Starting to piece the frame back together with some new parts and some parts that we could salvage and clean up before reinstalling. Still waiting on parts to come back from powder coating to be able to add the front suspension components. Ordered entirely new brake system from the brake booster, master cylinder, brake hoses, emergency brake cables, front disks and calipers, rear drums and shoes, as well as the rear drum rebuild kit with new brake cylinders. Getting excited to teach my little bro how to assemble a brake system so that he can service it himself in the future. Taking in the rear axle this week for new shafts, bearings, seals, and fresh fluids. Then will clean up and paint the rear axle. So many new parts are on the way or have arrived and are sitting in boxes awaiting install. Starting to love the progress shots. Little by little.... it’s coming along. Ready to get it back to a rolling chassis ASAP.

Once we finally had the frame completely stripped we sent it off to our powder coater to be sand blasted down to the bare metal and sent in a ton of individual parts for powder coating. They finished the frame within 3 hours of dropping it off. Big shoutout to Safeway Sandblasting and Powder Coating in Culver City, CA. They have always done a great job with all of my various projects. http://www.safewaysandblaster.com/ Some solid work between the before and after shots of the frame.

Over the course of the next few weeks and a bit of brotherly bickering we had the truck stripped down to a rolling chassis with an engine and transmission. Stripping her down had to have been one of the most disgusting processes I have ever been part of. I've worked on a ton of cars but I have never seen one as dirty and grimy as this truck was. It was almost as if the previous owners never took the time to hose down anything other than the exterior of the vehicle.