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south_island_surf
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Beszczynski
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| Congratulations! Perfect Work! Perfect Images! following of brazil.... |
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jeffreyned
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| Don't want it low enough to tub, and I don't want the bandaid-looking small tire up front. I'll have to really study that thread where people post their beam/tire/wheel specs, but maybe the smart car 175/50 or whatever it is... I just think the 165/45 looks a little too small, plus it probably firms up the ride even more. |
I would beware of the smart car tires...next to no load rating at all. I think it is mentioned in one of the tire size threads.
On my old '57 sc, I ran 185/60/14 up front and it was as slammed as adjusters only would let me (enough to act like a snow-plow in winter) and the tires didn't look too small, a good balance of size and space in the wheel well.
What ever you choose, I'm sure it will look Fantastic.
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Hey Gordo, do you have a pic of your ride as low as adjusters alone will allow? I would really like to see one. PM me if you don't want to put it in this thread. Thanks!!
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south_island_surf
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Wow, it's been awhile! I bought a motorbike in the spring, spent some time working on that, then summer came and family time took over my days off... Fall is here, and I'm ready to get back to work. Hopefully I'll keep the train running this time.
I got some work done on the driver's dogleg before my hiatus. Bad stuff cut out, first patch cut to fit:
Welded in and dressed:
Inside patch:
Curved spot:
Today I wanted to get my KF driver's rocker done, so I left the dogleg for some more rewarding work. Had to patch this first:
Didn't bother grinding all the welds, since they're hidden:
Didn't take any shots of joining the inner/outer rockers or welding them in...
Next will be all the little patches in front of the rocker, and finishing up the dogleg. Then on to the floor.
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south_island_surf
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Driver's dogleg continued...
Paper stencil:
Check, trim, repeat:
Couple tacks and a few plug welds:
All stitched up, like Rocky after fighting Apollo, but not as pretty:
Ground down:
Last piece of the rusted puzzle:
I just had a look at the used floor that came with the truck... gonna order a KF one I think. Too many fiddly bits to re-work, and the holes where the spot welds were drilled are huge.
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Posty
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Really nice fabrication work. Well done.
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south_island_surf
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Thanks, Posty.
Ordered a KF floor and got to work...
Had to fix this section of rust-thinned metal where the floor will be welded:
Unboxed:
I cut the welds on the defrost duct and pulled the 90 degree bend and the piece behind it (many spot welds hold them together, but only a couple blobs of weld on either end of the pair). As expected, much sand came out. biggest pile yet.
I must have had the floor in and out of the cab a dozen times at least, checking, trimming, and re-checking. Finally got it in there.
Trimmed both sides at this spot:
The stamping for this hole did not line up, so I just cut a window for it:
I drilled all the holes that I couldn't reach with my pneumatic punch. The punch saved a lot of time for sure. I used a combination of sheet metal screws, clamps, bolts, and the ol' scissor jack to the ceiling to get the floor down tight against the frame for plug welding.
Welding done, about half the welds ground:
Driver's wheel well:
I spent a good chunk of Saturday morning assembling a sandblast cabinet I bought last year. Blasted my gas pedal:
I was pretty stoked until I looked up new parts (pedal, pin and hinge) and found out they're dirt cheap. I'll need to order the pin anyway.
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south_island_surf
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| Sandblasting was fun, right? Now you can enjoy the fact that your gas pedal is original. Great progress. Good tips for when I get to my floor. |
Super fun! Very satisfying. Your thread is awesome, you need to patent your grinder guard for grinding welds. I'll be using that idea for sure when it comes time to do my load bed. Obviously your rotisserie is way-cool, too.
Slowly fitting more pieces of the puzzle.
I welded up those tabs, then shot the side that's hidden with some black Tremclad I had in the garage. No picture.
Tacked in:
Forgot to form the drain before welding it in! Oh, well. Did it in place:
Examples of what you can use to bang away at sheet metal to form it:
Cleaned up. The drain looks funny with the camera flash, but it turned out pretty good. Not happy with the gap between the B pillar and rocker... I'll weld it up and score it with a thin cutting disk to mimic the factory line.
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south_island_surf
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It's hard to replace your MIG gas when you work the same hours as the suppliers. Got some this week and got back to it.
One more wheel well patch:
Outrigger patch:
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Wow, awesome job! Keep up the good work!
