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Restore? What restoration is necessary?? That truck is already in its work clothes - why shine it up more! Fix the seat, chase the mice out, get it to be safe and roll it around to blow the spiders out of the exhaust. It will be a fun smaller project for you and your kid.

Yup, that's my experience as well. It covers very well. Two coats is best. I did some of the inner panel of a VW bug along with the pan and the rear frame of my PH when I had the bed off. It holds up really well. It has a solid finish but is not flexible. Regarding destroying the paint cans, I buy a gallon of it and then transfer it into clean smaller cans so it can be properly saved while having a supply available. Pour it in with a funnel so you can get the tops back off and carefully fill it to the brim - this way it doesn't coagulate.

That's what I do as well. Eastwood has some very handy gadgets for welding situations like this. For instance, this thing is great: It is a thick copper plate that has very strong earth magnets embedded in them, being able to hold itself in place from the back of the panel without having the arm length of a basketball player. For small patch panels, I cut out circles with a hole saw using a drill press. A drill press has the advantage of not needing a pilot hole. I then drill holes in the to be repaired panel of the exact same size with a step bit. If you're careful and don't press it all the way through with those bits, it leaves a nice burr on the inside of the hole that tends to hold the replacement circle in place very nicely, or - alternatively - hold it in place with an old speaker magnet.

That's always an exciting and scary moment, turning it over for the first time. Congrats!

My lights, mounted on the aftermarket bumper, were real dim so made up some beefy straps to go between the frame and the bumper, the battery and the frame, the frame and the tank and the frame and the front fenders for the front lights. Even though there likely was some sort of connection through bolts and hardware, the ground connections were likely of fairly high resistance. The straps make sure of a good connection. I also slobbered some fluid film on all these connections, to keep the corrosion at bay. The lights burn my eyeballs out now and my gas gauge, previously pointing to empty, also came back to life.

If they are badly bent, maybe replace them with square tubing. I did my bed recently and two of mine were bent around where they are bolted down to the frame so boxed those sections in.

That bed looks great, Dan. My daughter, 26, when she first saw my truck said "It is so CUTE!". She hasn't called dibs on it yet, though.

Looks great, Dave. Are there patterns out there to copy? Mine has no skin on the inside whatsoever..

You have really good eyes! Yes, that makes perfect sense. I'm going to mount it on one of the running boards. It looks like it belongs.

Yup, I suspect you're right. It is identical to the one that 1955Plymouth is sporting.

I just got my ebay jerry can holder in. It clearly is old but looks like it was never used. The box it got shipped in said "uscg auxiliary supply center". Perhaps it will help you track one down for yourself.

I had the very same question about oil filters a while back and got my replacement cloth filter at NAPA. This is for a B3B, though - not sure if yours is the same but suspect it is. They didn't have it in local stock but were able to get it in two days.

I lucked out today on eBay:

I just happened to have bought that^ exact same hold down on ebay today. A while back I found a jerry can on and have been looking for ways to mount it on the truck.

Some on my truck's wheels are missing and have been looking around for replacements. I could just bend some but it is surprising that nobody makes these things, no? The ones on my bug look very similar so ordered some to see if it would work. What have you guys used?

Nice ride except those hubcaps are not correct for that year.

Thanks, Mario! Laying underneath, installing and tightening all the bolts, felt like putting an erector set together in a broom closet, laying down. It definitely tests your patience, putting lock washers on that seem to cooperate too well with gravity. I just got done: I still have to mount the spare tire holder on the side but want to fix the running board first. Since the lack of there being wood caused the box to flop around significantly, the tire mount must have tore a hole in the running board. I ended up attaching the L brackets to the sides by means of bolts. On the outside, I put acorn nuts on so it looks kinda gnarly, almost like it belongs.

Putting the bed on today. The project has taken a while since I started it because I used this really tough boat varnish called "Epifanes". It is really tough stuff but every single coat takes over 24 hours to properly dry. It has six coats.

Could it be that the ground (ie the common of both windings) to the coil is bad? Maybe you're measuring these voltages across some other point (chassis,etc) so it masked the problem.

Welcome, Dan!

Welcome, Otto. Name's Rem and I'm in SW CT. The hood has this mechanism that moves these two bars into these hooks that are mounted onto the inner fender. Hope these pictures make it clear. Let us know if you need more detail - I can take lots more pictures, if you need them. Hook towards the front: Hook towards the cab:

Welcome, Billy. If you're replacing the wood on your bed, it isn't a whole lot more work to pull the bed off to clean and repaint the frame. That's what I'm doing, anyways. (I didn't want to be the one guy left out by not giving advice with your truck. Enjoy it! Oops, there I go again).

Next time I'll use the search button. When I searched for "WH 7732", it popped right on my screen so should have thought of that. Thank you for the suggestion.

Thanks a lot for looking that up, Aaron. I really appreciate it.

Thank you - thank you - thank you!!