36 Ford truck on Ranger

[MercuryMac]

Here are some sideview pictures of the Juliano's piggyback signal lights. They look right or era correct with their clear glass lenses, but when I tried to take a picture of this one lit up, I didn't have the law of averages on my side. I have one pic with the light just starting to light or just shutting down out of five tries.

[MercuryMac]

I had to do more work on the headlight. It was rotated counter-clockwise [looking from the front] and aimed too high. I had to take the adjustment screws out when I put the Halogen reflector in so the only way to adjust the aim was loosen the big hold-down bolt and rock the whole pot forwards, and inwards to correct the counter-clockwise stance. I couldn't move the light far enough either way, so ended up making a plastic washer that was very convex on one side and very concave on the other, and fat on two edges and skinny on two others. Lots of time spent and nothing to show for it. Then I put more bolts in both fenders, so they're done now, except for painting. #1 up inside the rear fender. #2 from inside the box.

[MercuryMac]

Hi guys,
I have some lateral progress today, [way different than my life going sideways, again]. I wanted to make the little tin curtains that go down from the box to the running boards in front of the rear fenders. My friend, who has a metal break was away in a class studying to get his picker truck license. I always like to own tools so I thought it would be cool to make a break, so I did. It's done and test driven. I can't quite bend tin to 90 degrees over a piece of angle iron, but darn close. No pictures because some of my welds aren't pretty.
Keep on tinkering.

[MercuryMac]

I took a picture of the gap between the box and the running board for you; kinda dorky like that, right? My sheet metal bender worked nicely and I made a tin curtain for the spot. I rolled the front of the tin around a piece of pipe after I put the 90 degree bend in the top, that will fit over the lip on the bottom of the box. The last picture is the tin curtain bolted in. I have since taken it back out and primed it.

[MercuryMac]

I only painted my new box curtain tonight. In the midday I attended a small Fathers day car show. The neatest motor there was a 1954 Pontiac straight eight flathead.

[MercuryMac]

The right hand box curtain was painted, repainted and installed. [picture 1]
Then I went around to the left side and mocked up the rear fender and running board. When I got them into a nice position and twisted back to fairly straight, I started bolting them on there. The first two bolts that I put in the fender were tricky as heck because they have to go through three different things, the fender [as far away from the edge as possible], the box side, and the outside stainless-steel angle iron box floor strip [whose flat area is slightly smaller than the bolt head]. [picture 2]
It sure is lonely out here when all you viewers don't talk to me sometimes. I was reading another guys thread and he was complaining of the small amount of dialogue, too, but I didn't answer him, and I read a lot of your builds and am very guilty of not giving you much back talk. I'll have to change that.

[Snake Farm]

I'm guilty of looking and not commenting too. I've followed your build from the start and look every time you post but have not commented...........probably just jealous of your progress.
The truck is looking good, keep on wrenchin'

[MercuryMac]

Hi Snake Farm. Thanks for getting back to me. I felt like I was out on a vast prairie without another person around, hey wait, I am out here nearly alone. I've tricked you into believing I have made excellent progress by compressing nine winters work into a few months since I've discovered RRR, the greatest forum. I am a flaming optimist, so I have promised to be at our biggest car show of the area in the middle of July with this truck. Of course, I promised that last year too.

[Dr Crankenstein]

I would comment more often... but I have trouble understanding your accent.

You're doing a great job and your contributions are appreciated even if we don't say it often enough. Good luck making that show and stay dry!

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[MercuryMac]

Hi Dr. The only way your perception of good solid western written English could be shaky is if you read too many books written by people from down east.
Keep Dry! We've had two weeks of rain, now. I finally got to cut some grass today around my car shed and some of the grass was poking up above the hood on a riding lawnmower. You can't call that 'lawn' if the grass gets any higher.
The car show is in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, all around the Mile Zero Post of the famous Alaska High-way [some Americans call it the Al-Can High-way].