Willie dog

1 hour ago, russell t said:

Looks great, and it is yours so polish away. Which engine are you using, 377, 401, or 402? If my memory is correct the 377 used an oil cooler and the double fan belts?

It's the 401. It has the dual belts and an  oil cooler in the filter housing. It has a provision for coolant to pass around the housing. 

I like to add the details to make it look like I've actually done something. 😁 

• Thanks.  I know I'm over doing it,  the factory never never never polished the brass fittings and copper lines but I can't help myself. 😁

 

your going to out do all of us with that rig when its finished...bob

Nah. I'm just anal when it comes to paint. My jobs never suit me, I see every flaw in them.

 

What type of gun do you use? I'm going to eventually have to buy one.

An inexpensive HVLP gravity feed from Harbor freight actually.  As long as you don't want to use one everyday, they work just fine.

 

I recently started using a paint line produced by PPG called ALK. $65-$85 a gallon, ready to spray, no reduction. I've tried it with and without a hardener (ALK201). Touch time is 30 minutes, longer with the hardener. Pot-life (paint in the gun, or closed container) is forever without the hardener; something like an hour with the hardener. 

So far I like it. Ready to spray (without a hardener) is a plus; pour it from the can into your gun and you're good to go.

Hhmm. I'll have to give that a try....nothing wrong with saving a buck.

 

wait til you buy the orange....... you might fall on the floor when you buy orange, yellow, red or gold....

I already have. $334 for a gallon of single stage!  🤤😲

 

except the part trying to figure out why the mounted tires refused to go back on.

that's the part WE enjoyed most!

Amen to that!😁

 

I think you meant to say the tank was filled with greenbacks and you are siphoning them out to get it done. I bet you need an armored truck to carry the needed cash every time you go to the paint store!

Yes, my god that stuff is expensive.

 The Nason brand of paint and clear is fairly reasonably priced. Still, a little at a time...time....a gallon of something this month, another gallon next month.......

 

Looks fantastic...must have been a lot of hours of block sanding. Doing it right takes a lot of time and effort, but it really shows.

Thanks. I enjoy almost every part of the restoration.

 

Looks great . What are you using for paint ?

Nason base/clear.

 

Will we see your truck at Winchester on Sept. 21st thru 23rd? It is looking good.

Don't think so. The paint won't be dry

 

looks like GULF colors

It will be soon. Can't wait. 

47 minutes ago, B-42 said:

The only reason I have not been in the running for a Darwin Award for some of my DUH moments is that so far I have managed to survive them.

.......or keep them a secret. 

35 minutes ago, 41chevy said:

Ask my wife about the aluminum cylinder head in her oven and the "birds eye" frozen valve seats in her freezer she somehow found in her kitchen one day when she was getting ready to cook dinner . . .

And I thought I was the only one who used the kitchen for more than dinner.....a flex plate in the freezer and a ring gear in the oven. She came home sooner than I thought and, BUSTED!

Even if the shortcomings are created by having a "DUH" moment. 

Whoremembers this.....?  The reason I couldn't get the rear wheel to fit all the way on.

34 minutes ago, Swishy said:

While u're there

Get the seller to write on a bit of paper wot he would sell the item for

U write on bit of paper wot u'd like to pay for item

see the figures together add m up n divide by 2

there ...........  dun

Rafferty Rules

LOL next problem

 

cya

 

§wishy

BEAUTIFUL!    And they say life is complicated. 

2 hours ago, 41chevy said:

a few years ago I paid  $120 for a NOS  early B model (?) with the pin for my mixer.

Do you think $50 is good for a used cover? I don't want to cheat the seller.

He doesn't know what to ask andI'm not sure what to offer. 

What is a fair price for buyer and seller of a b model battery box cover? I have no idea what to offer and the seller isn't sure what it's worth. 

As far as I know it is in good condition and is just the cover. 

4 hours ago, fxfymn said:

Nice work. I cannot recall the previous owner's name, but wasn't that truck out of Bridgewater, VA? Ex fire truck I believe.

Yes you are correct. I can't recall his name either. Nice old truck.

He said the grill and original fiberglass fenders were from an old firetruck. 

The International was in pretty good shape with an older restoration. I removed the lettering from the doors and pinstripes from the rest of it...overhauled the carburetor and rebuilt the sloppy accelerator linkage.