77 Ford F150 4×4, needs love

I scored this truck for next to nothing, and the motor was rebuilt not that long ago. it’s a good running truck. I had to rebuild a front hub – all the way down to the spindle – but everything else is good….

….except the body is rotting off…… that’s why I’m here. I’m going to replace the bed and 1 door, everything else is fixable. The problem I’m up against is the simple fact that I live in Alaska, and shipping a bed up here isn’t cheap. I have a line on one, but until then I ghetto patched it…. I’m expecting the heat…

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I used urethane pour foam to fill the holes with a tagboard dam, then sanded it down and glassed it. I’m sure it will fall off within the year, but I’m only hoping to have to wait until the winter before I get the new parts.

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I epoxied the hood last night, after a couple hours of grinding down the previous CRAP paint job. I see the bone heads doing the old paint job used a threaded stud puller. They should rot in hell.

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I’ll sand down those spots and weld in the holes and pull the dent out a little further before I bondo it this time.

Next up – I need to paint the wheels, and get the new windshield ready, and locate a new back window. I hope to have the whole thing at least into epoxy in the next couple weeks