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Old 07-04-2007, 10:47 PM   #9
DURRTY
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Re: Sheetmetal/parts sources

Remember Our trucks are close to FORTY 40 YEARS old.!!
OK? 40 years ago the sheet metal was put on pretty close to straight. exept for a few most of them have been beat on and rallied around like they were... well... old trucks..

SO regardless if you buy full on OEM steel or the import steel. Its going to take some fitting, strecthing, cutting, pulling and welding to get it all to fit back up.

there is no way anything will fit perfect no matter what it is. Its a fact of the whole vehicle bending, flexing and settling.

Plus the sheet metal should be a bit long and wide for fit up reasons.

Ill bet that TRI PLUS vendor "A" sells the same TRI PLUS that LMC sells. Im not here to pimp LMC in any way. But if you read around most will tell you that the majority comes from tri plus.

If it was easy to get these trucks straight and nice there would be a ton more on the road that looked factory straight??

right??
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