F250 rust repairs

[tcartwri]

He must love that truck.... great work though.

 

[2458n]

Anyone Knows the green and yellow {yet to come} paint makes it worth more. Had a friend that would run west and haul back a truck and trailer full of 69-72 chevy truck parts as soon as he got laid off. Now he works for GM at the Powertrain plant in Defiance Ohio. He is gald he did it when he had the time.

 

[Green Power]

The Boss is going to have a very nice truck.

 

[dieselcrawler]

I cleaned up the front cab mounts and area around them. Still waiting for the lower door piller sections for the outter part of these areas.








Wire wheeled the lower edge of the back cab wall, and primed...

 

[dieselcrawler]

Today, I started by grinding down all the spot welds I rewelded when installing the floor supports. I also cleaned up any surface rust and in general got it finished on the top side.





Welded the back seat mounting bracket back in place






Seat belt 'nuts' are welded to a plate that is spot welded on the underside of the floor pan. One was rusted thru, I salvaged the nuts and made up a new plate.





Top side of floor pan done...





Finished up the day by wire wheeling/grinding the frame rail and cross members and brushed on some primer.

 

[Paul Thornton]

That is one heck of a job you are doing!

L2800 w/FEL - 72" Land Pride rake

 

[garacuda]

Maybe... the possibility of a southern rolling chassis was talked about. But nice guy that he is, my boss wanted to spend the same money to pay me to go this route instead of spending more on parts and less on labor (my paycheck). I love getting the experiance, my next personal project will be chopping the back wall out of a crew cab truck and adding an extended cab section to the crew cab. With 6 kids, I want 3rd row seating for my truck.

Six Kids! Wow! You do everything Good!

It is amazing to see the amount of rust on that truck. It looks worse than some 50 year old vehicles that have been setting in a field or something. I think it's a combination of cheaper, thinner steel these days and the crap they treat the roads with. If folks would just be happy staying at home when it snows we wouldn't have this problem, but everybody fusses if they can't get out and drive in it........Rant over.........

Sounds like you've got a good boss and he knows what he's got in you. Makes for a good day at work. Thanks for sharing the project.

 

[KubotainNH]

I think it's a combination of cheaper, thinner steel these days and the crap they treat the roads with. If folks would just be happy staying at home when it snows we wouldn't have this problem, but everybody fusses if they can't get out and drive in it.....

For sure on the 1st line, seems like some vehicles rust through in 7 years now. As for the second line, during the cold months I would only get to work once a week if I stayed home every time it was slippery out.

 

[dieselcrawler]

I agree with both of you... things rust out too fast due to the material used and the road salt... but I'm also required to be on the roads when its bad out. However, meny people who are out then, shouldn't be... their driving-in-bad-weather skills are lacking.

Can't get my pictures to download...today I painted the bottom of the floor pan (all white!) and cleaned up and primered more if the frame and front cab mount areas.

 

[KubotainNH]

However, meny people who are out then, shouldn't be... their driving-in-bad-weather skills are lacking.

No arguments there.

 

[dieselcrawler]

Today was a short day... but the last parts I was waiting for came in shortly before I left. Lower door piller/rocker panel. Also got inner cab corners. Now to figure out how to remove the old part and get the new back in the right place, without the rest of the parts to guide me. Likely will sit the floor pan in place to insure proper alinement and mock up rockers and cab corners.

 

[KubotainNH]

Did you mention where you get all the body parts that were ordered? Kinda amazed they make all of them.

 

[dieselcrawler]

Parts came from LMC truck, Mill Supply, and the local body shop in town.

 

[dieselcrawler]

Finally... pics from thursday that I couldn't post then:

 

[hddnis]

Looking real good, nice work.




Mr. HE

 

[dieselcrawler]

Made good progress today... both lower door pillars cut out and replaced, back panel of driver pillar welded in, and frame painted.



Frame painted black



Driver side tacked in





Passenger side lower door pillar




Inside of drivers lower door pillar

 

[dieselcrawler]

Major progress!






Right door pillar inner filler and cab mount brace welded in




Cab mount brace welded back in...





Sure glad to see the floor back in place... only tacked in with screws for now, untill I'm sure everything else fits right.




End of the day found me doing a quick trial run of how the cab corner and rocker panels will fit

 

[tlj87]

What an excellent job! Enjoying following the thread. After you are all finished with this truck, take it somewhere (or do it yourself) and spray it with tons of Fluid Film! Good stuff!

 

[oldballs]

Very interesting to follow your work DielselCrawler. I can only imagine the physical work involved as well as the thought processes. Thanks for posting. I'd be too tired to type.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[dieselcrawler]

Thanks... glad to share. If you want more detailed pictures, look up my photobucket account. In the mobile uploads for 'wvdieselcrawler' there are over 1000 pics of this project and others. As well as personal ones, house, farm, family, toys, etc.

I enjoy the work... a bit dirty, but I have a nice space to work in, a good selection of the right tools, and a boss who lets me just do what needs done without pestering me, but is willing to lend a hand when I need it. Good environment...

These updates are done from my phone, in bed, while watching tv... but I'm not that tired, I found some time to split a little firewood this evening before doing the evening critter feeding.