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While awaiting electrical odds and ends, I am wrapping up several cosmetic / aesthetic items. Painted the star today.

I think you are right, there doesn't seem to be any play or wobble in the fender without hat channel.

As my old Platoon Sergeant was wont to say, "Ain't nothin' ever easy." I am replacing the front fender on my '53 M38A1. As you can see, the replacement fender's hat channel stops well short of the frame and is not located in the same position. Question: is this hat channel difference...

Awesome. A little light at the end of the tunnel!

My pleasure. Well to the forum and best wishes on your build.

What's This on the Dinner Table? No room for turkey this year. My wife is so cool.

Engine Lifting Bracket It's an odd shaped bracket which bolts to the engine block up top.

Front Seats Assembled! Both front seats assembled. Now I can sit comfortably as I try to figure out why the flux capacitor isn't fluxing.

Ta da! Bell crank to drag link to pitman arm...installed...correctly this time AND steering properly centered. The age of miracles, ladies and gentlemen, is not over yet! Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we wait on connectors and jumpers for the wiring harness completion. The task list is...

LOL, me either, didn't get a thing done. I did look out the window at the shop...

Thanks, brother. It's on the home stretch but still bumpy. Appreciate you!

HA HA on me! I am finally ready to run the wiring harness today. First thing, right out of the gate, I find that I have Packard connections on all my new stuff and Douglas on my harness. My exceedingly expensive harness. aua Fortunately the guys at Vintage Wiring of Maine...

I heard that!

Today I wasted $ 10.00 This is what wasting $ 10.00 of paint looks like. I still don't know what happened except to say that I dropped a quart sprayer container; fortunately most of it ended up on me. Now I have a huge patch of green paint on the floor of the shop and Martian tinted skin.

Well, I had some unexpected time off so I have just hammered this thing. I am going to call finished being that it will run...if I wait until everything is done, it'll never be done.

I am using GCI (Gillespie Coatings) # 24052 semi-gloss enamel. I buy it through QTM (quartertonparts.com). I did my M1009 in CARC and I really didn't like the results so I decided to do something a little different this time.

Yes. I've sprayed out a bunch of drywall and wood siding - nothing you couldn't fix with a brush or roller. Totally different ballgame.

Learning to Paint I've never sprayed anything out that didn't at least partially absorb the paint, so this was a learning experience. I have numerous runs to sand out before I put the second coat on. All in all, though, I am happy with the results.

Sanding primer and getting out the major imperfections today...sanding, sanding, sanding. Tomorrow paint, paint, paint.

o1951 "Try to get your 16 yr old to stay behind the drill. I have seen people get hurt when drill bit points to a body part. I know- you are going to say thick wall, but I have seen things happen, especially with old stuff.. Something breaks loose, or something inside there, it is going into...