I got a little more work done to the 53 this week. I finally completed taking all of the rotten metal out of the drivers side lower section of the truck. It was A LOT more metal than I thought it would be.
I was getting a little nervous at this point in time because there were very few reference points left to help put everything back together.
We put a little bit of bracing in to make sure the cab didn't twist on us.
Finally time to put new metal into the cab.
Replacing the rocker panel was by far the hardest of all the panels. In all we replaced the floorboard/toeboard, inner kick panel, rocker panel, lower door pillar, front fender brace, and front outer cab sheetmetal.
Now there are just a lot of details to take care of in that area (fill in welds, grind welds, etc..). Next I will get the inner and outer cab corner into place before starting on the other side of the cab.