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Only recently I've been looking at this site more regularly and usually don't scroll down past the 'paint and body' section, so my loss for not seeing the BC Bolter section earlier. Making some headway with my 50 Chev PU, replacing inner and outer cowl panels the last couple of weeks. Done the passenger side and now on the driver side, hopefully next week after the Bluegrass Festival this weekend I will finish that part of the project. Would like to hear more about doing your own painting in our neck of the woods. Don't have a money tree in the back for an expensive paint job. Willing to do all the labour if someone has a paint booth they don't mind renting etc.

Welcome blanch...always good to add another to our gang !
Sorry I can't help you out with your painting - maybe one of the other guys here will have a suggestion.

Hello Blanch53. I was at the Bluegrass Festival in Maple Ridge yesterday. It was a pretty good show.

I did my inner and outer cowls on my 48 two ton just this year. I haven't painted yet. Were you able to keep the original inner to outer piece? I found that very important in keeping the original body line.

Not sure what I am going to do about the painting part. KMS in Coquitlam rents out their paint booth. With my tractor I just painted in the back yard. Also, somewhere on this site, there is a link to building a low cost booth using PVC pipe, I believe. I used to teach at a high school and might take the body parts into school to get painted.

Hi Super55, it was a good show, we were the group probably disturbing everyone listening, laughing, and having a good time catching up with friends sitting in the bleachers, nice to be surrounded by grassy areas, Chilliwack was great especially in bad weather going indoors but it felt like a big parking lot outside.

Not sure what you mean about keeping the original inner and outer piece, I had to remove and replace all 3 pieces to bring things back to good metal. They didn't fit exactly so I had to reshape and weld some metal to the inner cowl to close the gap, feels good to see the fiberglass and rusty metal in the scrap pile.

I did check out KMS and that could be an alternative, not sure if we could have more warmer weather as I'm tempted to spray on an epoxy primer under the canopy where 'Blanche' resides. Best of luck with your project, would like to see your truck sometime.

Nice truck Britcon, like the position of the gauges

blanch53, the inner to outer piece is the one sort of shaped like a hockey stick. The replacement for that piece is no where close to the original shape. My inner cowel piece needed a lot of reworking. they had the curved piece at the bottom, but it didn't fit the shape of the floor. You know, how it tapers from the end at the door frame to the fire wall. The replacement was straight in my case. I totally had to rework it. Did you try fitting your fenders to see how they match up to the cab now? Because I was able to keep a lot of original metal it mine matched up pretty good. There is a really good slide show somewhere on the site here that shows a guy totally rebuilding the cab and the work it took him to line everything up. I'll do a search for it and post it for you if I find it.

blanch53... here is the site with the step by step. When it comes to fitting everything back together you might find it handy. I can't believe I actually found it.

http://www.pbase.com/czechman/arightside&page=3

Also, I guess you know epoxy is pretty nasty, so make sure you have a good respirator. I sprayed epoxy on my tractor parts with a respirator and in the open. Came out nice. Killed my neighbors though...

By the way, I used to play at the Chilliwack Festival in the old days with the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Boys. It was a real Forrest Gump story I'll have to tell you about one day. I quit playing when I got into teaching and quit going to the Festival when they screwed up the tractor club grounds. It was really nice when it was on grass.

Hi Super55, it sounds like many a stovebolter with these vintage trucks seem to go through this process. Yes I used some epoxy resin one year to build my kayak(badairka) and it wasn't a good scene for breathing hence the use of the proper respirator, I imagine with primer there would be more particles travelling around the neighbourhood, too bad there wasn't a brush/roller system that could get the same result but haven't heard of one.

I do remember the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Boys with Ron Scmidt, not sure if this is he. You could usually find me hanging around with Swain and his bunch, we were and still the bad boys of the bluegrass festival playing jazz, bossa nova etc tunes. What ever turns your crank I say....cheers