Major milestone moment - The first piece to go back on!

Yes! Finally I reset the ratchet to turn the bolts the other way around from here on out

These torsion bar tunnels were a pain in the a$$ to clean out - packed with 40+ year old thick, sticky, smelly grease

That's about as clean as I'm going to be able to get them

Fresh paint

And after

Before the sandblasting begins

One of my torsion bar leaves was broke right in half!

All the little stuff is bundled and ready - Just waiting for a good sandblasting day - It won't stop raining!!

Getting the frontend assembly ready for sandblast and rust preventive paint before going back on the frame


Scraping off all the gunk

Again, hard to believe there was ever a hole there - Nice welding, dad!


Now we start putting it all back together again!


All painted and ready to go - This completes the reconditioning of our '66 pan

Can you tell there was ever a hole?


Belly of the pan is ready to go


Painted with truckbed liner

A new patch is formed to cover that gaping hole


All the nasty is cut out