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Honest Abe's Shop Truck build

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Sweet! :metal: Subscribed.

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You are doing a wonderful job. Its certaintly looking good. Looking at all the rust and dirt its hard to remember that mind looked that away, whoops, wait a minute, my bed still looks that away. Oh well thats a another story. Keep up the good work.

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I like the work so far but I must say I think you have the biggest sky light in the shop that I have ever seen:lol: On the rear step notches did you just but weld then together or are ther gussets any were? Looks real smooth but not that stronge from what I can see.

Kevin
LFD Inc.

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Originally Posted by Rokcrln (Post 2846786)

Haha. Yea the shop is an old green house converted over to be used as a shop. It works out pretty nice.

And the notch is all miter cut camfered and welded. It is super strong. We used the same style notch on a dually with a 5th wheel and he pulled a 44' flatbed loaded with trucks on it. So I have no doubts about the notch or the strength.

Thanks for the input guys. Its comming alot. Just waiting on more parts as usual right now.

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Nice lookin truck so far!

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Looks good.

BTW, get and/or use a welding helmet. Your eyes will thank you many years from now. :D

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Originally Posted by chevy_mike (Post 2847171)

Looks good.

BTW, get and/or use a welding helmet. Your eyes will thank you many years from now. :D

Haha yea. Ryan is the one in the pics. (He is my business partner and certified welder) He often doesnt use a hood when just tacking things in place. But always uses one on finish welds.

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Fun to see guys blowing through the work like that - it inspires me to work on mine. Keep the pictures coming!

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Awesome........Cant wait to see more.........Keep up the good work...............

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Thanks guys. Work is slow at the moment. I am having to deal with someone I ordered parts from and I havent seen the part arrive yet. Its been almost a month and hes only a 4 hour drive from me. Soo... progress has come to a halt until I can get this issue resolved.

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Well the parts FINALLY came in. So its back to work...

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i4...e/DSC00368.jpg

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You guys are to cool fo school, very inventive on that floor shift. I will be watchin so please keep the pics coming, looks like a great shop to work in too.

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great build ,where did you get your airbag kit at ?

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Well I cant post the supplier. Cuz that would be false advertising. So I will PM you.

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Well got my bad ass carrier bearing crossmember done last night and started on the new tranny cross member. I will post pics a little later.

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+1 for a LWB build. I need to get back to my plans...$$$funds are tight though. Good luck...Ill be watching.