The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk The saga of my 46 04/23/07 update almost back together

For those of you that remember..I spent the summer in temporary housing. We sold our house in June and stayed in a townhouse all summer. I have not had my "fix" of stovebolting all summer. The best I could do was drive my bolt..which is pretty darn good anyway..

Here is my truck helping us move in June...it looked like this until yesterday.
Pre-tear down shot


Since winter is my stovebolt season, I started it off with a bang....After a day of work..it looks like this...

Ripped up

And this...

torn apart

I hope to have it down to the frame by next week...I would like to powder coat the frame and start working on the re-build. The wiring harness turned out to be a mess. When I disassembled the headlight buckets, all the wires were stripped of insulation. It was probably time to take the leap before I burned up the old beast....

A real live IRWIPI!

Okay, I'm dense --- what the heck is " IRWIPI" ?

SCS65:

It Ran When I Parked It.

46 in progress, you're a brave soul with far too much energy for a Friday.

Sure will be nice, when you get it back together though.

That's gonna be nice! Take lots of pictures and keep us posted. john.

Holy smoke, you did all that in one day? Took me several weekends and many cans of Silikroil to get mine down that far. Good luck with it and keep us posted.

-W

OK...so it's next week....here is where we are now!

frame and engine still on the wheels

I went out and got an estimate on Powder coating...$850 for the frame, inner fender walls, all the pans behind the grill, steering arms, and a host of other small parts...that includes sandblasting too. The guy said he would coat the parts with zinc for rust prevention before coating. Best of all, the shop is only mile away!

I don't think the price is too bad!

That is great progress. I think $850 for all that powder coating is a really good deal - especially WITH sandblasting. Good for you!

::jaw drops::

Nice work.. I remember when The Ox was like that.

I hope to have an updated photo in the morning. The frame and several boxes of parts will make the trip to the powder coating shop in the morning. If all goes well, everything should be back in 2 weeks.

Man..do I have a pile of stuff in my garage now!

I hope I remember how it all goes back together!

Good grief, man! You must have burn marks all over the soles of your shoes!

You're really tearin' it up, bro' -- way to go!

Looking forward to the next set of photos.

WOW, you will have this winter project finished in
about....tomorrow!

Great job.

Cliff59

Down to the frame!

Yah..I know, you've all seen a frame, but here it is!

Next up is to replace a few seals while the engine is out and put a fresh coat of paint on the 216. New front springs are in the works and the radiator gets dropped off next week for a little freshening up.

Wow! That's about as basic as it gets. You have one heck of a jigsaw puzzle to put back together. Keep us posted. john.

Wow!!! you must be a speed machine! I was wondering were you are getting the frame powdercoated at? I am also located in Minesota and doing a 1950 chevy restoration.

Hi! I'm one of the new guys on the Page. The engine (when it was ON the frame) looked like it had been worked on prior to your new postings. True? If so, is it and the drive train all original?

Nice wheels. Will be nice to see it all put back together. Thinking of a color yet?

Chevy Freak,

For powder coating, I am using a place Farmington called JIT powder coating. Since you are in the north metro, there is a good place in Isanti that can take care of you. I would use it but it is 60-70 miles one way. Jake 53 on this board will have the name of the place, but it is just off the main drag in Isanti. I liked the work in Isanti. They did my wheels and took good care of me. Nice guys up there.

KenZ, The drive train is all original. All I have done to it so far is hit the engine with degreaser, a power washer and a braided brush on the drill. I used some rattle can paint to brighten up the engine and used Ace Hardware BBQ grill paint on the tranny and intake.

Color? I am hoping for dark blue cab and box and black fenders, running boards.

Hello 46inprogress and Chevyfreak1822003, I am Jerry from near Sleepy Eye, MN. I am the proud owner of 1951 Chevy 1 ton, "In Progress". I hope to post pics soon. Maybe us Minnesotans can meet 1/3 of the way some day with our trucks, have coffee and shoot the B.S. Does that sound like a plan to you? Jerry. Any other Minnesotans out there?

Man 46 you certainly live up to your handle.

51 Chev 1 ton,

There are a few of on here. Back to the 50's in June would be a good spot for everyone to get together. It is a long drive from Sleepy Eye, but if we did it on Swap Meet morning, it might make it worth the trip.

46; you make me ill. It took me several years to get where you are in a couple weeks. Now I have to try to keep up! Nice work!

The fun stuff is just beginning. Good job and keep up the good work.

I got my 46 Ford Sedan project already disassembled and the frame is set up for th350 and sbc. Boy does it take up a lot of space.

Tim

An update; Springs are at the spring shop today. Front springs will need a new main spring as the eyes were worn about half through. The spring guy said the rears looked pretty darn good for being 60 years old. New bushings should fix em right up. He will tear them down and inspect them for internal damage, but it looks like I will get away with $100 worth of repairs on the rears. The fronts on the other hand will cost at least $200 to get them back in shape.

