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]ust thinking, when you get roof welded on be sure and check condition of drains. Almost easy to not even notice them and with your replacement of your drip rails it easy to over look. That the cause of your rust in edges of a pillars and over windshield area. Roof water sits rust through and has access to other areas. Took pictures of mine but don’t know how to attach.
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something else to ponder
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01-16-2023, 07:41 PM | #5 |
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yeah wanted to keep the exterior as much stock looking as possible and settled on putting it in the stake pocket
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02-05-2023, 12:03 AM | #6 |
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Even though it isn't finished yet, I like that fuel fill door idea a lot
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That looks great, very good idea.
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One of the issues we are running into is the fuel fill is going to have to be a 1.5" fill and to get the hose run we will have to have the flexible fuel hose. Also it will have to go through the rear bed cross member so we will have to cut a notch or hole to connect to the tank
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This was dropped off the other day.
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A little update making some progress, fuel door a little further along, reshaped the the wheel well lip it was pretty beat up on both sides, re-welded the inner braces, top of the driver bed side needs to pushed back flat it is some how rolled up a little didn't notice that till we started working on it. Still need a patch at the top of bed side near the fuel door, looks like some one cut it for a piece of plywood to use a tailgate best I can tell both side of the bed have the same cuts, reset the drivers side and started working on the passenger bed side.
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03-05-2023, 01:00 AM | #11 |
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Test fitted the fuel tank, a before pic of the passenger side wheel well lip and an after of the Driver side wheel well lip, both were a bit rough and how we mounted the fuel door hinge.
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04-23-2023, 11:38 PM | #12 |
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Those wheels aren't my faves either. But bear in mind that I went about as far the other way as you can go, 15x8 steelies with chrome hubcaps. So I may not be a good judge.
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these are two piece wheels but not made in a standard way where the center is placed in a hoop and then welded these seem that they are machined from a blank with limited spacing depending on the depth and then welded on to the hoop to make up the width |
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Another update, a little more progress
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Looking good. Will you be rewelding the seam on the tailgate?
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Yes to do it right you really have to weld that up, since once it is cut you can move the bracket everything is mounted to so without the welds they would be a little lose
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Great metal work.
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Welding up the tailgate side where we cut out for the supports.
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08-23-2023, 09:28 PM | #19 |
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Laying out the location for the body side trim mounting holes location
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08-23-2023, 09:32 PM | #20 |
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New wheels are in can't wait to see these on the ol girl
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08-23-2023, 09:36 PM | #21 |
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So something cool coming out of this shot cant wait to see this mod come to life.
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Really like the tailgate handle, have a video saved that shows it on a C10. Will eventually do this mod and be rid of the chains on the paint.
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yeah I'm happy with the way it turned out but it was not as easy as some have said, there was a lot of custom work to get it in there, the handle itself was modified, the handle bucket was modified to get the handle to sit as flat as possible, as well the tailgate links, the links were actually made from two different sets to get the right geometry/angle when the tailgate is open. the latches were modified quite a bit, The tailgate had several changes to the sides it is quite a bit of cutting and clearancing to get the hard tailgate links into a factory tailgate. I'm sure I'm forgetting some of the other things we changed just to make it work.
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Wow. That dash extension looks great. That's one of those ideas I wish I had thought of when I was at that stage in my build. Great work.
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I can't take credit for the idea as I saw this idea in another truck but it wasn't executed very well from what we can tell from photos, so with that hope to be able to make it look like it could have been a factory dash.
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