You really have to know what your doing when working with lead filler. I took a class once learning to lead fill. Make shire you have good ventilation fan's what not wear a filter mask and go through all the steps to lay your lead. Bondo cane out for a wood filler then some one tried it on metal then they came out with a bondo just for metal. Now they have all kinds of different brands for different application's of metals work. Some of those new body fillers will last longer than metal will.
Even knowing that there has been work done to the cab, it’s not easy to see exactly what that work is. It’s subtle enough that having the drip rails back on it would make it that much harder to figure out.
Brilliant. Drip rail for me. Your chop and sectioning are quite subtle so adding the drip rails would contribute to that effect. In my opinion, of course!
You're hundred times the fabricator that bad cut chad ever thought of being. Pretty impressed with your quality of work with what you have. Keep kicking ass my friend!!!
Add drip rail. Everyone else already takes them off be different. You do a great job and actually you do a lot less cobbling than a lot of the so-called professionals.
That truck looks so good with its new profile , you wonder why G.M. originally went with the 'Bowler Hat' look ?... The Past really IS a different country , and its priorities were different. ( People in HATS ? ) Looking forward to seeing some LEADING - which is the best Body Working magic to watch i.m.o.
When you think about how that cab was a rusted rotten piece of crap, And you had a vision of what you wanted it to be and with a lot of work you’ve turned it into a real jewel. I am always amazed by your quality of work and attention to the details keep up the great work and thanks for sharing it with all of us. Later
This is still my favorite channel! A man and his tools, if a drill for a grinder does the job, so be it. Your explanations are sufficient, informative, and appreciated. As far as driprail, 60/40, I like the "shaved" look.
There you go setting the world afire with your fancy, new techniques. Well, you didn't even start anything on fire this time but you are still warming things up.
I'm really enjoying seeing how you work through all the things that have to be changed as a consequence of chopping the roof so that the finished result doesn't look like a hack and everything works together. Also great is the way that you've changed it so that the cab is less sit-up-and-beg yet hasn't been cut so low that it looks cartoon-ish and will be a nightmare to drive. Looking forward to what you have planned for the fenders/sides.
FWIW I like the smooth look, so my vote would be, no drip rail. Thanks for the explanation on the sanding discs. I find myself using all you showed depending on size of job and access, and my work looks like crap, but I learn something new and keep improving every time I watch your videos. Keep up the great work.
Old school hackery is bound to ruffle a few feathers on a chicken truck build. The no driprail option will probably save time and energy. Then again, my son hauled the door handle off of one of the daily driver Buicks this week when the doors froze up. I wonder if a driprail would have offered protection from the Upper Canadian freezing rain. Looking forward to the next episode.
Being a simple tool myself, I appreciate you showing how simple tools can be used to do this work. I never realized how much assembly line slop it together there was. Many thousands of those trucks came off the line a hour drive from me. Sadly, that plant is no more. Keep on offending!
I applaud you for your attention to detail by torquing the two lug nuts that fastened each wheel. Public safety is paramount! Well done! I assume that you set the tire pressures for optimal handling. Keep up the excellent work.
That hood fits just fine. It's a cowl induction style hood, very rare for the model year, lolol. I love how the roof is turning out with no awkward bumps, divots or angles. It flows together beautifully, almost as if the factory built it that way. As for the rear window, I'd leave the factory one in place with maybe just an inch chop on it but that's just me. I can't wait to see what you come up with.
I do hate when someone chops up a classic but I'm with you on that truck. I love watching you work your magic on it. It looks like it's coming along pretty good.
We all know " you can not do a traditionel1980's repair without at least 2 gallons of plastic filler and you have to get that primer on nice and thick but don't give it proper drying time so it shrinks up after the first month in the sun to really show off them 40 grit sanding scratches.
Don't laugh Kyle. I had a customer that finished off two doors on a black Hyundai with 80 grit and ordered two qts of basecoat to bury the scratches. First sunny day it looked like an alligator wallet! Ordered two more qts to try to bury it again!😱
Good day. The rendering/drawing of the truck your building is awesome. I live in Las Vegas Nevada and there is a 56? Cadillac flower car out here. It has the 50 style pick up roof and windshield. It’s Candy red. It is absolutely gorgeous. Whether you care or not, Your ride will definitely hit magazines. Keep going! Smitty.
