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Still haven't gotten the new tyres yet. Every time I think I'm close to having enough saved up to get 'em, something else goes wrong. Nevermind, I'll not be needin' 'em any time soon.

Anyway, more hole-deletes.

Back of the bedford's cab, with a wide strip cut out at the edge where the roof panel meets the rear wall of the cab Which, naturally, requires cutting more holes.

Holding a pice of metal into the cut-out And fettling bits of metal until they fit.

The strip of metal from previously, now welded into the hole in the cab and painted with a silver primer paint Then glueing them in before they could escape.

Roof of the Bedford, with two holes drilled in it; the holes have been circled in chalk and marked as 'Reinforce'

The rearmost of the holes from above, now with a heavy reinforcing washer welded over the top of it

Both drilled holes now reinforced, and spraypainted with the silver primer Decided to reinforce around the mounting bolts for the air-horn while I was up there. Yes, I did weld the reinforcing patches on the outside; really didn't feel up to welding upside-down.

The back of the roof again, working a little further along with a new patch

Working my way along!

Back of the truck cab now all repaired and primer painted, with tools stacked on top of the roof Next portion was then to move on up to the swiss-cheese around the blanked off cupola.

Today's mission (Well, yesterday's, strictly speaking. Since it's now the wee hours of the morning, but that's neither here nor there.) was to tackle the last section of the exhaust. I thought I'd got dimensions somewhere of the somewhat exploded silencer before I tossed it in the scrap-bin, but I couldn't find 'em.For some reason, though, I had "14 inches" in my head, so I marked out a sheet of stainless for a 14" square... a sheet of stainless steel with a square marked out, along with the centre-point of that square

Then decided that was too big and ridiculous. So instead I scaled it back to a mere 12" diameter, marked it out, drew my centre...

Centre-punch standing up after being smacked into the centre-mark of the square whomp!

Then with a little grind-y action, followed by some shiny tig-weldering, and we have a cake tin a 12 inch diameter circle, now with a strip tig-welded around the edge

Then weld the tailpipe into the cake-tin, rendering it utterly useless for making cakes in A piece of pipe welded into the centre of the big circle, with shiny but slightly lumpy welds

Which leaves us with this! a large-radius 90 degree bend attached to some perforated tube, and stuck through the centre of the metal disk from previously; all of which is sitting on top of the vice

Now, that's lovely, but it's missing a bit; so as the instructions so often go, simply repeat for the other side. It's almost looking like an exhaust silencer now, except without any padding or the outer skin. I also trimmed the tailpipe, so it looks a little more appropriate. Admittedly, the size of that silencer is wholly inappropriate; in fact, it's downright obscene!

Trying to hold the skeleton of the silencer up in place under the truck. It's ridiculous and hits just about everything.

The tailpipe of the silencer looks to be extremely close to the brake band on the winch

The silencer hanging in place on wire underneath the truck. It's way too big. It looks so ridiculous.

Some modification of the exhaust mounting brackets will be required! Or, alternatively, I could shorten the whole thing up a little bit. The inlet of the silencer is lightly welded to the perf tube, but the tailpipe section (with the end-cap of the silencer) is still a slip-fit; the intention is to have the whole thing held together by the skin, and then I can pull it apart if I decide to change the internals.

Considering the size of this silencer, nobody can claim I wasn't trying to quiet the truck down! (I may try it without the wadding, at first; but the intention is to wrap the perf tube with fibreglass.)

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