[99 to Life]

3-1 So glad its finally March, just few more weeks of crap weather and clocks turning back will really help out. been a rough winter for sure. So today was one of those days where not a whole ton to show for. So I found some tubing around in my stash which really saved me some money and allowed me to work on the back driver side of cab. There was hardly any support for the cab mount member, so I boxed in around it. Have a temp piece tacked to the frame to hold up the rear of cab until I finish up my mounts. I'm going to run this a pattern similar to this on the pass side rear, once that is done, most all the bracing will be done. Just a matter of putting down some 18g for the floor, and patch the back outter cab and cab corners. Got to wrap up my pass side front floor and the trans tunnel. Then floor is done. I wanted engine and trans in there to make sure the tunnel is good to go, which I knew it would be. So soon I can take cab off flip it and do all the final welding and details and seam sealing/coating. I put a patch in the seat crossmember that ties the rear door jams together.

Took almost 3 cut off discs to get these bolts cut off of the stock motor mounts, I couldn't break em loose and is a pain getting a wrench in there anyway. Bolted trans to
engine block and got mounts on there, so I can start moching up engine etc. had to jack up the frame so the picker can roll under the Aarms. It was the end of the night and had no help so I went home. I'll pick up on that next sat, hopefully get back to the floors if I can get some sheet metal.

Oh and spent prolly half hour atleast trying to fit two seats that I had in there and my god both didn't fit. I didn't know 73-87 trucks had diff width bench seats. the one in my 51' is about 55-56" wide on the back part, the two seats I have are 58ish and the other is 59-60". So now I gotta find a bench seat that works, pretty pissed about that. Just glad I didn't have my cover made before I put it in.