Looking good Ryan! What are your plans for the stake pockets? Where will your fuel fill be? You are doing some nice work here.

 

This was an idea we had for the fuel door, instead I will will this style fuel lid but it will be on the bed floor on the drivers side.



The stake pockets will be welded closed. I will have tie downs similar to the chain hook on the hitch welded onto plates in each corner of the bed.... this theme anyway, like these (simple cut pipe and softened edges



Ryan

 

Very nice work, thanks for keeping us posted.

 

Yea I played with the idea of putting it in that area of the tail light/bed end also. Ended up putting a door on the side of the bed and boxing in the rear corner of the bed and mounting my battery back there. By raising your floor you have plenty of room between tank and floor now. I left my pockets open and recreated the joint where the quarter panel and tail light panel join. Whole different style truck!

 

Well the tail light pieces are on, here are a few shots









And here are the mods on the bed....if you can tell from this pic. The bedsides were brought up level as was the height of the tailgate, and the tailgat is now inset and closes flush



Hope to move the chassis this week to the home shop to start the motor mock up with exhaust etc

Stay tuned

Ryan

 

Looking good! How did you do the tailgate hinges?

 

If you look at top and bottom of tailgate them are like 7/8 ID pipe welded to top and bottom. The hinge points off a late model truck was welded to each side, left side being basically a round button for the tailgate to slide over, the other end is slotted like a modern tailgate. The slotted side of the tailgate was modified as well. Basically operates like a late model now with no external hinges. I will take pics next time I get to truck if you would like??

Ryan

 

Please take the other pictures when you get a chance. The tailgate is one thing I haven't decided how to approach. My current tailgate is in excellent condition but the factory mounting method just doesn't flow well.

 

Here are a few pics of how we did the tailgate mount

If you blow this picture up you can see this is the side that slides out


And then a simple slot cut in the pipe that was welded to the bottom


And this is the other side which of course you have to slide the gate onto first just like a late model tailgate



Here are the rings welded on in each corner for tie downs (match the connectors at the hitch)
And yes that is an inner bed wall with a roll in it, couldnt see a sinlge wall bed, too scary.... lol




And some gratuitous shots of the bed on in the "UP" and "DOWN" suspension,

UP UP UP



DOWN DOWN DOWN


More to come,....STAY TUNED

Ryan

 

I like it.

 

Thanks!!!! And Happy Turkey day Fridge Freaks,

Ryan

 

Back to once a week on the truck until after Christmas, I may get 3 days in a row, woo hoo.
Kinda rainy here in So Cal. I really wanted to get the truck bed, (which is sandblasted and raw metal) covered with something on the under side before the moisture set in.....so today before the sprinkles we shot bed liner onto the entire underside of the fabricated bed floor. Put some seam sealer on the wheel tubs and went to town.

In between coats we started to assemble the "Frontrunner" pulley set up from VIntage air.
During the week I took the "main truss" of the vintage air system and strategically painted some of the aluminum black. I also painted the power steering pump and water pump black as they were both raw metal color.

Here are a couple of pics for your enjoyment

TOP SIDE OF BED (TUBS)


AFTER BEDLINED




MOTOR WITH THE OLD TIMIMG COVER


AND THE NEW SET UP MINUS THE POWERSTEERING PUMP





hAVE A GOOD WEEKEND

RYAN

 

Motor looks awesome.

 

Thanks, I actually did a bit of painting to the pretty pretty aluminum piece, I hope to have the perfect amount of mix between black and aluminum, when all the parts are on. The black carb (hard core grey) was extra but worth it for the look, havent decided what the air cleaner will be, black somethin, lol

Ryan

 

Hey, I like what you're doing to your bed. I'm putting my '57 on a 4x4 S-10 frame (my original frame is long gone) and am going to have to raise my bed floor about the same amount. The floor is already cut out (lots of spot welds!) for the mock up. Did you just rosette weld the original floor into it's new spot or did you put some support pieces in to hold it in place? The pictures of your build are much appreciated (looks first class). Nice work!