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I just got my new web page updated with my truck restoration chronicle/saga. If you have the old webpage bookmarked, please update it from http://www.sheridanzone.com/46chevy.htm to the new www.46chevytruck.com

THE NEW RESTORATION WEB PAGE!!!

I did some thing so it loads faster. It will still be a bit slow if you are using dial up! I will soon be adding photos of freshly painted parts!!! I'll be making a trip on Minday to get them. I can't wait!!!

Let me know if you have any problems with the web page!!

Tim

Sorry but it's still slow. And I have a fast connection. Maybe there's too many pictures on at once. john.

Nice Web site. Thank you for sharing. I wish that I had taken more pictures and documented the "stuff" in zip lock bags. I finally have a chassis that I can drive around the yard. I am ready to start the body work phase.

Tim - Nice new site but unfortunately still really slow for some strange reason as your photos aren't that big. Anyway, I can open another browser instance, continue surfing, and wait for your site to load. Thanks for sharing all of your fantastic work.

Don

It is because of the extensive photos. I reduced the size of the photos by half. According to FrontPage it wil take a full 7 minutes to load with a 56 connection. I have fiberoptics to my house and it loads quicker than I can manually get to the bottom of the page with the mouse.

I started breaking it down into the various years but am not quite done yet. That will help the slower connections. I have a strong suspicion that it has to do with my web hosting provider because even the smaller pages are a little slow.

Until then it will just be one of those that you open, go get a beer then come back to read it.

The page loaded while I was having a Goose and looks fantastic, not just because of the Grey Goose either. What a great documentary of your great project. Thanks so much,

Don

Cool truck! Good pics and good progress. Its cool seeing all the stages before and after.

Keep up the good work.

Jeff

Can you use clickable thumbnails?

I wish I would have had your craftsmanship and patience on the truck.

Tim, great website, excellent pictures and info. I look fwd to seeing the finished truck next year.

took some time to look at the site. enjoyed it a lot, keep it up. as far as loading slow did't mind it a bit, just gave me more time to look at the pics and wipe my mouth off

Sheridan,

Wonderfully done. The truck and the website. When someone takes the time to write up the story as you have and document it with pictures, it really helps others out there that are going it alone on a project in their own shops or basements. Kudos to you for your contributions to others attempting the same thing and your efforts with your project. Looking forward to the finale'.

I am completely pumped up! Today is a very good day. I paid Dave at Paintwekrs a visit this afternoon and I was able to pick up some of the first painted parts. So that's what Brewster green looks like in real life! I posted a few pictures of some of the newly painted parts on my web page. This is a really neat color and is pretty much what I have had in my head the past 7 years. Talk about nerve racking; waiting to see how the very expensive paint actually looks once sprayed on parts. I love it! It can almost look black in absence of bright lights. In the light, it has that "dark green olive" hint to it that I have had in my head as "brewster green". Don't ask what the paint code is for the "Brewster Green" because I do not know. This was custom mixed based off of the color that Jim Carter's sells. What you're looking at in my photos is PPG Brewster Green DBU and DCC matched to the Jim Carter paint they sell. I also had the Kildare Green matched in a PPG DBU for the cab and hood belt line. If you go this route, do not expect that the people at Jim Carter's will know much of anything about the paint. What we found is that they do not. They do however, have a supplier they get the paint from that seems to know their stuff. We had a mix up with this custom order because when Carter's recieved the paint in their warehouse, they put their typical stickers on it indicating it was something other than what it truly was. It took Dave from paintwerks a few calls to get it straightened out but he got to the bottom of it. Lesson learned? Stick with your local paint supplier or go into it with the knowledge that Carter's and likely other suppliers are the third party selling something they don't know a whole lot about in some cases. Carter's ended up setting the two paint people up to talk it through with each other and they figured it out. You would hate to spray something thinking it is something then end up finding out months or years later it was not what you thought after problems show up.

In addition to picking up some parts with actual paint on them, I got a peek at the box which was still hanging in the paint booth as well as dropped off the rear fenders, running boards, headlight pods and some misc. items that will be black.

Slowly but surely, it is all coming to gether. From Rust to bust (my wallet)!

I picked up some parts today (running boards, RB aprons, rear fenders, headlight pods, side window frames, tail lights & brackets). They look great!!! The rear fenders and Running Boards are something else to look at. The photos do not do them justice but feel free to check them out on my Web Page. The black on the Brewster green looks really nice. As you can see by the photo on the right of the page, the rear fenders have the subtle crease line along the back tops of each of them.

We even took the extra time with the rear fenders to make sure that we matched up the original rivets that hold the rear fender brackets to the outside of the fenders. Often you will see that these are shaved flat or bondo'd over. See the close up photo of the rivets (and my living room in the reflection) We had to order 100 rivets so if you are working on the same thing, send me a self addressed stamped envelope (it will likely take two stamps) and I'll send you 4 rivets for the cost of postage. I was also able to assemble the headlight pods and the tail lights . The chrome bezels on them are not the best but they will have to do for now. I may end up getting them quoted out for re-chrome.

