Even though we been making progress on the truck we took some time off the truck to help my mom with a remodel on her bathroom. They have two bathtubs with built in showers and with their aging it has become hard for them to maneuver around while taking showers. So Chris and I removed the old tub and shower and put in a walk in shower for them. Which actual turned into a full re-do on the bathroom. About one more week of work and we will be back on the truck.
Okay I know that they are not pictures of the truck but it is proof that we have been working.
Finishing up the last of the lower body lines. Need to complete the lower end of the back panel that will need to be hand formed. We also need to add a rolled lip on the wheel well before we can start to weld it to the truck.
The panels have lined up very nicely. Just need to work on the top panels and we will be done with the body lines.
The exhaust pipes came in and now it time to make some brackets for the truck. We are using the stock brackets from the pipes, but need to make custom ones for them to mount to the truck box.
They have a slight curve in them to match up with the truck box.
All finished up and ready to be mounted to the truck. These will be chrome plated to match the stock brackets.
Used the frame tubing and added some plating for the bracket to mount to.
Top bracket mounting structure.
Skins back on with the bracket attached.
Top and bottom brackets. Next up is to locate and cut the holes that the pipes will go thru.
Front view of the pipes installed.
We used 7" exhaust for are set up. Here you can see the hole that we cut out of the lower panel.
The exhaust will be used for the pizza ovens. I can smell pizza already.
Man I cant wait to see this thing all together. It's looking pretty tough even with out all the parts on it.
The last of the body lines will run the length of a 12' panel. We came up with a make shift table to hold the sheet while we fed it thru the Pullmax. It sounded like this would be the easiest panel to do, well not so much.
It takes about twenty runs though the Pullmax to get the final profile. Moving a 5 x 12 sheet of .08 aluminum is not a easy task. The first panel we did we had three people and by the time we were done we were done.
The second panel we enlisted one more helper which help out, but was still a workout.
The top part of the panel has part of the 20" radius in it. Since we don't have a 12' brake we had it sourced out to be bump around to the shape that we need.
While we wait till the panels get done we moved on to the gas fillers.
We started out with some 90 degree mandrel bent tubing, 5/8 tubing, and a pop-up gas filler. One of the pop-up gas filler will be welded into back panel for the back gas tank and the other will be welded up front for the side gas tank.
This is the back panel where the gas cap will be added. It's also where one of propane tank will be mounted.
Filler in place and is ready to be welded in. Will update with the finished part.
