Pictures of the Week

[other dog]

I haven't posted any updates on the old rustbucket lately, so here's the latest- my emblems that I ordered came today

so I slapped them on the side. I wish they were about twice as big, then they would have covered up the other two holes from the original emblems.

I should have closed the hood for the picture. Anyhow, here's a girl in a car, for no good reason.

Zina from Gladys said the truck needed some stripes or something, so I said "no problem". A can of Rust-oleum later, we have stripes.

I painted the grill, put some red reflector tape over the former blue oval, so now it looks like a Peterbilt oval, and painted that brush guard thing too, all with spray paint.

I have a new brake booster in the shed that i'm going to put on it when I get motivated enough to do it, the old one has a constant vacuum leak so I ordered one from Rock Auto. And i'm going to look into why the rear gas tank leaks too, when I get around to it, it's too hot now.

So here's a girl making lemonade.

If lemonade doesn't interest you, I saw this hawk in a tree across the road one day, so I grabbed a quick picture.

 

[GA_Dave]

Great pics, as always!  Love the FJB emblems!

[Joey Mack]

I also liked the brush strokes in the paint job... I have a truck with the same style of paint work..   Just blue and white...  ..  jojo

[mrsmackpaul]

Looking like the classy ride it always wanted to be 😂😂😂😂😂

 

The ute/ pick up is looking good as well 

 

Paul

[mrgumby]

I would like a glass of fresh squeezed  lemonade   Please!

[other dog]

48 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

I also liked the brush strokes in the paint job... I have a truck with the same style of paint work..   Just blue and white...  ..  jojo

I had a 71 F100 that I painted at home in the driveway with a brush and red implement paint from the hardware store when I lived in Appomattox. Didn't look bad at all, at least not compared to what it looked like at first 🤣

 

[davehummell]

Years ago, we painted the market van truck with sears easy living paint with rollers and brushes it looked pretty good for an old truck.

[mechohaulic]

I bought the '49 EE dump the paint was a little faded and couldn't trailer home a rusty junk. wipe the entire unit down with some thinner; started at the left front ; sprayed the entire truck in primer. by the time i got back to the front primer was "dry". changed the gun to mack red i found at the shop and repeated the process. wouldn't say it looked like a million bucks= maybe  750 K (from a distance of course) LOL. quick brush and silver paint and all the chrome window trim was "brand new".. the fun days .. 

[mowerman]

First vehicle I bought in Southern California was a 51 Chevy half ton from a black preacher he was way cool but it was all brush painted… it looked pretty good blue and black great truck of course I wish I still had it .. Bob

[mowerman]

Like most of you fellas,,, I have always liked that style I had 3 of them through the years 48-51-53

[1958 F.W.D.]

20 hours ago, other dog said:

And i'm going to look into why the rear gas tank leaks too, when I get around to it, it's too hot now.

There's probably a hole in it somewhere. 

[other dog]

35 minutes ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

There's probably a hole in it somewhere. 

Oh, I hadn't thought of that. I'll just put a can of stop-leak in it. Black pepper might work too, works good in a leaking radiator.

[other dog]

I finally got around to putting that new brake booster on today.

So here's a girl I saw walking around in the Piggly Wiggly in Winfall.

Anyway, no more vacuum leak like with the old booster-

...but I don't have much pedal now. The brakes work, and I never disconnected the brake lines from the master cylinder, but the pedal goes almost to the floor. I checked the rod coming out that goes into the master cylinder, and they were the same length. Maybe they need to be adjusted up a little, I don't know.

So here's a girl drinking a Miller Lite. I like Miller Lite myself.

[mrsmackpaul]

Sounds like the brakes might need adjusting, as long as when the pedal fully returns the master cylinder can fully return I think it should be okay

Also might have some air in the system that now has more force from the new booster to push it and that might be the reason for the extra pedal

 

Paul 

[Swishy]

For a top job with No less brush strokes

stand the paint tin in hot water so when U apply by brush the paint will run together

 

carefull ............ U cood put an eye out with those

 

 

Just paint on to your own desire

LOL

[tjc transport]

top one: looks like she bumped something that deployed her airbags!!

bottom one: nice paint job..... can i help with the fine touches?? 😁

[other dog]

I'm sure Timmy sprayed the truck, he used leftover paint from when he painted this Freightliner so I don't know where the brush marks came from. There was a can of red paint left in the body with a stiff dried up brush stuck in it, so maybe he went over thin spots with the brush or something, I don't know. But there's still some over-spray on the glass and around the windshield trim. There was a lot on the grill too, until I rust-oleumorized it.