Finally got a few hours work in on the old girl. The frame got shorter today.
I am coming to grips with the fact that this is going to take a VERY long time with only one functioning arm. It's been 3 years since the motorcycle accident but I still forget my limitations sometimes. VERY VERY FRUSTRATING repeatedly reaching for something with my left arm and realizing it can't do that. Had some good fun today anyway, found out I can still one hand that sledge in the picture.
So back to the Pete.... I guess that was a frame extension that was added long ago, or perhaps a repair of some sort. It almost looks like an old ship-lap joint.
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Very hot, very humid today so I thought I'd do a little spring cleaning instead of cutting during the middle of the day. Hopefully I will get some cutting done a little later when it cools down.
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Still a long way to go but It's definitely an improvement.Ruthless, PeteyFixAll, AModelCat and 1 other person Thank this. -
Headed back over to cut off the front fenders! They're in my way and they are coming off eventually anyway. Gonna lose the front bumper too, if there's time.
I'm a little upset, I sold a pair of nice aluminum rocker covers about a week ago off my 8v92Ti Marine and just found out they are interchangeable with the 8v71. That makes it a good time to do demo! -
Oh the memories. Thank you kindly.
The frame plate, the diamond sort of plate might have been installed over a preexisting crack that has been ground out. The diamond add on plate with good quality weld will essentally form part of the existing frame and be much stronger at that location than it was when new from factory.
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I feel better! A little violent truck cutting put me at ease. I have (had) a 3000w dc inverter in my Chevy but it quit on me so I only got one fender off. Interesting though. I was wondering how they avoided galvanic (dissimilar metal) corrosion mounting steel fenders to an aluminum body and now I know. There were small patches of the material used on the interior door panels between the steel and the aluminum.
I was surprised to see steel rivets too, I had it in my head they were aluminum.
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I believe it was @truckdad that mentioned in another thread that these are getting hard to find. They are the step and marker lights off the fender.
They need a serious re-chroming but if someone is doing a restoration let me know. I'm sure we can work something out. I have a pair of each. -
I haven't posted in a while because I've been pretty busy at work and the little bit of progress I've made has not been worth posting. But, when I stopped by on my way home today to crank it up and let it run a while the kill switch apparently stopped working. The ignition was on and all gauges were working but the kill switch did absolutely nothing. I calmly removed the intake before the filter and covered it with a piece of plywood to smother the engine. She had other plans.
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How'd you shut it down?Bean Jr. Thanks this. -
I put vice grips on the fuel lines, they were on there in the video, that didnt help, eventually I jumped in the cab, slammed it in gear and dropped the clutch. It reversed 10 feet before dying! It was amazing how hard it was to shut down. -
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