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Originally Posted by cericd
Great to see you making progress. I assume you'll be painting the new panels to match the old (instead of a color change). One of my favorite color combos on this site.
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When this truck does finally get a coat of paint it will be the stock Medium Green and black top again. One of the main reasons I bought the truck was because of the color. And the 4 headlights!
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Originally Posted by swamp rat
Your son and you mist be pulling double shifts on them spot welds, I cant get nothing welded that fast, but i get about 2-3 hours a day average.
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It went quicker than I thought it would.
Even took my time and let the metal cool after a round of tacks. I still have a lot more to tacking to do, and I also have to do some "rework" to the rear cab floor area as this is the one spot where the patch panel didn't fit the best. Actually it's the only place that has to be modified on the whole panel so far. This is a really nice piece of metal to work with.
However I do think that when they stamp these panels they should just not even punch out the holes for the cab supports to bolt to. The holes are no where near close to lining up with the holes in the stock cab supports. They should just leave them blank with no holes so you can mark and drill your own. You can see in the one pic where I had to hog out the holes quite a bit on the front support.
Gary