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Re: Avoid the Concrete
Man what is that color blue? I love it!
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Re: Avoid the Concrete
Thank you BigMike
The color is called Intense Blue if i remember correctly. It was a dodge factory color off of rams and neons i believe. It has been a while, but i think it may have been a 95 model year color. |
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Re: Avoid the Concrete
Frame tucked out of the way.
![]() I have been making a little headway on the firewall. I lined up the panels and put some square tubing across the face of the firewall to make sure that I get it level. I got it tack welded around the outside of the cowl area as well as inside. The seam is not centered. ![]() I am welding the cowl to the cab all the way around since I removed the vent underneath that area. Slow progress on the welding. ![]() I am also welding the seams under the window weather stripping. I will to the same on the upper ones while I am shaving the drip rails. I did a little more welding on the lower ones after the pictures to get them a little smoother. I will grind them down tomorrow and see how they look. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Made some progress on the foot boards. I cut out the floor boards where the original foot boards started to curve up.
![]() ![]() I then cut some extensions for the floor to move them forward. I moved them roughly 3 inches forward. ![]() I bent some metal for the floor and cut it down the center of the bend giving me the two pieces for the foot boards. ![]() I got those cut to rough size and then tack welded them on to the firewall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I spent the rest of the day welding the joints. Still have a lot of welding and grinding to do. |
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Good job man! cant wait to see it all done.
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Awesome job on the firewall. It's going to look really good when your finished with it. I welded up the seams on my front windshield too, kind of had to, I had some rust there.
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Like others have said, it sucks about the accident but you'll be back and better than ever. I'm going a similar direction with my truck.
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Thanks for the compliments.
I have been welding on the firewall more. I got the foot boards welded top and bottom. Here is the inside view of the firewall so far. ![]() Since I typically weld very small sections and let the metal cool between passes, I also started working on the seem at the back edge of the cab during the down time. I started in the center and worked my way to the outsides. What I did was cut right on both side of the seem and bent the metal to give it more of a curve. This gave me a profile I was happy with. I started by finding the center and then I would measure each way the same amount. I would make a relief cut to allow the metal to bent a little more evenly. I kept doing that until I got all the way across. Here is a slew of pictures of that process. Before: ![]() ![]() Center section cut and tacked to give you an idea of the difference. ![]() You can see the lines/relief cuts where I measured to help keep things even. As I went across I would also measure from the peak of the old seam to the new radius. I would compare both sides as I went to make sure that they would be even. ![]() Here is the final profile. Just tacked in this photo. You can see some of the gaps are pretty large. Since I don't have any tools that can help me bend compound curves in sheet metal yet, I decided I would just bent the metal that is already there instead of cutting out a larger area and trying to make a filler panel. The problem is that it created these larger gaps. I did two things to deal with this. First was cut narrow strips to weld in. The second was to use a piece of copper behind the gap and weld over it. The piece of copper can be removed and it helps to prevent the burn through on the larger gaps. ![]()
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I really like that rear roof profile! I'm sure you will be able to get the gaps filled no problem.
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Thats taking on some serious stuff.
Watchin intently. |
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I also have almost all the outside edge of the firewall welded. Need to grind it down a little to clean it up.
![]() The back of the cab is welded and ground down. I still need to grind the inside smooth and then do some hammer and dolly work to smooth out a couple of bumps. ![]()
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Excellent work on the cab! keep the pictures coming.
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My buddy with a CTSV met you recently and told me about your build, your build is awesome! Keep up the good work.
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Thanks 19GMC66. He showed me a picture of your truck as well and that is a fantastic looking truck! You don't have a build thread do you? Did you use Porterbuilt's parts on yours?
Spent several hours grinding down welds tonight. Grinding the inside of the roof is a pain. Even using the little 3 inch disc it is hard to get in there. ![]() I ground down the outside edge of the firewall. ![]() Lastly, I cut the footboards off even with the floor and rounded them over some. Here is one side. The other side is too blurry. ![]()
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Like the fab work...firewall looks great.
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Low68 thanks! I did a Porterbuilt extreme front drop member and my brother (builtbybrooks) did my rear set up. I have somewhat of a build thread that my brother started before i was a member here but it started off with another truck so it's kind of all over the place.
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Very coo build you've got going! I'm along for the ride.
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Re: Avoid the Concrete
Great build, got a lot of the same plans. Subscribed
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That firewall is just plain sick. I like the roof mod too.
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Got the rear cab seam finished up today. It will need some filler to get it smooth, but I am pretty happy with the way it came out. Here are the photos.
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Some slick work there. Dig It!
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Awesome! Sick tin skills!
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I decided to shave the drip rail next. Here are some before pictures. The pieces that go around the doors I had already removed prior to sandblasting so that all the metal underneath that portion would be bare metal.
![]() ![]() ![]() I started in the middle of the drip rail above the windshield. I cut out a sections of the drip rail, pulled the sheet metal down, and tack welded it over the part below it. ![]() Once I had that tack welded, I did some more on each side. I had it overlapping and tacked for about a foot. Then I took a cut off disk from the inside and cut the roof skin right at the edge of the lower piece. This made it line up pretty well with no gaps. I left the two outer most tack welds so things didn't shift. The two photos below are where I cut on either side of the drip rail. ![]() ![]() Here is the inside of the roof skin. In this photo you can see how the roof skin overlaps the metal around the windshield. I cut with the cutoff disk right at the top of the lower metal so that I was just cutting the roof skin. ![]() I kept doing this and worked my way out toward the edges. ![]() ![]() This is the best profile picture I have. I will attempt to get a better one this weekend. ![]() I got pretty close to the corners and then started working on the sides over the doors. I started on the driver side and put the door on. I got it line up relatively well to see how it fit. ![]() I cut the drip rail flush along the outside. I tack welded as I went to keep things from shifting or coming apart. ![]() ![]() Once I got all the way up to the front corner I finished welding and ground it all smooth along the outside. ![]() ![]() Last photo for now is the corner of the driver side. I still need to cut out the last portion of drip rail on that side and work on getting the corner smoothed out and lined up with everything. ![]()
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I'm a little late to the party, but holy cow. Nice work. Following along.
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Awesome fab work. The truck is looking great.
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