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Friday we got the front and back pushed back together. It looks very short in the picture but the door will get extended by 16" soon. We also got the shop cleaned up a little bit |
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interesting so far... visually after you chop and section it ,it will appear a lot longer and lower.....
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btw... I was playing with your photo in "photochop"..... as the roof comes down, the upper section of the rear window, and the door frame get longer, so don't throw any of your scrap pieces away yet!**** some of that length could be remedied by leaning the rear post a little bit
when you do the doors if you have an extra set you could cut them both long , and then longer on the top to cut down on the welding and body work.. |
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INSANE!!! add another awesome unique build to the list that folks will be talking about for a very very long time. oh you converted a long bed into a shortbox, thats nice. bet you never converted a suburban into a coupe'!!! will that side window be a slider? i may have an extra lock...
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Funny how things move on at different pace for everyone.
Yours is suddenly a light year ahead. |
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Damn that's cool. Can't wait to see more of it like as in a roller.
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Today I tried to buy some "Easy Grind" mig wire so we can start welding the body back together but I can't find any locally. I ordered some but it's a week until it arrives. So we decided to continue cutting. We put the rear inner wheel well up on the table. We laid out some cut lines to raise the wheel well 5 5/8" The fender lip has to be raised 2" so we made this cut too. The last pictures are all that is left of the original inner panel.
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We spent some time welding the inner panel back together and patching rust spots.
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Part of the drivers side rear quarter panel that will be staying on the truck was badly dented. So I spent some time with the hammer and dolly trying to reshape it. Here's two photos at the start and two of the dent at the end of the day. More hammering tomorrow.
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Quarter panel looks much better, nice work on the H&D
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Just some patching on the wheel wells today. |
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We finished patching the rust holes along the seam in the wheel well. Then we added a 2" strip to lower the wheel opening. The wheel opening actually ends up raised 1 5/8" on the quarter panel.
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Some rust to repair on the wheel opening edge of the inner wheel well. We started replacing the edge on the wheel opening of the quarter panel.
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Wow you are getting after it! Great project. How do you like that Eastwood Versa Cut 60? Do you feel like it was a good investment?
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We finished the lip of the wheel opening yesterday. Today we started the same lip on the inner panel |
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Cool Build, Sub'd :metal:
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We finished the wheel opening lip on the inner panel |
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Now we have to do the same thing to the drivers side wheel well. We have about the same rust on this side. Got started on wheel opening lip.
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Nice repairs!
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Looking really good, love the Salt Flat wheels!!
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Boy you sure get allot done. Looks great! The salt flats will look killer.
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Finished the wheel opening lip. Then we decided to replace the inside panel on the wheel well. |
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Rust repair sure takes time. We finished the side panel. Then we patched a couple of spots along the center seam. With all the rust fixed we started welding the top part of the inside wall on to the wheel well.
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Yeah, rust repair is a real time eater. You are making fast progress...lotta hours and effort. Looks good.
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We finished welding the top of the inner panel today. |
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Looking better and better every time..
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We got the two inch strip tacked in place to lower the wheel opening. We finally got the Easy Grind mig wire today so we can start welding the body panels back together later this week. |
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We finished the welding on the two inch strip yesterday. Today we got started on the body panels. We started on the passenger side. The seam took some massaging to get it to line up. i guess the factory allowed some variation from front to back.
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Lookin good!
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Nice alignment on that panel. Will come out nice!
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We had to make a horizontal relief cut in both drivers and passenger sides |
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Here's the passenger side welded and cleaned up.
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Your work continues to just have me grin and shake my head.
You guys really are so far up that curve. Amazing progress, and love the infills etc. |
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WOW! I wanna skip ahead and see this thing finished so bad but I also like seeing the progress on builds like this.
Amazing work! |
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Today we got the drivers side partly welded. Then we decided to fit the wheel well so we extended the wheel center line. Then test fit the wheel well and found it had to be trimmed to fit between the front and rear braces |
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