48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait

[Advanced Design]

Thanks Marc. Lots to do.

Really appreciating this body cart. Was able to move the front supports back to support across the rocker allowing plenty of easy access to the front floor area.

[Advanced Design]

Hammer and chisel is still handy. Lotta Texas dirt in the body support. Good thing it had been in a dry area.

Just sectioning in the kick panel. There is a little rust above and may kick myself later for sectioning....or maybe not.

Wife is good with making the patterns.

[youngrodder]

Looking good. The funny thing is that I had the same amount of dirt in my body mount braces. I was also working on that same area of mine last night, but I didn't have the help of my wife to make templates...

keep at it.

Marc

[IWanna49]

Originally Posted by Advanced Design

Thanks Marc. Lots to do.

Really appreciating this body cart. Was able to move the front supports back to support across the rocker allowing plenty of easy access to the front floor area.

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I love your roller stool!!!

Greg

[99 to Life]

man, your a lucky dog. A. the space, B. the lift, 3. the cart, 4. the wife, E. the burb.

[Advanced Design]

Marc - Really fortunate, she helps a lot and we enjoy the time together. Plus it helps when I need tools...you are right honey, you do need a TIG welder. Please post up what you are doing so I can learn and copy.

Iwanna49 - That little shopping cart stool has had a lot of use over the years!

99tolife - You are right, I am way more blessed than I deserve. She doesn't weld though....

Up early this morning and excited like a little kid. We are going to the Street Machine Nationals in the '56. Last time we went was in Indianapolis in 1980 so should be a good day. Vacation next week so I will get to spend a lot of time in my favorite place.

[99 to Life]

haha not to make you feel old, I wasn't even born in 1980. You guys are good team, wish my gal wasn't so girly. She always hates that I work so much.

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by 99 to Life

haha not to make you feel old, I wasn't even born in 1980. You guys are good team, wish my gal wasn't so girly. She always hates that I work so much.

Thanks 99...we've been a good team going back to 1978 and we have a good time on projects.

Street Machine Nationals was a great time with a diversity of vehicles. Here was one of our favorites. Looked to be on an S10 chassis with a lot of creative details.

[Iceburgh]

wish I could get my wife to help....she hates getting dirty

[Advanced Design]

Well, my wife doesn't like to get too dirty Iceburgh....except maybe when we were replacing a hydraulic hose under the backhoe...that's another story.

Time to get back on the Burb. Monday morning in the shop early, noticed the peeling paint on the West wall of the shop and it has been bothering me so figured we could spare an hour to fix that since we had just painted it last year. Paint starts peeling off in sheets....never had that happen before. Strip the loose off with a scraper, sand, clean...run to town 20 miles away for primer, prime. Still have to paint.

Then shop lights start acting up. Ladder out, replace bulbs, remove bulbs since that didn't work. Put off until later as only two were out. Few other maintenance items and Monday was gone.

[Advanced Design]

Tuesday mind set was forget the paint, lights, yard, everything else....I need to work on the Burb.

There was beading left on the toe pan flange and I didn't want to fill it with a bunch of seam sealer. Cut them out, small patches installed.

These Cleco clamps were really handy and wish I would have gotten some years ago.

[Advanced Design]

Bought these toe and floor pans and maybe I should have just made my own.

Trim to fit and since I don't have a Beverly shear I use the stump and cut off wheel.

[Advanced Design]

Wanted to see this product installed on a truck to get an idea of bellhousing clearance and the company didn't have any pictures. Couldn't find any pictures anywhere. Decided to take a chance and give it a try.

The height is improved over the stock flat floor area with the cut shown here.

The stock firewall / toe pan isn't flat in the same plane across here so the new toe pan didn't want to sit flush. Rather than "form" it into place I decided to remove the "proud" area of the original firewall. This allowed the toe pan to sit flush around the perimeter and I will fill this area in once the floor is installed.

[Advanced Design]

Lots of test fitting and trimming followed by removing the remaining forward part of the floor. One of my goals for this week of vacation was to get the floor installed.

[Advanced Design]

Until I took the flat passenger seat reinforcement support out to make room for the floor pan and took a look at the floor under. Shouldn't be able to see light through your floor should you?

So much for a quick body swap to the new chassis. And that really is OK. Wanna do this right and have been waiting a long time to do it.

[joedoh]

dont knock it yet, what you have there is the rare lightweight model!

[99 to Life]

dang your shop is huge. My goodness. been there done that "oh I'll deal with that later, I have to work on my truck" its always something isn't it. Like your stump in there! I made my own floor and kick pans. I also have inner cowls I make too, let me know if you need those.

Your getting there. I knew my current projects cab was bad, but I did 90% all new floor with custom bracing all new inner/outer cowls and kick panels. 70 hours later, almost done.

