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Originally Posted by shortchev
Nice job , I was thiking about doing that myself , I have a few old cabs around to practice on . I would love to see the pics middle section when you weld it in . I have had a few opinions on how to chop it but I always come back to the way you have done it . My friend owns a custom shop , he says he would do it with 4 cab tops and chop them up to make less welding , I think you have 12 welds now on the top ( not including the doors ) he says if I had 4 cabs I could do it with 4 welds . Seems like alot of tops I know but ifs usually the bottoms rusty where I live , so tops are easy to find . I cant wait to see your truck finished . keep up the good work .
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I dont really see why you wanna use 4 tops just to save some welding ,i wouldnt have had to use any extra tops if i didnt allready have some laying around [saved them from being hauled off for scrap] i made the ones over the doors from scratch on the metal brake,i only used the extra top just to save time on the rest . i can understand about the less worping with less welds but if your not gonna cape the roof,then your gonna have heck fixing all the worping on the 4 halves to get them level for bodywork.
Either way there will be plenty of body work to do even if the metal work is really close to perfect.
now please dont take this the wrong way[i'm not trying to tell you what to do ]i know there are plenty of ways to skin a cat ,but keep it simple and you will injoy doing it more.i guess anyway?
I can never just practice for some reason [cost to much to just practice or i'm just too durn lazzy one ],i just have to do it or not .
If your serious about cutting your top then try to find the tex smith book on how to chop tops [it has a section on these in there]and lots of info too!
post pics if you do i would love to see them !!