'52 Rot-box turned tire roaster.

[HooWybrow]

^^ what actually happened. Jeff sat there hugging me and crying into my shoulder (after checking my height) while Dave measured everything.

Hahaha, shut up, JP.

Started plating and blending in the front clip tonight. I pie-cut the bottom of the frame and bent it up, welded the seam up to flush it with the bottom of the G-body clip, and then I made a shear plate/box piece all at once.

Started from here:



Smoothed out a bunch of garbage splatter GM leaves on these G-body clips, pie-cut the frame and made a template for the shear-plate.



Plate is in, cut off the excess of the bottom of the factory rail, smoothed most of it, need to finish smoothing the lower weld and will also weld the upper seam once most of the other plates are in and I can flip the frame upside down.







Overall, super happy with how it's turning out, will hopefully have all the plates in and welded by the weekend, I'll get the suspension in and then we can start installing the new rear rails.

[JPE16]

^^ what actually happened. Jeff sat there hugging me and crying into my shoulder (after checking my height) while Dave measured everything.

[HooWybrow]

YOU GOT THIS.

Looks good, bud.

<3



Evening fellas, we've finally got the front clip tacked in place. I must say, getting it squared and levelled was probably the worst thing I've ever done. I was able to find numerous sources online for frame measuring, factory 52 frame and the G-body clip, aswell.

I've never done so much measuring in my life, at one point I was certain my brain was actually on fire.

It's all tacked up, multiple braces tacked in aswell. Throughout the week I'll work away at plating it and making it strong and pretty. Very relieved to have that nailed down finally. Sigh!

[M.Doban]

Back to blending framerail welds tomorrow night, time consuming and not fun.

YOU GOT THIS.

Looks good, bud.

[HooWybrow]

Freakin' love old cars being new again! Good stuff mate, keen to see the finished product, along with everything along the way.

No more sleeping for you, work only.

That really doesn't change my life in any way, haha! I spend entirely too much time working at the shop.

Got the spring pockets cut out tonight, I must say, having the front clip removed from the vehicle entirely and flipped upside down made this god-awful chore 11000% easier. I'll have to remember that the next time I put a set of front bags in an S10. Haha!

Scraped and wire-brushed so much undercoat and road dirt off of the front clip, aswell. What a terrible job. Anyways, enough whining. Got the front spring pockets trimmed for RE-7's. May need a slight bit more trimming once I get the arms assembled and everything all bolted, but the hard part is offically over.

Started here:



Slowly trimmed out to here:



Both sides look pretty even, happy with that.



I stumbled on this picture of a re-located shock tonight kinda by mistake, I'll likely do something similar, super clean and a little out of the ordinary, all while being super easy to make.



That's all for now, hopefully have the front clip on this weekend, depends if I can get my ass in gear to do the measuring.

Back to blending framerail welds tomorrow night, time consuming and not fun.

[Sausager]

Freakin' love old cars being new again! Good stuff mate, keen to see the finished product, along with everything along the way.

No more sleeping for you, work only.

[244Brick]

someone say fergie?

[aLaFleur]

Are you against silly, Jefffffff?

[HooWybrow]

Well, this is getting silly.

[cobrawannabe]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs"]The Black Eyed Peas - My Humps - YouTube[/ame]

[mrg7243]

Those humps!

[HooWybrow]

Well, the rails are fully welded and at least one is blended (Dave works nights, so he got that done Sunday, I guess).

I had a brainwave and decided against putting the clip on immediately, I've cut spring pockets for bags a couple times and it really sucks, so I'm going to do it while the frame clip is not attached so I can flip it upside down and do it. I stripped the clip down Sunday and will get it power washed tonight or tomorrow, I also borrowed some bags and cups from a friend to get the pockets cut until I get around to buying some.

So no real pictures of that stuff for a day or two, I think this is a better plan of attack anyways, so the few extra days will be definitely worth the wait.

A facebook group led me to a used York EDC for sale locally, picking it up tonight after work for a steal. I have all the engine bay room in the world with the SBC, so I might as well have all the creature comforts.

[Belvader]

Turned out awesome man, can't wait to see more on it

[HooWybrow]

Looks like boobs.

Approved.

Boobs are good.

[aLaFleur]

Looks like boobs.

Approved.