Thread: Stude M5 build

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Whenever I do something I try to make it perfect because it never comes out perfect no matter how hard I try. If I just shoot for "good" it usually comes out kind of crappy.

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Had the truck out in the yard and blasted the inside, firewall and underside. I wanted to hit all the areas I did welding on and then prime it all. I used the U-pol bedliner underneath and in the inside of the cab. I didn't have enough to totally cover the inside so I will probably spray some black chassis paint over it to seal it all up. It felt good to do a little finish work.

Wow that thing looks clean, what did you use for media? You guys in the warmer states are so lucky not have to deal with rust.

Pretty shroud. Stainless might be tough to cut, but it does weld easy.

Cab looks good.

Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

Wow that thing looks clean, what did you use for media? You guys in the warmer states are so lucky not have to deal with rust.

I used the black diamond stuff from tractor supply, it's cheap and it works well, discovered the hard way that medium grit won't work with my blaster, that ate up a couple of hours. I know I'm lucky having a Nevada truck but I still had to replace half the floor, both cab corners and the rear lower section of the cab.

Originally Posted by firebird77clone

Pretty shroud. Stainless might be tough to cut, but it does weld easy.

Cab looks good.

Thanks. I used the stainless just because I had a piece laying around, it is a pain to work with, eats up the abrasives. I would have rather used aluminum but I didn't want to drive downtown to get some.

This is such a cool build, gotta love Studes!

Very nice work! I really like your seat riser you built in the floor too.

Thanks, but I can't take credit for the riser that's all studebaker. I just built the tunnel.

Really nice build. I really like the studes trucks

Originally Posted by v8nutz

Hey, I'm new here and want to share some pictures of my current build. It's a 48 I got in Nevada with the usual truck rust areas, but pretty good considering it's age. I got it with no drive train or interior. I decided I wanted a modern chassis so I got a 95 explorer and stripped it down to the frame, sold the extra parts and came out with a free rolling frame with an 8.8 posi, 4 wheel disc brakes and torsion independant front suspension with rack and pinion. The track and wheel base were very close to the original truck, just has to cut the back of the cab opening a little wider to get it to sit down on the frame.

Wow what a nice looking truck. With the explorer rolling frame, that is going to be a nice ride.

Thanks. I just noticed from the quote that I put in the wrong year, its a 47, whoops. I'm thinking of cleaning up the frame and painting it a satin black. I'm going to go down to the paint store tomorrow and see what they have, probably some kind of water based california junk. I miss those isocyanates.

IMG_1237.jpg Been cleaning the frame with a wire wheel on the angle grinder (be careful, it can be dangerous) next it's going out in the yard for some blasting of the hard to reach places and some semigloss black paint. I got the front a arm bushings and ball joints done (that was fun).

How come all of a sudden it won't let me post pictures, it says they are too big. I've been using the same phone camera I don't understand what is different.

Did your camera have some different settings?
Compare the pic sizes in the cameras gallery, see if this attempt was with large(r) pics. This place does have a size limit.