Bed problems

At some time in the last 50 years the bed on this 1967 got swapped for a 70-72 bed. Crash, who knows? But I don't like the rear reflectors that were mandated by the government.

Mod Shop Metal sells a $25 part that you can weld in to make the bed look like a 67 again!

Now, I am not a welder. I have a welder. So this is amateurish, but it's stuck to the truck.A little grinding and body filler, and no one will know... well you will. But hey, you're not telling anyone right?

New paint... getting ready.

Since the paint was going to be changed, I went to the paint shop and looked through their color book. I found one that was really close to what I wanted. I got some things that I needed to paint. Now to finish up the prep, fix the garage into a paint booth, and send the family out of town for a week or two while I do it!

Ironically the color is an exact match for the handrails at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. Whod'a thunk it.?

New Seat... again

Ok, so with the color change I need a new seat.
I am selling the old, new, recovered seat now. Here is what I want to do.

The seat tracks should go in nicely. The problem I have heard is that the back could be a bit low and need to be shimmed up.

Paint is not good

I never expected a perfect paint job from the friend who helped me paint the truck. I did find some parts that were not going to work for me. So my plan was to repaint parts of the truck. The two tone of the dash had some spots where the tape failed and wasn't repaired before clear. So I wanted to repaint that. It just ended up being a total redo.

And while I am at it, I think a color change is in order.
This is what I am shooting for now.

Exhaust-ing

I ordered parts many, many, many months ago.

I am going to be running the Ford inline 6 300ci engine. I also will be running a set of EFI exhaust manifolds. I did a little internet research, which is really someone else who tried something, and I bought the Walker Y pipe (41566). It turns out that this fits perfectly.

To get the pipe in correctly (without hammering the daylights out of it) I took the motor mount nuts off. I was able to lift the engine up about 2 inches so that the pipe could be tweaked in and out. I also took off the Offenhauser intake. It gave more room when manhandling the long pipe in from the top.

  

This was done 11/25/2016

I then took the muffler I bought from Summit Racing. Walker 17827. This is an oval muffler and it turns out it's not the one I wanted. So it's in the garage and on Craigslist now... I went to O'Rielly's and had them order a round muffler for me. I ordered a Walker 17842. This has a 2.5in inlet and a 2.25in outlet. The pre-bent tailpipe Walker  45454 fits over the rear axle well. The hangers are in the wrong places, but I will cut those off shortly. I rented a pipe spreader from O'Rielly's to expand the spots where the pipes join and ended up using some $2 exhaust clamps from O'Rielly's as well for connecting. Welding the pipes could be in the future, but since I am not close enough to starting the engine, we will see if that muffler is going to work. If I need to change it, it will be easier without the welds right now.

 

 Completed 1/17/2017

Sanding

So, rather than sand the truck with a hand sander, I bought a Harbor Freight 6in air sander for $35 - 20% coupon.

This made a long job much easier. However, HF doesn't carry higher grit papers for this tool. So I ended up at the auto paint store for some 320, 400, 600, 800 and 1000 discs for it.

De-FORD-ed the hood.

Minus-ed the F100 emblem.

And sanded the truck. There is still some rust to take care of, but hopefully it's moving forward. 

I just want to drive my truck.

A little oil leak...

A little oil leak has become a full blown project.

A few months ago I got an inline 6 cylinder 300ci engine and C6 automatic transmission for $200 from Craigslist. I thought that the efficiency would be nice to have, and I don't plan on pulling any stumps out, so I don't really need a 5.8l V8. Well, the V8 started to leak some oil, and I thought it would be time to do the swap.

So, here is the engine...

And here is the transmission...

But since we are taking the engine out we should clean up the engine compartment, right? Well, I want to paint the truck anyway. So I should buy some paint and do the engine compartment the same color as the truck. So I went to the paint store. I found a great deal on some paint. $80/gal.

So since we are going to paint, now we need to do some body work. Floor pans, other lower metal and some roof area have rust that need to be repaired.

There is rust on the drip rail.

From the inside of the cab.

Sanded down the bubbling bondo. Oh the horrors....