Info needed: C15A 2B1 cargo bed rebuild

[Bob Carriere]

...are you also plating your front bumper with a chrome finish????

Why the plating Paul?? I always assumed sand blast, prime and OD Paint.....

The water pipe I used were black but we scratch them a lot in the bending....mine were done in two piece than but welded as "one hoop"...... too cold now for sand blasting but will no doubt follow my usual routine of sandblast, phosphoric acid wash, and POR 15 semi gloss, urethane tie coat and 2 or 3 coats of OD flat green..... but to keep the cage firm and steady will do some horizontal twin bars on each side just about at the start and end of the curve....somewhat similar to the hoops on the cab 13 radio truck that Jordan has restored........ Not the full complements of rifle attachments like the cab 13 but something that will keep the tarp nice and tight and allow the sides or the front to be rolled up in sunny weather.

Can hardly wait for the nice days to return..... we have not had a real cold snap yet but the forecast for next weekend is around -24 C....... that will freeze the brass balls off a monkey!!!!

Cheers
PS..... whenever you get a chance .....no rush....would you look at the underside of your tie rod ends and tell me if you have Type "A" with a cotter pin holding the cap in place or a smooth cap with a simple large C clip holding the tie rod guts in place.... which I call Type "B".......

[Paul Edwards]

Chrome bumpers ehhh now there's an idea to far!

Why plate? Well I saw it here on this forum that someone had made hoops and zinc plated them. In a two week period since making the hoops surface rust was appearing so assumed plating was the course of action.

Yes, I'll at my tie rod ends next time I'm at the yard......I may have some pictures on file and will take a took and post if I find anything.

-24 brass monkeys indeed! We are wimps in the UK!

Cheers,


Paul

[Paul Edwards]

Bob,

Does these photos assist? Just noted you wanted the underside photographed, I could get these later if needed.

Regards,


Paul

[Grant Bowker]

Those have to be the type with the base cover secured by a snap ring, you would be able to see the ends of the cotter pin poking out of sides of the tie rod end if they were that version.

[Bob Carriere]

..... they are what I call "type B"

There seemed to have been another model, which I believe was earlier in the production run, that I refer to as "type A"...... which is about 5/16 deeper and the large bottom screw cap was held by a long cotter pin..... it allowed for the cap to be screwed in to take up wear.

Bob C

[Bob Carriere]

....almost finished with my tailgate......and now Grant noticed that the hooks are mounted to a 1/4 inch reinforcement plate onboth sides of the tailgate...... the only rusted sample of a 42 tailgate (allegedly 42) did not have such a plate but it makes a lot of sense so will retro fit plates on mine. We revitted my tailgate but had to heat up each rivets cherry red to be able to hammer them in with the air gun...... not an easy job........

Overall my cargo floor was not as badly rusted as yours.....BUT...... we now find out, after building the tailgate and side as perfectly square as possible that my old cargo box had been abused with a resulting curve from front to back and side to side .....must have been owned by some Australian who overloaded it with 5 tons of wet green hay bales........ never realized how many details that need to be considered........ but Grant has as a 10 pounds sledge hammer that wins most arguments. We had 3 boxes to work from..... the best one was used as the basis of the resto and the other as guide /patterns.....BUT they are not all the same..... construction of the reinforcements that slip into the double return edges are different..... I have notice similar differences in cab 13....the reinforcements on some had a flat turned area that facilitated spot welding for assembly.......

They say getting there is half the fun..... but now I know it is twice the work!!!!!!

Thank God for all the pictures on MLU.