I LOL'd pretty hard on the lug nut torquing!!! I'm looking forward to the lead work. i like working with it and it lasts a LOT longer than 'mud'. My vote (it's not my truck so it really doesn't matter one way or the other) on the drip rail pole is 'YES' to the molded in drip rails. Just something subtle to help keep the 'sky liquid' from getting into the top edge of the door gap. I really like the progress being made on what could have very well have ended up as 'baler fodder'....
OH no the hood, good thing you got that bondo sponser. Using a torque wrench on the lugnuts, you never know when you are going to get in and go for a ride forgetting you didn't torque the nuts. You are making the truck way better than it ever was, great things take time, love the work you do.
Nicely done, as usual. I like how you peel layers back to get access, and make sounder welds possible. It's always bothered me on chops that only outside skins get welded, for instance on the A pillars. On the few I've done, I've tried to do similar things as you did, with varying degrees of success. As per leading; all vehicles up to the late 80's had leaded seams. So the practice does have a good track record. As long as no moisture gets behind it and the acid from the flux gets neutralized. But you know all that.
Amazing that some people think that all builders must have every tool known to man to be able to get the job done , Top work mate , Not long and you will catch Brent up ,🤔
Canada Welding Supply sells silicon bronze TIG rod online in smaller diameters, including 1/16” and 0.045”. I’ve bought from them and they are a good source for welding supplies in Canada.
I too recommend Canada Welding Supply. I also buy .035 and .045 ER70S-2 from them since I am easily frustrated by trying to straighten mig wire. Also C/K brand consumables at good prices, and Canada wide shipping is free when your order hits $150, which sure isn't hard to do.
Great job as always, most guys would love to be able to get as close as you do without any kind of filler! I would go with drip rails for the simple convenience of not taking a shower every time you get caught in the rain!
Lookin forward to the hood getting flattened--that will be good! Your old junk is starting to look more like art. You drug this one back from the grave! Carry on man--I was entertained!
I wish I found your site when I was working on my 1949 Chevy 3800! It sat in woods for 25 years, now my daily driver. All original patina paint, complete with original dents, dings and old welds, sealed with 2 coats penitrol. Wish I could send you a pic of it. Keep up the great work man!! Love watching your videos
Hey Kyle, all kidding aside, I think your approach was very well considered and successful. The contours flow really well, and even the door gaps look good from Vermont.
The weld must be a bit harder than the base metal. Whatever tools you use, it’s the results that matter and with your newly restored Bondo sponsorship I’m certain the results will be stellar! (I played the drinking game with every time you said “factory seams” and holy crap am I ever wasted….🥳🤪🥴)
It certainly seems like there is a lot of interesting content to come up this year, and I look forward to the ride. I'm also glad that you found something useful to do with a necktie at the end of the video. Best wishes.
Was anyone else surprised by the hood? It never even crossed my mind Kyle would have to chop the hood. Oh, you poor guy. I for one would sit through two episodes of you trying to save that rusty frame with welds and patches and stuff.
"I love doing lead, it's fun and ofends people" BEST QUOTE EVER!!!🤣😂🤣
I almosted choked on my coffee when I heard that quote !! Loved it.
You really have to know what your doing when working with lead filler.
I took a class once learning to lead fill. Make shire you have good ventilation fan's what not wear a filter mask and go through all the steps to lay your lead.
Bondo cane out for a wood filler then some one tried it on metal then they came out with a bondo just for metal. Now they have all kinds of different brands for different application's of metals work. Some of those new body fillers will last longer than metal will.
I vote, Drip rail. 👍
Drip rail on. Looking good
Even knowing that there has been work done to the cab, it’s not easy to see exactly what that work is. It’s subtle enough that having the drip rails back on it would make it that much harder to figure out.
You did not ruin that truck !!!!! You’re saving it !!!!!👍
Thats a rare cowl induction hood !