Front end is torn apart and I hope to get it into the powdercoat shop today or Monday.

Radiator will get repaired this week too.

Now I need to start thinking about the body.

Makin PROGRESS!!!

What a day! Many of my parts came home today! It all turned out pretty darn nice. The frame is the best. There was very little pitting. Any pitting there is will be covered up by other parts.

Some of the other items had more rust than I thougth. When blased, I lost some metal. Again, it will all be covered up and I will be the only one who knows what has deep pits.

frame

Misc parts

Running boards

The rebuilding now begins!

46 IP,

Nice progress.

It gives hope to me. I have yet to start.

keep on truckin, your progress is amazing.

Everything looks really great & those running boards look perfect

Sabrina

Great work! Pretty soon you'll have to change your screen name to "46 all done"

George

Its like you are a speed demon! "makes my back ache just to look at your progress".

Im proud of you man!

Cliff59

It has been a couple of weeks since I have updated my progress.

This thing is almost back on wheels. I need two more U-bolts and the rearend is in. That X2 math thing while ordering parts...note to self..wait 10 minutes before you press "order".

Also, the rear shackles need to be put on and then it will roll!

The engine should be going on the stand in the next week or two. If spring ever gets here, I will paint the engine and get it back in the truck.

My next major step is to CLEAN THE GARAGE. It looks like a bomb went off in here. The cold makes it hard to get the greasy dirt off the floor.

Many parts need to be put away for safety sake and to prevent damage.

Slowly but surely, progress is being made.

Sorry about the large photo size. My photo editing software is on my other computer.

Almost back on the wheels

Front shot of the frame almost back on wheels

This is great to see. I hope I can keep up the same pace as I'm about 3 months behind you. All the sheet metal is off my truck and the engine is coming out this weekend.

Keep up the great work. I hope to post some pics of my progress in the next couple weeks.

46iP
It looks GREAT!!!!!!Running boards don't have a mark on them. They are great! On the front shot are those engine splash pans? I thought I remembered a post on those but never saw any. Great job and good luck

Dan

4T6,

I have the splash pans lightly bolted in place...more for safe keeping than anything. My garage is so stretched for space right now, the safe place for most of the parts is back on the truck..even if they have to come off again. The splash pans did turn out darn nice. The grease/oil makes a good rust proofing agent, so there was little or no pitting.

The running boards turned out OK. They are 5 foot wonders. When you get up close, the PC did not cover up the pitting and you can see some spot welds where the mount hardware is welded underneath.

But I was going for durability as I am building a driver...So I have to remind myself not to be so picky!

Keep at it...it was not fun for a few weeks...but it gets better!

It has been awhile....I have been busy working on the truck instead of sitting at the computer. Here is my Do-it-yourself paint job. I made a paint booth in the garage using a large blue tarp hung from the rafters. Yep, I wore all the safety attire while painting....

Take a look.

OK, here is my attempt at using Restoration Series tractor paint from Fleet Farm. It is not show quality of course, but since I am building a driver and my pro paint job had to be put on hold, it is getting the job done....

box shot


The cab side of the box

Another coat will be applied soon, but I need to prime a pile of other parts before I break out the red again.

Here is the cab and hood sides almost stripped out...

link to cab and hood

A productive Saturday....I applied the correct color paint to the engine and hope to set it back on the frame in the next day or two. I held off on cleaning up the tranny as a T-5 is probably in the near future.
Engine is all painted.

It is starting to look like a truck again......

this is where the tear down process stopped in January.

June 23, 2006

The cab is back on the truck and bolted down. The box is set in place but I need to cut the bed boards and paint the bed strips before I am ready to mount the box to the frame.

My goal for the week is to get 2 of the three stalls in the garage back in use for parking my other car and SUV. The MRS is tired of parking outside when she has a 3 stall garage!

Engine work, bed building and starting on cab details is up also in the next week.

As for my paint job...I am sure you can tell, I did it myself. I ran out of $$ and will have to come back to the body work later. I can say that sanding priming and painting have been a rewarding experience. I wish I could paint and do body work better.

Anyways...still making progress....

46,
I think you have done an outstanding job! I am dreaming of the day i can say the cab is back on the truck.
Rich

$34.00 worth of wood...

along with new bed strips, paint and hardware....

And a lot of time...

Cutting the boards, applying marine spar varnish, painting the bed strips all took time. But I think it turned out pretty nice for the few bucks I have invested in this part of the project. My father-in-law and I spent a couple of hours cutting the bed boards to fit. My old boards were good enough to use as a pattern.

So putting it all together is how I spent my saturday.

Best part was having my 11 year old daughter help. She likes to help when we see progress fast!

46 In Progress. Sure is coming along fast.Looking real nice. When do You sleep?

Great progress....I think I need a new monitor for my computer because I know you said the bolt was gonna be painted dark blue with black fenders, but on my monitor it looks RED....lol