1943 lend lease chevrolet (3ton)

[Shaun Mastin]

so after everything got sandblasted and got new bushes for the shackle pins, I got everything put back together and painted and started working on the steel work of the tray.
when most of these trucks came out here , the aussies put an 8mm strengthening plate along the side of the chassis to beef the load capacity to 3ton
mine started to delaminate so I had to take it of and make up new ones. the originals were riveted on, instead of re riveting it I brought 13mm bolts and bolted it back up , and then ran a bead of truck silicone on the joints to prevent water from getting in there again

[Euan McDonald]

Looking good Shaun, when did you want to pick up the hood bows for Phil?

[Shaun Mastin]

Thanks mate , ummmm not sure yet , I thought he was picking them up ? ,I'll proberly get it when I start the making the tray

[Shaun Mastin]

Now all that is finished I proceeded on starting with the cab and boy was there a lot of work to be done , most of these trucks theres the use all places of rust like the bottom quarters and where the two sheets of the cab meet at the rib at the back, I did most of the repairs before I sent everything of to get sandblasted

these photos I repaired the front lower quarters which where rotted out and I started to cut out all the rust of the back of the cab.

[Shaun Mastin]

I had spare doors that were to far gone to use but the rib of the door was good and the same as the rib that runs along the back of the cab, so I cut the ribs out of the doors and used them to repair the back of my cab

[Shaun Mastin]

some more repairs , this time the floor where the fuel tank sits and made up another cover plate for the front engine mount , as you can see the old one was worse for wear. and repaired the glove box

I was luckly enough to have the original battery tray but that to was rusted out so I made up a new bottom for that too