MT Scout

One bumper from the vehicle needs some welds cut off and one from the salvage yard needs some straightening from a local machine shop. Both will be powder coated a light grey. 

At a salvage yard in Livingston MT, there are 8 scouts there, even one early with slider windows. I picked up the following: Glass Scout emblem Front Grill and clips Rear Bumper, needs some straightening Pedal springs Pedal pads Blinker end

Wheels It came with 1 16x4.5 wheel and 2 15x4.5 green wheels, maybe original?  It also had 2 studded snow tires on the back on 15x6 rims, maybe winter tires. I decided to powdercoat the 16x4.5 rims. I found 1 on ebay and the guy that sold me the truck had 2 more on an 65 scout. So that's a matched set.  Color will be a match for whitecap white 902. I switched to matte black, and they look great, thanks to Powdercoat of Montana in Belgrade. Tires A local tire shop helped source Cooper Discovery AT3 215/70R15, which look original and are all season radial and not super expensive. With the smaller 15" rims, the Cooper trendsetter tire, with a white sidewall fit and a white rim made sense. 

I scraped the carpet and cleaned up and inspected the floorboards, there are pin holes on half of the drivers side and all of the passengers side so looks like I'll need full patch panel replacements, IH parts america. Patch Panels I got some help with welding, and the floor pans are going in! Welds grinded and primed. I'll put down Raptor bed liner to cover the floor and any extra welding. 

Dropped the saddle fuel tanks, taking them to a radiator shop for boiling, $50 per tank about. Very hard to find a shop that still does that. There was about and inch of sludge in the bottom. Plenty of dirt between the tank and body, I guess 60 years on Montana back roads would do that to anyone. The tray and filler necks are shot so I'll order new ones. Also new sending units. MJ at ihpartsamerica.com said this about testing the sending unit. I'll check them for damage and if they are working To see if they work, take them out, do an Ohms test on them.  Move the float up and down and check Ohms.  Ohms for testing: 70-80 Empty, 7-10 full.  The new support pieces from ihpartsamerica.com are welded in place, those will get primed and I'll spray the rust spots with rust converter.  Painted tanks. And gasket paper to replace the 2 on the tank pickup tube.

Struggled with rusty bolts but managed to get all 5 front and 7 rear bolts off. Brought the top to a local paint shop who declined to take a full restoration but would take parts, with an 8 week wait I'll have time to get it running... maybe. Color: Whitecap White 902. Got it back from the local shop, only the metal work done and almost full price charged. Disappointed but at least the metal work is "mostly" done. Stripped it down with rust and paint remover discs, the ones from harbor freight worked as well as those from eastwood, half the price. This was really messy, not sure I'll do much more like this.  Coated it in eastwood rust converter and will spray it with epoxy primer (2x from eastwood) after 2 days. Five layers of paint. 

Seat I know an upholster who did work in our kitchen but is 4 months out on work, so I pull the seat and brought it to him. Started!