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Thanks for the kind words. Your build is looking very good too. Exhaust turned out great!
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Made it back into the shop tonight so I could carry on welding any remaining holes in the floor and stripping the paint off. I plugged the gas tank holes and welded a few holes from alignment screws shut. I was also looking at the bucket seat brackets for the drivers seat. It looks like I'm missing a piece or two. I'm not sure how readily available parts are so I'm considering just building some brackets of my own. (If anyone has any input about parts I'd be interested) I'm not even sure what I would all need. I'm hoping to get the seats and console all figured out so that I can officially be done with the floor. I still have all the rear bucket bracket mounts to drill and install but I'm not sure exactly where they go without the passenger brackets. I've heard they are available aftermarket but haven't really looked into it yet. Again if anyone has info on that I'd be greatful. Thanks guys.
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Got a little bit of free time last night and made it into the shop. I've been quite busy lately with a side job I've been working with a buddy. Once that is completed, I'm hoping to be back on this thing a little more regularly with winter setting in. I also ended up hacking up my hand pretty good at the side job so I had about 3 weeks of taking it easy while that healed. I'm going to include a picture of my hand so if you don't like that sort of thing, proceed with caution.
![]() Last night I decided that I will build my own bucket seat brackets so I squared up off the bench seat holes and drilled for the inner rear seat mounts. I also made a fuel filler delete plate and got that welded up. Soon I'll be removing the front body panels from the truck and getting ready for rockers and cab corners. ![]() |
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That looks terrible man. I did something similar a while back on the truck. Takes forever to heal. And gloves only make it worse.
Great job on that filler plate, looks good. ![]()
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Ouch...
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Well hey what do you know, I found some time and got something accomplished. The cowl has been removed and boy was that not a fun task!
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Thats a bunch of work indeed... How many spotweld cutters did you go through? Congratulations on the nice new ride! I hope to step up one day also but my 05 GMC is still too nice for me to want a change. If it aint broke don't fix it.
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Nice work Kronald, find much rust under the cowl?
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Not too much but enough that I'm happy that I pulled the trigger on removing it.
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I'll be here soon removing panels. Making sure rust isn't lurking underneath. Nice work
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Just a little bit of late night surgery tonight.
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Just awesome.
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And the firewall is looking much more symmetrical. Took me a bit to make the piece. I like the way it's looking. I had to use my dad's shrinker to get the rounded corner to lay flat, man is that a pretty wicked tool!
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Nice and clean work man, plus having access to the back side is a bonus!
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![]() I finished with the firewall extension piece, it's all welded in and ground down. I went back to my dad's tonight and played around with the metal stretcher this time and ended up creating this beauty. (Pics to follow) ![]() With a little bit more massaging and holding my tongue just right, it should fit. |
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Here we have it folks, one symmetrical inner cowl piece.
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We need a popcorn button. I'm in for this show. Looking good Kronald!
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That interesting. Never seen that done before
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Nice improvement.
Looking good. .
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I figured this way I would never have to worry about my 396 valve covers ever hitting that section of the firewall as I believe that is a common problem? Also my perfectionism is making me do crazy things.
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Hey guys, I was working on my firewall again today and I just hit a milestone with this cab. I've officially burned through one whole 10 lb roll of mig wire.
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It really does take the clean firewall look a step further. I want to do it to my cab now that I see how uniform it can be. It really is the one spot that becomes problematic. The gained real estate in the back of the engine bay is not lost real estate in the foot well area inside the cab. Its a win win other than another day or so in the build process.
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