AL110 restoration, the early stages

Hi Graham
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Cheers

Its been a while since some photos,
so the tub is all done now, thanks to the expert help from a friend!
Some pics of the progress,
all up the zincanneal sheets costs around 60-100 each, 4 all up with tail gate pieces, from one steel and the folding was done for about 250 all up for lots of trips and dozens of folds.


working out the support blocks on the rails, each one had a 10mm rubber mount to the chassis



The rails all in place, so fingers crossed the holes line up



The scrap bin was getting more pieces day by day
Jim

Wombat 46
Great photos great work .There is a lot of time spent planing as well keep the photos coming very enjoyable Cheers Fill

Thanks Fill
The photos help keep me encouraged to, these projects take me years, for some reason!

This one looked easy at the start, but back them i had two or three Sons helping out,

I am very happy its coming together,
Jim

We started on the body rust, not too many sections fortunately,



A section behind the rear wheel



Cut out all the thin section, not the best shape to weld back in



We suffered a bit of panel warping, shrinking which added to the task

all up the result was good,
Jim

Some more pics of the rust removal



The right hand corner was the worst



We had to curve the metal to try to match the shape, no english wheel, but a chainsaw and sanding disc got us stump shrinking!



This was more challenging than the you tube clips you see
we had to make it in three parts, only through lack of experience



The final finish, solid enough
Jim

Just after some suggestions for the timber for the ute bed?
we have done the black tar paint under now, the ute is not being painted as the original paint will do for now, lacking time and funds, so we just clear coated the tub for now.
thickness is about 1 inch and will be screwed down, and not sure whether to use T and G or bed strips??



Jim

problem when you put a floor down and jack it up nice and tight when it gets wet it swells and forces the screws and nails out some normal type boards with the cover strips help to stop this happening

Jim, Check out what graham did to his here..

www.hcvc.com.au/forum/OldTruck/12368-international-ar-110-ute

I think he used some type of recycled Timber.. I think..

True, i have been thinking of some std boards, non tongue and groove, with a strip,
Has any one seen any bed strips for a reasonable price, not from a hot rod site?
cheers
Jim