Our bodywork journey
started out by shaving the firewall, mirror holes on the doors,
our double fuel filler doors and installing our Sir Michaels
smooth tailgate panel. We then shipped the cab over to
Rodz Custom Motorcars in
Maple Ridge where they stripped off the old paint using Duplicolor's paint
stripper and started filling in any imperfections in the body
with metal glaze from SEM. We installed our new molded rear roll pan from Sir Michaels along with
the Sir Michaels
tailgate handle relocation kit.
Then we sprayed all of
the sheet metal with PPG epoxy primer supplied to us from
Lordco. Once this
was all block sanded down we sprayed the truck with
PPG Deltron 2000
base coat white to get our center section. We then masked off
the center and sprayed the rest of the truck with PPG Deltron 2000
base coat red all of which was supplied to us by Lordco.
With the truck painted,
it was time to turn to the inside of the bed. We wanted to use
the truck as a shop truck so we wanted something to be durable
and that could be beaten up a bit. We took our
Al's Liner spray bed liner
kit and used some of our
PPG base coat to
tint the bed liner to match the truck. Once we had sprayed the
bed we started to assemble our
wood bed kit. Because every bed is different, we had
to start by trimming the panels that went around the wheel
wheels. The wood kit is assembled by using the stainless "U"
channels that are laid on the floor. Threaded inserts are slide
down the channel to line up with the bolt hole locations in the
stainless bed strips and stainless button head fasteners are
used to hold the wood strips down to the "U" channel. This makes
the entire wood kit as one piece and could be removed as one
entire panel should you need to use the bed for work or some
other purpose.