Hoarder Special!

[RCP57]

That's a great idea guys, thanks. I use reagent alcohol for machining, threading and occasionally for cutting but it washes off ink and I am only tracing the window openings on with a Sharpie. No ink, no idea where to cut!lol It will be interesting to see if bee's wax contaminates the welds or if it burns off. That is one thing very nice about using alcohol. It just evaporates in no time at all and leaves no residue. When I use grease I have to wash the parts before welding. I guess there is the perfect lube for every sticky situation...

[RCP57]

Well I played hooky from customer jobs today and took a shop day for myself. I have been wanting to work on Scrappy( my nickname for this truck since it's chassis is a pile of hoarded spare parts) for a few days but just haven't had the time. I figured today was Sunday and my shop is my church so here's what I got into.

I started out by making a front bumper and mount.




The front of the cab was too wide and the space between the windows too large. I hummed and hawed about cutting the cab or living with it but in the end sad the "F" word followed by "it" and chucked it in the saw. I split it down the middle and carefully removed about 1/8".



I then stitched it back up.





Once I was happy enough with that I got back on with what I had intended to accomplish which was welding up the bumper and fenders.

Here's one fender welded up and the other still in pieces.





This took some time and patience but they turned out OK.




Once they were welded up I could figure out roughly where they needed to be placed. I made some adjustments and welded on the mounts. It's starting to look like a truck now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w2C7EG1iRY

[RCKiwi]

Absolutely mad skills you have with that welder! I'm intrigued with that motor/gearbox setup - any more pictures of that small conversion?

Glenn

[RCP57]

Thanks. The roof was/is a little tricky and I'm not sure I have enough "dome" in it but it will do. I don't know who did the trans for sure(Heavy Duty maybe) as I got it in a trade. It has the motor swapped on backwards with a small reduction added using a jack-shaft. After some careful filing of the mounts it runs smooth and has reasonable speed using a 55 turn motor. It would be nice if it were slower but it seems to run about the same speed as my KH using a stock trans and 85 turn motor only it has a lot of power. The KH with 85T is horribly gutless.

Reg