+1 on putting drip rail on.
Brilliant. Drip rail for me. Your chop and sectioning are quite subtle so adding the drip rails would contribute to that effect. In my opinion, of course!
so 2 lugs is ok as long as they are correctly torqued...I learn something every time!
You're hundred times the fabricator that bad cut chad ever thought of being. Pretty impressed with your quality of work with what you have. Keep kicking ass my friend!!!
chads daughter is learning to fabricate.
You mean Kyle is a fabricator and Chad is not.
There's absolutely no way he could have gotten that truck to the point its at. I'd bet a lot of money on that.
@@markmcintosh3255 Fitzee could
Looking forward to seeing both projects come together.
Looking Good, Drip Rails for sure, all the details matter.
Count me in for driprails! Greatly looking forward to the donor car reveal and '35 refresh.
I like the idea of putting the drip rails back on. She's looking great! Thanks for all your hard work.
I glad you torqued the lug nuts to specification. I’d hate to see a wheel come off during a high speed shop maneuver.
Great progress! Suggest to keep the drip rail, looks factory.
I don't usually forget to plug in my grinder.I mostly forget where I put it thanks 😊
Gotta have drip-rail. It’s a nice place to put your fingertips, while driving with the windows open 😊
Add drip rail. Everyone else already takes them off be different. You do a great job and actually you do a lot less cobbling than a lot of the so-called professionals.
I would put diprail , went it rain get wet inside. Keep up good work, looking good.
This project is amazing
I am really looking forward to how you will "slim" the hood. I can not picture how to do it, but I know it will look perfect.
Thanks!
Thank you Robert!
I used pickling vinegar for de-rusting most of a 1920`s car. The vinegar lasts so much longer than evaporust, at 1/20th the cost.
Thanks for sharing Kyle!!
That truck looks so good with its new profile , you wonder why G.M. originally went with the 'Bowler Hat' look ?... The Past really IS a different country , and its priorities were different. ( People in HATS ? )
Looking forward to seeing some LEADING - which is the best Body Working magic to watch i.m.o.
I was surprised when you put the hood on. I hadn't realized how much the cab has changed. I can't wait to see the hood get sectioned.
The hood cut is what i am looking forward to. I have never put lead in and im interested in watching. This will look nice soon.
When you think about how that cab was a rusted rotten piece of crap, And you had a vision of what you wanted it to be and with a lot of work you’ve turned it into a real jewel. I am always amazed by your quality of work and attention to the details keep up the great work and thanks for sharing it with all of us. Later
I agree and would add his sense of humor is great
I like driprails
This is still my favorite channel! A man and his tools, if a drill for a grinder does the job, so be it. Your explanations are sufficient, informative, and appreciated. As far as driprail, 60/40, I like the "shaved" look.
I too like that the lead offends people!
Glad Chad can help you with the coat hanger to fix that hood!
Coat hangers lol,I think Ole bad Cut Chad has moved on to re-bar and stick welding 😂
The hood is awesome…you got this!
3/4-inch conduit @@markmcintosh3255
You do amazing work I wish I had that kind of talent
It is quite impressive how much that little pieces of post change the look of the truck. Keep up the great work and quality content.
you are awesome i learn a lot from you thank you
There you go setting the world afire with your fancy, new techniques. Well, you didn't even start anything on fire this time but you are still warming things up.
Just started my jacket on fire this evening to make up for it
You have a prime opportunity to add cowl induction to the hood. That mighty six cylinder can use all the help it can get.
No drip rail. Less is more in my opinion!! Either way, amazing!!! Thanks for sharing Kyle!!!
I'm really enjoying seeing how you work through all the things that have to be changed as a consequence of chopping the roof so that the finished result doesn't look like a hack and everything works together.
Also great is the way that you've changed it so that the cab is less sit-up-and-beg yet hasn't been cut so low that it looks cartoon-ish and will be a nightmare to drive. Looking forward to what you have planned for the fenders/sides.
FWIW I like the smooth look, so my vote would be, no drip rail. Thanks for the explanation on the sanding discs. I find myself using all you showed depending on size of job and access, and my work looks like crap, but I learn something new and keep improving every time I watch your videos.
