A little light entertainment: 1939 Ford 1 ton Utility restoration

[jack neville]

Sandblasted, and a bit of filler to hide the weld join and painted ready to bolt on.

[Wayne Hingley]

Very nice Jack. That is a lot of work and fitting to make those unique pieces, and your finished product looks amazing! I enjoy seeing your techniques and progress.

[David Herbert]

I totally agree with Wayne. A beautiful job and very creative craftsmanship. I learn something with almost every part that you re-create.

David

[jack neville]

The last couple of weeks have been spent working on mudguards and other panels some of which have been part finished some time ago. All have required extensive work so it is nice to finally see some paint going on them. The mudguards themselves needed the running boards in situ before they could be finally finished so that is a pleasing milestone and the running boards are now finally fixed in place.

[cliff]

looks awesome Jack.

[jack neville]

Thanks Cliff.

Now for the doors. I pulled them apart awhile ago and got them sandblasted.

I left one intact as it was not too badly dented even though the bottom is rusted out. I took the skin off the other mainly so I could access the dents and straighten it out. It too is rusted out in the bottom.

But that was before I had a really really good look at them.

Both look like they have been let go in the wind without the check straps attached and have gone past the limit of the door hinges. They have also had hits in the lock end of the doors resulting in inner frames that are somewhat no longer straight.

A lot of hammering with big and little hammers and a bit of porter power improvision eventually got the inner frames sorted out.

[jack neville]

The door I left intact was reasonably good in the outer skin until I looked at this odd patch in the corner and felt inside. It had a dent about 10mm deep which had been filled with lead. You can see how deep it is when I melted the lead out.