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Hello all;

Thank-you for checking in and following along.

Have you all stocked up on toilet paper? I honestly do NOT understand what that is all about, but whatever, to each their own!

I got 30 hours in on the truck this week. I completed the bed wood install as I have been trying to get done for a while now. That felt good to say I am done. I do have the trim pieces around the mini-tubs to compete so it is not 100% done, though I am not going to do that portion so I will call it a win. I am having Dean, the metal fabricator do them so I may need to assist, however I am hoping they will be done when I return. I did not take any more pictures as I have lots of the bed and they all really look the same....
The other thing I have been meaning to get to is the front clip. The hood gaps have been difficult to troubleshoot as they are all over the place. Some of the gap issues are due to the factory tolerances from and some are from the body/chassis swap. For those that may have just started to follow along, the body is from a 1940 - 1.5 Ton truck and the chassis is from a 1946 1/2 Ton truck. I figured I was a little high on the shim for the radiator support and as well the whole clip needed to come forward about 3/8". For the clip to pull forward I needed to slot the mounting holes for the bumper brackets. Once that was complete I figured I should install the hood correctly to accurately check gaps as I had just been sitting the hood on the radiator shroud up until then. To do that I figured I would put on the hood ornament. Well, the hood ornament had a broken foot which I figured I might as well take a crack at fixing. Someone previous to my ownership had damaged the footing and attempted to repair it. The repair was substandard, see the photo, to say the least. Of course the metal is crap so welding it is a complete crap shoot, so i can understand why the 1st repair came out badly. I decided against welding so I cut/ground away the sides and then fabricated the replacement base. The gaps opened up a little when it was all welded together, but I intended on filling the base with epoxy to lock it all together and I can fill in the gaps that way. Once sanded smooth and then painted, or possibly powder coated it will look good as new.

I have attached some pictures of the hood ornament repairs.
That is about it for now, thanks for your time.
Steve