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[pickupmad87]

after last nights de-barcale we woke up this morning with fresh heads ready to start. managed to drill the holes and cut the slots in the right lip this time.



also decided to put some spot welds on the outer lip to pull some of the panel back in. the reason were are not using the spot welder on all of it is we are having trouble getting the welds to stick properly so have no confidence in it holding properly.


now that the hinge slots and holes are in the correct place we could set out the hinge mounting panels and set out the rear valence closing panel




once this was done we mocked the rear valance up with the tank fitted using the fixing kit, then drilled some holes and used some self tapping screws to keep it in place.


because you cant get a rear valence without the fog light holes drilled in we decided to weld up all the holes except for the ones the tank fits to


once this was done we welded the rear valence on




we ground all the welds down then refitted the tank to make sure everything still fitted ok.


thats it for tonight should get a bit more done tomorrow.

[pickupmad87]

made progress today decided to get the outer sills attached.
before we stripped the old sills off the floor pan we scribed a line
along where the sill finished, so with that on there we masked along
the line and sprayed weld through primer where the sill would be sitting.

once this was dry we lined the sill up and started to plug weld it on


repeated the same process on the other side, ground the welds down and applied a coat of acid etch primer


with this done both sides we turned the floor back over and welded the jacking points to the sill to add strength then gave the inside a good couple of coats of acid etch primer.



lastly when we attached the heelboard to the floor pan we ran out of seam sealer so i went out this morning and got a tub, we masked off neatly then started to apply the seam sealer.


once the seam sealer had started to dry abit we peeled the masking tape off.


thats it for tonight, should be look at drilling the loadbed to attach it to the heel board tommorow evening when i get back from work.

[DugganC17]

looking good mate following this very closely as have to do pretty much the same for my pickup keep up the good work

[pickupmad87]

got some time in this evening, didnt do much actual work to it more just lining up the floor setting the wheel arches in and trial fitting the rear wings and rear lamp clusters.


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for a first time fit they dont seem to line up too badly! the main issue is where the rear wing meets the rear lamp cluster, the rear wings are going to need slight reshaping! nothing we cant handle!

before i started getting on building the pickup in the "dream stage" i had convinced myself i was going to french in the old style lucas indicators in sum steel tube i have now had a sudden change of heart and im going to go with the early style rear lenses!


i wont be using that one!!!

thats it for tonight, more to come tomorow!

[CBJ805T]

Great looking project! how the hell are you working out where all the panels go, given you are not using the original car as a datum? Very jealous you'll soon be the owner of a rust free pickup!

Chris

[pickupmad87]

we are just trying them fo fit before we mate the orignal cab to the new floor. it makes it handy having another restored pickup next to it!!!

[pickupmad87]

didnt do much this evening but this turned up!



I didnt think it was too bad at £100 very clean little surface rust BARGAIN!

here its is fitted roughly!


ive also secured another bargain today but wont tell what untill it tuns up and i can upload some pictures of it!!!

thats all for tonight.

[steven]

great work

[intrax]

Great proyect! It's looks like very interesting ;)

[pickupmad87]

not to much to report tonite, we have spent the evening jiggling the panels around and getting the wheel archs positioned correctley the screwed in to hold them in place and to give some quick lining up marks for when we come to weld them in



also screwed in the subframe closing panel

and started to make the closing plate to go on top of that.



thats it for tonight folks more tommorow.

[SAL 821X]

It depresses me the speed in which this is coming together....

Look cracking though you should have it finished by next week. haha!

[pickupmad87]

hoping to get the loadbed welded to floor pan this weekend! the set about cutting the cab from the remains! if you have a look at my other thread from the complete bottom end being cut out to on the road in three months!!!

[domdee]

looks great so far pal.

keep up the good work

[snackey]

Besides the obvious excellent work you're doing on this resto (no really!!), aren't the holes on the rearvalance you closed ment for the back numberplate-lights wiring??

[snackey]

Oh the numberplatelighting is on your rear hatch off course... Right