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I painted the bottom of my bed with some cheapo silver.
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Wow, I would have tried to find another bed.
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picked up where we left off last night, on the passenger side we must unscrew the fuel tank filler tube from the side of the bed
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once again we cut off the rear post by the tailgate from the floor of the bed
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and thirty bolts later we got ourselves a flat bed, lol
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after using a wire brush on the threads of the eight long bolts that hold the bed to the frame and lubing them up, we used a cheater bar on the end of a ratchet for more leverage, that plus fines not gorilla tactics and we were able to unbolt them all
note the one super long bolt on the driver's side by the cab |
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don't forget the tailight wiring harness before you go yankin' the bed floor off the truck
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and large bolts later we had ourselves a Dump Truck
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now we could remove the piece by the cab, again the whole point of taking it off piece by piece is so that one man doesn't have to lift 5,000 lbs
the bottom of the piece looks worse than it is, it is very solid, so a few minutes with a wire wheel and it should shine |
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then it was just a matter of putting on some hefty gloves, standing up on the frame, and lifting the rusty bed floor off the frame and leaning it against the wall of the garage
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man I waited 10 months to see this, looks kinda funny Rusty with his pants off
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then it was time to have some fun !!!
... and bye bye |
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other duties as required, (some say it's what I do best)
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ah yes, a clean canvas
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lets bring in the new patient...
for $40 bucks what did you expect, but I think we can make this turd shine, its a little wavy but it's solid |
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time to meet the replacement twins
anybody know if there is a right and a left one, I think my original driver side one is passed it and the replacement one has a hole in it that the guy who sold it to me cut out for the trailer wiring harness |
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just some wheel housings out in the pasture gettin' cleaned up
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Hey, it's the return of Dusty. :lol:
You should slap some paint on that chassis while you have such good access. Might want to change the diff lube too, because it's easy with no bed in the way. |
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Good fun!
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Dang...
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the twins sun bathing, after taking a good bath in some dish soap, they were preserved because they were covered in grease and sludge
you probably could not see how badly these wheel housings were beat up before I hammered out all the dings and dents, apparently the previous owned used the truck to haul lumber anywho, can you tell me how to pop out the big slight indentations in the vertical sides, what happens is when I step on the dents they pop out, but as soon as I step off of them they pop back in, it's as if the metal is teasing me |
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since I didn't want to use a replacement wheel housing with the wire harness hole in it, I thought I could save one of mine, however after taking a wire wheel to it, we found lots of swiss cheese
so we'll use the orange ones |
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the Greg has no idea how the front end bed panel got rusted here, but there is a matching rusty spot on the back of the cab, so my guess is a wet cat must have gotten stock in there, LOL
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we deployed a dual attack on the rust on this piece, abrasion and acid
first loosen up and remove as much rust as possible with a wire wheel then use Phosphoric acid to fight the rust, in this case I had some Metal Prep left over, (it's just diluted Phosphoric acid I bought from POR-15, I won't be buying it agian, since I can get 50 times the amount from Home Depot for $5 bucks) brush on some acid, let sit, have a beer, watch the rusty spots turn white, then wire wheel them off, and repeat till no more white shows up |
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the dance of the wire wheel
went through another cup wire brush, (I need to start buying these in bulk) |
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Rusty is so very lucky to have you mending things up.
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kicked the bed floor outside - cause it's not potty tained, LOL
keep in mind this thing is ORANGE, it's not all covered up in rust, just some surface rust, so it's solid otherwise |
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same deal on the bed floor, wire wheel, then coat in phosphoric acid
I swear I went out and bought the most beat up bed I could find, this thing looks like it was used as a dance floor by $300 lb strippers in iron stiletto heels try and visualize that I'll wait, JK |
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couple annoyed neighbors and beers later, the top of the bed floor is wire wheeled and bathed in [deluted] phosphoric acid
not my favorite part of the restoration process, but it must be done |
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I think I will visualize Rusty all nice and pretty instead if you dont mind ,thanks .
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tomorrow we will change the wire wheel on the angle grinder to a grinding stone and grind down these welds
these are the weld spots where the old bed side walls were attached to the bed floor in the bottom corners of the tailgate |
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and the other side...
the detail is in the devil I know the next time I am walking by a restored C10, I will stop, I will look at the truck, I will find the owner, I will gaze down at his hands, seek the scars, then look down at his worn out boots, and just look him in the eye and and give him that nod of sweat, blood, and tears of approval |
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For metal that keeps popping when you try to remove the dent the easiest way to fix this is by cutting the dent in half then rewelding it.
It's usually popping because the metal is stretched. The other way you could try is getting it red hot then quenching it quickly to shrink it. |
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enaberif and I were typing at the same time. Yeah, don't cut it, at least not as a first try. Heat it and quench it.
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