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July 8, 2016

International Harvest 120 Series Rust work - July 2016

BACK AT IT!!

After a somewhat extended absence due to a little illness (mostly lazy-itis), we're back in the E-tek Shop making sweet sweet metal-magic! Follow along while we get this beautiful 56 International truck back to its glory days:


^ With the box out of the way, the frame and cab where cleaned up again and the paint, mud and dirt stripping continued. Only a couple small patches left and the cab will be ready for filler and paint prep.

One of these final rust spots was cut out, a cardboard template made to fit:and new metal made to replace it:....


^ Cardboard template


^ Cut, cut, cut...


^ Transferred to 18G sheet steel...


^ The same was done for an inner piece, just requiring a little
 more finesse and metal shaping....


^ And with the inner piece inserted, the top piece is finalized to fit.

Back on the box, the back edges where metal-finished (no filler) 
and the underside was welded together with the sides...







^ These holes had to go


^ And so they did. Note the partially metal-finished section on the left...





 ^The new floor will MAKE the truck!