Big Block's Return-Its All About The DETAILS Man..

[Tamiya Cowboy]

Well the sky's finally opened up today and the sun shined so the boy and I were able to get back at the truck today and block out the 1st coat of high build on the hood. He did a pretty good job for his first time he did sand to far in areas but that is not to big of a deal..Here is the hood ready for high build primer again..



We also got the passenger door ready for it's first coat of high build primer.


So next it was time to teach him how to mix up the 4to1 primer.


Then time to learn how to spray and primer is a perfect thing to practice with..



And the fruits of his labor today..


We got alot done today. The boy is buying his first major tool tomorrow he is buying a wire welder he has saved up $550.00 and is going to by a nice welder and get a tank of gas tomorrow so we can get going on the box and new cab corners this week too..

Ill be picking up a driver side fender this next Sat and some other parts we need from out at the farm and we will keep pluging along..

[will43209]

Lookin good TC! With some more practice, you may have a custom car builder on your hands! Not trying to get soft on you, but I love to see Fathers in their kids lives- teaching and showing them things. Great job on the truck, and with the kids!. I believe if more men, stepped up and did more stuff with their kids--the world would be a better place! Keep up the great "All around" work! Take care, Will

[Tamiya Cowboy]

Originally Posted by will43209

Lookin good TC! With some more practice, you may have a custom car builder on your hands! Not trying to get soft on you, but I love to see Fathers in their kids lives- teaching and showing them things. Great job on the truck, and with the kids!. I believe if more men, stepped up and did more stuff with their kids--the world would be a better place! Keep up the great "All around" work! Take care, Will

Your so very right there Will.. Helping them along and teaching them makes all the difference in life most of the time. He is on the path to be going threw CAT's "Think Big" Program here in 2 years. He will be starting at the largest Truck Shop in the state here as soon as school is out. He does want to get some about body schooling also as he would like to do custom semi work down the road too but a CAT Teck as is main line..

[Tamiya Cowboy]

Well been crazy busy this last week but we will be making major progress later this week. But last week the boy took his money he had been saving up and bought himself a new Hobart wire welding and cart. This is his first major tool he has ever bought so he is pretty crazy happy. We have a Miller stick and tig welder in the shop but he wanted a wire so i told him he needed to pay for it and he did. Now I have trained him on how to weld with a stick in all 4 positions I figure you can do that with a stick you can run a wire welder all day i learned how to on the Nat Gas pipe line then I switched over to Boiler and larger scale AC system welding after I got sick of welding in the hot sun or the freezing cold.

Ok so this is his first time wire welding and had him welding 12ga in a matter of minutes so he was able to get 3 cross members stiched in and 2 71 inch seams welded shut today now he just has 2 more to do then we will do any clean up it needs then seam sealer and POR and the bottom of the box is done then it is all body work..

Later this week the front and rear bumpers will be going to get sand blasted then I will heading to the paint booth with the hood and bumpers..