New stuff!

[UGLY OLDS]

KB .... Just to prove that I'm not kidding ...I looked for a harmonic balancer installation tool for 90 min. today ....
  Just too bull headed to believe it was not there ....  

I found it right where it belongs ....With the tubing bending  tools  

I wonder what "safe" hiding place I should use this time  :?:
 I GOT IT          In the same drawer as the harmonic balancer puller   :?:      Naw ....That's too easy .....

[kb426]

Really lackluster update. I spent most of the day doing bondo work. I removed the floor and braces from the new box and gave it a bath.

[kb426]

Don't get excited. The first time the doors have been on the cab since being removed a year ago. They're not adjusted or anything good. It was easier to store them this way.

[kb426]

I went out this morning thinking I'd get the body work on the cab finished up and primered. I tried to adjust the door hinges but nothing good was happening. I measured the other cab I have and found that the door posts were a 1/4" farther apart than this one. Out comes the portapower. In a little bit I had nice door gaps. My memory isn't good enough to remember how the gaps looked when these trucks weren't very old but this has to be way better than it was. I did some more bondo work but aren't far enough along to primer the whole cab.

[kb426]

This will really excite you! I welded up the holes where the spotlight was.

[416Ford]

Spot on work if you ask me.

[jaybee]

Looks good...and given the hard life most of these trucks have had most of the originals I've seen, driven, and ridden in have doors that open and close...but that's about it.

[UGLY OLDS]

Looks Good KB ....     As far as the door gaps , remember that when our style cars & trucks were built the manufacture's did not hold the tolerances we expect today ...  
 On my Kidd's '37 Dodge , the right side door opening is .375 longer than the left side ...   Of course, the doors are the same length..    

Adjust weather-strip & door welting to compensate ....  
 It's worked great for the last 85K miles or so....

Truck is lookin' good ....  


Bob .......... :wink

[chimp koose]

on my Anglia the reveal around the rad shell was 1/4" wider on the drivers side from the factory.

[kb426]

The first Mustang door latch conversion is in use. Lots of work to finish. The other door will be way quicker.

The first pic is the mess I started with.

[kb426]

Repeat of yesterday on the other side.

[kb426]

Outside door handle.

[bucketmouth]

oh wow,now that's showing off.  

[kb426]

I apologize.

[enjenjo]

I apologize.

to all the starving pygmies...........