Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Back looking at the outer wing RHS, somewhere in it's past it has been damaged and a stiffening rib added on the inside, held in place by two ugly rivets . A quick look through my supply of rivets and I had found countersunk pop rivets and csk solid rivets, so I drilled out one of the rivets and countersunk the hole to accept the csk rivet
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I looked at it and said NO, use the the csk solid rivet
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and five minutes late it was done, taken slightly below the surface so I can wipe with a small amount of filler
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it looks neat n tidy
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so I removed the other one as well
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then the good wife came home and needed a hand with fitting the last door catches on an inside door, so I stopped to help.
Scott, 20 Tons of sand (most likely Garnet) crikey where would I keep it, Illmenite does a better job but it's very messy/dirty black, but I suppose if you have somewhere to store n use it, anyway cheers Dennis
ps the other rivets on the back edge will be removed as well and replaced with Csk type,,.

Well back into it again, this time with the tailgate trying out my new Metabo palm sander, it works a treat, gets right into the corners and edges, here is an image of big M & little M together
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I'm still to investigate the small patch of filler on the middle panel, I suspect the T/gate has collided with something otherwise it's fairly straight, cheers Dennis
PS I consider it too hot to be mixing small amounts of body filler to cover rivets etc,,.

Noice work as always Dennis.

That sort of damage on the centre is quite often caused by it coming into contact with a trailer hitch.

Originally Posted by numpty

----- That sort of damage on the centre is quite often caused by it coming into contact with a trailer hitch.

And trying to drag a load across the tailgate while it's resting on the towball or trailer coupling.
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Well whatever caused the damage to both sides of the tailgate has now been obliterated. Lots of small dents removed with the aid of a flat dolly and my wooden hammer and sometimes a planishing hammer, very small amount of filler used in all cases
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and later after light sanding
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The spare wheel carrier on the bonnet got some attention also, I removed the two nuts both were thread damaged, knocked out some major dents in it, looks a lot better now
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it will be added to the box full of bits ready for the galvanizing process
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yesterday morning I took 5 231601 to have them grit blasted along with the door frames and the tub top cappings x 3 as they wouldn't fit in my cabinet, I can't wait for the bill!!!, anyway work tomorrow 0430hrs get up, good part is home by 1430hrs, if the wind has died down I might get some etch prime on a few bits that I have sitting around, anyway cheers Dennis

Hi there

Looking good Dinty........pleasure to read.

Wayne

Well, only a slight breeze blowing this afternoon, I helped the wife with a few small chores then mixed some vinyl etch primer and sprayed these items x 2
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both sides all over, now I need to buy a good quality undercoat, cheers Dennis

Gee the things I find when I go looking for something, I was checking if I had any enamel undercoat which I did not have, but found a full 4 lt can of Protec Vinyl etch primer, along a full 4lt can of spray putty and 2 cans (small) body filler, damn I just bought another small can just last week, I must be losing the plot LOL
Anyway with no undercoat to play with, I turned my attention to a group of 6 screws (3 each side of the tub), they are seized by electrolysis and crud on the threads + they have been painted over with enamel with hardener added
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as you can see, a small hammer n screwdriver + 3/16"W spanner short shaft heavy blade screwdriver and I managed to get one of them out, so I continued tapping at the crap and rubbing over with a wire brush
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in an effort to free them up, hopefully the penetrating fluid will do it's job, if not a small application of heat will/maybe do it for me.
I do not like to paint over things, because if it has to be taken apart in years to come and if it doesn't line up it will look crappy, anyway cheers Dennis