No more pics yet but some progress updates. I'll get some pics later this afternoon.
Had to repair the gas tank. It had epoxy on the bottom, so I figured it leaked at one time. But the epoxy was all cracked. Ground that off with a wire wheel and noticed it was soldered under. So thats why it wasnt leaking.
My intent was to weld the hole and put a patch over it. But solder and weld dont mix, so I re-soldered, tested for leaks, and put some more epoxy over that.
Also did some work on the hydraulic lines. One was re-welded before but looked like crap, one was brazed and looked good. Ground out the old weld and re-welded, but the brazed line was pretty close to the weld and I was worried it still might leak. So I welded the tube on the inside also and used a die grinder to clean that back up. Hopefully it wont leak now.
On the sheetmetal that surrounds the gas tank and steering wheel, there were some busted 10-32 screws in there. The switches and gauges are in separate covers that go screw into this piece. Was able to extract a few of the screws, but other ones that were broke, were just band-aided with teck screws, hole was too big, and not centered. So I welded them up, and re-drilled and tapped.
Got all of those parts painted this morning, so I may be able to do some more assembling this afternoon.
In the meantime, I got to work on cleaning up the rear wheels and front axle parts. I need to break the rear wheels off the rims, cause there were some patches on the wheels that look pretty bad. Gotta clean them up and make them look right.
