so with the holidays apon us ... and Me booking "lightly" in the shop ... I had some time to work on a few things ..

muffler I bought a while back I fianlly got it placed ..



I hade to get a small "extension bend" to get it where I wanted .. but it's now in place with a hanger .




also acid dipping some small pieces ...

 

so a little bit more
got the cab mounts .. "fit" .. + 1" body lift to clear the TG hoops >

had to cut , and drill .. and zinc .. but finally "tacked" .. and cab is now sitting on it's own ;D








now ready to "mock" up the floor .....

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so a little bit more today .. working on the floors .. made some templates first .



and transfered them to steel



cut them and fit them







also started on the tranny tunnel pattern








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Good gosh man...im starting to get ancy


Happy holidays

 

Amazing work on the cab!

I wish I had a garage to take my cab off and fix the floors/rockers right...working outside sucks. I'm anxious to see what the tranny hump looks like in metal form

 

thanks guys .. I want to have the floors "bead rolled" or "pressed corragations" for some strength .. so not yet ready to weld . but hopefully soon .

 

Good call, even for my rigged patch job of a floor pan i rolled 3 beads in it, defiantly strengthened things up.....for what it was anyway lol

 

yeah .. it's 14G steel .. but still !!

 

Haha, Corey..You gonna make your center console/ Tranny hump look like this..?

 

^ there ya go

...switching to auto pilot

Roger Roger, whats our vector Victor?, whats the clearance Clarence?

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holy crap ...


I dont think my truck could support all those switches ???? what the heck would I connect them to ?


FART SENSOR ....... bleep .. bleep !!



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ahhhh hahaha ... airplane .. with Leslie Nielsen .. funny funny funny
Love that humor !!

 

if you got that console, you could make everything electric, just put a little motor on everything that you would move!

ultimate slacker!

 

Yay, floor building. So just the sheetmetal with some ribs is enough for proper support? I had visions of tubular steel subframes and such. Watching intently anyway

 

original floor is 16G with "corragations" .. with strategic spots for bracing .. no tubular structure .

instead of this 16G , I'm using 14G and I am going to add bracing to the inside .. I have one rear brace going in the rear undernieth , where the cab meets the back 1/2 , which will also be supported , via cab mounts . corragations , or bead rolls will also be added ..

 

Ah, I see. The builds I've seen on TV have used 18ga or thinner, 14ga would be plenty strong in comparison. So for seat mounts, are you going to tie them into the body mounts as well?

Thanks for all the info by the way!

 

So when are you going to start selling replacement floor kits slacker?

 

not into the body mounts , but like the original , there will be a crossmember for the front of the seat mount , which will also be a strengthener , and then plated on the bottom/underside of the floor . also , before some one asks , YES , the seat belt anchors will also be plated .



I'm not . sorry .


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so more work on the tunnel , and a solution to the cab floor , and Trekker tub connection .....





so now with the basic "mock up" of the floor and tunnel , I can now cut the floor of the tub and build a deeper floor for the rear seat passengers



and starting a new fiberglass tunnel (templating from my new tunnel)




one issue , maybe ............ I cant find anyone in our town with a plenishing hammer .. so no floor corragations .. I guess we'll see how it goes .



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I like it, coming along well. I wanna convert my p/u to a trekker when it gets nice here I think.