Today is a big day for Pile House. It has probably been 20 years or more since this truck has had a solid floor. Since I decided to choose a less-than-common truck, there isn’t much for replacement panels, and since it is a bit of a “mutt” anyways, I opted […]
Project Pile House
Somewhere to Lay the Cab
Now that we are back from SEMA, I’ve gotten a big kick in the butt to get some real progress done on Project Pile House. I saw a ton of cool rods out in Vegas, and it helped me gather some ideas and inspiration for this project. So this week […]
More Cab Mount Fabrication
It seems like an endless cycle all I have been working on is these dang cab mounts! But it is the basis for how the rest of the body will be situated, so I guess even though it is boring, it is necessary to make sure it is all done […]
Building Cab Mounts
After getting the cab mount brackets welded to the cab on Pile-House, we next had to decide what height the cab would sit at. After raising and lowering the cab and chassis to get an idea of what the optimum ride height would be, we found we had to make […]
Pile-House- Somewhere to rest it’s cab
After another week span, I got a few minutes to work on Pile-House today. I began by measuring, aligning, and clamping the original ’50 Dodge cab mounts to the chassis. It looks pretty close to the original holes in the cab. Therefore, all I should have to do is move […]
The welding has begun
Busy with some other projects, I haven’t touched this for almost a week. We got back into it today. After cutting the firewall open even more for added space, we were able to roll the chassis back into place so the wheels are centered in the wheel wells. Our next […]
Project Pile-House is getting lower!
Today we spent a little more time on project Pile-House. We got the cab and front fenders off of the blocks and sitting down on the chassis. This gives me an idea of about where the rolling ride height will be going down the road. From here we will fab […]
Test Fitting and Aligning Body Panels Part 2
Today we got some more time to work on centering the front wheels in the fenders and also getting some more body panels test fitted. It’s nice to see it starting to “look” like a truck again. Given everything is just sitting on blocks, but it’s nice to visualize. The […]
First Cab Mock-Up
With all of my other projects I have going on at once, I haven’t had much time to make progress on Project Pile-House. But, this past weekend I got a free Saturday morning and a set of extra hands to help, so we went to town on making some big […]