51 Ford

[idrivejunk]

Everybody has to weave their own web, I reckon. I offered to stop and he said that would be great. There ya go. I changed the blog privacy setting to just me and excluded it from searches. Because I do understand. I'll be questioned by F1 man for sure.

The reason I've hesitated to post this week is pain. Too many consecutive months of sanding garbage work and I'm accumulating new damage daily. Wonder if he would stop doing this if I suggested it is a problem for me. Barely been able to stand up and raise my arms last two evenings. Theres no end for Matt, but IDJ... pfft.

[kb426]

Age and pain are not pleasant. Most everybody on this forum understands that circumstance.

[idrivejunk]

It was all I could do this week just to eat a bowl of cereal and go to bed, just bathing each evening was a challenge. Skipped helping my folks with their garage sale and slept halfway through this beautiful Saturday while desperately needing to catch up on personal chores pushed aside for lack of energy during this episode of sand-a-thon. But I made it through the cab and doors. Just one door took a day and a half. I had to sand away acres of excess fill to find the high spots, tend to those and then redo all. Filler is showing on about 50% of the doors, 80% on roof and 90% on back of cab. Boss wants customer to think it only needed to be primed once I guess. Yesterday half the body shop was working to redo things which got the truck mud man fired.

So I created problems by being truthful and everything posted since 2011 was wrong to do. Working hard to do right means nothing and is bad and all bad must be accepted without question. My pleas for less sanding are ignored and I had to lie to maintain plausible denial.

Recently I caught wind of an ancient principle which states that if you have a plan or a project, letting another person find out about it is vanity unless it is complete. Life lessons indicate that to be true.

You guys interested in written-only updates?  Thought not.

[idrivejunk]

Sorry about the abrasive tone, I've eaten lots of abrasive lately.

Theres a thing I need to work out, the inner fenders. And I'm not having much luck dreaming up an easy way to show options since they are "so 3D". I intend to create imagery.  Only ever rendered one engine compartment before, just in pencil for the Cat.

Its either keep some of the original features or not, in the top front section. The panels are going to be large and the stock bolt hole and rail part on top stays. The mounting at rear and part shape there needs a rethink. Like I ought to extend past the firewall. I believe the body mount up front needs to stay a removable and widely adjustable bracket. And that featureless, minimal contours will look best next to the rest.

[kb426]

"Its either keep some of the original features or not, in the top front section. The panels are going to be large and the stock bolt hole and rail part on top stays. The mounting at rear and part shape there needs a rethink. Like I ought to extend past the firewall. I believe the body mount up front needs to stay a removable and widely adjustable bracket. And that featureless, minimal contours will look best next to the rest."
I agree with this statement. The radiator support is the key to adjusting most of the front end. I have no idea how good your aftermarket frame is but I have a little difficulty thinking they are perfectly level. We have had a short discussion about that in the past. My other thought was that when these trucks were new, they probably were no where near level everywhere so they were made to look good and sent out the door. By installing on a very good frame, you might find several surprises.

[idrivejunk]

It dances around depending on who puts it together, I've gathered that much. Therein lies the complication, in wanting to hug the frame rail at the bottom. Evenly.

[enjenjo]

I built a 47 Chevy 3100 about 20 years ago. I put it all together and sent it out for paint. A month later the body shop called and said it wouldn't fit back together. So I drove over there and he had the core support all cut into pieces. WITH A TORCH. I was fit to be tied. So I start going over what he had done, and found he had the cab installed crooked! So it all fit after we dealt with that, but I had to reconstruct the core support, guessing how high it was to begin with because the cuts were all crooked and nothing was measured. It took me the better part of two days to fix it, and I made it a bit shorter than I though was needed reasoning we could shim it much easier than cutting it down. That body shop didn't get to finish the paint job on the bed, it went to another shop. They never saw me again.

[idrivejunk]

I hear that. Best leave some slop. Lemmy see if I can put up two pix here...

