After 12 months of looking sad and neglected, work has finally begun on the truck with a massive thanks to Mark, my legendary saviour, who has spend the last few days with us hitting the panels really hard. Mark is planning on staying over for a couple more days before returning home on the weekend and hopefully to return at a later date and mig weld the panels. Here's a quick snapshot of what we have been up to.
The two of us were able to lift the cabin off the chassis and place it on its side. From here, Mark was able to access the underside which was in pretty poor condition. It also made life easier for him to access the far side of the truck that was almost buffeting the brick wall.
We can now get access to the complete chassis and clean it up. Mark reckons a wire wheel and then some 2k primer over it to seal the thing. The other good thing is we can do some adjusting of the alignment of the tailshaft and the transmission. As you might be able to see, it is sitting up a little high.
Forked out and bought a Blackridge Air Gravity-Fed Sand Blast Gun and hit the door, getting into some tough to get areas, specifically the tops of the window frame. Worked pretty well for what it is, but runs out of beads quickly. Next time I am laying a tarp down to catch the beads as it goes through a big tub of the stuff very quickly.
This is the front cab corner looking from above with the cabin at an angle.
We discovered a stress crack in the seat bracing.
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