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thanks cursed gears, don't believe you've posted bf on mine. I appreciate the words and anyone that feels the same way I do about vintage cars and trucks. I got alot of hours in this one can't wait to be done and start on some others.

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Hey 99 the floor is looking real good all seam sealed and painted.
Really appreciate your enthusiasm and progress!

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AD, same to you man, your floor is looking top notch. I'v got over 100 hours in the whole cab already, not counting the 60+ in dash work. No matter how workable some of these may be, the more you dig in, the more you find and the more you got to make right. I got a better plan for the next rusty beat to high heavens cab, should shave down alot of time next time. Live and learn.

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Looking good '99. I have one of those AC line crimping tools, and you're right. The cheap ones start at about $300. I think it would work for your application though. Try Oreilly's, Our local one has an AC crimper.

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8-22 Friday thanks sarge. Today was about 4.5 hours of stripping and filling all the holes in the firewall and the dimmer switch in the floor. I'll reroute my dimmer switch in the cab. Lots more holes than the picture shows, you gotta look close to see them all.
On driverside inside I welded in some reinforcement plates for when I hook up clutch and brake pedals. I have a few more holes to fill and then a skim coat of filler on some areas and its ready for epoxy. Pass side I'm going to install a heater/ac bulkhead. I'll have heat but no AC as of now. Figured I leave that options open for the future.

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99, filling in holes is a pain, but firewall looks great...Jim

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I agree...looking good. Did you make patches for the small holes 99?

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a couple of bigger ones I made patches for, ones that were where I was putting reinforcement plating I plug welded to the plate. Some tiny holes I put a screw threw it, welded it up and then cut the remaining screw off.

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8-24 Sunday. Got four hours in today. Sanded down some duraglass on the firewall. Stripped roof and the whole back of cab. Coated roof and back bottom of cab. Put some Rage on a portion of the back wall to smooth is out a little more. Should be spraying epoxy on the back wall, its getting white paint. Doesn't look like much, but it was a lot of stripping today.

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99, that a lot of work, nice job...Jim

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What did you use to strip the inside?

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thanks, all I used was a 4.5" grinder with flap discs (which were beat) and then switched over to a cut off disc.

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Really nice results! Lotta work done in a short time frame.

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It always amazes me how old metal shines right up. Looks good.

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Great work. All the hours add up. Your cab color does look a lot like mine! What will you use as a sound deadener for the cab?

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thanks fellas. 49' indeed very similar patinas. As for sound deadner. I'v used double sided heat shield in my 51', used two rolls of 4x6'. I also bought a little bit of hush mat for it. So on this truck I kinda wanted to try all the sticky type hushmat, dyno mat etc style deadner. I honestly don't know what works better, but I think the sticky type would make laying carpet easier, everything will be nice and tight. Only thing I don't like about the double sided heat shield is you can't really work on that stuff as starts kinda flaking off. I put mine in on my 51' then wired it and it just started letting off fine granulations you'd have to sweep off. I think I will get some of that for behind the seat on the back wall though and do the sticky stuff on rest of truck.

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8-31 Sunday, fastest and rainiest summer ever. Anyway, more boring cab work. Did up the other side cab corner, live and learn. Just buy the dang corners. Don't have and english wheel yet so I had to make this one in pieces.

Finally got the Herculiner on. I just brushed it.

Next on my list is the clutch, then I can get trans in. Also priming and painting the firewall so I can get cab on frame. Then I'm going full on with the brakes. Still need money for that stuff. But I did get Stainless Russel brake hoses and some copper nickel line. Just need the calipers, rotors, MC and prop valve, some fittings and pads. I'll also be doing all the pedals and steering column.

Once all that is done, all I'll need is a driveshaft and I should be able to move it. Shooting for October.

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Hey 99 nice job on making the corner. Good progress with driving goal in sight. Thanks for the update since it gives me a booster shot to hit it hard on mine tomorrow.

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AD thanks man, always like your uplifting posts. Yeah I really wanna get this thing on the road by late fall. Work on small details over the winter. I just tallied up my hrs in the cab, for everything so far, all the patches I made and put in, the whole floor, all the stripping of everything, coating you name it...120.5 hrs.

I literally replaced every single part on the cab, minus the rockers, firewall and some of the toe boards. Next one I'll be able to cut that time down alot.

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99 Looking good bud, the way your going, October should be no problem...Jim

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That's one solid floor!! I will have to totally replace mine as well, so I'll def look back at this when the time comes.

All that elbow grease is a pain but look how far you've come (and how much $$ you've saved by using what you have.) Great inspiration for anyone on a limited budget!

You should do a comparison with materials of what you have used vs patch panels/parts, etc. Be really cool to see how much you've saved.

