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I'm going throught the same thing right now with aligning my doors. I thought my situation was unique. I had considered cutting my cage nuts loose on my upperhinges and relocating them more outboard so the top of the door could move outward and get the door's front edge and cowl more aligned. But, that would cause issues on everything forward of that gap. The fenders and the hood wouldn't line up, and you'd wind up having to add metal at all of your gaps in order to close them up. I'm an probably going to align the doors as best as possible, and then do bodywork to make everything look right. I did a shop tour at Boyd's years ago when he was in the old shop, and they were working on Cadzilla for Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. They got the doors as best they could by aligning and then closing up the gaps with sheet metal and welding rods, then they did a 36" sweep of filler from top to bottom at all of the door gaps and blocked the area until the gaps were consistent and the panel intersections were flat and even. I'm a stickler about panel gaps, and that amount of work that they did gave me a real appreciation of what it takes to make it look right. |
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Can you show a picture of the graft of your subframe up close and the rear part of your cab. It looks like you shaved it. My rear cab is alittle beat up and I like the idea.
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I used 16 gauge on the back of the cab. Kim |
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Here is a little inspiration for your 57 Kim! Yep... I finally found a video clip of the Beast. http://image.sporttruck.com/f/109429...side+owner.jpg http://image.automotive.com/f/featur...cide_doors.jpg 1956 Chevy Truck - Double-Stacked Lightnin' http://sporttruck.automotive.com/920...uck/index.html |
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I have seen this truck at the portland roadster show and it is awesome for sure..
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That's a very cool truck.
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Made a little progress on getting the brackets for the brakes mounted.
The pics are pretty self explanatory. I cut the original mount for the pedal off. I'm using 3/4"x1/2" DOM going through the frame to mount them. I still have to weld everything in but it's raining and I don't like to weld with bad weather. Kim |
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Here are a few more pics.
Sorry the last one is a bit blurry. You can see the access hole I had to cut in the cab mount to be adle to get the bolt in. Kim |
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Good job Kim, keep us posted with your progress.
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Thank you for posting these pictures! You have convinced me to purchase 78 chevy truck with a 350 combo and hydobrake set up on it. Really nice build.
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'78???
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Nice job Kim!
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Thanks for the compliments guys.
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It has a hydroboost system on it. Kim |
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Great job Kim.
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looks great!
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great progress Kim, keep at it...
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Got a little more done on the brakes.
Welded the DOM in and mounted the power booster to see how it fit. I still have to figure out the length of the tube that will conect the pedal to the booster. Kim |
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Can I ask why you mounted your booster back so far, and is that a power brake booster or just a master cyl?
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I mounted it there for ease of maintenance. It sits just in back of where the cab ends. My bed is going to tilt so it will be easy to get to. Kim |
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Kim that'a a sweet set up your doing for your brakes, and the tilt bed; awesome!
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