[jarrodblake]

Originally Posted by SIXTY9

Jarrod,

If you will PM me your address I will send you the leaver you need.

Wally

I just seen this. Is this still available?

Originally Posted by Hart_Rod

Your under dash mod looks awesome!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

That is exactly what I started doing for my 72 to house my air pressure gauge, switch, and other switches. I haven't finished mine yet. Great work on it. That black box on the core support is an external voltage regulator for the alternator. Someone must have installed an alt with an internal regulator in it.

That looks so much easier to work on the dash with it removable. I really like the big flat piece on your new vice. That would be great to have.

I plan on doing the same with mine. I guess I will need to delete it as I plan on installing a high output alternator to run all the components I have planed on installing. I'm really happy I remembered to make the piece when I had the dash out. It would have been a pain to weld in the nuts with everything installed. But I suppose I could have used a rivnut/ nutsert.

So its been awhile since I have been on here. I keep getting side tracked. But I have made progress. Though not as much as I had hoped for. So I started work on the doors they were complete junk. The inner and outer part of the lower doors had been replaced. However they did a poor job and the started rusting out then they were filled with bondo and fiberglass. I was hoping to just re-replace the bottom of the door but I ended up having to replace the complete outer skin.

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Here is what I am working with.

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My new skins and inner lower panels came in the other week.

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My lower control arm U bolts also came in.

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Back to the doors.

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Lots of cutting, trimming, fitting and rust removal.

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Cheap planes

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Rusty metal primer on where the rust was and primer sealer on the clean metal and over the rusty metal primer.

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I installed some nutserts as the origenal nuts where missing when the panel was hacked up.

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Then I proceed to breaking my tool on the last one. I sent an email to smittybilt wanting to buy a replacement part for the tool and they sent me a compleat replacement free of charge!

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Anyways I undercoated the door inside.

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Now on to door number 2.

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I sprayed the inner door skins with primer sealer then undercoated them.

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I'm going to have to go back and cut drain holes in the other one as I believe that is what caused them to rust out to begin with well that and the way they where hacked togeather.

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So before I could seal up the doors and install the new skins I ended up buying some new toys!

Radius dimple dies and a hydro knockout punch set. Unfortunately the knockout punch set is in mm and not inche like it was listed on ebay. More on that later.

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So back to the doors, Something I have wanted to do since I bought the truck.

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So it turns out the knockout punch set is in mm not inches and the dies are just a little to small. So I ended up having to ream them out with running a hole saw backwards not to rip the metal. Then I had to clean it up with a file then a dremel. So I only got one side done today and I had to order a new die in inches.

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So now I get to wait till next week for the new die to come in.