[oldman3]

Nice job on setting up the panels...Jim

[youngrodder]

Looking good AD. Mine rusted under the flat piece of floor just like yours only much worse. To keep trapped water from roting out the floor again I choose to make the rear of my floors flat (one piece) all the way across. It was easy since I had to remove the seat riser (not easy) to repair the lower edge of it. i used 16 gauge for the floors since I went with flat floors.

I need to do my toe boards as well but I'm gaining.


Keep up the great work.
Marc

[C4fivewindow]

Looking good! I think my next project might have to be a burb...

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by joedoh

dont knock it yet, what you have there is the rare lightweight model!

....yeah but it doesn't have the aluminum fender option.

Originally Posted by 99 to Life

dang your shop is huge. My goodness. been there done that "oh I'll deal with that later, I have to work on my truck" its always something isn't it. Like your stump in there! I made my own floor and kick pans. I also have inner cowls I make too, let me know if you need those.

Your getting there. I knew my current projects cab was bad, but I did 90% all new floor with custom bracing all new inner/outer cowls and kick panels. 70 hours later, almost done.

The shop is 60' x 100' and the front half is the shop. Built by my Dad and uncle in the late 1960's out of 3 and 4 inch drill stem pipe. Been there before on kick panels and floor pieces. The little black truck spoiled me as it was rock solid.

Originally Posted by oldman3

Nice job on setting up the panels...Jim

Thanks Jim, always appreciate your words of encouragement.

Originally Posted by youngrodder

Looking good AD. Mine rusted under the flat piece of floor just like yours only much worse. To keep trapped water from roting out the floor again I choose to make the rear of my floors flat (one piece) all the way across. It was easy since I had to remove the seat riser (not easy) to repair the lower edge of it. i used 16 gauge for the floors since I went with flat floors.

I need to do my toe boards as well but I'm gaining.


Keep up the great work.
Marc

Great Marc that looks good, I am taking the same route. GM didn't spare on the spot welds when they installed the seat riser. Now to figure out why it is still attached at the back.

Having a great time.....now to figure out how to do this full time.

[youngrodder]

Originally Posted by Advanced Design

....yeah but it doesn't have the aluminum fender option.



The shop is 60' x 100' and the front half is the shop. Built by my Dad and uncle in the late 1960's out of 3 and 4 inch drill stem pipe. Been there before on kick panels and floor pieces. The little black truck spoiled me as it was rock solid.



Thanks Jim, always appreciate your words of encouragement.



Great Marc that looks good, I am taking the same route. GM didn't spare on the spot welds when they installed the seat riser. Now to figure out why it is still attached at the back.

Having a great time.....now to figure out how to do this full time.

I learned that the seat riser will not come out without taking the wood out. The back is also spot welded. What I did was used a jig saw and cut the rear tab that runs the lenght of the riser off. Once I remove my wood I will reatach the back tab to the riser.

Good luck
Marc

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by C4fivewindow

Looking good! I think my next project might have to be a burb...

Thanks C4five window. We looked for a long time and picked this one up near El Paso 10 years ago.

Originally Posted by youngrodder

I learned that the seat riser will not come out without taking the wood out. The back is also spot welded. What I did was used a jig saw and cut the rear tab that runs the lenght of the riser off. Once I remove my wood I will reatach the back tab to the riser.

Good luck
Marc

Big thank you to Marc for his help on this one! You said the seat riser was hard to get out. Wow. The seat riser was the first part down the assembly line in 1948 and they must have built the truck around it.

I didn't want to take the rear floor out yet. Especially with so much support gone from the front. Could have braced it, could have started at the back on the floors. And even though we will not be using the plywood floor, I really did hate to cut this one. It is still really nice.

And just as Marc described, there was the tab / flange across the back spot welded to the cross support. I owe you one Marc!

[Iceburgh]

Getting the wood floor out is a *****...have fun with it.
I am not using stock seats so the seat riser was easy for me to get out...plus mine was junk.
Keep digging away

[Advanced Design]

Young guy that we had never met stopped by this spring just introducing himself to folks on neighboring farms. He must be an over achiever since he lives 20 miles away.

Week ago he stopped by and asked if I had a black one ton truck in the back and could he look at it. His Gran'pa had bought it new. It spent time on a neighboring farm, then was pulled into the woods 40 years ago.

Fifteen years ago neighbors gave it to me and I put it in the back of the shop.

So the young guy stopped by last night and asked if I would sell it to him. We are always glad to help a young person who has an interest in old vehicles and besides it had belonged to his Gran'pa. We said "Sure". "How much?" "You can have it for what we paid for it."

Thought he was going to cry. He stopped by with a buddy today and they drug it out of the shop.