wow! Keep up the good work. I love that DD. What are you going to paint the frame with?

 

Nice work Looks great!

Were there bolts in the bottom 4 holes on the motor mount cross member on yours? Mine has 8 rivets and 4 bolts through the bottom. and the left hand motor mount "pad" is bolted on but the right is welded.

 

Just regular Tremclad type paint. I don't believe in those POR15 type products...snake oil so far as I'm concerned.


My cross member had 6 rivets on each side, plus two nut and bolt combos.

 

Yeah it's a big job...not terribly difficult, just very labour intensive.

I've lucked out with the weather...usually its cold and raining. But it's been cool and foggy/misty over night and into the morning. Then by noon or so the sun is out in a clear sky and warming up to 15*C or more.

 

I haven't heard of Tremclad maybe they don't sell it here.

No surprise though. California is full of stupid laws! like AB 1266!That allows male and female school kids to share bathrooms, locker rooms and showers.
But we can't have products that work! Because a study says if you drink 100 gallons of it at one sitting and inhale a match there is a .00001% chance that you might explode.

 

Tremclad is the Canadian re-labeling of Rustoleum I believe.

 

I'm sure with every re-branding comes an increased price.

Seems like everything in Canada is more expensive than here because we screw you when we send it up there...


Sorry !


BTW... Sherwin Williams has a product called "controls rust", and so far it seems a little more protective than crustoleum. I've been using it for a few years now, and seems as though it's a good product

 

Could be like FARGO. It would be ind of cool to have the FARGO emblems down here. That would make em wonder

 

part of that is customs

 

Makes em wonder up here too! The last Fargo model here was a 1972

And dual language labels and special msds and freight and brokerage well you get the idea. It's relative though, wages are much higher here but the cost of living is proportionate

 

Yep those rivets are a PITA!! I took out 24 of them when I replaced all my hangers on my frame with "Jungle's" hangers.

Looking really good!

 

Thanks for the kind words...

Nice thing now though is if I want to upgrade to Jungles hangers...it's just unbolt and install.

 

OK today...or I guess tomorrow now...

I worked on getting the frame brackets and cross member in. Started by pulling out eh old frame rails from the donor 93. Started trying to figure out how I was going to transfer the location of the holes from the donor frame over to the crewcab frame. I started checking the location of the reference holes in the in the frames. The holes were close....but varied by up to 3/8". SO this was not going to work. I finally decided I had to bolt back together the donor frame with the cross members and take some hard measurements.

 

OK today...or I guess tomorrow now...

I worked on getting the frame brackets and cross member in. Started by pulling out eh old frame rails from the donor 93. Started trying to figure out how I was going to transfer the location of the holes from the donor frame over to the crewcab frame. I started checking the location of the reference holes in the in the frames. The holes were close....but varied by up to 3/8". SO this was not going to work. I finally decided I had to bolt back together the donor frame with the cross members and take some hard measurements.

 

Once I took a few dozen measurements I disassembled everything and re-installed the forward cross member in the 84 frame. But before I got too far into that I decided to mount, and drill the needed hole for the steering box brace.

Installed....and punched



Drilled out to about 3/8"....



And then the final drilling was done with a step drill...worked like a charm!