HUP OVERHAUL 2012 Page 11 March

Last Updated 5 April 2012

Well after several months of work on the HUP which never seemed to show any progress to completing the over haul Visible Progress Resumes. My real problem was I go to a point were almost everything was being held up my needing to paint major parts.

Though we still had snow left from plowing at the beginning of the week the snow is now gone and we are having high 70s low 80s F weather. First step was pulling the HUP chassis out of the other garage where it has been sitting all winter. I move it to the garage bay that normally houses my car to keep it clean as I continued to work on stuff in the shop. As you can see from the photos of the divots left in the door yard the ground is still soft. Though this was going to be a major undertaking but in the end once I go HUP turned I was able to tow it and push it in to the main shop, even got it centered in the bay on the first try.

Off with the wheels and a little cleaning and it was ready for the flat coat of OD which I sprayed on today, tomorrow I hope to put the wheels back on and get ready to lower the body back on. Then the really serious reassembly can begin again.

Off with the wheels and a little cleaning and it was ready for the flat coat of OD which I sprayed on the next day. To keep from getting over spray or paint dust all over the shop I enclosed one bay of the shop with plastic sheeting. The sheets are setup so that they can be rolled down or up. The large squirecage blower draws the shop through the booth quite nicely. What is not shown in these picture is that I have a supply air mask system which provides fresh air outside air to my face mask.

With the wheels back on and lowering the body back on was next. Then the really serious reassembly can begin again.

One tip if you are going to leave the axles out while working on any truck with a full floating axle make up some covers to keep dirt and critters from getting into the axle housing.

Layers of paint here on the hood can be seen the layers that have been on the hood in the following order starting at bare metal:

1.Gray primer, 2. OD green these first two are original the rest I have put on over the years, 3. Red primer, 4. OD green to olive, 5. OD dark green.

The underside or inside of the hood unit is shown here.

The welding on the nose in places where it would not be seen was not necessarily what you would call smooth, this is fairly common on all three of my CMPs.

HUP OVERHAUL 2012 Page 11

March

Last Updated 5 April 2012

Well after several months of work on the HUP which never seemed to show any progress to completing the over haul Visible Progress Resumes. My real problem was I go to a point were almost everything was being held up my needing to paint major parts.

Off with the wheels and a little cleaning and it was ready for the flat coat of OD which I sprayed on today, tomorrow I hope to put the wheels back on and get ready to lower the body back on. Then the really serious reassembly can begin again.

With the wheels back on and lowering the body back on was next. Then the really serious reassembly can begin again.

One tip if you are going to leave the axles out while working on any truck with a full floating axle make up some covers to keep dirt and critters from getting into the axle housing.

Layers of paint here on the hood can be seen the layers that have been on the hood in the following order starting at bare metal:

1.Gray primer, 2. OD green these first two are original the rest I have put on over the years, 3. Red primer, 4. OD green to olive, 5. OD dark green.

The underside or inside of the hood unit is shown here.

The welding on the nose in places where it would not be seen was not necessarily what you would call smooth, this is fairly common on all three of my CMPs.