The REO Gold Comet Truck. I got her some shiny new Diamond Jewelry
She may be old, but she deserves some new diamonds. So in this video I finish cleaning up and repairing the old steps and install some fresh diamond plate on the gold comet. I try out nickel plating a few parts, and make a bracket for the new brake booster and master cylinder. I got some of the wheels taken off and dismounted. I'm repainting the wheels a nice silver color. The split lock rings aren't too bad to work with. It did take me a while to get the ring off that goes between the duals on the rear it was rusted on pretty good. The new tires have already arrived, but I still have 4 more wheels to dismount clean and repaint before I start remounting them. I am going to have to pull the axles to get the brakes fix as none of the bleeder screws will come out. With any luck I may still get her driving before Christmas. If I can get her off the may pops pretty soon I'll get the stake bed taken off so I can at least get the back of the truck partly into the garage to get the frame cleaned up and get everything replumbed and rewired. I really don't want to have to mess with the axles outside in the cold and rain during the winter. So I'm going to focus on just getting the new tires mounted so I can get the stake bed off then I'll come back to working on the brakes. I may have to live with just having front brakes for a little while since I can get to them without too much difficulty. I did take some measurements of the old stake bed. It's all rough cut lumber. Other than the length of each board I don't think the rest of it was really measured out when it was originally constructed. I shouldn't have any trouble rebuilding it after I mill out some fresh lumber this winter for it. The size boards average about 1-1/4" thick with the actual decking boards being about 1-3/4" thick. all the beams vary in size between 3 and 3-1/2" squarish. I may use thinner boards to run along the frame and cross beams in order to lower the overall height of the bed a little.