1969 Short Wide

[67c10rustbuket]

Nice! you make it look so easy.

[68 Four on the Floor]

Lookin good. When you gonna get started on mine?

[68 TT]

Nice work Mike. You are making great progress. Your cab will be done in no time. Keep it up.
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[Crash_OK]

Looks great Mike... Looks like the floor pan is spot welded in many places... I see now why you need the air chisel. You are making great progress.. won’t be long before you are priming and painting…

[Daaaanz67]

Ok mike I'm really a dumb a***** cause I can't find those icon that you talked about on post 759. I have the I phone 4. Sorry I didn't get back with the request of you wanting to see my mounts still trying to figure this out. I did take more photos on passenger side to show how the motor is situated with the ac compressor installed. I'll keep trying, keep up the great work wish I had your fab skills going to get a welder down the road and try to learn.
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[Zoomin]

Way to tear into it Mike. Looking good!

[mcbassin]

Originally Posted by 67c10rustbuket

Nice! you make it look so easy.

Thanks. It is pretty easy labor wise, very tedious and time consuming.

Originally Posted by 68 Four on the Floor

Lookin good. When you gonna get started on mine?

Thanks Drew. I know you have a desert truck. It should take near this much lovin.

Originally Posted by 68 TT

Nice work Mike. You are making great progress. Your cab will be done in no time. Keep it up.

Thanks Mike. Plugging along as time allows.

Originally Posted by Crash_OK

Looks great Mike... Looks like the floor pan is spot welded in many places... I see now why you need the air chisel. You are making great progress.. won’t be long before you are priming and painting…

Thanks Mark, Yep there are a butt load of spotwelds. If you don't know where they are because of all that rust it's hard to drill them out.

Originally Posted by Daaaanz67

Ok mike I'm really a dumb a***** cause I can't find those icon that you talked about on post 759. I have the I phone 4. Sorry I didn't get back with the request of you wanting to see my mounts still trying to figure this out. I did take more photos on passenger side to show how the motor is situated with the ac compressor installed. I'll keep trying, keep up the great work wish I had your fab skills going to get a welder down the road and try to learn.
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Daaaanz, I see your problem. I don't know if you can do a direct upload from an Iphone, If you can I haven't figured it out yet. I can however upload from my Iphone to photobucket and copy and paste the link here as shown above.
I think it's the best and easiest way. I just grabbed the photobucket app.

Originally Posted by Zoomin

Way to tear into it Mike. Looking good!

Thanks Steve. one step at a time. I have some questions about your paint. I'll shoot you a message.

[68 Four on the Floor]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

Thanks Drew. I know you have a desert truck. It should take near this much lovin.

Rust wise no. Some idiot must have jacked the truck up using the cab corners back in the day. Should be fun.

[Bowtie468]

Mike , your metal work is looking great !!!!
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[screaminchevypickup]

Anything new?
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[raull]

nice body work , not my specialty !!!

[RCbowtie69]

Very nice work on your cab,just catching up on your build.Keep up the hard work & keep on truckin'

[mcbassin]

Originally Posted by RCbowtie69

Very nice work on your cab,just catching up on your build.Keep up the hard work & keep on truckin'

Thanks Randy for checking in. It has a long way to go but I am confident I will be driving it this year

[nuke1]

I can not believe how much I have missed on this thread! You have accomplished so much and have made so much one off pieces for you truck. Amazing quality and work. Keep it up and soon you will have a gorgeous truck that you can call your own and that you built it!
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[mcbassin]

Originally Posted by nuke1

I can not believe how much I have missed on this thread! You have accomplished so much and have made so much one off pieces for you truck. Amazing quality and work. Keep it up and soon you will have a gorgeous truck that you can call your own and that you built it!
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Thanks for stopping by James and the compliments. It has taken a few turns here and there. Right now I'm up to my elbows in self inflicted rust repair. It's not hard, just very frustrating because of the poor fitment of the patch panels.

I did this "new" cab mostly to practice for the upcoming Camaro restoration. I sure hope the Camaro patches fit better than this crap. I swear there are some pieces that weren't even close!

[fakerwade]

Thanks for stopping by James and the compliments. It has taken a few turns here and there. Right now I'm up to my elbows in self inflicted rust repair. It's not hard, just very frustrating because of the poor fitment of the patch panels.

I did this "new" cab mostly to practice for the upcoming Camaro restoration. I sure hope the Camaro patches fit better than this crap. I swear there are some pieces that weren't even close!

I feel your pain. I wish there were better fitting patch panels out there. What year of Camaro?

[68 Four on the Floor]

He has a 68 that might be coming to my place.....

[nuke1]

Just to make you feel better,the camaro patchesfitbetter, just get the complete panels. But still way better than our trucks!
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[mcbassin]

Originally Posted by fakerwade

I feel your pain. I wish there were better fitting patch panels out there. What year of Camaro?

I'm not sure why one of the bigger companies like LMC, Brothers, Classic etc. doesn't invest in quality patch panels? Do they think we wouldn't pay more for panels that fit? and are the correct gauge? Sure it's cool that most are cheap but of all the pieces I used only one was a "good" fit. It was the rear pan patch from LMC not cheap $49+shipping. The next best fits were the cab corners (old school Tabco corners from the 90s)
I would have paid that or more for good fitting front, kick panel, lower pillar, etc. Most parts were tri-plus or key parts.
On the Camaro....I have a 67 and a 68 I'm thinking the 67 will get the knife first....we'll see?

Originally Posted by 68 Four on the Floor

He has a 68 that might be coming to my place.....

Sure one of these days I'll sell one or both of them If I do, I guarantee a board member will get first dibbs.

Originally Posted by nuke1

Just to make you feel better,the camaro patchesfitbetter, just get the complete panels. But still way better than our trucks!

Thanks James. That gives me hope. I will have a ton of questions when it comes time to order them.

[mcbassin]

Well finally an update. First, I want to tell you guys this has been a rough couple of weeks. This floor rust repair is not the easiest. If you don't have plenty of time at your disposal forget it! Most of my frustration stems from the very poorly shaped and sized patch panels. The floor is basically done now. Still a lot more to do to the cab but the hard part is over.

pictures:
Had this piece fitted but had to section it after it pulled almost a 1/4"

Nice gap!

Installed a spreader brace to hold pillar in position.



Fitting the Rocker

Ready to weld

Test fitting the second door, the bronze door has issues.

Rocker is done.



Bottom view.

More.

This is what was romoved!

Floor is basically finished.

[scotts62]

Very cool, looks good!

[screaminchevypickup]

Looks good mike!!! Time to start some body work!!
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[67c10rustbuket]

looks great again mike! Q where did you buy your front floor pan? I have one from classic on I35 but it doesnt have the down brake at the front to match the firewall bottom. I can bend it no prob just annoying having to modify these parts. That and its 1.0mm a little thin. On my parts they range from 1.0mm,1.2mm,1.4mm. mine are all triplus/key parts. I would like atleast 1.2mm floor, do you know what thickness yours was? a lot of times classic will stick they're pn sticker over the triplus sticker. Oh also where are you buying the weld through primer? I cant find any, maybe not looking hard enough. Im waiting to finishing mine after buying a bottle so I dont loose the rest of my hair on the flux core.

[Crash_OK]

Looks great Mike... I am glad you are almost done with the floor.. I feel your pain on the parts and how they fit... I look forward to seeing how you attack the rest of the rust...

Have a great day..

[68 Four on the Floor]

Looks good Mike. I need a spot welded like that.
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