After 8 years...finally done!

[Bruce]

Scraps?

Hey Dave, Hard to believe it's the same panel?
Did you use purchased steel or dredge the scrap yard?
I have a commercial S/S table from da' trade, it's sturdy, but not to substantial.

[jsiebert]

Just went through your pics doc I'll have to second olgraybeards comment great pics. John

[Doc Dave]

Hey Dave, Hard to believe it's the same panel?
Did you use purchased steel or dredge the scrap yard?
I have a commercial S/S table from da' trade, it's sturdy, but not to substantial.

Bruce,

I bought 4X8 sheets of 14 and 16 gauge sheet metal. I can't recall if the wheel well was 14 or 16 now, but what I did was measure the steel with a gauge and then use the appropriate thickness as a patch.

I cut our an "arch" in the 4X8 piece to match one plane of the arch that was rusted out. Then, I cut a 1 inch wide strip and bent it to shape to fit at a right angle to the aforementioned new arch in order to make the piece like the original curved angle steel piece for the wheel well. All was tack welded in place.

[Doc Dave]

Ol Gray beard and John,
Thanks again for the compliments. I need to add a lot more pics to the image event site...been slow on that as I have been busy trying to get "Kirkwood" looking its best for its first rally in a few weeks in West Va.
I bought a trailer in August and so it will be a maiden voyage for truck and trailer.
The reason I call it Kirkwood is that it was the Kirkwood, N.Y. VFD brush truck for many, many years.

[oprod]

yea, Great Job

Mines in total pieces, Im sooo jealous! Have fun!!!

[Jake]

Great job!

How inspiring to go through all the pics and write ups on your link Dave. Your truck looks awesome, I take my hat off to you!
This story needs to go into the PWA as a feature article, have you sent Gordon the material yet?

[Charles Talbert]

Nice rig Doc, is this the truck that got the differentials we built for you with the 4.89 gearing?

[horace]

I like your Power Wagon well enough to make it my background. Great going & thank you for great picture!

[Doc Dave]

Thank you Jake, Charles and Horace,
Appreciate the comments.
I just got back from the West Va rally and that was a thrill. Beautiful weather, spectacular scenery and a lot of nice folks.
We had a nice trail ride in the mountains...could not bring myself to go in the deep mud, but it did get a little dirty!
I may do an article for the PWA on the bed or other parts of this project...would be a good winter thing to do.
The 4.89's Charles did for me are to go on my next project, an M-37 that will be more of a daily driver with disc brakes and a 4BTA I found that is a runner.