I also needed a way to get some fuel into the fuel tank so lets cut more holes in the bed floor.
I snagged a gas door from an explorer and worked on making the gas door from the old bed floor. Worked really well and I have plenty of clearance for everything. Little hammer and dolly work and I have a nice finger recess to open the door.
Continuing work on the bed, I needed to fill in all the holes on the bedsides from the farm hooks someone put in probably in the 70's. Trying to teach myself bodywork as I get going in life. So in order to keep the filler to a minimum or not at all, I did some lite hammer and dolly work to get the hole flat before I hit it with the welder. Very little welding on these holes but I still had to disturb the bed.
Again, just metal worked the holes with some abrasive pads to just get them flat, no filler on these holes either. Hit them with some etch and red oxide and then some 600 grit paper to flaten it all out. I ended up going with just a touch of clear over the primer spots to seal everything.
Lots more color sanding and even more buffing and finally got the bed on the frame somewhat resembling a truck for the first time in months.
With the bed on, I knew that I needed to wrap up all the wiring to try and get this thing back on the ground and in one piece.
Onto more wiring...
Extending the wire harness to the headlights and building the main power harness up under the fender well.
And with that done, I was able to finally finish bolting the passenger fender on and roll the old girl out of the garage for the first time in ages.
