ArdWrknTrk Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 I meant the threads on your clamps won't get all mungged up with spatter. Ahh, OK, gotcha. I borrowed the clamps from work, I'm going to need them for my stake pockets this weekend as I weld them on the box sides. They sometimes have to clamped in about 6 places to keep everything square. Well, I hope your weekend goes according to plan. You'll have another truck when you're done with this Covid project. You can keep it, or you can flip it and find another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 Well, I hope your weekend goes according to plan. You'll have another truck when you're done with this Covid project. You can keep it, or you can flip it and find another one. Funny you should mention that...lol. On a whim I put an ad up on the other truck a couple days ago, looking to see if there were any interesting "bucket list" trades out there. The truck is not for sale...but if something interesting were to show up, I'd be interested. I don't really need two Flaresides... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 Well, I hope your weekend goes according to plan. You'll have another truck when you're done with this Covid project. You can keep it, or you can flip it and find another one. I worked on building the new bed for the old ‘80 all weekend. It’s starting to shape up! So many hours. 5am until 8pm yesterday, and another 8+ hrs today lol. I love it, but it’s still crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 I worked on building the new bed for the old ‘80 all weekend. It’s starting to shape up! So many hours. 5am until 8pm yesterday, and another 8+ hrs today lol. I love it, but it’s still crazy. That really looks good, Cory! Those welds of the rolled edges are great. Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 I worked on building the new bed for the old ‘80 all weekend. It’s starting to shape up! So many hours. 5am until 8pm yesterday, and another 8+ hrs today lol. I love it, but it’s still crazy. Did you end up just tacking a piece of tubing to the bed rails? It's sure a lot of work, but it's looking great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 I worked on building the new bed for the old ‘80 all weekend. It’s starting to shape up! So many hours. 5am until 8pm yesterday, and another 8+ hrs today lol. I love it, but it’s still crazy. I think my old garage had the same colour floor paint. In about the same condition! Home sweet home. 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzFace2 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 I think my old garage had the same colour floor paint. In about the same condition! Home sweet home. 😊 Nice job on the bed You going to seam seal the lower bed extensions to the main walls to stop rust like they like to do? When I patched mine I welded and filled in the split so it would not rust again. Beside the fenders cover most of the area so you can see it anyway. Also not having the "wheel well" on the bed sides how much clearance will toy have between tire and wall? At least you wont have to fuss with the wood. Cutting out the squares for the stake pockets or leaving them covered? Dave ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 That really looks good, Cory! Those welds of the rolled edges are great. Well done! Gary, That little Lincoln welder works so nicely anybody could lay a nice bead with it. It sure is a treat to work with. Jim, Yes I used 1.5” structural tubing (0.060” wall thickness). It worked great because the bed walls are 16ga (0.060”?) and together they make an excellent copy of the factory curl. I had made a test piece originally and up against the bed wall end to end they were perfect. Garage floor paint haha. Ya know, I painted it for several years in this Zodiac Grey floor enamel, but the motorcycles were hard on it between the hot tires and sliding kickstands. Not to mention the trolley jacks and axle stands, etc. I gave up after a while. If I build another garage I’d likely just leave the floor bare concrete. Dave, Not cutting the stake pockets square holes out, no. I don’t need them and they’re not easy to replicate so I just didn’t bother. I have a set of fender tubs for it, but I don’t think I’ll bother with them. Don’t really need them anyway, and they’re a lot of work to install. They’ll be for sale soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Gary, That little Lincoln welder works so nicely anybody could lay a nice bead with it. It sure is a treat to work with. Jim, Yes I used 1.5” structural tubing (0.060” wall thickness). It worked great because the bed walls are 16ga (0.060”?) and together they make an excellent copy of the factory curl. I had made a test piece originally and up against the bed wall end to end they were perfect. Garage floor paint haha. Ya know, I painted it for several years in this Zodiac Grey floor enamel, but the motorcycles were hard on it between the hot tires and sliding kickstands. Not to mention the trolley jacks and axle stands, etc. I gave up after a while. If I build another garage I’d likely just leave the floor bare concrete. Dave, Not cutting the stake pockets square holes out, no. I don’t need them and they’re not easy to replicate so I just didn’t bother. I have a set of fender tubs for it, but I don’t think I’ll bother with them. Don’t really need them anyway, and they’re a lot of work to install. They’ll be for sale soon. Cory, if you decide to 'go nude' I'm going to suggest applying sodium silicate as a hardener/curing agent/sealant/dust reducer. It's cheap (as a generic crystal to be dissolved) effective, and actually synergistic with the curing cement. Epoxy floor coatings are downright dangerous. And by the time you get enough chips that they aren't you would have been better off just painting. Except..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 Cory, if you decide to 'go nude' I'm going to suggest applying sodium silicate as a hardener/curing agent/sealant/dust reducer. It's cheap (as a generic crystal to be dissolved) effective, and actually synergistic with the curing cement. Epoxy floor coatings are downright dangerous. And by the time you get enough chips that they aren't you would have been better off just painting. Except..... Jim, Understood. You can see the cracks in the floor also...they've been there for 30 years and the concrete guys say that they all crack at some point. My wife wants me to do an epoxy coating or one of those, but in my own experience, its best done when the floor is brand new, not after 30 years of oil and brake fluid spills, cracks, etc. I totally get the coatings IF the garage is for parking only. My garage(s) have always been for working, so they see trolley jacks and axle stands, and dragging transmissions, etc across the floor. I'm thinking of building a detached garage...nothing huge (24x24). I have room for it on the property, but currently no access. A friend of mine in the area that has a few excavators is going to put a driveway in for me this year and get an area ready for a floor pad (which in all likelihood won't get poured until at least 2022). My current attached garage is small and a bit frustrating to work in sometimes (better than no garage, I know). When the house was built in 1990, they put the laundry room/bathroom stall IN the garage...so it is sort of an L-shape. It's fine, but the one side of my truck is almost always hard up against the wall. Of course there's always 500 other things piled out there (Bit of an ongoing issue between me and the Mrs...lol. The garage is the one room in the house I have even a tiny bit of control over, and it still ends up being filled with junk all the time). I'm losing the use of the big shop/warehouse where I work....which is fine, but myself and my coworkers have always had use of the space. We all keep our winter/summer tires stored at work (and some of us, things like truck parts, etc...lol). I'll soon be dragging all of this stuff home....and I think I have no room now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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