Recent content by Boltbreaker

Thanks Man. It is still out there somewhere.

I dont wish this on anyone, but this guy really did not deserve this at all!! I hate thiefs!!

Guys, Please keep your eyes peeled for this truck. The guy live in my area and is a true hot rodder in my opinion. I feel terrible for his loss. He built the truck himself. No theft insurance so he is SOL if he doesnt get the truck back. I attached a link to his truck with all the particulars...

crap Don. I havent been on here in a while and I just got back from Vegas yesterday. Stayed at Caesars. Wish I would have known. :(

sorry to hear about the situation Don. I read Dan's post on the other site and felt bad. Im in the facilities work up here and it's no good either.

:D ;)

Didn't get anywhere with the gate yet. I sat in front of it last night scratching my head trying to figure out how to make it work. It needs to be sectioned about 10" and narrowed about 10". The head scratcher part is where to cut it so the raised panels look proportioned. I went with a 53 gate...

Thanks all for the kind words. I am going to start on the tailgate in the next couple of days (I hope). I have a 53 gate that I am going to cut down to fit the bed.

It's not that hard. I read alot and bought some basic stuff like a small mig, shears etc. For the beed roller and pan brake type stuff you can take to a local hot rod shop and have them do it if you dont have the funds yet. The bed is straight bends and tubing if ya think about it. you can do...

here is a shot of the rear pan. It's a cruddy shot but you get the idea. It was another cold rolled 18ga piece, bent on all four ends into 90degree angles to form a pan. It was also plug welded.

Here is a shot of the front bed panel. It started life as a 18ga sheet of cold rolled steel. It was stepped (beed rolled) to match the sides. I put a 9 degree bend in the bottom for ridgidity. The top got a 1" piece of square tubing welded on and the welds smoothed like the top rails. I drilled...

Here are the sides after the pockets were finished welded and the welds were dressed on the top rails.

Been a while since I posted here. I forgot about this post. Here are some pics from the plug welding of the stake pockets. I spaced them about 1 1/2" from each other. Over kill but what the heck. I think the hole sizes were 3/8".

come on now. there are plenty of builds on here that arent really rats.. are you too good for us now? haha jk... Im hoping mine will be a little more refined then alot of rats.. and it will probably get painted.. hell no..... I still like you guys. haha RRR is what helped me get into Hot...