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Thanks hoping to keep up the momentum and get it going.

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So a little more working getting done, The door bottoms being replaced roof is in place needs to be spot welded back in place.
Also fitting the doors after the repairs.

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Nice work, thanks for the updates.

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Roof panel is now permanently in place, spot welded in place this week.

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Good job on that roof.

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Nice work on the roof!!!

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Making more progress, getting to the fenders.

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Patch panels really suck for anything these days, they just don't have the correct feature lines had we had to cut them up pretty good to keep as much of the original feature line as possible on the fender otherwise it just would not be right and most people may not notice these little subtle things but attention to the details is what makes the difference.

Don't mind the large gap at the door, the door skin was a 1/4 inch short so we have fill that in with a small strip, as I said none of the repair panels are right these days. We couldn't use the whole door skin as door handle notch was not stamped correctly and the door handle would have been in the wrong location along with it not being stamped correctly, the handle would have had issues being installed after it was painted if we didnt catch that or we would have had to do a lot of work just to fix the door handle in the right place. So we opted to keep the top half of the original doors.

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Keeping the drip rails too, had to replace them. fortunately I was able to get a couple of good ones to weld back in place, if you do this be careful and check the length of the ones you have vs the ones you replace mine were not as long as the ones from the donor truck, so we had to make some adjustments to get them to fit.
Also got a dent in the B post knocked out a little looks better

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Wow, an eight year hiatus and you came back! How cool is that. Glad that you are getting such good progress.

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Yep it has been a while. Mainly having no real good place to work on it, moving in the last year and building a new home and shop, but I have the desire to finish her so hopefully I can keep the momentum going. I have a new shop at the house now 24x30 for working on her so when she comes back I wont have any excuse to not work on her.

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A little more progress, not much else to say at this point.

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Your patchwork skills are impressive.

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Thanks Man, but I can't take credit for the most recent work, that is being done by my best friend, I needed a place to keep it while I was building new home and shop, rather pay him to work on it than paying for storage.

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Few more pics of progress. Fitting more panels and finding out how bad these trucks fit together lots of adjustments and shims and rework to get body lines halfway decent.

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Bed is on and checking to make sure the body lines are lining up had to add some shims to the cab mounts to get things in line.

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You're making good progress, great work

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Nice work. I agree on the fact that these trucks did not fit together that great from the factory so it makes our job that much harder.

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yeah and piecing things together from many different trucks also doesn't help much either. A lot of the lines need massaging just to get lines to look decent.

I bought polyurethane cab mount bushings and I have decided that they may be part reason for the extra cab shims to get the lines straight so I ordered a set of rubber bushings also should help with the ride too, early on when I bought the poly bushings I was more concerned with longevity as now Im much older I would prefer a better ride also to ensure the bushing are the correct size as well

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I have Been gathering parts for a while now and I got my trim in this week all of it seems to be decent. I didn't want to pull all the side trim out due to it being tightly packed in a tube, it was little hard to just pull it out where I could look at some of it, also a couple of shots of something to come.

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More goodies

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Nice! Looks like you've got some quality parts going on the truck. Look forward to more updates.

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Thanks, been in the works for a long time and things are coming together, Figured since I gone this far might as well do it right for how I want to build it.

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A few pics of the work going on

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Stake pockets got filled, and filling in the tailgate chain mounts and holes, obviously still a long way to go but a good start

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Making some nice progress!

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Funny, I put everything back to the original, to mount the chains.
Good progress.

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I have decided to put in a latch into the tailgate and so no chains are going to be needed, so need to fill them in to make it look right when finished.

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Work continues

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]ust thinking, when you get roof welded on be sure and check condition of drains. Almost easy to not even notice them and with your replacement of your drip rails it easy to over look. That the cause of your rust in edges of a pillars and over windshield area. Roof water sits rust through and has access to other areas. Took pictures of mine but don’t know how to attach.

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Yeah hadnt thought about the drains and at this point Im not sure where they were, so if you do have pictures would be good to see where they were on yours, we still have yet to put sealer in the drip rail

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something else to ponder

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New fuel filler location?

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:clap: yeah wanted to keep the exterior as much stock looking as possible and settled on putting it in the stake pocket

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Making progress getting it mocked up so we know how it is going to work, so far it works as we expected.

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Even though it isn't finished yet, I like that fuel fill door idea a lot

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That looks great, very good idea.

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One of the issues we are running into is the fuel fill is going to have to be a 1.5" fill and to get the hose run we will have to have the flexible fuel hose. Also it will have to go through the rear bed cross member so we will have to cut a notch or hole to connect to the tank

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This was dropped off the other day.

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A little update making some progress, fuel door a little further along, reshaped the the wheel well lip it was pretty beat up on both sides, re-welded the inner braces, top of the driver bed side needs to pushed back flat it is some how rolled up a little didn't notice that till we started working on it. Still need a patch at the top of bed side near the fuel door, looks like some one cut it for a piece of plywood to use a tailgate best I can tell both side of the bed have the same cuts, reset the drivers side and started working on the passenger bed side.