jheyne

we started at 4 and stopped at like nine.
let me know what ya'll think

jheyne

not quite done yet. gonna finish her up tomorrow hopefully

xzyragon

is that snow or are u infested by fireflies?

algranger

Nice. 8"?

Tubbyfatty

It are snowing. lol.

I cant really tell how much you removed. but good job.

T-1000

Go slow welding the sheet, or it'll warp like crazy.

Tack here, tack over there, then way over here, keep splitting the distance between the tacks until you can run a bead between them.

jheyne

actually we took out about a foot because she was a long bed and she is now a shortbed. were still in the process of welding her all back together right now but we ran of wire so were watin for my dad to get home with more wire for us!

were hopin to have her finished soon i'll post more pics up later for yall

xzyragon

ahh mig welders

at least you dont have to replace the electrode every minute like you have to with a stick welder

jheyne

well she's all done now except for the bondo that'll come when i paint her. but its lookin pretty good now. it took us a surprisingly long time to do all of this tho cuz i wanted it perfect so we had a whole whole lot of grinding involved but i am still very proud of the work we did.
me and my buddy are gonna have to build a new bumper now since the old smittybuilt wont go on anymore but thats no bug deal

jheyne

so i finally got out to takin some pics of her with the bed all finished. still no bondo or anything yet but that'll wait til summer.



sorry that the pics were dark but i just got off work a little bit ago lol

and now here are some pics of the bumper i started makin today my buddy is probly gonna weld it for me tomorrow since i dont know how yet

iamsuperbleeder

I think I would have used white paint

haha, jk mess'n with ya bro

looks good man, great job!

I dig the retro Toyota decals

jheyne

so i finally got out to takin some pics of her with the bed all finished. still no bondo or anything yet but that'll wait til summer.



sorry that the pics were dark but i just got off work a little bit ago lol

and now here are some pics of the bumper i started makin today my buddy is probly gonna weld it for me tomorrow since i dont know how yet

this is how its gonna be mounted. those lil guys are gonna be welded to the frame



let me know what you guys think.
i'm pretty proud of my work seein as this is the first time ever doin anything like this bein only 18

iamsuperbleeder

pretty good progress, but always remember: built what's smart, not what's "awesome"

unless it's just a trail-truck, then by all means, go all out

scuba

Looks good, But i personally would have taken more out in the process of work. But yeah, nice job !

okie81

Throw a tail stripe over that black paint


But replace the "SuperBee" with a:

jheyne

thanks guys.

bleeder this was a choice of what was smart this time lol
it is my dd but i wheel it ALOT and was always gettin hung up on the stupid longbed.

scuba, i only took out a foot because i wanted to be able to buy a canopy and put one on for when i'm travelin to college and what not.

ya know i've had countless people tell me that i should have taped off a nice stripe but i'm just not too worried about it for the time being because the whole thing is gettin a fresh coat of olive drab soon since the factory paint on it is startin to go to crap

874runnersr5

sick work man.

i dig the rear bumper

iamsuperbleeder

that would be sweet!

jheyne

so i finally finished the rear bumper (actually had it done for a while but didn't have a camera)

so on with the pics






and these ones are just cool
thats a two wheel drive chevy with a twin turboed 350!!





and i just picked up some tow hooks at the swap meet for a dollar some i'm gonna slap those on sometime soon

wolfrunner

i think i saw that truck driving down the road and the bumper was half hanging off. did your welds fail? that could be a big saftey hazard young man......lol j/k... you know who this is yet?