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Re: My 1970 GMC Project
Next I have to re create the brake at the front of the goofy aftermarket floor pan along with plenty of other mods that I'm sure I will be needing to do to it to make it fit.
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I started trying to fit the passenger side floor pan tonight. It is quite a bit of smashing it around with a bfh to make it fit
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Ouch that's not a very good fit at all man. The toe kick piece looks great. That motor looks pretty but is going to be fast enough to beat my flintstone truck. Lol
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Well the more time I put into fitting this floor pan, the more I start to think I was quite lucky to have the driver side fit as well as it did. This floor pan has been quite interesting so far. I've had to make two "releif cuts" into this pan now. One wasn't so bad, only about 4 inches long and opening about 3/16 of an inch. The other one though... Well now that's a very different story. It is closer to 20 inches long and opens up at least an inch and 1/4. Whoo wee am I ever gonna need lots of beer to help me through this one. Here come so pretty hoffifying pics...
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A little more progress to report. I've had to rework the entire length of the recess that the rocker panel sits into at the outboard edge of the floor pan. The recess was not deep enough so I pounded on that for a good 30 minutes last night. I also could not leave the dimple in the center of the pan the way it was. It was about 3/8s out of level so I made a few small incisions and made it look right. Lots of wedges to cut and weld into place now. It is finally starting to look like the factory pan, well minus all that beautiful rust.
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It's starting to look like a floor pan now.
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Looking good man. You know what they say measure twice cut once. Or just crack another and fix away. Lol
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I think a better philosophy is measure once, cut about 5 or 6 times starting about 1/4" inch big of the measurement.
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OK so as you may have guessed by now, I did not get the pan in before Christmas as planned. I ended up coming down with a wicked flu the day after my last post. Then with the holidays being busy as per usual, it was suddenly next year and I hadn't got back on it. So I jumped back into the shop early this month but unfortunately it was to build a couple of shelves we have been needing for quite some time, but at least that's one item off the honey do list.
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Looking good. I like that tank. Looks nice!
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Thanks! I thought it turned out good for a quick little project.
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What paint did you use? Was that left over from one of the trucks?
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It's actually VHT engine paint. I'm going to use it on the 396.
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That's a sweet looking colour
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I've been grinding and grinding away on the pan. Too bad I had to add that filler rod on the one side there. Sure makes for alot more grinding.
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Looking good man. I'm going through the same ol crap. Fitment on these replacement panels is hit or miss. Right now I'm working on my inner roof header panel and I had to make like 8 relief cuts on that thing to make it follow the roof line properly... Floor panels, kick panels, rockers, everything I have replaced has been off and I had to make fit proper. Good luck man, keep up the good work!
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Back at it again tonight. Good news is that my floor pan is one piece again, bad news is its time to grind again.
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You have done a lot of work!!! Its looking good. I'm in the same process as you, but I decided to replace full pieces vs the patch thing.. keep up the good work!!!
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Thank you. It would definitely be way cooler to do the whole thing vs this way. Only reason I'm doing it this way is because the patches came with the truck when I bought it lol
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The day has finally come, no more rust on the floor
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Nice 👍. Progress feels good I'm sure as it does for me too. Looks solid
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Progress does feel good. Pretty soon I'll be able to cross out almost all of my cab floor "to do" list. And thanks, it is very solid now.
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Make sure you fit the bucket seat pieces before you weld in the support braces. I think it would be easier now especially the longer brace for the console.
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