Did you use any rust converters or just the Marine Clean?

 

Just Marine Clean. The POR 15 process is Marine Clean to remove any dirt, grime, and oil, Metal Prep and Ready to etch the metal, neutralize any remaining rust, and leave a zinc coating for the paint to bond with and then finally POR-15 epoxy paint which bonds with the metal.

 

Great work man. While you got the body off, you might as well use your brother some more and SAS that thing. Looking back, I should have gone that route when it was stripped bare.

 

awesome job on the frame repair, wish i had the skills to do that on my truck!

 

SAS, yeah... This was an unplanned catastrophe. It started out with cleaning the truck at christmas and finding out I had a death machine for a DD. There really wasn't any forethought on this just damage control. Plus I really don't do a whole lot of wheeling., many pulling a motocycle trailer and maybe driving through some fields. So I think down the road I may go with spacers and springs and a true-trac because I really haven't been limited by clearance just traction.

 

Come up with me to Rausch Creek sometime, then you might want to do that SAS.

I just picked up an 85 front housing, but it'll be a while for me.

 

I've never been there. My neighbor used to go to a place called Paragon, I think, but I want to say it's not open anymore?? is this the same place?

And since you're close enough to invite me wheeling then that makes you close enough to invite to lift the cab back on, right?

 

Well I got the first coat of POR-15 on

 

And just as a reminder I started with this on the passenger's side:

and now have this:

 

And this on the driver's side:

and now have this:

 

2nd coat tomorrow, and then if I can get some help the cab goes on.

 

Paragon is closed, Rausch Creek is a different place.

I've been where you are once. Ya gotta have a party and that cab will go right back on.

 

Well I got two co-workers to stop by, probably the lat time they'll do that , and this is what happened:

 

But before thy came over, I had to put my thinking cap on. How can I refill the trans and transfer case without standing there holding the bottles of gear lube?

Tada:

And that mechanics assistant didn't bother me or go on smoke breaks all day.

 

I think they walked of with some parts man, I doubt they will be back for more, they didn't leave much. hahaha.

 

Now I just have a bunch of things to tighten down:

 

And talk myself out of a flatbed:

 

Good work!

 

nice work. getting ready to do this to my 86 very soon. were the outside frame rails not as bad as the inner?

 

I only had a bad spot on the outside frame rail just behind the transfercase crossmember about the size of a fifty-cent-piece that needed patched. Everything else was on the inside frame rail, but it definately rots from the inside out.