After our very successful chapter meet playing with my truck there has been some interest in how the project is going and when we were going to have another play day so I have started this thread to keep everyone up to date.
There is a story behind the "Bobby Lee" but I won't expand on it here. It goes back about 15 years....
This project is a complete frame-off rebuild. It is intended to be a camping and travel truck when it is completed. Part of that is due to the fact that if I raise it up I won't be able to get in the garage.
The last chapter meet was held in my garage and three very gracious men showed up and proceeded to removed everything attached to the frame as well as start tearing down the axles.
The frame has been powder coated and just left again tonight since they did a very poor job and they have the privilege to do it again. I am in hopes this will set their expectations of how the rest of the job needs to happen. They were very responsive and picked it up within a few hours of when I called them. I don't think it will be a problem at all.
I just finished the rest of the tear down of the axles tonight. They are next to go to powder coat.
The skid plates and lots of other goodies are at powder coat and will come back soon with a blue hammered finish that will go well with the blue body.
The coater is working me a deal if I get a bunch of stuff done now since it is his slow time. This means that the body needs to have all the trim removed and the windows taken out. He is in a big hurry but it will probably not happen until I am off for the holidays.
I figure that by the first of the year, most of the powder coat will be complete and the body blasted and primered. The body will also have a black finish on the bottom that is a chemical reactive coating comparable to powder coat.
Looks like things could really move fast for a little while.
The question has come up concerning what my schedule is during the holidays.....
I plan on working on it a lot between Christmas and New Years. Mopar1 suggested that maybe we could get together on Tuesday as a group. I am open to any time if anyone else is interested. I also may have 12-22 & 23 off but I will not know until the last minute on those days. I am considering a couple of vacation days this week.
If we get together after Christmas there probably will be plenty of Christmas dinner goodies left over. Have you had enough burnt chili
You guys respond and let me know if anyone is interested in a play day or week!
thanks
Leftymopar
There is a story behind the "Bobby Lee" but I won't expand on it here. It goes back about 15 years....
This project is a complete frame-off rebuild. It is intended to be a camping and travel truck when it is completed. Part of that is due to the fact that if I raise it up I won't be able to get in the garage.
The last chapter meet was held in my garage and three very gracious men showed up and proceeded to removed everything attached to the frame as well as start tearing down the axles.
The frame has been powder coated and just left again tonight since they did a very poor job and they have the privilege to do it again. I am in hopes this will set their expectations of how the rest of the job needs to happen. They were very responsive and picked it up within a few hours of when I called them. I don't think it will be a problem at all.
I just finished the rest of the tear down of the axles tonight. They are next to go to powder coat.
The skid plates and lots of other goodies are at powder coat and will come back soon with a blue hammered finish that will go well with the blue body.
The coater is working me a deal if I get a bunch of stuff done now since it is his slow time. This means that the body needs to have all the trim removed and the windows taken out. He is in a big hurry but it will probably not happen until I am off for the holidays.
I figure that by the first of the year, most of the powder coat will be complete and the body blasted and primered. The body will also have a black finish on the bottom that is a chemical reactive coating comparable to powder coat.
Looks like things could really move fast for a little while.
The question has come up concerning what my schedule is during the holidays.....
I plan on working on it a lot between Christmas and New Years. Mopar1 suggested that maybe we could get together on Tuesday as a group. I am open to any time if anyone else is interested. I also may have 12-22 & 23 off but I will not know until the last minute on those days. I am considering a couple of vacation days this week.
If we get together after Christmas there probably will be plenty of Christmas dinner goodies left over. Have you had enough burnt chili
You guys respond and let me know if anyone is interested in a play day or week!
thanks
Leftymopar