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Re: My 1970 GMC Project
Good point. I'll have to dig them out.
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I got my bucket seat crossmember cut out of the donor floor along with all the stand alone rear brackets. Also got the dish pressed into the driver floor pan where the cab mount bolt goes in.
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I've made some pretty solid progress over the past few evenings, even if it doesn't feel like it.
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Looking good!
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Thank you. All my work is finally starting to show.
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I dropped off my support with the wife's uncle for sandblasting this morning. He is hoping to have it back to me early this week. I spent the better part of Friday evening drilling the 50 million spot weld holes for the support.
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Dang dude, lots of welding your doing, you counting the rolls of wire your going through? Ready so see this finished up and smooth
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Burning through or what? Sorry to hear the step backwards...
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Yeah just this one corner. The metal was pretty thinned out but I thought I could still weld up the pin holes. A few worked out fine but most ended up burning through and went from a small 1/8" pinhole to almost an inch before I hit anything solid enough to handle the heat. At that point, I figured I'd better cut my losses and replace the end. I really didn't want to because the patch piece is not the same gauge as the original but realistically, the new piece is probably thicker that the thinned out metal that was there. I did not cut off any more original metal than I had to though.
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It’s amazing how small rust holes can grow - nice progress
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Thanks
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Last night I got all the holes in the support welded up. I also sprayed all the channels and areas I wont be able to get to later with rust converter. Hoping to have the support in place for welding after work.
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That is looking sweet
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Looks clean enough to eat off of!
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Again thanks for the kind words everyone. I'm so close to putting this thing back on level ground and it feels great!
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How's the project coming along man?
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I haven't been able to touch it since I last posted. We have been having a crazy busy summer, we did a whole bunch of landscaping and we found mold in our basement. Luckily only the perimeter walls were built by the po of the house so I have been tearing out the basement and trying to get grass to grow during one of the dryest springs / early summers we have ever had. It kills me to see the cab sitting exactly how I left it in the garage. I'm hoping that I can get back to it sometime in July.
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Sorry to hear about the basement mold, that's no fun... We've been doing a lot of yard work and landscaping as well, at least you see the fruit of your labor with that
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Yes very much so. We just hauled in 8 yds of dirt to our front yard and put in underground sprinklers. Hardest I've worked in years but man does it look good!
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Woohoo! Today was finally the day. The day that I walked into the garage after coming home from a local car show and said, enough of this cab just sitting here like this, it's time to weld!
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So true cornerstone. That's a lot of work you just finished. Dirty hard work. Keep it up!
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Thanks guys. It's good to to be back on this thing again!
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I did it guys! With the help of my dad we got the cab flipped down. It's been quite a while since it was sitting like this. I'm beyond excited to be past that milestone. I've been working on finishing up a few things on the floor. Then I can get the doors off the truck and get them fitted up on here and get to work on the rockers and cab corners. Again beyond excited for this guys! Thanks for hanging in there.
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Looking good! Glad to see some progress on your build. Exciting moment getting this close keep it up man!
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