Thread: I just picked up another "project"...

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Should look good! Do you think you should put mesh around those stacks as a safety measure? How hot will they get? I know the lake pipes on my Cobra get hot enough to inflict a painful burn.

The stacks won't get hot enough to worry about. I will be running a pipe up through the middle of them and that will keep them from getting to warm. Being that they will be installed vertically behind the cab makes them pretty safe anyway. Besides, if anybody needs to touch them while they're hot, I'll personally make them their own "sign"...
Mark

I hear you. On the Cobra the 4" pipe is the exhaust, on your truck the 4" pipe will have the exhaust inside it. You're right, it shouldn't get too hot, but never underestimate stupidity.......I pulled up one time, got out of the car, and was walking away when I heard a shout.
Turned around, and some eejit had got really upclose to the the lake pipe, and the heat had melted his nylon trousers into his shins.
He had absolutely no sense of humour, and couldn't understand it when I laughed.

Haven't gotten a lot done on the truck other then power washing the engine and trans and building a trans crossmember.
I did build a chassis rotisserie over the last couple of weekends though. I modified a pair of cheap engine stands and have less then $120 into this set-up, including paint and castors.

That's about the same as my rotisserie started life as, just a bit heavier tubing. They work great and will spoil you in a big hurry!!! Beats the heck out of laying on your back to work on the bottom of the car!!!!

Looks like a nice setup. The better you get the car balanced on it the easier it is to use. Wouldn't be without mine!!!!!

well i,ve been following your progress,i like the old trucks looks like your doing a good job,just keep posting,thanks for the pictures

Thanks guys;
Dave, I'll be building extension arms this week. I ordered some tubing last week and they just delivered it this morning. The plan is to get the chassis centered to the rotating heads as close as possible. Like you said it will make it easy to rotate AND put it at torso level so there is no bending over required to work on it... My old back likes stuff that is elbow level or higher.
Mark

I've made some progress on the truck, and have been stripping down the donor truck. It's pretty much just a shell now.
I got the underside of the floors cleaned up, rust converted and painted last weekend. Probably a good thing. I think it be a while before we see any real warm weather again...
I used the Eastwood two part Rust Converter and was impressed with the ease of use and the job it did on what surface rust was left after I power wire brushed the floors.
This first photo was taken after I had done the upper half with the wire brush. I used a knotted wire cup style brush mounted on one of my angle grinders. Wicked...

After coating the top half...

With all of the floor done, I waited about an hour and then sprayed the floor with some cheap red enamel I found at Big Lots... Yea, I know it's not show quality but it will do the job to protect the floors and is much better then what I had...

Thanks for looking.
Mark

Nothin like an ole truck, looks like mine was about 18 years ago
keep the pictures coming.

I like the engine stand rotisserie; cut the tabs off the front ends slip them into the next size bigger square tube you could make it any length you want.

craigsr

Looking good Mark
Brad

This is the body cart I just made so I can roll the cab around in the shop. I built it out of some scrap pressure treated lumber I was "saving"... The top is modular so I can replace it with another frame to support other projects when this one gets put back on the chassis. It rolls around nicely and the cab can go outside when I need more room in the shop.


I used some more of those 10 dollar Harbor Freight 10" casters. That's what I have into it, 40 bucks...
This is what we woke up too in mid-michigan this morning...

About three inches of the white stuff. I can't complain though, it has been fairly mild so far. I just fired up the shop furnace last Monday.
Thanks for looking.
Mark

astroracer- with the eastwood rust converter do you just grind off most of the rust then apply the rust converter on top of the remaining surface rust...then paint on top of that? thanks

Good question . 35 any updated pics like that 35 your doing from your dad

I was with ya right up to the stacks, not a fan, the truck is beautiful an very rust free. It will make a great rod, heck the donor truck didn't look too bad!
Keep the pics coming.

Great job Mark. I am viewing every build thread I can find. I am an old dog trying to learn new tricks, and I've learned a bunch on this Club Forum. There are some outstanding craftsmen on here. oldrodder43 perley