Its been a while since I did anything of note on the truck. Its a good reliable runner (if a little oil thirsty) which, if I'm honest, doesn't get a huge amount of attention apart from regular servicing and cleaning.
I have started building a new engine for the truck using my spare block which will be fully overhauled and rebuilt as a 1776cc, but more on that as it happens - all I'm doing is taking things apart at the moment!
Anyway, the underside is looking decidedly shabby so today I started removing the old flaky underseal so that I can give the chassis a full repaint. I'll be working on one area at a time to make it manageable and so far I can't see any metal that needs replacing - there is plenty of surface rust, but even being the animal that I am I haven't been able to put a screwdriver through any of it. Rusty areas will all be treated with rust killer first, followed by a healthy coat of red oxide (or two) then a gloss black top coat which will repeal water.
Here are the first scraping of the old underseal...
Happily underneath on the chassis rails and floor I found original factory paint. Seems a shame to cover it, but I want the vehicle to last and I don't want to do another chassis rebuild in the near future like I'm doing (slowly) on my '72 bus.
Then this evening at sunset I had to pop down to my office (a whole 1/2 mile from home) and couldn't pass up the opportunity for a nice picture, even if it is from my phone camera...
