74 620 rebuild

[groatd]

well i have been working on my truck for about a week now so i just wanted to show all of you what i have been doing to it

 

 

broken hood hinge. it looks like its been broke for quite a while now, i plan on just weelding it back on and loosening the bolt on the hinge so i can free it up

i sanded my mirrors down and re painted them, the look like new im realy happy on how they turnede out

i allso repainted my wiper rods, i did red because thats the color im going to paint the truck, i am allso realy happy about how these turnded out too. i think there going to look realy good.

this is where i set my carb when its cold,

i took the bench out today and got it ready to hack away on my rusted floors so i can weld in new floor bords

this is after i did some more cleaning, after i get the new floor bords in im going to put the spray on bed liner in the cab

this was like 3 days ago before i started hacking away on my project, i got the canope for free from my friend

 

after i get all this done im going to start painting it. i will put more pics up as i get going more

[The love of JDM]

Pink wiper arms? Very cool

[groatd]

wel its more of a dull red but they do look pink in the pic...it must have been the flash

[The love of JDM]

:lol: gotcha

[groatd]

pink would have been cool lol :fu:

[The love of JDM]

Dont know the plans with the truck but a bagged body dropped shaved mini truck in pink would be tite, esp. a Japanese one

[groatd]

lol ya it would, but im going to keep the truck at stock height

[The love of JDM]

Well either way, good luck with the rebuild :)

[FNLO620]

Keep up the good work, and by the way I have a bagged and bodydropped 78 KC and there is no way in hell that I would ever paint it pink

[The love of JDM]

Keep up the good work, and by the way I have a bagged and bodydropped 78 KC and there is no way in hell that I would ever paint it pink

 

 

My comment about painting it pink was a joke, but glad you have a firm foot in place lol...

[groatd]

well i went back to work today. i got a lil bit more done, lol but my arms are dead from useing that gaint wire wheel i mean god that thing has some power. it grabded on the the seat belt and rapded it up and tore all over the place. here is a pic of the gaint wire wheel

 

 

i got the driversside pretty much done. i just have the weld in the new floor bords, there were some lil tiny rust spots but i cleanded them up and put bondo over them, i think it should do the trick but idk

 

 

here is the spot i cut out

 

passenger side

 

idk what im going to do here. i might cut it out and weld in a new plate, or clean it up and put bondo over it, what do u think :confused:

[Farmer]

Use to have hot pink and bright orange on my first 620 in the late 80's Of course that when it was popular:blink:

 

Larry

[groatd]

its been a while since i have been doing anything to the dot rod because i have been helping my friends put a v8 in his scout but any way here you go,

i got the floorbord welded in, im pretty happy with what i was useing, i was useing a harber freight 100 dollar welder and it wouldent feed me the wire cuz i kept sliping but its in and its realy sturdy

 

did a little bit of sanding and painting, this is what keeps m going because it looks pretty good :rolleyes:

this is the hood hinge that was broke, welded it back on and lubded it up and it works like new

[Loz]

really glad to see your work on the floor pans. Mine are in a similar state. Guess its not such a big worry now I know it can be done. Thanks for the pics. Great confidence booster.

[groatd]

lol ya it took me a while to get around to doing it but now that im done i see it wasint that much work, now that im done welding in the floor pans im going to go over it with bondo and make it all smooth on the corners and such

[Rubberman]

gr, instead of just bondo in some of those spots that have some small, In the past I've used some stuff called bondo glass. It has small strands of fiberglass in it. If you have a bigger hole you could use a small sheet of fiberglass with the fiberglass bondo over it. Alot stronger. Then use reg. bondo to smooth stuff out.

[groatd]

ya i have this staw stuff i mix into my bondo for spots like this that works out pretty well

[oldsklminitrk]

pink would have been cool lol :fu:

 

 

Hey dont doubt the pink ....Mine before it was yellow there was a moment I almost painted it pink:)

[Loz]

I used to make model planes and one of the ways to strengthen bonds was to use glass fibre with Carbon fibre strands (tows? I think they called it) layered into the glass. very strong (and light!)