Where did I last leave you?
Shortly after the last post above, I took a trip down to the Austin area to pickup an english wheel from a friend. After all, I have some plans for fender flares. It was a great day, learned a ton, and loaded up to drive back. Along my return trip, the crank in my suburban's 6.2 decided to leave the chat. So, I built a new all-forged 6.5, did a full shakedown, and campaigned the truck on its standard spring and summer rotation of offroad trips.
And so, here I am a little over 6 months later ready to continue on the charger where I intended. Tool updates:
All hardware is now organized into a single location. No more small containers of rando bits.
That english wheel, slightly modified so the outriggers don't get in the way of my feet.
Back on the car, the last of the nasty rot and bag repair is all out and I have all the AMD sheetmetal (plus one NOS quarter) in stock and ready for a careful build back:
The tack welds the PO used to build up from the rust ruined flat panels and actually would have made leaks even worse.
You can see the channel isn't really that bad. Just needs a few pieces of fresh steel.
Really excited to pickup where I left off.
Next up: a few patterns to repair the channels, fit some panels, and start seeing how this whole unibody is going to piece back together. Also, suspension stuff. That's coming, too.
David