I have some welding to do myself, however I really want to get mine on the road asap.
Thanks!
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south_island_surf
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Hey everyone! It's been too long, but I'm back at it.
Ground through PO's bondo on the windshield frames and found some cancer:
Cut the worst part out, trimmed up a little filler piece and welded it in. I'm going to let the pitting slide (filler vs. cut and weld), but I did weld up some small holes:
I received my Wolfgang safaris last year sometime, and started the install. My bus has the stamped recess for the hinges, which put the windows too high in the openings. Actually, just the passenger side, and only really bad on the outside edge:
I decided if I was going to make a spacer, might as well weld on some captive nuts and make it stronger than the included screws. I found some square tubing that had a good thickness to it, so I cut strips out of it:
Welded on the nuts, and punched holes to plug weld. There are 7 screw holes per hinge, I decided to leave the middle one without a nut. It's way easier to get the sheet metal screw in than the machine threads, so leaving one hole for a screw to get it started works better when installing them without a helper:
Had to use a dremel to widen out the holes for the nuts to slip into... Needed to fit the nut and also the little blobs of weld. Held it tight with some screws and plug welded the holes. After some grinding:
Yay! Tabs are welded in. The windows are now back in the bubble wrap and boxed for who knows when final assembly will take place.
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dfusion001
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| AWESOME WORK MAN! I love to see this kind of fabbing skills with attention to detail. I love this build and also following, very inspirational. |
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south_island_surf
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Thanks, dfusion! Although, maybe not so awesome... When I tacked in my safari support tabs, I had them propped to what I thought was "full open". Upon looking at the photos, I got a sinking feeling something was wrong. In most of the photos of safaris I'd seen, they were only partially open. I searched around and saw a few photos of fully horizontal open ones. Crap. I had fully welded them in, too!
After carefully grinding the welds with a die grinder cutting disk, resetting them, and tacking them:
They're fully welded (again), and the windows, seals, and hardware back in the bubble wrap and packing peanuts (again).
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flemcadiddlehopper
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Wow, it has been awhile since I have been lurking around this site, and longer since I've seen your build updates.
You've been busy, nice work on the safaris, I will be talking to you when I go to do mine.
Very impressive attention to detail...quality craftsmanship.
I found a word in the dictionary that is the closest description of what we do with a passion. to "restore" something, we are bringing it back to it's original state, which is not really what we are doing. We are making things better than they were originally. So, "retrograde" fits better. To go back in time with these treasure.
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south_island_surf
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Thanks, Gordo.
Started this round with my front valance. It had several pushed-in spots all along the bottom edge. I started with pliers to get it somewhat straight, then went over it with a hammer and dolly.
Found some rust holes and welded them up:
Much better:
There was a pretty long crease above my passenger door. I wire-wheeled the paint off and went at it with my stud puller.
Round one:
Round two:
Better... I'd like to try a shrinking disk on it:
I peeled off the front heater tube cover, and was impressed to find this:
Then the long one. Bummer:
Finished up this garage session with a little change of pace. Played with my sandblasting cabinet:
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south_island_surf
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Overall, my truck's nose is in great shape. Looks like it took one bump on the passenger side. This is where I found a patch of pretty thick filler. There was one hole from an old screw-in dent puller, but they stopped pretty short with that effort before going to the bondo. Here's the extent of the dents, and round one of four with the stud puller. I had cut out that patch at the bottom a couple years ago:
There are about three spots where the metal is so stretched and creased that I'd need to hammer and dolly it, but I can't reach. I don't want to cut the spots out, so I'm going to live with some filler. It will be a lot less than what I took out. The light makes them look deeper than they are... very hard to tell from the photos, but I'm pretty happy with the results. Anyway, patch welded in, ground, and leftover pinholes filled:
Grinding the bottom edge was fun:
Passenger wheel well:
Bad spots cut out, areas surrounding the holes wire-wheeled to clean metal for welding, rust converter sprayed in:
Two little patches. Need to chase a couple more pinholes, but I'm spent for today. I'll get them when I patch the other holes.
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south_island_surf
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Rest of the patches in:
Found some rust holes hiding in the passenger rocker:
First round of welding them up:
Round two, grinding and chasing pinholes:
Done:
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How the hell did you line up the captive nut piece for the safaris to ensure proper placement?
Gordo.
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