Frame rust

[Willie B]

Your truck needs a good pressure washing, a cut off disc on a hand held grinder, then oil bath of something penetrating. I'd choose New Hampshire brand. It'll be ten years before the frame starts to fold.

 

[materthegreater]

Your truck needs a good pressure washing, a cut off disc on a hand held grinder, then oil bath of something penetrating. I'd choose New Hampshire brand. It'll be ten years before the frame starts to fold.

NH oil creeps like crazy and doesn't drip.

 

[Truck Shop]

Fastest I've changed a single rail by myself was 16 hours, which included drilling
oem blank rail. That was in 2003 on a 2001 379 I bought with a bad right rail,
involved in accident where one of the steel coils it was hauling broke loose and
crushed back of sleeper. OEM rail from Pete was $3,400 at that time from Pete
for a single rail 28' long not tapered at after frame and not trimmed/cutout on
top lip for engine bay. Just doing a stretch job is intensive, like below.
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[Truck Shop]

From 230 WB to 300.
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[Acoals]

Speaking of rust, same truck, different place; the floor pan in the cab is soft around the throttle pedal and doghouse area. I have everything torn out of the interior, and one way or another it is going to get rebuilt. I can't find any source for pre made sheet metal parts for Ford L series trucks. Before we start fabricating does anybody know if any sort of weld in panels are available? You can get sheet metal for pickups all day long, but I don't think anything is going to cross from the F series cab to the L series.

 

[crane operator]

Self tapping screws and old license plates has always been the farmers choice for floor pan repair.

 

[Acoals]

Self tapping screws and old license plates has always been the farmers choice for floor pan repair.

Sigh. Farmers . . .

 

[crane operator]

Sigh. Farmers . . .

Well okay-

If you want to get fancy, you can smear caulking all over under the plate before you screw them down. Because duct tape won't usually stick to the rust

 

[Acoals]

If we are rolling like that I might as well just go full Mexico, skip the license plates and just get new floormats and a chrome skull shift knob.
And long pointy lug nut covers . . .

 

[crane operator]

I saw a Pete a while back with a laminate wood floor.

But seriously, aside from finding a 30 year old rust free cab to steal floor repair pieces from, your going to be stuck fabbing your own. Cut squares and rectangles and weld the seams, or a good man with a pan or finger brake.

 

[Acoals]

I saw a Pete a while back with a laminate wood floor.

But seriously, aside from finding a 30 year old rust free cab to steal floor repair pieces from, your going to be stuck fabbing your own. Cut squares and rectangles and weld the seams, or a good man with a pan or finger brake.

That's pretty much what I am expecting, just thought maybe somebody knows about something out there . . .

 

[smifwal]

This is the signs that they used for flashing on my roofbut if you don't have enough licenses plates handy you could use sheet metal like you have one the plenum of your furnace, find a wholesale
place rather than home Depot way cheaper.

I have carpet in my cat and my mini, the stuff in my mini is $50/yard It was the cut off of the roll installed on a set of steps. It gets nasty I pull it out and use it as a template for the new piece. Felt back vinyl would be a good choice for the contours, LVP for your flat cab floors, laminate wouldn't be my first choice when water could be a factor, it will warp and delaminate

 

[HarleyHappy]

Trust me on this.
If you have a hole in your floor, it can really come in handy.
Drainage for ice and snow.
If you drop something, you won’t even have to open the door to pick it up.
If you get pulled over for open container, you can just pour it on the ground.
You can see the ground, to know when you drive off pavement.
If you have an exhaust leak, you can really hear it.
When your needing to take a leak, just hold it down.
The best, if you run out of gas, you can Fred Flinstone it back home.
I grew up plowing with a 62 +or- Scout. Dad had rigged up a keg for a gas tank. You could get stupid drunk and plow and if you needed to puke, from seeing the ground rushing by, back and forth, you just leaned over and heaved.
That thing was a piece of crap but it plowed better than the 9n, out in the cold and snow, had to replace the bungee cord holding the door closed once in a while and the manual wipers sucked.

 

[Truck Shop]

This was for sale Zero Rust, set of sticks, 8V-71 with heavy front axle on walking beam.
IIRC $2,000 no title. IIRC it only had 50,000 miles on it.
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[Acoals]

This was for sale Zero Rust, set of sticks, 8V-71 with heavy front axle on walking beam.
IIRC $2,000 no title. IIRC it only had 50,000 miles on it.
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My son would get so excited about all the lights and that big horn on the hood I wouldn't be able to part it . . .

 

[JaredV]

Self tapping screws and old license plates has always been the farmers choice for floor pan repair.

I hear road signs work pretty good, too.

 

[Coaldust]

I hear road signs work pretty good, too.

Guilty

 

[bccat]

My Dad also used road signs for trailer floors, skidding big rocks, well casing’s, they were really tough material,lol

 

[HarleyHappy]

Still might have a stop sign around or 2.
ooops!

 

[Willie B]

Trust me on this.
If you have a hole in your floor, it can really come in handy.
Drainage for ice and snow.
If you drop something, you won’t even have to open the door to pick it up.
If you get pulled over for open container, you can just pour it on the ground.
You can see the ground, to know when you drive off pavement.
If you have an exhaust leak, you can really hear it.
When your needing to take a leak, just hold it down.
The best, if you run out of gas, you can Fred Flinstone it back home.
I grew up plowing with a 62 +or- Scout. Dad had rigged up a keg for a gas tank. You could get stupid drunk and plow and if you needed to puke, from seeing the ground rushing by, back and forth, you just leaned over and heaved.
That thing was a piece of crap but it plowed better than the 9n, out in the cold and snow, had to replace the bungee cord holding the door closed once in a while and the manual wipers sucked.

Yes, I went from a 3 HP cheap snow blower at age 9, I cleared the neighborhood.
Built a wooden plow for a IH Farmall Cub at 12, thought I was in heaven!
Age 16, I put a plow on a 1965 Jeep CJ5.
Must have been about 27 when I put a Fisher plow on a 1976 Jeep Cherokee full sized. Used it until the frame was too rusty.
I've had numerous tractors with rudimentary snow plows.
Backhoe loader last 24 years.