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Old 12-19-2016, 11:10 AM   #11
CSHADES
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Re: Rebuilding my 1977 plow truck

So moving along to the box. As I said before the plow truck has dual tanks and the new box only had a tank on the drivers side. I called around a couple of junk yards to see if anyone had a box that I could get the filler door I needed but all of them told me that they had scrapped all of that old stuff. So I lucked out with the acquiring of the 79 parts truck because it had the filler door on the right side. I just cut a big area out of the box around the filler door area and then trimmed as needed to install it in the new box. I measured it about 5 times before I started cutting, it came out good. I welded in the new door, hammering and pulling as necessary to keep it as flat as possible. I painted and seam sealed the back of the panel and skim coated the outside, primed and painted.
I started on the doors after that, cleaning all the edges and welding the holes shut from the little mirrors that were on the truck. I drilled the mount holes for the bigger mirrors that came with the 77. Epoxy primed, primed, sanded, sanded some more and then finally painted.
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