[landarts]

Plans for the truck will be to get the body repairs done and repaint in the 511 Ochre paint. I started doing a few of the small items and attacking a few bigger ones as time allowed. On a Saturday I pulled off the grill, outer grill and drivers fender to get to a big crushed in front fender cup. Spent the weekend working on the fender off of the truck and was able to get it back on and driving it again Monday morning. Here are a few pictures of the truck getting some body attention on the front fender.

After removing the fender I mounted it to a saw horse that I had in the garage to make it easier to work on. I tried using a a few body hammers and pulling he dent with a stud gun. Was not making the progress that I wanted so i heated up a little with some Mapp gas and then was able to get the metal to start moving. Once I got close to where it needed to be I covered it with a black sharpie and started to go over the metal with a file to see where the high and lows were. after about 40 minutes of hammering with a body hammer, dolly and slapping hammer I felt that I got it to a point where it was ready for filler.

Got it installed back on the truck and moved on to a few other areas that need attention.