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Re: My 1970 GMC Project
Got my piece made up for the firewall. Accidentally cut too much off of it in one spot by about a quarter inch.
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Piece is in! On to kick panel
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Made it to the local autobody supply today after work to get some rust conversion paint and ended up spending $80 by the time I walked through there... Should have known that would happen
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Nice work.
I will be repairing my cab soon. I am in for the build.
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Thanks for tagging along and for the compliments. Do you have a build tread? I'd like to check it out. Crew cab sounds crazy cool.
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I pulled my engine out of the corner in my garage today so I could put it on an engine dolly instead of the stand it was on. Now I can tuck it in closer to the wall. I also got the kick panel all cleaned up and welded in today. Today was a good day
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Kick panel looks good! What's next?
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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.
That is going to be Solid. So many trucks I have seen repaired with sheetmetal screws and scab patches. You are spending the time to make it right.
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Looks like I'm on track to have this pan finished by Christmas.
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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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