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Re: New Cab Floor
Cool, glad ya didn't take it the wrong way, just trying to help a brother out. You're right, the body line looks dead on...Pull Logan off the blaster a while, he looks beat! All my boys started out with the sandblasting cabinet and worked their way up, now that they build their own trucks, it's time for the old man to sandblast they're parts
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Re: New Cab Floor
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My door skin didn't show up yet! Oh well maybe next weekend I will see how she lines up, the suspense is killing me! Thanks for the help, its welcome! this is my first time rebuilding one of these cabs.
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Re: New Cab Floor
Where are you located in conn? I live in R.I. and don't get to see to many posts from the east coast.I feel your pain been there done that. Just found a free doner cab a few weeks ago on craigs list.Still needs work , rockers,front floor supports and front floor panels but not the whole thing only over the floor supports and cab corners. but its still a lot better than all the other ones I was going to fix.
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Good on the CL find! I am in Woodbury, its on the western side of the state. I have been camping at Burlingame for years, are you close by?
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Re: New Cab Floor
Hey Chas350,
Thanks for letting me stop by to see the progress. It looks good. I am anxious to see how you handle that problem cab corner. Hopefully you will get that door skin soon. I am so itching to get started on my truck build. Hopefully FedEx will drop off my spring compressor today so I can get the Honda out of my garage soon. |
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Burlingame is south of here if I'm not mistaken.Foster is on the Conn border on the eastern side,Near Killingly and Sterling not far from Plainfield. Rt 6 runs right through the middle of it.
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Re: New Cab Floor
Some progress.
1st pic removed the PO mess, they overlayed the new corners over the originals. 2nd and 3rd pics show them getting cut off, and the cleaned metal ready for fitting my new corners. The last 2 pics are showing the challenge ahead of me to make it work with the door and rocker.
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Here is the corner partially welded on. The area where it fits against the B pillar is not welded or fit yet. As you can see in the pics the corner patch contour is much different than the door and rocker, so it must be fixed. These are Tabco parts, the body line was formed almost dead on, I guess I was lucky there.
I have a set of no-name Taiwan made corners also from Keyparts, they are better in some areas and worse in others.
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Re: New Cab Floor
More rust!! This is the drivers side door after the skin was removed. Maybe now everyone will understand why this project is taking so darn long lol, oh wait, thats right it doesn't matter now, the wife moved out last November! haha
At least I don't have to hear "that damn truck" anymore. ![]()
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Looking good. How long did it finally take to get that door skin?
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Thanks Dave, it is back ordered, this is the pass side.
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Re: New Cab Floor
that is some fine work, are you planning on fixin that door too ?
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We were going to get new tri-plus doors but we heard that they dont fit right around the window frame, so why "fix" a new 300.00 door? I have a new inner door bottom ready and am waiting on a full door skin to complete it. It was pretty bad, but fixable.
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Re: New Cab Floor
Got the passenger side cab corner on and matching the door contour!!!
![]() It was a job. Now I have to finish fitting and weld in the rocker, looks like it should go smooth. Special thanks to ebfabman & mbgmike for guidance!! you guys rock!! chas
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Re: New Cab Floor
Your killing me here. What did you do to fix that contour? Did you take any step by step pics?
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No other pics, sorry. I don't have a shrinker/stretcher (yet) so I had to slit the part that folds around to the b pillar every 1/2", the metal went where ever I wanted it then, just more welding and grinding all the slits, but I have a shrinker/stretcher on my shopping list for the drivers side ![]() If you plan on doing this also, I highly recommend ebfabman's cab repair video set.
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Re: New Cab Floor
Insurance is boring that is why I am always on the site. No progress on my shop yet. I still have my Honda commuter on jack stands. Frozen bolt in bushing and I am having a hard time gaining access to cut it off. Plus my new parts aren't here yet. Hopefully I will get it done this Friday.
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