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I got it installed yesterday along with my new tie rod arms I'm going to run

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Old pic before we put it back in the shop. Just wanted to show off my other toy

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Also picked up this apache hood. It's a little rough but it's the right color, white and rust. Haha

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It all looks really good man, that thing is going to be badass when ur done! That bike is sweet to, how many times did u think about using the truck as a hauler for the bike! I thought about it with mine but my Raodking is to big!

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Frame rails cut off under the cab.

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Swinger

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Body set back down. Now the debate is cut it off at the doors or leave it at the rockers

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bunch of cool work dude .. dig it

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Neat man.

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Well after asking for opinions I did what I usually do.. What I want. After much debate on keep rockers or go to the door and eliminate all the rust we decided to go to the doors. I am going to be putting strapping down under the actual door/part of the rocker. Thinking maybe 1/4. So while I was teaching Dave got started on the rear of the frame 4" to match how far the body will travel down total. 2" for what we took off the top of the frame under the cab and 2" more for the body drop to get down to about the doors.

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I started cramming the drivetrain in. It was the hardest part of the job so far. You wouldn't think shoving a 95 engine into an 84 K member mounted to a 63 Chevy would be so difficult. Haha

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Tomorrow includes tranny crossmember, front frame horns, and re installing the front suspension. Then I'm getting it out of his shop and get started on the body work and floors. Don't think I'll make the show next weekend. But I'm going to try. Haha

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Got it set back down. Still need to cut the floors out to get it to sit all the way down.

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Rear view. Still had air in it cause it's not all the way down

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Another shot

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Why is it posting sideways!

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It don't matter...it would still be cool if it was upside down! You've done a hell of job on that panel!

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Thanks man

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Layed out

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Rear view. Mind you that it isn't all the way layed out in this out there's still air in the bags. Enough for when I cut the rockers off

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She made it outside

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With a fender sitting next to it close to where it needs to be. Hopefully I can turn. Lol

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I'm 5'5" (midget)

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you've been really quiet lately! you must be hard at it! think you will make the show?

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Hi there, another newbie here. MAN, you got my dream panel! And your work on it is impressive, love the apache hood, that'll be like icing on the cake.
Great fabrication skillz too. You keep working, i'll keep looking...

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Freecand

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Nope. She's not going to make it this year unfortunately but I'll still be down for sure. I've been busy and wasn't able to get it moved on time so I lost a few days on it. Schools coming to an end and the stuff I have to do gets crazier before it ends. Luckily all my senior students are gone so my class sizes dropped about a 1/3. Makes life easier.

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Thanks man. Most of the fab work was done by a friend who owns a shop. I did the notches and the front end (besides the pancake). Now I'm doing the floors from scratch and finishing it up

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Picked it up Tuesday.

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Decided to put some plywood down under the main part of the body. Didn't want it in the gravel. Haha

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My buddy's daughter decided to drive. Lol

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She added a kindle flat screen to the dash. Just another distracted women driver in the making. Lol

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I have no idea why these are still loading sideways. I'm submitting them with my ipad.

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Cut the floors out. They were all rotted and not worthy of keeping. I added a brace behind the "cab" which kept everything in place.

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Hopefully I'll have enough clearance with the hood. The body is still coming down roughly 2". It's gonna be close.

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So this weekend consists of a lot of floor building.

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Not as much progress as I would like (as in it should be done by now. Lol). I was fighting myself and overthinking things and would start the floors one way and change my mind and whatnot. That happened for several days. Now the truck is outside the weather has also been fighting me. Here's a few pics anyways.

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Here's how much will be under the doors. I didn't want the weight of the vehicle to be on the doors. I want to be able to open to doors while fully laid out.

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And the start of the floors

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Well sorry for the lack of updates. Progress has been very slow with many headaches. Currently I am trying to get a brake pedal in the thing. I had to cut off the actual pedal as it was hitting the floor not allowing me to press it down.