How To: 1944 Chev HUW restoration

[Jordan Baker]

Looks great Bruce. I can’t wait to see your truck setup beside my truck one day.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Looks great Bruce. I can’t wait to see your truck setup beside my truck one day.

Thanks Jordan, you've been a big help and inspiration on this project for me.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Rear fenders are on and running boards repaired, straightened and patched (there was a torched 'bite' out of one and several bangs and broken welds; the old girl led a battered life). I had sandblasted these decades ago and they required cleaning up with a cupped wire wheel on my 9" grinder (the one tool that still scares me).

The rear fenders are ambidextrous which allowed me to choose the best ends where they would be the most showy, and so hiding any flaws in my replacement patch.

Oh, and dem baby bins are well and truly welded in!!!!

[David Dunlop]

Nice bit of progress, Bruce!

David

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Test fitting the 'charging set' on its quick release rails in the generator cabinet, upper rear left corner.

[David Dunlop]

Evening, Bruce.

Is there any hard pipe and muffler set up in this vehicle for the Chore-horse, or does it just free breath in its Compartment with its mushroom muffler fitted?

David

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Evening, Bruce.

Is there any hard pipe and muffler set up in this vehicle for the Chore-horse, or does it just free breath in its Compartment with its mushroom muffler fitted?

David

The chorehorse exhaust elbows to a pipe fitted through the cabinet floor, which pipe then runs inside the vehicle (acting as a heater perhaps?) exiting through the vehicle floor so venting under the vehicle. Photos show no mushroom muffler so perhaps there was sufficient noise deadening with the 4 feet or so of steel piping. When I fire it up I'll let you know!!