Projects The AD pickup gets some love.

I did get mine off and my 216 is rusted solid. The pressure plate was the biggest PIA. Once that was off I was able to bend the retaining clips on the flywheel bolts (6) and remove the bolts. I used my 1/2" drive ratchet with a deepwell and 6" extension and hit the handle with a small sledge to break them loose.


Yes, the cab is pretty solid. Mostly the drivers side needs attention there at the cowl. The floors are pretty good. There are a shit-ton of small dents on the back of the cab.

 

Or you could always just lay it over on the side that way you can give it the gorilla treatment and don't have to worry about knocking it over, I did a couple like that.
Mongo

 

OK, Jay I painted my frame today. You better step it up Holmes.

 

Man, I didn't get much time to work on it this weekend. Was busy cutting wood for the shop woodstove:

 

Thats why I just buy my wood now. Money ahead for me.

 

I didn't mean cutting wood was a detractor from the project. I enjoy cutting, splitting and stacking wood.

 

I dig your flatbed!

 

That's my neighbor's 1 ton dump. It had a pickup bed on it and he took it off and built a flatbed for it.

 

Yeah but I have no trees, my saw died, and the gas/time for me makes it easier to buy it! Using up pine beetle killed stuff here myself.

 

It was a nice warm day today- 65*. Warm enough to paint the frame outside.

 

awesome looking forward to seeing it tear around those dirt roads

 

Maybe I can get it reliable enough for you to drive it....

 

So what did you end up painting it with? POR15?

 

Subscribed.. Can't wait to see what direction you go. I love these trucks,I'm currently looking for one for a project myself.

 

8th Annual HAMB-B-Q is April 20th

I thought about using some Zero-Rust but I ended up painting it with the local farmstore brand. Took a whole quart!

 

Hehe if a sbc and power glide isn't bullet proof enough for me to drive I dont know what will be

 

I was looking for chicken prints... haha. Rhode island reds? Black sex-links in the background?

 

New Hampshire Reds and Black Ostralorp mostly. A few buff orphingtons and a brown leghorn.

 

It's no fun unless you have to kick a chicken out of the way. Looking good!

 

Another warm day here. In the mid fifties, so I brushed some zero-rust onto the bottom of the cab.



I also got started on the open drive rear:

 

pics look ok to me.

 

What is zero rust? What is the rearend out of that you are using?

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Way cool build. I'll keep watching for sure.

 

I see em fine. I have the same question about zero rust.

 

ZeroRust is a direct metal phenolic modified alkyd rust and corrosion control coating, which puts down an impermeable rust proofing barrier at the steel level.


The rear is out of an early '60s Chevy pickup I think. Got it for free from the HAMB Classifieds and HAMB relayed to my house.