Build Thread: Project Rusty Hulk

Discussion in 'Members Rides' started by sriley531, Feb 16, 2015.

  1. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    Hahahah!!!!! I never saw that picture, but you aren't kidding!!! Good thing this resto was powered by Yuengling!!




    Lots and lots of Yuengling....
     
  2. sean Buick 76

    sean Buick 76 Buick Nut

    Keep us posted, good job!
     
  3. 70staged

    70staged Well-Known Member

    That is a very nice transmission rebuild stand. You 2 should be a patent on that.

    I also now need to figure what to send him PMs about as most of them were to start a build thread for The Rusy Hulk.

    And yes for the time being yes the name and reputation will follow until you dont put a streak of fluid down the drag strip....
     
  4. 70staged

    70staged Well-Known Member

    HMM Yuengling, never had it but it looks like if I had some my resto would be going at a decent speed rather than the pace I am currently going at as a one man crew.
     
  5. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    Don't let the pace of this thread fool you Ryan, from the first teardown pic to the frame in the barn was 3 years! I will say once i got the barn situation worked out things moved much quicker.

    And you are mistaken, you have had Yuengling. I distinctly remember handing you one out of my cooler in the hotel parking lot at BPG last year!
     
  6. 69GS400s

    69GS400s ...my own amusement ride!

    I like to joke around and tease you boyz quite a bit but on a serious note, something in the pics I'm NOT seeing ..

    .. is a BMF Fire Extinguisher. Play safe - we need you around for a long time :beers2:
     
  7. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    Worry not my friend! There is a fire extinguisher directly next to the entry door by the electrical box. In some of the early pictures it probably wasn't there as I was a bit slow on that front, but when the welder went in, the extinguisher went in.
     
  8. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    Onward and upward!!!

    Before worrying about the skins too much, an outer wheelhouse on one side and a trunk drop on the other needed some attention.

    I didn't need the entire wheelhouse, mostly just the lip. So I trimmed and test fitted up a piece that would be easier to install than the entire thing
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    Then came to trunk drop on the other side. More test fitting
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    And it was welded into place.

    So we cut giant gaping holes in the side of my car, we needed to cover them. We test fit and trimmed, test fit and ground, test fit and cut, test fit and tweaked and finally test fit and flanged to get them as good as we could. Again, I'm not overly impressed with these quarter skins, but I figured if we as a people could put a man on the moon, I could make some quarter skins fit. So we cle-co'd em up (as shown here by Vanna White-Taulbee)
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    And tacked em on
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    Again, shown by Vanna White-Taulbee
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    Drivers side, same deal
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    Then came the insanely tedious task of spot welding them all the way around, spacing the welds to minimize warpage. It felt like it took forever. For whatever reason I can't find pics of them freshly welded on my phone, but you'll see the results later.

    We also had to fab up a few small patches for the inner wheelhouse as there were very small rust holes forming in the corners. We cut the surrounding area out and made our own patches out of some sheet metal.
     
  9. 300sbb_overkill

    300sbb_overkill WWG1WGA. MAGA

    Nice work guys!

    And I vote for the nickname Leaky TEE.





    Derek
     
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  10. Taulbee2277

    Taulbee2277 Silver Level contributor

    That is much better! Winner winner haha :beer:
     
  11. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    I dunno, this would look pretty good on Thirsty....
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    Hahahaha
     
  12. 69GS400s

    69GS400s ...my own amusement ride!

  13. Taulbee2277

    Taulbee2277 Silver Level contributor

    Everyone is a comedian all the sudden! Here is a fully welded photo.

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  14. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    Would you expect anything less from the guy who bought some little old ladies pride and joy wagon, and immediately named it "sport'n wood"???!!!
     
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  15. David Butts

    David Butts Gold Level Contributor

    I'm jumping on this one as well. I love this type of build thread. Some are to bolt head markings serious. There's a place for the 1000 point restos too but for most of us, what you are doing is more than enough and I like the comedic value too. I for one am not offended by the occasional sighting of a tasty chilled adult beverage. :beers2:
     
  16. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    Welcome aboard the Rusty Hulk express Mr. Butts! I agree, I have uber respect for those concourse restos that are perfect to the last drop. I've listened to a few of Duane Heckman's presentations at BPG and it'll blow your mind. But skill-wise, knowledge-wise, and finance-wise it wasn't in the cards for this car. Besides, its not a desirable car and I like driving too much to make it too perfect!

    Side note, you may remember I contacted you many moons ago regarding the cam in your car. I probably watched your YouTube videos a thousand times listening to that 288-92h idle. Now, that's what's in this car!

    Speaking of car, I took a minor detour from the parts of the car most visible, to address the part least visible: the underside of the floor. As mentioned before, there were no serious rust issues with the floor so no patching involved.

    But there was a small spot in the trunk. It was an area of small pin holes, but I figured what the hay, I've got this panel, let's use it!

    Out with the old
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    (Soon to be...) In with the new!
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    I had put it off long enough, so under the wooden trolley I went with a face shield and my trusty grinder armed with a wire wheel. There was some surface rust and a lot of flaky old undercoating to clean up.

    A word on this. Laying on my back for far too many hours with that grinder was a chore. If I ever want to do it again, I'll probably (hopefully) wise up and go poke myself in the eye (or both) with a stick because that almost certainly would be more fun....

    But alas, it has to be done. Once it was cleaned up, I sprayed the entire underside with a rust inhibiting undercoating from Eastwood.
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    Feeling a bit enthused that I had finally made some part of the body pretty, I decided to ride that wave to the front of the car. A good cleaning, a good scuffing, and another good cleaning, followed by multiple coats of VHT chassis paint, and the firewall was prettier as well!
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    Mucho gooder!!
     
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  17. 69GS400s

    69GS400s ...my own amusement ride!

    Whoa .. you sell your sense of humor for a few pint's of tranny fluid ?
     
  18. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    You don't even know half the crap he's been through with transmissions in that car. You'd probably bother him less by insulting his mother..... :eek:
     
  19. Taulbee2277

    Taulbee2277 Silver Level contributor

    Nahhh maybe a few gallons! That was my attempt of a 3 stooges "wise guy eh??"

    Should have seen my old garage, there must have been 20 empty jugs of atf that I went through. You could put up an oil rig on the concrete and drill for the stuff!
     
  20. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    Slow day at work today, might as well carry on.

    So with the quarters welded up, underside square away, and firewall looking good, it seemed like a logical time to combine the body and chassis and create some more room to work in the barn.

    Being that moving this thing last time was responsible for no less than 3 sore backs, needed to work smarter, not harder.

    So first we rolled the chassis outside and slid the body over. Taulb and I had made the dolly about an inch too short for the chassis to roll under, so a little air outta tires was an easy answer.
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    And we tucked it under the body, positioning it as close to correct as possible.
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    Then, to avoid any additional trips to the chiropractor, we used straps and an engine hoist on each end to do the heavy lifting
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    Taulb drew short straw (not really. We just said "hey taulb, bet you cant crawl under there and take that dolly apart with the body hanging from these straps" to which he replied "BS, watch me!!" :p ) and got the enviable task of pulling the dolly apart.
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    And luckily, he did in fact survive
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    With new body mounts in place we lowered it down slowly, and it worked beautifully. I love it when a plan comes together!
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    Now, for the first time in about 4 years, the body and frame were bolted together

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    It was a huge milestone and a real shot in the arm to my motivation!
     
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