Keep up the great work.
+1 for adding a driprail 💜
Everything is looking good. Cant wait to see you section the hood. The 35 sharing airtime with the chicken truck is a bonus!
No drip rail probably meshes better with the highly customized body you are going to be doing but the old school drip rail looks nice in my opinion.
Old school hackery is bound to ruffle a few feathers on a chicken truck build. The no driprail option will probably save time and energy. Then again, my son hauled the door handle off of one of the daily driver Buicks this week when the doors froze up. I wonder if a driprail would have offered protection from the Upper Canadian freezing rain. Looking forward to the next episode.
Drip rail would look good😊😊😊
Being a simple tool myself, I appreciate you showing how simple tools can be used to do this work. I never realized how much assembly line slop it together there was. Many thousands of those trucks came off the line a hour drive from me. Sadly, that plant is no more. Keep on offending!
It's a shame how many plants have shut down. General Motors was at the top of their game in the 1950s and 60s
I applaud you for your attention to detail by torquing the two lug nuts that fastened each wheel. Public safety is paramount! Well done! I assume that you set the tire pressures for optimal handling. Keep up the excellent work.
That hood looks ginormous now. You should leave it and put an all billet, blown big block under it, chrome everything! It'd be so you!
Cowl hood. Built in fresh air. Great work
Read my mind, dude!
Anxious to see work on the ‘35. Really enjoy your show Kyle.
That hood fits just fine. It's a cowl induction style hood, very rare for the model year, lolol. I love how the roof is turning out with no awkward bumps, divots or angles. It flows together beautifully, almost as if the factory built it that way. As for the rear window, I'd leave the factory one in place with maybe just an inch chop on it but that's just me. I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Thats what I was thinking too...😁
I was thinking "Blower!"
I do hate when someone chops up a classic but I'm with you on that truck. I love watching you work your magic on it. It looks like it's coming along pretty good.
“Criss-cross apple sauce.” 😂👍
That is quite the cowl induction hood. 😊
22:24 ……and, baddabing baddaboom. 🤣
I like it no drip rails, sleeker look
same here.
Great work Kyle Coming along well and You can call the people who ride the Short Bus
We all know " you can not do a traditionel1980's repair without at least 2 gallons of plastic filler and you have to get that primer on nice and thick but don't give it proper drying time so it shrinks up after the first month in the sun to really show off them 40 grit sanding scratches.
Nahh 40 grit is way too fine! You need to finish the filler out with a cheese grader to give some tooth for the primer to stick too. Haha
Don't laugh Kyle. I had a customer that finished off two doors on a black Hyundai with 80 grit and ordered two qts of basecoat to bury the scratches. First sunny day it looked like an alligator wallet! Ordered two more qts to try to bury it again!😱
@@CarterAutoRestyling 🤣🤣🤣
Nice work
Good day. The rendering/drawing of the truck your building is awesome. I live in Las Vegas Nevada and there is a 56? Cadillac flower car out here. It has the 50 style pick up roof and windshield. It’s Candy red. It is absolutely gorgeous. Whether you care or not, Your ride will definitely hit magazines. Keep going! Smitty.
That 35 rules all sorts of ball sackage! Please continue with the hammer down on the truck. If you catch your coat on fire that is always a bonus. 😁
I can´t stop laughing to the coat hanger joke. 😂
I LOL'd pretty hard on the lug nut torquing!!!
I'm looking forward to the lead work. i like working with it and it lasts a LOT longer than 'mud'.
My vote (it's not my truck so it really doesn't matter one way or the other) on the drip rail pole is 'YES' to the molded in drip rails. Just something subtle to help keep the 'sky liquid' from getting into the top edge of the door gap.
I really like the progress being made on what could have very well have ended up as 'baler fodder'....
keep doing what you're doing, first class workman and funny too!
Take my word you are doing a beautiful job on the wonderful old pickup.
Love the work you do. Can’t wait for the leading session.
I like this project!! Keep the videos coming and more of them!
OH no the hood, good thing you got that bondo sponser.
