{"id":27,"date":"2008-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-14T14:55:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:55:15","slug":"f100bodytruck-gets-better-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Truck Gets a Better Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve still been working on the truck, just haven’t updated the site in a long time. I finally got the drivers side rear cab corner in decent enough shape to skim with filler. I also made a start on trying to sort the door out. It was a completely different shape to the frame at the back, and I decided to hacksaw through in a few places and bend it back. With a few tack welds in place it looked a lot better than before. The front edge of the door frame was also a different shape to the screen frame. After a lot of thinking, I decided to slice it off and make a new one from sheet metal.<\/p>\n

\"As<\/p>\n

It took a lot of measuring and messing about to get it close but it should be a lot better once the door is re-hung. While I was at it I filled the mirror slot in the door. I’m getting a lot happier about the way it looks now, but I’ve got an awful lot of work still to do. I found a hood in the UK that had been replaced for a better one. I emailed the owner, and sent him a pic of mine and asked if it was in better shape than mine, which he reckoned it was!. I got it collected, and with a bit of help from Tommy got it balanced on the body for a pic. It’s a million times better than what I had, so that’s made a major amount of work into a much smaller job.<\/p>\n

\"Tommo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve still been working on the truck, just haven’t updated the site in a long time. I finally got the drivers side rear cab corner in decent enough shape to skim with filler. I also made a start on trying to sort the door out. It was a completely different shape to the frame at the back, and I decided to hacksaw through in a few places and bend it back. With a few tack welds in place it looked a lot better than before. The front edge of the door frame was also a different shape to the screen frame. After a lot of thinking, I decided to slice it off and make a new one from sheet metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-f-100","category-f-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}