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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Finished welding the A pillars today. Then we started filling the gaps in the front piece above the windshield and the top of the rear door frame.
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Weld grind weld grind weld grind. That was all we did all day today. There will probably be several more days of that. Here's a couple of pictures of the progress.
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Here's some progress from friday. A couple of shots of more welding and grinding on the inside of the upper window frame. Plus the replacement panel for above the windshield arrived.
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Nice work 65sub. Looking forward to what you are going to do with the doors.
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Thanks A.D. I look forward to seeing progress on your 'burb as well.
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We got a little por15 on the top of the side panels where the roof attaches. Then we started measuring to cut the roof. We decided on 50 inches from the back so we would have a bit of room for adjustment. Then we fired up the cut off wheel and started cutting. Now we have a two piece roof.
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After cutting the roof in half we needed to remove the roof skin from the structure under it so we can widen the structure. Since we don't need the drip rail we cut it off and lifted off the skin. Then we cut the cross pieces of the roof structure and clamped them onto the truck.
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Here's the progress from yesterday. First we cut some pieces from a spare cross brace so we can extend the roof braces. After tacking them in place we we set the roof on to see how it looks. It leaves about 5/8 of an inch gap on each side. Then we took the roof bracing off to finish welding it. We also replaced so rusty sections on the side.
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love the progress. lots of rust repair, think how nice it would be if you didn't have to do rust repair and could just focus on customizing!
every time I have to do rust repair I wish I didn't ![]()
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Thanks Jon. With all the salt they use on the roads here rust repair is usually a given. On this truck most of what rusted away I don't want any way.
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Looks killer. There were a guy who had a panel truck that offered it to me for $200 a couple weeks ago. It was really rough but this build has me thinking I should go get it and start chopping the **** out of it!! Lol
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In the nicest way possible, you are a mad builder, and I love this van.
You guys are doing so well. I have soon to start welding and cutting and grinding on my truck. I am sure it will turn out OK, but do hope it gets to a point like your build where I can step back and say "Wow" Looking forward to every update on here.
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I look forward to watching your progress as well. It must be a lot tougher building a truck there when you're so far from the suppliers
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Not a lot to post today because we have a pile of welding to finish before we can put the roof on. And welding takes up a lot of time. Here's a couple of spots we got finished.
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Did more welding and grinding today. We got the pass side B pillar finished. Then we moved to the C pillar to fix the window frame. We cut out the corner then moved it back about 1.5" and clamped it in place.
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Nice fix on the C pillar. I had been looking it over and wondered which way to go to bring it all in line. Love it.
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Thanks pimpston. I'm not sure about plastic surgeon but maybe Dr Frankenstien.
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here's some shots of the outside finished and the inside almost done
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I wish I had half your metal working skills
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65sub,
I'm really enjoying the step-by-step body surgery pics. Its looking really good.
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Thanks CShaver. See the link above Quote:
Here's a couple of shots of the drivers side C pillar from Friday and today. We still have some finish welding to do, We also hung some wall art above the shop door. ![]()
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We spent quite a bit of time today trying to fit the roof skin. The skin is actually wider at the front than the back which makes it difficult to fit on a square truck. so we decided to think about it for awhile. We moved on to making mounting tabs to hold the body to the frame.
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This build is CRAZY in an awesome way...I'm just 50 mins East of you in Belmont...awesome man!
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Yes, I'd like to. It would be my first time attending their show. Maybe a few other local C10 guys would be interested?
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