The Jalopy Journal
Yup. It was hard. I used an F150 wiper motor from an 80's truck, I think, but that's from memory about 11 years ago. I lost count of how many...
Jaguar. Forged upper and lower control arms. Super easy to rebuild at home. My truck weighs 3600 lbs with me in it. Jag XJ6 is well over 4000...
I did this little repair on both doors. I could probably have gotten the tig tip in there, but the mig did it just fine. I couldn't bear to not...
Time to update I guess. I have been pretty busy over the past few months dealing with a family problem so work on this has been rather slow. My...
I only use a torch when you really really have to shrink a whole bunch. Think about it. Heat makes metal shrink, and as soon as you get the...
The white paint on the inside of this box was house paint. Really thick, and crusty like the coupe above. I scraped it all off with a wood...
This is probably the nicest unibody tailgate I have come across. I got this with the truck I completed two years ago, right after I finished...
I have these Mercury hood side spears that are in okay condition. Not show pieces, but decent for a driver. Also a tailgate insert I made a...
I'm not a satin paint fan, but it looks like you did it all right. Hope I can do as good if I ever get done with fixing highs and lows on mine.
Regular driver except for salty winter roads. 62 Mercury, 300 six with offy dual port manifold and quadrajet carb. A833 Mopar overdrive manual...
Just a couple more pics. [ATTACH] The right side of the hood is almost totally metal finished. I just have a few little areas to get a bit...
[ATTACH] It's been a couple months and there isn't a lot of visible progress, even though I have spent a ton of time on it. This side is now...
We always drive the south route. Much easier pace and lots of orchards etc. I drove truck on all those roads in a previous life, and the trucks...
I finished up the rear cab corners. They still need a little attention, and probably a bit of filler, but it's all good metal now. [ATTACH]...
Too small to hold onto for a sand bag. [ATTACH] This depression I carved out on my portable stump. It's still a bit hard on the fingers to hold...
This jig to hold up the box is left over from when I had the unibody on the rotisserie. Works really well, as I'm working in my hell hole filthy...
Been busy doing a set of doors. I had a really nice totally rust free pair of doors left over from another cab I had. Glad I saved them....
A word of warning on the super glue and baking soda. A friend of mine did my steering wheel and it turned out beautiful. First day it turned 20...
I spent a couple more hours on this fender. Then ground the uglies off the patch on the other one. Tomorrow I should be able to finish this one....
The last little patch job. I spent a bit of time getting this part of the fender close to where it needs to be before welding in this little...
Yes, the front of the bed is down almost 3/4 of an inch because the support channel under the bed is rusted out and collapsed slightly. I have had...
I guess I do have a few pics of the bed floor from last summer. I decided to do it this way to close off the way water can run down the front of...
The bottom of this fender was in fairly rough shape. I'll have this smooth as a baby's bottom in the next day or two. [ATTACH] I forgot this...
I'll mention again that this is just my beater, but it will have all sheet metal work done first class. I won't be spending a ton of cash on...
Okay, I'm out there working on it, so I can post I guess. It's been stated we need more build threads. I purchased this truck about 7 years ago...
I built this shop 25 years ago, and I mounted it according to the manufacturer's instructions with regards to distances from ceiling and wall, and...
The last truck I drove was in 96 and it had Sylvania extra vision headlights. They were the small rectangular ones, but they lit up to the fence...
I put kilmat on the underside of the roof of my F100 before last summer, so almost two summers now, and it's still stuck on there just fine. I...
I have done metal work for my grocery money since getting the big oil patch layoff about 14 years ago. It's really hard to get people to pay for...
A friend called this afternoon and asked if I wanted to go for an impromptu cruise almost an hour out of town. He said I'll pick you up, and we...
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