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Spent most of the day tackling the firewall cleanup with a DA sander and a small air angle grinder with a 120 grit disc. Still have a few more minutes to get it ready for primer. Moved on to the driver's side floorboard rust. Wanted to get this taken care of since some of it comes up on the firewall where I will be painting soon.

Started on the floorboard with an air needle scaler tool, it gets rid of the seam sealer and also pokes holes where the metal is thin. After that, I decided to cut it out into sections and do three separate pieces since the floor support was fine. By doing the separate pieces it made it easier to get the bend just right where the floor turns up to the seam of the firewall. No big surprise here just time-consuming to get everything to fit well for spot welding. On all three parts, I made templates out of card stock I saved from some boxes. Move the templates over to the sheet metal stock and mark it out with a pencil. Then cut it with my Rigid Multi-tool with a sheet metal cutter attachment. This fifty-dollar tool is a game changer for cutting out parts. Finished with spot welding, and grinding, then going over everything with a DA sander with 80 grit.

Pic 1 - Firewall progress
Pic 2 - Holes in the floorboard I am starting with
Pic 3 - After cutting out and squaring up everything
Pic 4 - All the new sheet metal ready for primer
Pic 5 - Testing out some cab light metal pods I purchased for the Idaho Edition build