Chevrolet C8 1940 Cab 11 restoration, The Netherlands

[Alex van de Wetering]

The last pictures for now.

As expected it took me a few weekends to finish the repairs, but I have to say it was a very satisfying job. If I were to do this job again I would probably repair the frame before painting the chassis.....or at least make a better job of covering up the painted chassis. The grinding left small steel particles everywhere.....being hot from grinding they "sank" into the paint on the chassis and started rusting after a few days. It took quite some time to clean (sand!) this off again and repaint the chassis

The last picture shows the arch bars back from blasting, with some captive nuts left to do.....and some welding of where the dash-frame meets the arch bars, to get rid of the rust-trap.

Alex

[Phil Waterman]

HI Alex

Your work on straightening the cab frame is impressive. I tried with a 10 ton Porta power and several Jacks to straighten the cab frame on my Pat 12 without success even with the sections needing to bend heated to bright red with a large carbon arc tourch. It just never occurred to cut out one side of the angle irons.

My cab would still bee crooked if Bob C. had not brought me a straight cab frame.

Very informative set of posts.

Cheers Phil

[Mike K]

The cab frame on my cab 11 was or is still bent . The drivers side wing would not sit level- it sat at a upward angle . I had to make a wedge shaped riser in order to level out the wing . I really could not work out why or how it became bent.... I think these frames were bent from new. The jig at the factory may have had a misalignment problem.

BTW your welding is excellent ..wish I could weld like that