In order for Howard of Rusty Bits to get on with the blasting and painting, there were a few bits of preliminary work to do.
I got on with sanding down the side and tail boards. This was mind-numbing but essential. They're heavy old things and fiddly, too, but with an orbital sander good progress was made. Until I broke the sander head on day three by pressing too hard. Oh well. Almost a job done and most of the panels are ready to paint!
There's a little bit of rot in places but not too much. The tail gate is the worst and we've decided to replace three of the boards as the rot had gone too far.
Since I last came down and after Tony's heroic work with an angle grinder in the cold, the rear body has been removed as has the fire wall. The body is now sat inside and with these removed, it gives good access to the chassis and back of the cab.
The chassis rails have a light coating of surface rust:
The back of the cab is covered in overspray as there is no room to get to it with the body and fire wall in the way!
Tony also removed the cleaned up the brake master cylinder:
The body is inside awaiting attention. It's solid with little rot:
Tony also made good progress with filling the many holes in the cab with chemical metal to enable the cab to be blasted and repainted:
The old indicators have also been removed - the petrol carriers were very unusual in that they had (when built) indicators mounted on the cheek panels rather than the wings, even though the wings had the holes with a grommet in. At some stage this has been converted back to the more usual RL configuation:
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