How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

Fitted on the two sides today. I discovered I had some issues with the wheel wells dropping a bit when the original sides were cut off. This left me with a bit of a gap to lclose. I ended up using a floor jack and ratchet strap. Using the strap to hold the jack tight to the box frame I then jacked it up with a block of wood. This pressed the wheel well in tight to the side panel and I could get some good tac welds in.

[Jordan Baker]

Not much to update. Almost done all of the welding on the box. The only bit left is to weld the bottom edge of the front panel to the box floor/frame.

One nice accessory that I recently came into was the components for the buzzer located in the cab. This came from a friends CMP. He wasn't wanting to do a wireless truck and had no need for it. Now it lives on in my truck.

[Jordan Baker]

Finished with all of the welding today. I would have been done sooner, but I ran out of welding wire mid weld the other day. With a new 10lbs spool in the machine I set to it when I got home this morning from work. I had to finish welding on the last 4 rope hooks and the tail gate thing-a-ma-jigs.

Once that was done, I did some POR prepping and then some touch up POR15 was applied. Tonight as the sun was going down I mixed up the tie coat primer and gave it a good spray. All sides and the floor/wheel wells got a good coating of the primer.

I also refitted the tailgate to ensure the hooks all lined up and everything does.

[Jordan Baker]

Taking advantage of the nice weather today and getting a lot of parts painted. Its SCC2 as far as the eye can see. Well not quite. The wireless table was painted in a KG#3 colour. I did that just to help break up all of the brown.

[Jordan Baker]

Well the box is all painted on the top side surfaces. Later this week Ill try and track down one of my farming neighbours to come by with his tractor and we can flip the box over. Then I can finish paint the primer and final colour.

I also painted a few other parts I had ready to go.

Now its time for some dinner.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Excellent work Jordan. I am thoroughly enjoying the construction of the rear body and wireless fittings in this thread!

The wireless table was painted in a KG#3 colour. I did that just to help break up all of the brown.

Haha....like a true scale modeller

Alex

[Jordan Baker]

Here is the NOS buzzer installed on the original wooden block. The special nuts were used as well, after spending a night soaking in Evaporust. The wiring for it I'll be leaving until further information comes to light.