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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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Making progress- lighting looks good too
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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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Nice progress! I'll follow along.
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Thanks! And thanks for taking the time to read my thread.
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Another successful evening in the garage even if it doesn't seem like it.
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Sorry to hear about the adjustments on the pan... It's those kinds of things that makes doing this work take twice as long... I'm battling my cab corners as we speak and also had to battle rockers, radio panel, and cab supports so I know the extra time your putting in.
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The pan is all welded back together and the opening has been made to the correct size. Tomorrow I will be able to clean up my mating surfaces, lay down some weld through, then hopefully I'll have time to tack it into place. I also started welding shut all the seams at the top of my door openings as it is much nicer not having to weld upside down.
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Just when a guy thinks he's got it all figured out, he's gotta go and make 3 more splice cuts. Worst part is one of them was basically upside down and my welder just doesn't seem to weld nice upside at all which can be seen by the amount of molten metal that dripped down below while welding.
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Great work man, keep it up. I'm out in the garage this weekend finishing cab corners and rockers!
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I got my welding tank exchanged on Saturday but then ran out of time to get into the garage by the time I got home. Then yesterday I had a family gathering so nothing got done either lol. But today after I shoveled the whole driveway, I made it out for about 2 hours and finished up welding in the floor pan. Then I started grinding
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Not alot of progress to report recently. I did do some more seam welding in the door opening and tonight I stripped a good chunk of the underside to bare metal. The progress will pick up pretty good again here though now that I finished the tile backsplash in the kitchen which is why I've been so slow for the past 2 weeks or so. Hopefully I'm test fitting the cab support soon. I can almost see the cab back down on the floor if I squint really hard.
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What kind of floor piece is that for the rear corner? It has what seems to be some drain provisions built into them?? Never seen that. Will you have a support that goes over the top of that piece I assume?
And this brings me to a question, I'd like my can sealed up but these cab corners and rockers where they meet don't seem to seal up nor do they seem to be designed to seal up... This doesn't make sense to me. I want to either leave them the way they are and build an extra piece inside cab corners that extends from floor to cab corner that is flat across and I can seal off or seal up the rims underneath somehow where the floors meet the corners and rockers... What are your plans for this?
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