Can't wait to see and hear this thing roll!! :metal::metal::metal:

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49' its a catch 22, I'v said before that the idea of bringing a basket case cab back to life is to do it with a reasonable budget. OR why not just find a good cab and pay up. So it all probably evens out somehow. My take on alot of things while building these are spreading your time and money evenly. For the cost of all the patch panels I would have needed, I literally could have bought a whole truck (no matter condition, having something to work with is what matters). So in a rough nutshell here are some costs if you were to buy the patches. Prices are from classicparts
Outer cowls $40x2=80(this is for the lower portion, the full portion are 60 per)
Inner cowl $45x2=90
Inner kick panels $28x2 is 56
Floor (say the "streetrod" one has tunnel, toe board and floor) $325 Full stock floor is 5-600)
Door pillars (two front hinges, two back pillars) 4 x $28 =112
inner cab corners $27 x 2 =54
outter corners 2x$30 = 60
So this sums up to $777 without shipping. That could easily go up if you need more than just those common patches. I salvaged the front of my rockers.

My costs I don't know for sure, but I used close to a 10x4' sheet of 18g which cost $60. I used alot of tubing, well over 100ft, so lets just say atleast $100
Say atleast a full tank plus on shielding gas (just for cab) $60 and about 10lbs of wire so thats about $30, roughly about $250 worth of material but alot of time. Not to mention my floor is tunneled differently than any aftermarket floor, so I couldn't just buy that. These are rough figures, always have misc expenses like cutoff disc, electricity etc.

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9-5, Closed up a couple more big holes in the firewall. Shot some SPI epoxy on the wall, inside door pillars, roof and back window area of the cab. Hoping to get the paint on the firewall this weekend so cab will be ready to put on frame. The firewall should be same color as the rims, as is the dash. The back roof area will be white.

Clutch is on its way, so I gotta finish cleaning and painting the trans, once clutch is in and I run a few lines I can put cab on. Then onto the pedals and steering and chipping away at the brakes.

Got some Herculiner on the gas tank as well. I have to put a little filler in on some of the factory ripples on the firewall, hit with some highbuild and so on.

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99 the firewall is looking really good. Holes filled and primed today is fast progress. Cruisin' in October for sure!

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Yea 99 you'll be rolling pretty soon. Gonna look good when all the body is back on.

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99 moving along and looking good...Jim

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Firewall looks really good.

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9-6 Thanks guys. today I touched up a few areas and put more epoxy on. I'll wait till next weekend to put some high build on, then sealer then paint. Monday I'm gonna work on some brake and fuel line, also get my clutch I just got put in. Dual friction rated around 500hp from phoenix friction.

Gotta clean up trans and paint it, hopefully get it in monday too. Then next weekend if I paint cab, I can most likely set it back on frame. Can't wait for that. Then I can start on pedals and steering.

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9-8 Didn't get to work as much as I like today. Spent way to long getting the grease off this trans. Frigging pressure washer bit the dust so I didn't even get to try that. Just scrapped, sprayed, scraped sprayed, used air gun alot, used degreaser and break cleaner. Took I prolly have 3-4hrs in this thing. But its coming along. I should have it in this weekend. shot some self etching primer, then some paint thats made for rims.

Got some clamps with the rubber on them to run some fuel, brake and air line before I get cab back on. Next weekend will be spraying high build and touching up some areas. Maybe the 3rd weekend of Sept I can have cab on. Start on the pedals.

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Looks brand new!

Never fails that things pop up when you're all ready to tear it up. Part of the process tho. Great work!!

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hahah yeah no kidding, to top it off there was a huge bees nest at the well pit where I had to go and turn the water on. so wind blowing while trying to spray them sucked, took forever to get down into the well. didn't get stung though. always something little like that and then another thing and boom thats how my whole day goes. whatever could always be worse. I thought I'd take the time to make this trans look good. I want everything to be done right on this truck.

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We started stripping the s10 today. First off, open the hood to take off the front right? Guess what- my dad had broken the hood release inside the cab. Finally found where he had rigged it up front to open it. That only ate up about 30 minutes!!

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greg, hahahahhhaahh I feel you man, the irony of that makes me laugh. Only cause I know exactly how you feel. The very start of your project and your running into dumb problems, been there done that and still doing that.

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I know there will be a thousand more but we got a good laugh outta that one!

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Wow, nice improvement on the trans! Is it painted or is that the aluminum? Looks good.

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its etched primed and painted with some paint that is designed for aluminum rims, so I figured it hold up.

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Trans looks great.

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9-15 Well not much to report this weekend. Only got about 8hrs in. Blocked down the epoxy, got some high build on. Blocked that down, got some white on the inside. Waiting on my paint to show up so I can mix up a darker more brownish gold for the firewall and dash. If it turns out how I'm thinking, I'll be doing inside of doors and door jam the same color. I'll be doing white vinyl roof and door covers if all goes as planned.

Got some powerstop front rotors in. Chipping away at the brake system. So sick of not having this cab done, hopefully next weekend I can have it on frame.

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White looks really good. It's gonna come together nicely!!

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99, your making progress each time, rotors look great...Jim