Using a torque wrench on the lugnuts, you never know when you are going to get in and go for a ride forgetting you didn't torque the nuts.
You are making the truck way better than it ever was, great things take time, love the work you do.
neat cowl induction hood
Thanks to all the experts who keep this guy in check and make this channel what it coulda shoulda
The first of your videos I ever saw was when you fixed. And leaded the under grill panel for the 35 Chevy Master- kept me coming back
I'm really enjoying watching you work on your project.
Nicely done, as usual. I like how you peel layers back to get access, and make sounder welds possible. It's always bothered me on chops that only outside skins get welded, for instance on the A pillars. On the few I've done, I've tried to do similar things as you did, with varying degrees of success. As per leading; all vehicles up to the late 80's had leaded seams. So the practice does have a good track record. As long as no moisture gets behind it and the acid from the flux gets neutralized. But you know all that.
Amazing that some people think that all builders must have every tool known to man to be able to get the job done , Top work mate , Not long and you will catch Brent up ,🤔
Canada Welding Supply sells silicon bronze TIG rod online in smaller diameters, including 1/16” and 0.045”. I’ve bought from them and they are a good source for welding supplies in Canada.
I too recommend Canada Welding Supply. I also buy .035 and .045 ER70S-2 from them since I am easily frustrated by trying to straighten mig wire. Also C/K brand consumables at good prices, and Canada wide shipping is free when your order hits $150, which sure isn't hard to do.
Awesome thanks for the info! They came up on my searches, but I wasn't sure if they were good to deal with or not.
Daily driving it, yes to drip rail. Otherwise, be true to your vision for the truck.
No driprail if i’m honest, as an old bodyman once said to me , “remember,bondo is your friend”
Great job as always, most guys would love to be able to get as close as you do without any kind of filler! I would go with drip rails for the simple convenience of not taking a shower every time you get caught in the rain!
Great job kyle.the cab is looking good.great video and great work.i really enjoy your work.
Lookin forward to the hood getting flattened--that will be good! Your old junk is starting to look more like art. You drug this one back from the grave! Carry on man--I was entertained!
Nice cowl induction
your videos make my day! thank you 🙏
I wish I found your site when I was working on my 1949 Chevy 3800! It sat in woods for 25 years, now my daily driver. All original patina paint, complete with original dents, dings and old welds, sealed with 2 coats penitrol. Wish I could send you a pic of it. Keep up the great work man!! Love watching your videos
Looking great, Kyle. I await with interest to see the mods to the hood. Curious to see the rear bodywork donor too! All the best, Mart.
Thanks Mart! The hood is going to be the most challenging part of this project to date!
Cowl hood!!! Woohoo!!! Sweet!!!
Hey Kyle, all kidding aside, I think your approach was very well considered and successful. The contours flow really well, and even the door gaps look good from Vermont.
The weld must be a bit harder than the base metal. Whatever tools you use, it’s the results that matter and with your newly restored Bondo sponsorship I’m certain the results will be stellar! (I played the drinking game with every time you said “factory seams” and holy crap am I ever wasted….🥳🤪🥴)
archaeologist work is always the most fun when you are the first, it can be a lot of work just to clean up after previous work ; )
It looks like a toucan with the hood on :D
Best use for a tie there is.
Be an iconoclast, make the hood bigger and more bulbous.
It certainly seems like there is a lot of interesting content to come up this year, and I look forward to the ride. I'm also glad that you found something useful to do with a necktie at the end of the video. Best wishes.
Hi no drip rail looks cleaner keep up with the excellent workmanship
water runs over top of door into truck , drip rails are a must
@@fredjones1238 Hi so true drip rails will help
I like things that are shaved smooth.
you are definitely 'A' pillar of society rob NZ
Was anyone else surprised by the hood? It never even crossed my mind Kyle would have to chop the hood. Oh, you poor guy. I for one would sit through two episodes of you trying to save that rusty frame with welds and patches and stuff.
I like the big gap on the hood it will pull the heat out of the engine compartment when you drive down the road😂
Sweet, Thanks!...
That thing looks amazing with the drip rails shaved!