Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by bumslie75

Wonder what he is going to do with the engine

Nothin. Seems to run good...

Originally Posted by joe231

Looks good Keith!

Maybe you can answer a question I have.
What exactly are the removable plugs in the sheet metal structure behind the cab corner there for? Is it a clean out? Are you supposed to pull the plug and clean the corner out from time to time? On our '66 there is a very similar plug in the front of the rocker panel, that if missing allows the rocker to fill up with dirt and rocks. Seems like a strange design

I think they were tooling access holes. Definitely not there so that you can remove them and clean the corner out.

I have wondered that myself: if it is a "sealed corner" then why do they rust out? Similarly why wouldn't they (ie, "we") have put a drain hole in there, so that you could flush them out?

I seriously debated drilling a hole in mine before I put it all together, so that I could rinse the corners out during the winter. In the end, I decided to leave it the way the factory made it, figuring I replaced the corners once - I could do it again if I had to...