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Awesome! Thank you for the reply! Then I will weld it back in. Given what you mentioned about the positioning. What I will do then is get the windshield glass (already have new glass for the truck) into the frame and attach the hinges on the frame and header panel. I will then position the...

I am working on a 1936 Big Truck I am restoring. I had to rebuild the header panel on the truck. What I am referring to is the panel inside the cab that is above the windshield. This is the photo of the part before I rebuilt it. This is the panel that holds the hinges that hold the windshield...

Now I move onto the rocker panels. They were pretty much garbage. From the outside they seemed OK with a few holes, but when I got them off, wow..... Once I took off the rocker panel, this is what was left on the cab. To try to avoid this again I painted the inside of the new rocker panel...

From there it was just a matter of welding the patch panel in. The process I've mentioned a few times. Basically you stitch the panel in one spot weld at a time to avoid the panel warping. As I go I bang the panel weld flat and move on until I finish. Then I grind everything down smooth. A...

Once the outer large complex curve was 95% there I had to put in the bend to form the lip that will support the hinge mount. To set that I used a piece of tape to give me the line. Once that is there, I created the bend 4 inches at a time until I had it done. This is the piece from the...

So staying in the windshield area I moved inside the cab. Inside the cab there is a header panel that has the hinges for the windshield hinges. I had to remove it by cutting out the spot welds (don't know if it was supposed to be welded) and cutting a few pop rivets. Once out this is what we...

So we have done some things in the past few months but I had not gotten around to posting photos and progress. Since the last update in June I managed to mount all the frame brackets and was able to mount the front axle with some wooden blocks. Basically now the front axle is in place enough...

Bump to get it back to top... Not even a view....

Once all four perches are in place, I move onto placing the welded brackets in place. The brackets I made a few weeks back. I left the large base plates there to allow me to angle them as needed. I will cut them down to size later in the finishing phase. These are placed in their general...

So, back to the outer perches. Once I got the position in terms of distance outward on the axle, I set the perches to match the factory perch I later removed and welded the tow upper/puter perches in place. Here are some shots of the final welded perches. Not too shabby a job if I do say so...

Finally an update....I had done this work a while back but noticed I had been a bad boy and not posted the work here on the Barn. These were done back during the spring and summer. I simply copied it over. ************* I have done some things over the past few weeks but March through May...

I have a 1936 Ford B51 "Big Truck" that I have 4 wheels for. The wheels are all in the photos below. I have shot front and back on each. One has a pin hole near one of the lugs holes & the lug hole has a "extended hole". You will see what I mean in the photos. The reason I am selling is that I...

Time to make some cuts in the frame crossmember where the pedals are mounted. The transmission tail shaft cannot clear the crossmember so we cut out the center section to give us the space we needed. Once that is cut... we throw in the engine and transmission unit. The front of the engine...

Next the Ford clutch fork..... The throwout bearing on the original Ford throwout bearing is larger than the GM version we will use with the diaphragm pressure plate. If you just put in the ford fork, the fork will not be able to push and pull the bearing. What has to be done is to add a pair...

Now I pull off the housing and pressure plate. Now that I know it clears the pressure plate I can put in the clutch. On that one, we want to check for clearance with the center depression in the flywheel. I knew it would not be a problem with the clutch disc because the flywheel side is dead...

I finally got some time to get an update up for the forum. As I mentioned in the last post, the decision was made to go for an axle swap and a T5 Conversion. Last week I took off the leaf hangers and finished cleaning off the frame so we can paint. On that note... HOLY CRAP THOSE RIVETS ARE A...

So.... what has been happening. Originally I planned to keep things relatively original. Plan was to keep the original trans, rear end, front axle and suspension, steering and brakes. The only thing I really wanted to update where the wheels. I started looking for 22.5" tubeless wheels with...

Well.... what I decided to do was move my project indoors. I have yet to hear the complaint. The only thing I was told was that an "anonymous" caller placed a complaint that I was "doing auto repairs and that I was working on other people's cars." The issue is that I have never done anything of...

We continue working, grinding, banging, etc. until we get a perfect fit on the inner panel. Here is what I end up with. The hinge location I then tack a few spots moving around the panel to set the location. Once that is in place, I continue to spot weld, jumping around to avoid...