoying they have the inlet coming in the front, rather than the side.
I am going to head back out and fire up the grinder and see how big of a cloud of body filler dust I can create
