54 Chevy truck

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I got the right door hung. What a pain. I like to never got it adjusted. It took about an hour of moving suff around. Even a big hammer came in to play at one point. The door now shuts better than the Firebird's doors.

They picked the cab up with straps around the roof and they bent the rain gutters all up. it took a few blows with a hammer and block of wood to get it close. Before it looked like the roof was bowed up but it was just the gutter.

 

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Cleaned off the section of the firewall so I could put the Peel N Seal behind the heater box.

 

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I was happy to get the door on and adjusted.

 

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My nephew stopped by so with his and Sami's help I got the truck turned around.

 

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Put the Peel N Seal in the roof. I will be putting AC on the truck later so I want to keep all the heat out of it that I can. I want it to be so cold am Eskimo would wear a coat.

 

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I figured I would run into trouble with the rear. No biggie. Gives me a chance to get it lower anyway!

 

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Home made hillbilly plum bob.

 

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Couple marks on the ground and it shows the rearend has to go back 5"

 

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Moving the rearend is no big deal. Just 4 rivits on each hanger to grind off and move it back. It's already done.

 

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Working on the front bracket.


It was a job getting the rear bracket back 5". Next time I'll just take the brackets off the springs and put them on and then put the spring back on. It will make it a ton easier.

 

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All done. I moved the hangers up an inch too. So it's an inch lower in the tail. It will be a little higher than this. The bed side is just tossed on there and not up in the back. When the bed is mocked up where it will be the wheel is dead center. Better than factory. Factory had it forward of center.

 

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I got the bed bolted down and some welding done on it from where it was rusted and falling apart. I left the camera in the garage so I'll have to post pics later.

 

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She's low!


The bed is on it, minus the bed floor so now I can turn it back around so I can get to the engine and some other stuff. I need some wheels!

 

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I started working on the headlights but ran out of welding wire. After that I was bored so I messed with the spray cans. I have been messing with the primer for a few days between working on other stuff and thought I'd show you what I'm after.

 

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I don't like to fake patina but I'm sick of seeing every pre 1955 in black primer. It won't stay but this fake spray bomb job will do for a few months.

 

[Tripper]

Let's try this again. The rope goes in and the glass is set up on the cab.

Wow... looks beautiful & I LOVE the hood!!! [cl[cl[cl

BoB

 

[rebstew]

The look I'm going for is something like a service truck that has been sitting in the desert sun for the last 40+ years. Sun baked and door writing you can't see unless you are right up on it.

I can't letter. God knows I've tried. This cheating way will have to do.


Cut it out with a razor blade.

 

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Sami liked this part. You should have seen her face when I told her to toss some dirt in the paint so we could rough it up.