We are almost ready to get going on the cab so I'll have to round up some neighbors to help me pull it off the frame again. This will be a good chance for me to finish up all the mechanicals and get the thing running. While my last target completion date was this spring, I think a Labor Day target is far more realistic while providing me the time to not have to rush things just to get done (not sure it will ever be "done").

Tim

Pretty incredible there Tim. The photos documenting your efforts are are super. Your web page is loading faster too!

Interestingly, the photos of the running boards answered one of my most perplexing questions... Why aren't they lining up with the cab and fenders correctly? It now appears that the previous owner was sold a set of running boards, in 1989, by Chevy's of the 40's that are incorrect. As you can see from these photos the vertical portion of the running boards is not curved like yours and therefore don't conform to the curvature of the cab. ARGGGG!!!!!

Thanks again for sharing your efforts.

Don

This is probably the most exciting time for my truck in the past 8 years of the restoration! It's probably in reality the most exciting time for the truck since it went down the assembly line in early 1947! Dave called earlier this week to let me know that I could come pick up some of my parts. He also told me that the cab has been painted and cleared. It will sit for about 2 weeks before it can be polished out and brought home. My dad come up from Janesville with his cargo van and helped with loading the parts at Dave's and getting them in the basement when I got home. We were actually able to get both doors, the front fenders, the hood (both sides) and a bunch of misc. other parts in the back of his van without any worries about parts coming into contact with each other during the drive. To the right are a couple of photos of Dave at PaintWerks with some of the finished finished parts. Click here to go to my web page with all the photo details! Dave's shop is not the largest so I'm sure he was pleased to get all of this out of there so he could make room for other projects.
It's interesting to look at the progress of these parts going from basically salvage yard parts to something that looks better than new. The hood was in pretty bad shape so it is great to see how it turned out. Similar to the running boards I purchased a second hood and ended up keeping my original hood because it was easier to repair than the replacements. I also bought a reproduction hood hinge and ended up using my original hinge as well. The mounting holes in the re-production hinge do not even come close to the original holes in the hood. So that means drilling new holes and filling the old ones and that's just crazy!! So the original one is going back on.

Considering that the doors have new skins on the lower halves; you would never know it (from either side). I installed Dynamat on the insides of them and can not believe the difference in sound when you knock on them. They went from a tinny sound to a solid thud type sound. This should make a huge difference when closing the doors and when driving down the road. I will be doing the same throughout the cab.

The cab is looking good. Similar to the rear fenders, Dave made sure to take the extra effort needed to save the crease on front of the roof just above the windshield. Often you will see that people just round this out when doing the body work. Just like the subtle crease in the rear fenders, this is one of those things that I think give these trucks so much character. The back of the roof and cab for that matter came out great and similar to the other parts (like a mirror). You can see in the photos on my web page the accent stripe color which is correct for the standard Brewster green color for the 41-46 trucks.

We ran into a slight problem with the original paint we ordered from Jim Carter's in that when I called to order some more of it they were not able to produce it again because their paint supplier changed owners and they no longer had the necessary codes to match it. Mainly this was because they were not willing to give the the paint code from my original order (I'm sure because they were afraid of lost future sales of the same paint). Completely frustrating to say the least. It worked out fine because we did have enough paint left to make a spray-out card for color matching purposes. Dave then used the new "color matched" paint on the first couple coats of the green and did the last few coats in the original paint that was used for the rest of the truck.
Lesson learned here: DO NOT buy your paint from anybody but your local paint supplier or someone that is willing to give you the paint codes with your purchase. Make sure you have plenty of paint for the entire project before you start painting. Lastly, start with your cab. Everything gets built off of the cab so finishing this first will allow you to work on quite a bit while the rest of the truck is being painted. I did this backwards and this has probably set me back a few months. It also requires that you have enough storage space to store all of the completed parts until they can be installed. So far so good, nothing has been ruined from sitting in my basement, but I don't have a lot of room left in my basement..........

Thanks to Peg and John for the newest Stovebolt Home page photo! This is my two oldest daughters peeping out of the back of my cab a few years ago! This was one of their "first rides!

I got my cab back from the painter a couple days ago. I am still targeting to get everything back together by September. I have all the parts back from the painter and only have the inner fenders, chin and a couple other misc parts that I need to get powder coated. I am off with the family on vacation for the next few days but then the work begins to re-assemble. I will update my web page with details as I go and as always with lots of photos......

Great web page Tim. I'm looking forward to seeing the truck finished.
Cleon

Tim,

Great story!!! The pictures are excellent. I am going on my 4th year with a 46 1.5 Ton, but learning alot, and having fun. Thanks for the article.

Kevin