Spent most of the weekend on the truck. It's amazing how much time it takes just to paint enough bolts and washers to put things together. I did mostly that on Saturday, getting ready for my buddy to come up on Sunday to put the windshield frame and hood on.
The windshield frame looked OK when I got it a few years ago, but when my friend began work on it there was quite a bit wrong; it was bent, rusted, internal brackets for anchoring the inserts was broken loose, etc. But he prevailed and got it back into shape. We put the weather stripping on the bottom. Not very exciting pictures but I don't think I've ever seen anyone post photos of it.
The long weatherstripping along the bottom was installed first, then trimmed, and the end pieces screwed in place. The notch goes toward the rear where it clears the door.
We finally got the frame bolted up. We have some daylight between the gasket and the cowl top but I'm not sure there's much I can do about it. The top surface of the cowl has some distortion where it dips down in a couple of places.
We got the hood on too, after spending over and hour getting the radiator trim piece/cover to stay out of the way and not rub on it. I'll post more pics later but work is calling me now. The one thing that worries me is that the color and sheen of the cab vs the hood and fenders does not match. The parts I recently painted are slightly glossier and the blue is a little different. The cab was painted over a year ago. Aside from masking and painting the whole thing over again, I guess maybe everyone will be cool about it and not point it out.
Yeah, right.
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