[idrivejunk]

Did another pair of sketches today. Modified stock, and flat but with an angle like the bed rails / sides. Took cab and doors off, welded some plugs on dash bracing where it was just screws. Currently mudding firewall. Horizontal, good. Vertical, not so. Boss and customer gridlocked on bagger tails on pockets vs round Pontiacs in fenders. Frustration mounting on both sides of that but I've killed the lights and put it in neutral, myself.

KB, I downloaded your Ponch tail pics and threw them on those guys' fire.

[kb426]

I'm still surprised that with all the mods, that drip rails were left on.

[idrivejunk]

Yeah, me too. But, the matchup on the front portion of the door frames ain't too great and that gets complicated fast. So I've held my tongue.

Ha! Imagine me doing something like that.  We just don't need the destination moving farther away. In my mind, the idea would be to fix everything first then see how far down the want list on mods.

I digress, I grow weary of the mental part just like boss and owner. Thats the extra scoop double dip of stress on me. For one bloody truck build that you could do six during.

Alas, last night got a flurry of texts from both dudes and they are firmly polarized on tail lights. No input on my inner fender sketches. Still mudding firewall and jambs.

Last evening right in the middle of the flurry... well I had been utubing, making the rounds hunting new vids from favorite video posters and had made a halfhearted tap on the one in the link below. Before you watch that, read some of this. Its short:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

It was a few minutes into the vid before I realized I had stumbled onto something potentially important in these situations and paused to dig for further info. It grabbed my attention and I was fascinated through the rest of the video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv8Jq0yL8fM

After watching, in my best Leonard Nimoy I said out loud: "Fascinating.". I enjoy learning of astute observations that help us categorize individuals and understand being humans. Like early birds and night owls but with more grey area in between.

I thought it was remarkably relevant and timely and maybe, just maybe... part of what we're running into. Boy howdy, I tell you what. Is a complete sentence in Texas where that youtuber is. I concluded the tail lamp debacle futile and built for no lamps. Told both guys I may have left enough room under the gate for an LED and left it at that. 

[chimp koose]

Wow that video is something else . I had no idea that such a thing as aphantasia existed . This will help me with my job as I now understand that some of my kids actually can NOT picture things in their minds eye as they are basically blind to that concept . I use visual imagery as examples for things that occur in machining processes .Deflection and oscillation are things that happen in machining but are much easier to understand when given examples of the phenomenon in larger more relatable items . Now I need to find a way to get those ideas across to my 'minds eye blind' kids . Thanks for the link .

[idrivejunk]

It just helps to be aware of things like that.  I sent boss the wiki link only, knowing it will be ignored. But the vid goes far enough into the mechanics of it so that one understands it is a condition, not an ailment. An individuality, and with a flipside because those kids will be better'n the rest in some other areas. I thought it was neat and may apply to the truck.

Glad I said some upbeat stuff earlier because the depression is staggering this evening. Cereal, shower, bed, repeat. Owww. At least I'm not running the blaster. I ran air file and mud hog nonstop the entire day. Tomorrow looks like Mt Everest. Every today.

[kb426]

I was aware of the condition even though I didn't know the name of it. I have no artistic skills so trying to convey by drawing has been difficult for me.

[idrivejunk]

I found astrology to offer some valid generalizations about character and aptitude but each person is like a poker hand... same five cards, but lots of combinations and jokers are wild. My drawing ability to put it simply, has always been present. Great blessing, but it comes with a burden. Like how to make it home with your poker winnings.

Sorry for the nontechnical tangent guys but I can't say there isn't separation anxiety from usual posting. Last thing I really want is to come in here grumping like I do but thats all there is. I'll spit out a done truck though. I now submit this vid as entertainment reward for your reading interest. Another interesting take on the state of man which I found relevant to why not to throw the other guy under the bus too bad.

I'll try to behave.