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Progress is going to be slow for a bit. Our little one was born on the 13th and she is perfect. This is Daphne.:)

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Congrats!

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Congrats!!!

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Right on! Enjoy this time with your little one, they change so fast!

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Congrats!

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Thanks guys. We are just loving our time with her! She is so precious

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Congrats cute little gal look forward to seeing wrenches in her hands on future builds

I work on my stuff with my kids great to teach them how to do real things with there hands

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Wow! Congrats. She is beautiful

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Thanks guys! She is so tiny. She was only 5LB 10OZ at birth.

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Daphne is absolutely perfect. :ben::clap:

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Thanks. She absolutely is.

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Congradulations.











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I made it into the shop for the first time since Daphne was born. I have filled in the radius in the rear corner of the passenger rocker/cab corner. I then started to fill the leading edge of the rocker as it was much to rounded for my liking. Only a small piece of wire was needed to match the door to the rocker near the front.

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Thank you!

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Gaps are looking real solid! Keep it up!

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Thank you.

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This afternoon I was planning to finish up welding the edge of the passenger rocker but that turned out to be a bust. I got all set up, turned on the welder and went to make a tack.....out of gas.:banghead: Oh well, found something else to do for the afternoon. I cleaned up the upper windsheild area and got some marglass over the seams I welded shut. While I was there, I also filled in the spot welds under the lip of the roof edge. Once that was done, I tried yet another door I scored off of my uncle and bam! We have a winner.;) after a few more adjustments, I will be happy with this door as a start. The body lines are off very slightly but at least the upper window frame has nice gaps. I can always adjust the body lines with filler.

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Congratulations on the newborn! Truck is looking awesome. I am jealous of the body/welding work. That's probably my weakest area unfortunately. I'll stay tuned and see if I pick up a few tips from you.

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Thanks man. It's been pretty cool being a dad so far. The biggest thing I can recommend is practice when it comes to welding. Stay tuned and you see alot of body work :lol: Thanks for the compliments on the truck as well.

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Progress continues on the passenger side. I got the rest of the rocker edge welded up and smoothed off. I also got a good coat of marglass laid down on the outside of the rocker. Should be done with welding on the cab now for a while so hopefully I'll be laying down some regular bondo soon.:metal:

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First of all, congratulations on the arrival of little Daphne, she is so precious!

You really had a lot to deal with on this truck, and I thought the rust issues on my truck were bad... You are doing a spectacular job! I still have a rust area up under the dash where the cowl inlet rusted through. That will be a challenge to fabricate the replacement patches and get them welded in. Once that is done, I can epoxy prime the cab interior and apply the Lizard Skin.

Have you given any thought to applying any sound deadening/thermal barrier? My goal is to do such a good job rust proofing my truck that it can be a daily driver without the worry of it rusting out again.

Again congrats on the beautiful baby girl and the work you have done on your truck!

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Thank you for all the compliments. I am planning to use something like a raptor liner on the under side of the cab. On the inside, I'm planning to use something like a kilmat or equivalent. I'm hoping that will be sufficient to get fairly decent sound deadening. I also plan to use a piece of kilmat underneath the factory headliner.

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You'll like the Raptor Liner, goes on easy and it is tough as nails.

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Are you doing liner inside the cab? Im trying to figure out if I want to or not.

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I'm not decided on that either. I was leaning more towards just doing the underside but not too sure. Does anyone think it would be beneficial to do both sides?