The truck is running again!

"Pixel" (Improbcat) 05/19/2014 at 09:19 • Filed to: None

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After spending the week getting the radiator support & some other small inner structure parts painted & bedlined, I was finally able to put the inner structure of the nose together, which meant I could start the truck without the radiator taking a dive into the fan.

I was so excited I drove it around the block like this.

Also installed a Pertronix electronic ignition, truck now starts with a quick turn of the key as opposed to the fight it used to be to get the engine to turn over.

Now I'm working on getting the front sheetmetal that doesn't need welding repairs in primer so I can hang it.

I'll probably put the crappy hood & fenders back on so I can drive the truck while I do the rust repair on the better panels.

CalzoneGolem > Pixel 05/19/2014 at 09:20

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It looks pretty good like this haha!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Pixel 05/19/2014 at 09:33

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I was wondering why the radiator support was shaped like it was, and now I see the answer is "no resemblance between sheet metal and underpinnings whatsoever".

Pixel > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/19/2014 at 09:42

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Yeah, whoever designed the front of this truck was seriously whacked out. The grille panel that bolts to the front has slanted brackets that bolt to the underside of the radiator support.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Pixel 05/19/2014 at 09:50

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I was thinking it might have been a holdover from the earlier trucks with stepped-down fenders - allowing the hood to be higher. Thus becoming useless when they went to the full width hood. Hard to say, though.

Pixel > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/19/2014 at 10:19

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That would have made sense, so that definitely isn't it. Actually the previous generation looked like this:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Pixel 05/19/2014 at 10:23

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Maybe the designer was trying to make the engine space a geodesic shape of triangles, after going to a Buckminster Fuller exhibition while high.