I will make it a point to add pictures on my website. I marked out my
cuts for the chop and hope to get down to business this weekend.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Carlisle <rcarlisle@comcast.net>
Date: Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:48 pm
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] advice on rust treatments
> I, for one, would love to see your progress as you move along with
> this one
> Joe, as I am a fellow hacker.
>
> Rick Carlisle
> 57 3100
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JOE GARCIA" <joegarcia1@comcast.net>
> To: "Gary R. Schwarzrock" <gschwarz@airtimeisp.net>
> Cc: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 9:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] advice on rust treatments
>
>
> > I like using the Eastwood "Oxisolv" as well as their "Rust
> ncapsulator".>
> > A friend of mine found me a few AD Cabs a while back "they were
> about> to go to the crusher" so I took them home. They all need
> cab corners
> > and one needs a complete floor and one was a 5-window with a
> very bad
> > dash and front floor and firewall section. I melted the lead on
> the A-
> > pillar seam and then cut the floor through the rockers from one
> side to
> > the other just in front of the seat riser. I mated the 5-window
> with> the good dash and front floor section of the other truck to
> make a good
> > 5-window. I won't even tell you what plans I have for the
> > cab's "custom wise" because the majority on the list would go into
> > shock. Yeah, I'm one of those hackers who does the chopping and
> > suicide door and other unmentionables to the AD's but like I
> said these
> > cabs were heading to the wrecking yard to be crushed so don't
> feel to
> > bad for them.
> >
> > Another friend just gave me a really nice 1950 bed with back
> fenders as
> > a trade for me welding in some cab corners on his truck.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gary R. Schwarzrock" <gschwarz@airtimeisp.net>
> > Date: Sunday, July 13, 2003 11:35 am
> > Subject: [oletrucks] advice on rust treatments
> >
> > > Does anyone have any good or bad comments on rust treatments?
> > > There are
> > > three products that I have seen mentioned:
> > >
> > > Eastwood "corolless"
> > > POR-15
> > > Rust Bullet
> > >
> > > And a second thought. Has anyone thought of or tried to make
> a 5
> > > window cab
> > > by cutting the window ports out of a thrashed deluxe cab and
> > > grafting them
> > > into a good cab? My thought was to cut the windows out right
> > > where the
> > > rubber molding is on the outside with the thought that the drop
> > > into the
> > > window hole and some "careful welding" might control the warpage,
> > > and then
> > > cut the inside close to the door post and the rear window to
> get some
> > > support for the weld seams on the inside.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Gary 1954 Chev 3100
> > > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and
> > > 1959
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941
> and 1959
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