I've still been chipping away at the truck, theres been a few modifications done to the o/s engine mount as an error of judgement on my part made it virtually impossible to fit the master cylender
however that is now solved and i'm glad i checked before painting it!! i decided that the front inner wings looked to scruffy to be painted body colour so they have now been filled up and straightened out more, the engine bay was the next target and that is underway making it look tidy before paint, unsure of colour for under the bonnet, origionally it should be satin black but i prefere body colour, to me the satin black (even though origional) looks as if its hiding something or as if its not been painted propperly, my dad and owen are both saying stick with the black , i'm 50/50 not really sure yet
, whilst all this was going on i've finished the gear box tunnel cover that hides the floor change linkage off, its taken me months to decide how to do it so that it will look factory when covered with carpet, fairly happy with the end result, my dad came down today to help asses the tailgait hinges, we know where were going with that now however i think i'm going to be modifying the lower hatch by making it smaller (side to side) to clear the hinges, the hinges have to drop down nearly 5 inches from the floor height to make the tail gate level with the deck floor when its down, this would make it impossible to remove the lower spare wheel cover when the hinges are in situe, we have a plan that we shall try to execute this week and hopefully next weekend i will have a hinged frame on the back
