Got the rear brakes plumbed up & bled. I'm really pleased with the petal "feel" & how brakes work. Nice full petal& smooth application, at least in the parking lot. Hopefully they'll be equally as good out on the road. Still waiting on a couple of E brake parts but that should only take a little time to finish install & adjustment.
My left rear fender with the spare tire cutout is in pretty bad shape. According to my online research there are currently no new reproduction short ss spare tire cutout fenders being produced. I found a used one online that said it had dents & surface rust for either 4 or 500 (don't recall which). Allow 200 for freight & maybe sales tax & I'm up to maybe 600 to 750 for a used fender that needs work. Also, no one makes patch panels for these fenders, that I could find.
I had the bed, with fenders still installed , sandblasted to get rid of the original heavy (thick) undercoating & to remove & kill any rust. That meant that the mounting flanges for mating the fenders to the bed did not get sandblasted. So along with repairing the rust & dents that I could see, I also had rust damage on the flanges as well.
Hopefully pics below will show my progress on bringing fender back to life. It won't win any prizes but it will serve my needs. I'll probably outlast me LOL. There's a heavy commercial/industrial roofing company next door to my shop that has it's own metal fab shop. I was able to pickup some scrap pieces of 20 gauge & have them bend a 2" 90 degree bend in a few of those pieces. The rest of the bending & shaping had to be done by hand. Then after metal was brazed in place, roughed all reworked areas with 36/40 grit disc & smoothed over thin layer of body filler as needed. Also, prior to starting work on fender, I treated the rusty, non sandblasted areas with Rustolum rust killer gel, which worked realy well, imo.
The work in progress below.
1966 C-10 Short Stepside HiPo Step-by-step ~ and on-going resto build in the Project Journals
