My new IDI

[G.W BUFFALO]

Not sure where myerstown is, mapquest has you at 82 miles so no i wont be making that trip soon..

 

[freebird01]

and so it begins....

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[G.W BUFFALO]

Frame looks pretty clean, id love to have that same truck but with a 4spd.. 80-86 fords are becoming real classics..

Also were you able to get more turbo pics, by chance

 

[opusd2]

Frame looks pretty clean, id love to have that same truck but with a 4spd.. 80-86 fords are becoming real classics..

Also were you able to get more turbo pics, by chance

I have to agree. Maybe my 3 year old son is more into trucks than I knew when he kept telling me not to get rid of the 86 I have with a lot of rust and dents. So I guess I will just be updating some steel parts and other things.

Once again, I LOVE that truck!

 

[opusd2]

The truck I meant when I said I loved it to, was yours. Well, and mine too, but I initially meant yours.

I'm tired, it's been a long month.

 

[freebird01]

Not sure where myerstown is, mapquest has you at 82 miles so no i wont be making that trip soon..

wuss lol its not THAT far...

ok...time for an update. got to clean up for the day because i got a party to go to at 3....friends dads 70th b-day party

got the interior gutted and started cutting out the rust. i pulled a door off my ext cab and swapped it temporarily with the Chinese replacement door the previous owner put on so i can make sure my cab corner comes out straight...

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[Optikalillushun]

Pa speed holes!

 

[opusd2]

We have them in WI too. In fact there is so much salt thrown down on the road that deer can be found feeding by the center line

 

[freebird01]

ok time for the last update for the weekend....

keep in mind at 3:30pm Friday the truck looked like this...

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Friday evening I removed the bed...

Saturday morning...removed the interior and swapped the drivers door and started cutting the major rust holes out of the floor itself.

Today I started buy cutting out the cab corner and worked on trying to get it straight. it was actually twisted in toward the door a bit from where it was hit. I ended up using a bunch of c-clamps...a piece of pipe...a large ratchet strap and one very very large tree to pull it back as straight as i could get it. its still not perfect but its a lot closer and you got to be under 10' from the truck to tell now.

but since my body work kinda sucks (im a computer geek not a body man lol ) you only get the after pics. its all solid metal with garbage Chinese replacement cab corners. they came with the truck so i used them. but they were narrower then the original cab corner so it made it very difficult to line up. im ashamed to say i had to mud it to make it line up but its a work truck and not a show winner.

BEFORE

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AFTER

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i also patched all the holes on the drivers side. i still need to get some seam sealer for the inside of the cab corner. on the front part i welded in some new steel then slathered all the underside and inside floor pan spots with SEM rust shield. i even used the paint and fiberglass cloth trick over some of the new metal.

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next followup will be the pass side

 

[GOOSE]

Looking good Jason.