Got to do some more work on the Fenders today

So today I had a few hours to kill so I spent them working on the passenger side inner and outer fenders.  I stripped them down to the bare metal and grinded the rust completely off. Then I sprayed them with fast etch to keep the rust from spreading.  Then i sanded them down and primed them.  lots of work still left to do on them since as I was grinding I uncovered the mounds and mounds of Bondo that uncovered significant damage around the headlight area. I didnt do anything with the headlight buckets since I will be scratching them and putting new ones in.

Fender Work 8/14/2013

So today I had some time to work on the fenders of my truck. At some point some one added turn signal markers to the front of the fenders. So today I spent a couple of hours welding in some plates and covering the screw holes here are a few pictures.

Here is a shot of the fender with the turn signal that was added

Here is a shot of it the holes we are about to plug

Here is a shot of the screw holes filled with weld and grinded down.

Here is a picture of the smal piece of steel to fill in the larger hole.

Here is a finished shot with a little primer to prevent further rusting.

Some Rust Repair on Fender

So today I had about an hour to kill. So I went down into the basement and got to working on one of the Fenders of my truck.  I had already picked up some pieces of 16 gauge steel so all I had to do was prep, cut and weld the piece in. So here's what I got done.  Working on my welding skills I think I need to play with the speed and temp on the machine but anyways here it goes.....

Here is the Fender with the piece of rust cut out of it.

Here is the Piece of steel

This is the piece the will fill the whole prepped and ready to weld in.

Here it is after I've welded it in.

January 26,2013

So I know its been a while but with the holidays in full swing the last few months I haven't been able to spend anytime in my garage.  My buddy came into town to help me tear down the truck so I can start working on my parts in my basement away from the "overly curious & concerned" neighbors.    So lets begin some much needed therapy for myself.

We tore down all of the Fenders at the 4 corners and the front end so now I can get these sandblasted, weld patch pieces and get them back to new again. 

The fenders themselves were in pretty good shape some rough spots but nothing a little time and attention won't fix. The front grill was done so that went straight into the trash. I do have to say with 63 years of life lots of the bolts and screws just broke off.

 This is the picture of the Front end tore down I do got to say the engine looks in great shape, as for the wiring I will be re doing all of it as it was for the most part dry rotted and stiff, so we will get that back to 2013 standards.

All in all this was a great and fun Saturday,  I got to hang out with one of my buddies and got to spend sometime with my truck.  Since I have some of these parts ready to go in my basement the next few post should be some shots of inner and outer fender repairs.  We should also see a few post of cab repair and floor pan repair.