1952 Studebaker Pickup Build

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Today's adventure. It was pouring down rain most of the work time so just did a whole lot of pressure washing and cleanup.

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Went to town with a gas pressure washer. Did a good job of getting things down to the paint.
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To end the day gave this thing a hot bath. Then some toothbrush action with 3m anti static cleaner, some Gain soap and a whole lot of elbow grease.

Right now debating on doing some aluminum heads since the engine is blown apart. Not as much progress as I would have liked but the weather was not a friend today.

Thanks again for all those following the build and the messages.

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Missed some updates on this.

Plates came in. Correct appearing plates for the year of the truck with year tag.
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Rain and dew was rusting the new core support so time for some metal etching primer. The green sure beats the orange it was turning.

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Engine reassembly time.
Great truck to work on. Few bolts, remove a few pieces and right at the engine.
Picture #4 My custom frame horns / lower radiator mounts are painted. Helps stop rust. Engine rebuild day

Picture #2 All head bolts tapped and run clean for reassembly. All surfaced cleaned up.

Picture #1 Heads all torqued back down. Add intake / carb and close to running again.

Picture #3 Engine is back together. forgot to take a shot of it.

Drilled some holes and mounted the fuel cell. Started cleaning up the bed floor. The final mounting hardware for the cell will be stainless with washers. Sending unit will be installed on the circle on the left. Feed lines for the engine are out of the bungs coming out of the left by the sending unit area.

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Fenderwell building time. }
Picture 1 is a cardboard template
Picture 5 (for some reason) is the metal piece

After some bends cutting and blending there we have it.
It is welded to the firewall and uses tabs in the front to the core support.

Fender is repairing some fender damage from the trailer when it was dropped off.

Shame it can't be put in order and explained in a decent manner