The time has finally come to start my truck. At this point ive been working on it for 2 weeks when I have had the oppertunity. I got the truck to my house have the cab off and stripped and am well under way with fixing it. Also baught another rusty 64 F100 for the short, box. Im not great with posting pics online but I am going to make my best attempt to post as many as I can on this site.



The 66 gets towed home after sitting outside and not moving since 1984!


Picked up what was left of this 64 for its box. windshield and other small parts will be usefull.


taking it apart to remove cab.


The cab inside on homemade cab roller contraption.


The floors are toast both sides as well as floor supports and front dog legs etc. THe floor is is also covered in tar in a lot of places.


THis is the first piece of steel I welded on the truck. "hasn't been welded in this picture but is drilled for plug welds"


THe floors are finished and I have tons of pictures, just need to upload them and keep going. More pictures to follow tomorrow.

And to those who are going to tell me im crazy, maybe I am. But I have 300$ into this project so far and it's more of a hobby for me.

Japedo

 

I can feel yo pain, man you got your work cut out for you.

You recond you could go to photobucket and reduce the size of the photos so they don't over blow the forum pages.


thanks




John

 

A clean shop is a sign of a sick mind.
Love the Floyd poster.
Your helper's a cutie.
Good luck with your project.

 

thanks for the encouragment fellas,

I'll deffinently see if I can reduce the size of the pictures, Im going to post some more pictures today so you can see where I am at with the progress.

someone might get a kick out of this, when I was pulling stuff out of the cab I found a small bag of marijuana stuffed in behind the heater unit. !!!
I bet this truck could tell a couple stories if it could talk.

Tune in later for more pics from the build.

Curtis

 

Nice shot of the bottom of the cab. It looks like you have a great place to work and obviously the ambition and some skills to take this on. Good luck with the build, keep the pics coming!

 

Floor? What floor? Lol good luck with the build.

 

Another Volvo family with a slick in the garage! You might have stressed the 850T with the UHaul loaded! Looking good!

 

i was thinking the same thing as oldblu. very impressive it pulled it.

 

Kyle, ya gotta spot the Cross Country in the background too. Smart to pull with the 850. I wouldn't trust the tranny in the XC.

 

"Kyle, ya gotta spot the Cross Country in the background too. Smart to pull with the 850. I wouldn't trust the tranny in the XC."

hahaha ya thats for sure! The 850 has 505 kms on it and the manual transmission seems to love hauling stuff. I haul snowmobiles with it in the winter as well. I replaced the cross country's transmission when I baught it 3 years ago and don't trust it to tow. Gotta love the volvo's though.

Back to the pictures
Rebuilding the passenger side front dog leg, one piece at a time.


That section finished up with a little rust paint on it. I am not applying seam sealer now as I am going to get the whole thing sandblasted after the metal work is done.


Here is the passenger side floor, you can see I used 2 patches a bit of bending and alot of hammering.


bottom side of passsenger side floor plan, everything fits quite tight. Still need to remove some tar, grind down to bare metal and stitch weld around the floor pan.


Onto the driverside. Cut out nearly 2/3 of the rocker but the outside lip was solid and saved.


Here you can see the rocker coming together slightly. I bent the steel around a piece of hardwood.


driver side dog leg "or whatever it's called" finished up.


THe firewall was in worse shape on this side, but nothing a little cutting and pasteing wont fix!

 

decided to put this small piece in seperate from the rest of the floor on that side to make things easier.


Here is a good picture of the floor support I fabbed, same on both sides.


driverside floor pan just sitting in place, I bent this piece by shutting the garage door on it.


I have the floor pannel tacked in on the driverside but I have run out of wire. Thats 2lb into the old girl so far. I have been using a 220v mig welder so far and everything is penetrating well.
When I brought this thing home the driver door would drop an inch when opened due to lack of structurability in the door jamb.
I did a ton of measuring while rebuilding this side, and the door opens and closes properly now, and the lines match up.
I have tons of work ahead of me but I am happy with the first 2 weeks. Also, I am by no means a wleder or a body guy or anythiung more than a hobbiest, and this is my first big project like this. Any advice constructive critisism etc, is helpfull thanks.

Japedo

 

Yo0u can see the rocker panel repair a bit better here, deffinently going to require some tiger hair for the fine tuneing.

 

looks like good work so far it just takes time

 

Huge undertaking! Great job and thanks for saving another Slick from the crusher...................

 

japedo ,

Very nice work! I'm subscribing to this thread to follow your progress.

A great start so far. Keep those pics coming, too.

Best of luck with your rebuild,

John