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Re: 65Custom Build Thread
Scott your always behind
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Tuttle, Ok
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Marietta, Georgia
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Re: 65Custom Build Thread
Subscribed! Awesome work! I look forward to seeing it at Po Boys one day
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Location: Dawson, Ga
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I'm just glad to be here!
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Longview, TX
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Re: 65Custom Build Thread
I just looked at this build again. YOu have done a ton of work on that cab. Mine is not that bad, but I have even thought about pulling the cowl area apart to repair/remove rust from where you can't see it once it is together. I have some rust holes (small ones) along the edge where the firewall and cowl are meet.
Keep up the great work!
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dawson, Ga
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Re: 65Custom Build Thread
We had a nice day here in Ga. it is a great weekend of sun and the good ol boys racing is in town (NASCAR). I wish I had ticket for this weekend any way I digress. So I couldn't let this nice weather get away without doing something today, so I finally got the old drip rail off and a new one welded back on and hopefully now that the weather is getting warmer I can get motivated to get the cab finished up.
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dawson, Ga
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Re: 65Custom Build Thread
Starting to get some motivation back, so I decided to start to remove the roof panel and I thought that I would put up some pics of the process.
1 Roof panel I picked up from greg65 last year I have had some ask about how to find spot welds so I'll put a few pics which might help some. 2 pic of the tools used 3 pic of spot welds they are not too difficult to find sometimes you can find them with your finger tips just feel for the indentations in the metal, you will feel the small dimples in the metal, but occasionally I miss one and eventually you find it when you think you got them all and it is still stuck on 4 pic of spot welds after being punched with a spring loaded punch I usually punch them several times I found that the deeper the punch mark the better the tool holds to the center and does not walk around as much 5 pic of spot welds one which has been cut and the other one just started if you notice the one that has been cut most of the way through you will notice some rust dust as I like to call it. when you get used to cutting them you will see a puff of the rust dust when you cut through and you will know when to stop cutting. On the roof panel since the drip rail is visible part of the truck I am taking it a bit slower to make sure that I don't blow through the drip rail |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dawson, Ga
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Re: 65Custom Build Thread
The spot welds are generally about 2" apart and you can actually use your fingers to measure the spacing between the spot welds once you get the hang of it it can help you find a spot weld that may not be very visible.
1 pic shows the approximate spacing of the spot welds I have found this to be pretty consist on every thing that I have cut off including the parts trucks that sacrificed their lives for this project. 2 this pic is a shot of the section of the roof above the B pillar. This is right at the section where the Door jamb is there are several pieces welded together here and the roof panel has about 5 or 6 spot welds in this section. When i removed the replacement panel this was the section that provided the most frustration just making that I got them all off and didn't screw up the panel. We will see how this goes when I get there my cab |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dawson, Ga
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Re: 65Custom Build Thread
Finally got the roof panel off. I was wondering where that seat cushion went.
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