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I’m going to have to brush up on my hammer skills as I know the bed has a few spots that need to be taken care of, luckily nothing major. Pulled the speedo cable out last night. Been burnt against the exhaust so it was toast but the gauge itself still works. Still trying to decide what I will do with that once I get the interior painted. Then cleaned up the floor trim. Came out pretty decent for 53 yr old trim. One less thing to have to figure out.
Impressive all around. Thank you for posting so much, I started on my own project '66 f100 a couple weeks ago, you're inspiring me to keep at it.
I do intend to start a thread of my own with pics, I'll definitely be looking for intel from the community.
A little more power washing and pickled the windows. Testing what paint/coating I’m going to use on the frame. Give it a few days to harden up to see which I go with. Thankfully pulling the windows didn't reveal any hidden rust issues. Did crack the front window but it’s getting replaced anyways as it’s delaminated on the edges. Saved the trim that will need to be polished up at some point.
Polycarbide abrasive wheels on a grinder along with scotch brite pads on a die grinder. Just have to make sure you move a lot and give the panels time to cool while your stripping the paint off. Depending on the layers it can take a few passes cooling in between to get it all stripped off.
Ever try aircraft stripper? It takes time to let it work and can get messy but there's no dust and no chance of heat warping the body panels. I've found that JASCO is the best brand. I use empty coffee cans to store and toss out the waste when I scrape it off the metal.
I though about going that route especially since my wife just now went through a round of plane repaints at work and knows exactly what they were using but went with what I knew how to do. Used oven cleaner in the past on tractors. The old stuff was amazing but the new cleaner isn't worth bringing home. Few more hours on the small detail stuff and I will have the exterior where I want it to be, just taking it day by day. I have set a goal of having it painted by February/March we'll see if I can hit that or not. Edit: Guess I should say painted but not back together.
Ok so couldn’t take it anymore had do clean up a little and let the truck run a little bit.
Red was everywhere in the shop. Put the big fans in the door and got the leaf blower out. Got the majority of it outa there. Pay no attention to the messy shelves.
Time to pull the seat. Broke 1 seat belt bolt which I’ll have to drill out later.
No telling what this seat was out of. Had a few spacers under it.
No big surprises under, just the patches the other guy already welded in.
Tank pulled. Be a while before it starts again. Let it run until the carb ran dry. Now time to get it cleaned up for some lizard skin and some kinda sound mat. Dash is next in line.
Forgot to mention, as I was pulling the shifter boot off and the shifter, I found the majority of the shifter slop. It had a roll pinned connection with some O-rings an plastic pin bushings that are wore. My guess they wanted to dampen any vibrations going up the shifter. Easy fix once I get to putting it back together that is.
I did have one question though, is it normal for the steering shaft to slide in and out on the column once removed from the rag joint or could the aftermarket steering wheel hub be causing that?
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