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[unibody madness]

I like your mirror idea . I have the original ford set where the tube camps through a bracket, unfortunately both my style and ford's style like yours, both vibrate with out the thin struts that came with their respective kits. you have to decide whether to drill holes in your doors or put up with the fuzzy image in the door mirrors.

[My wife's nightmare]

Thanks for hanging with me Grump, its been a long ride so far. I've really been dreading trying to repair the end caps and that has kinda paralyzed me for too long. It still hasn't been easy but slowly getting there. The floor should go pretty quick when I get to it and then strip all that orange paint and get some green on it!

Uni, the mirrors have been good overall. They do produce a fuzzy image during acceleration, but you can usually see pretty good going down the road or backing up. I probably will make another set of arms out of some thicker wall tubing one of these days. I've noticed they get moved rather easy by people accidentally bumping into them

[My wife's nightmare]

Man, I'm glad we can post pics again! I didn't realize there are no pictures of this:






The man that painted my 65 and most of this one finally felt good enough to lace the roof last fall. I love it!!!

[unibody madness]

cool pictures, how did you attach them, directly from your computer or do you have to use a hosting site?

[My wife's nightmare]

I posted these using Postimage, just by habit I guess. I haven't tried direct attachments but will give it a shot.

[My wife's nightmare]

I am not even close to being smart enough to use a computer, but I've tried quite a few times to add files and it appears they always exceed to size limit.

[grump]

the lace looks awesome, keep up the great work.

[My wife's nightmare]

Thanks, I am still tickled with the lace!

Inch by inch, things are getting finished on the bed. A few spots to touch-up but should be starting the filler panels between the wheelhouses this week.


The lower patches are from New England Speed and Custom if anyone is interested. They are nice pieces, not really inexpensive, but a lot easier for me to use than trying to make something.

[My wife's nightmare]

Got the first panel in. Haven't cleaned up the welds yet but happy with it so far.

Roughing in the other one for the passenger side front.

[My wife's nightmare]

Well here's a little catch-up:
Both front panels are welded into the bed, still need to dress up all of the welds

Which leads to the last update

I've been studying on a fuel filler for the side of the bed and was going to use original one from the cab but could figure a way to "attach" it and step down to 1 1/2" tube while keeping it fairly close tight to the inside of the bed and how to attach a fill vent tube/hose. Randomly typed in a search for filler necks one day and an ebay add for a 72-80 Dodge D100 popped up. The shape looked like something doable and it had the fill vent tube as well. That one was an NOS part (too expensive!!!) So I checked with my neighbor's salvage yard and he said there were a few of those trucks in his yard. I retrieved one and it is going to be a very good solution. Only thing is this one is 1 3/4" and is slightly angled to the rear of the bed, so it gives me a reason to change it to 1 1/2" and straighten it up to connect better with the tank. Not real crazy about the filler cap, but have a few ideas for it rolling around in my head.



In regards to the update about grinding the welds, I made some modifications to the rotisserie. The wheels are wonderful for moving it around on concrete but they don't like gravel and I would prefer to get it outside to do the grinding, strip the rest of that orange paint, and get some primer on the bare metal. So made some brackets to mount some old lawn mower tires on one end and a hitch for a 2" ball for the other. Tested it out finally yesterday and looks like its going to be just fine. Now if I can get some time this week to drag it out of the garage