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Looking good!
Primer, a major milestone!!!

I’ve been sanding away and body working, in between report cards for the students, parenting, hockey watching, etc! It is coming slowly as one always finds imperfections that the eye can’t see. Today I managed to seam seal the cab fully. I used a 3m heavy duty on the inner door jambs, but used SEM sealer for the drip cap and various outer seams. The SEM stuff sure seems good. I used the trailer tongue jack to lift the back of the cab, so the 2nd coat of sealer would self level. I applied a base filler coat to dam up gaps and holes, to fill the seam initially, and provide a smooth working base, let it set, and then on went the liquid sealer. It turned out ok for a first time. I will need to do a little razor work to get it where I’m happy. If I were to do it again, it would come out better as I was using a new product for the first time. Slowly plugging away here, but I’m oh so close to laying down a couple more coats of primer. I might go buy the topcoat paint this week.

Hours: 587

PS: I also included a picture of the clock I’m building out of an original hubcap of Grandpa’s. I threw the other 3 out as they were destroyed. This one wasn’t far off, but I have hung onto it for years, never really knowing why. A truck friend suggested the idea. I am glad I kept the hubcap. It will be special indeed alongside the tailgate bench. The minute hand looks silver, but is actually black as well.

I think the cab body work is done…
(I hope I didn’t jinx it!)

Next up, I will clean out the cab and shop area, then blast and prime the doors for their body work appointment. When I’m done, I’ll reshoot the cab, doors, and a pile of extra doodads that need some epoxy sealer.


Moving slowly, but still moving. It’s amazing how many little bumps and bruises this truck has received over its 53 years.

Hours:592

I hear you. I've been working on one rear fender that has rock dings all over it, making little bumps on the top side that need to be hammered back down. I'm creeping up on 1400 hours on my truck.

I jinxed it. I had some welding to fix some pinholes on the LH door. There was still some cab sanding and body work to do, but I think after priming it should be so close to done. I hope some light sanding will knock it completely smooth. I have blasted the doors, doodads, and then I reshot the cab and primed the doors and doodads.

Hours: 602

Crazy to think that some green might be flying soon. Next up:
Seam seal the doors, and prime areas.
Body work LH door. Reprime.
Sand out the cab and check for any spots I missed and work/touch prime.
I’m going to spray the black pieces first I think. Core, battery tray, some doodads, inner fenders, etc.

Some fun is being had here, I’m not going to lie.

Sanding, sanding, cleaning, sanding, prepping, sanding, some more, spot priming, resand, clean, clean, and clean the shop some more.

I think I got it finally.

Colour is being applied. I have to redo one inner fender as I had a thin spot on the top side. Too bad it wasn’t the underside, I wouldn’t have cared as it’s getting rubber coated. I went to respray the fender to cover the thin spot and failed to check the orientation of my gun’s spray pattern. I moved the gun sideways, and the spray was horizontal. I have a huge run. Now I have to sand it out and reshoot that piece. I am also almost out of black. My math was VERY close for the amount of black I needed and that hiccup should use it all up.

Next up, move pieces around, sand out top inner fender, respray, and move to shed. Mask the cab for interior spray, spray little green doodads, then spray cab interior, then do the exterior after curing.

Exciting times! Whoop whoop!

Hours: 623

There you go again with that nice painting area.
I'm with you on the having fun part, although sanding isn't all that fun. I'm getting close to color as well.
Looking good.
I'd be excited too.

WooHoo! After following your build for awhile, I’m getting excited too! Nice work!

Thanks fellas.

I moved out the black pieces and then resprayed the inner fender that had a run in it. All went smoothly. I then began masking off the exterior jambs, windows, holes, etc on the cab in prep for painting the interior. Today I shot the underside of the cab floor in black, sprayed the cab back wall, and inner firewall under the dash black as well. Then, I went and weeded, rooted, and tilled my mom’s garden for her so she could plant her veggies. Went home had some supper, played with kids, put them to bed, and then went back for more. I painted the cab interior and a big pile of doodads with the green. I was nervous at first, but I think I will be very pleased with the final colour. I really like it in the booth, under a bright light, the flop of colour, and how sweet I think it looks. As Kermit the Frog says, “It isn’t easy being green…” I really like it.

I did have some issues. I had to respray quite of few of the doodads, as the paint wasn’t thick enough in some places. The next issue was an overhead screw up in the cab. Painting upside down sucks. I used a siphon gun with the pot on the bottom, which helped immensely, but I accidentally have a couple stripes where the paint is slightly thicker than the previous pass. One is on the inner cab brow behind the sun visor (thankfully… hopefully you never see it), and the second one is below the rear window near the driver position. Hopefully the rear seat and window rubber hide this decently.

The pictures really don’t seem to do the paint justice. The best representation is the intake tube, I think. 🤤

All in all, tonight seemed to have gone well.

Hours: 630

Looking good, Fox! My "roommate" in the shop is a '69 C-20 so your pics are looking very familiar! Check out mine -- you'll see familiar things ...