1964 F100 body and paint, with a little mechanical stuff too

[64f100sixcylinder]

I'm new here and I thought I would introduce myself with pics of my 1964 F100 with a 223/3 on the tree.
This is the day I picked it up, September 2013

[64f100sixcylinder]

I'm giving to leave the 223 and three speed for now, so long as they are reliable. I'm focusing on the body and getting it straight and ready for paint. So since the truck only came with door and cowl trim I will be deleting it and leaving only the hood and side emblems.


Random holes

[64f100sixcylinder]

Looks like the truck was lifted or pushed by a tractor bucket, both quarters are dented upward behind both wheels. It took some serious persuasion to regain the approximate shape

[64f100sixcylinder]

I got the truck without a rear ( or front) bumper. I thought I would attempt to make a rear roll pan. I used the bed side to bend the 18 gauge metal on. My methods are sometimes crude, but usually effective.



It's starting to take shape

License plate area cut


It's hard to see but I rolled a bead in the underside of it

A few minutes later!!

[JOSHF100]

Your off to a great start. Obviously not you first build.

Welcome to the board.

[bird55]

Like what you are doin!
Welcome.
Great job on the "panel bender"! Just goes to show you how versatile these Slicks are!

[64f100sixcylinder]

Thanks for the warm welcome. More progress to come

[64f100sixcylinder]

If you're wondering why the bed is different color than the cab, I believe the original bed was destroyed in a collision and this 65/66 bed was put on to replace it. There are dents in the rear cab that look like a bed contacted it. The Porta Power and some brute force were used


It's almost pushed back where it belongs






Trim holes filled


After a coat of filler and then self etch primer

[64f100sixcylinder]

I'm moving the gas tank (more on that later) so I'm filling the hole in the cab. Again I'm using 18 gauge sheet metal, since I bought a 10x3 foot sheet from my local metal supplier



This has more curves than it appears to

Welded and welds ground down

A little filler, don't worry most of this gets sanded off

[LM14]

Looking very nice. Look like you are doing things right.

SPark

[MadMaxetc]

Yes. Looking vsry good. Good on ya cor saving another one! Wel ome aboard!

[grump]

Looking good! How did you make the curve for your gas filler hole opening patch panel? I like the way you made the roll pan.

[64f100sixcylinder]

I made the curve for the gas filler hole with a hammer & dolly, vice, and once it was close I started welding and worked the metal as I went.

[64f100sixcylinder]

So I used a big pressurized sand blaster to removed the rust inside the bed. The metal was pitted and would've taken forever to sand with all the angles and I would've never gotten rid of all of it. So I put some 1x3s in the stake pockets and built a frame so it could then wrap it in plastic sheeting and keep the media sort of contained. It was a miserable 2 days inside the tent, loud even with ear protection, so dusty that I could barely see. But once finished well worth it. The front few inches of the bed floor was very thin and not really save able. The front bed wall was also rusted at the very bottom and needed replacement. I seriously considered just tearing the entire floor out and using diamond plate, but I really wanted to keep the stock floor ribs. So I fixed the rust, it was not my favorite part of this build.



I made all the rib patches by hand with a hammer and the vice. They were then shot with weld thru primer




The bed wall patch is in and almost ready for primer


Fiberglass filler, very tough to sand

Epoxy primed

[64f100sixcylinder]

Some pics of the blasting tent

[64f100sixcylinder]

After media blasting the bed with Black Beauty from Tractor Supply, I then spray it with epoxy primer.


Good enough for a truck bed



Areas that need repair, there are a lot of them

[64f100sixcylinder]

This disgusting mouse nest was found in my headliner. There was also another in the radiator, which was a lot of fun to remove. This explains why my seat has almost no padding left

[therealjoeshmoe]

hey how did your compressor work with that sand blaster?

nice work by the way....

[64f100sixcylinder]

The compressor worked very hard, it's a 60 gallon 220 volt Husky from Home Depot. It got the job done, but was running the entire time. The blaster is a monstrous pressurized unit that easily held three bags of Black Beauty, and could probably hold 7 or 8, not a Harbor Freight one.

Thanks

[64f100sixcylinder]

Mouse condo in the radiator