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I love this thread.

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meow


Hit up my local upholstery supply place, which as a bonus, has an EXTREMELY attractive girl working at the desk. I picked up some vinyl to match the Procar seats in the truck, for the door cards. I kinda spaced out (not atypical for me....side effect of all the...fumes) and didn't think about the fact that a yard of vinyl is 54" wide; despite the fact that said attractive girl told me so while I was determining my order. Anyway, I ordered way too much, so I'll have to do more crap, but it turned out well, so I was happy. The color is Odessa Black.

Got together the spray adhesive, door panels, cleaner, blow dryer to heat it just incase, and some cutting tools.
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Lightly sanded the surface so the adhesive had some tooth to stick to. Then we layed out the panel on the vinyl, and cut our material. http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/002-4.jpg
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With some spray adhesive on both sides (material and surface) we lay the vinyl out starting at the center.
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With the front let settle for a few minutes, we flipped the piece over and started by trimming the extra off the edges, leaving more on the corners so we could V cut them to lay smooth.
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A picture of one side finished. ** ALL THE SPOTS ARE ON THE LENS, THE PANEL ITSELF IS CLEAN AND SMOOTH***
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/012-2.jpg

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

very nice!

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Nice Job ! I'm really liking your truck,fantastic work and great ideas

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Thanks gents.
Just a small update, forgot to paint the window cranks, so I took advantage of a nice day. Same process as all the stuff before, but with some better drying weather.


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And a quick snap of the grill at start, and then fully cured.
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Another nice ass day outside, so hit the garage hard. HARD. Seats came back out so I can coat the rails, and access the nasty carpet.
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Pulled out the crap trim piece (I have replacements) and exposing the rust on the rocker and portion of the floor.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/002-5.jpg
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Carpet up, the passenger side looks like the better of the two, but the drivers foot area (thankfully all before the cab support, which although crusty is very solid.
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With all the carpet out, the overall floor is dang solid, with all the mounts in decent shape, despite being a bit crusted.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/007-3.jpg

Time for the door to come off
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Using the trusty prybar, we found the boundaries of the rust, as well as some filler, from some point before.
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Since the cab mounts were solid and staying in place, and the inner rockers were to remain in place, there was no real structural risk to the cab. We did some measurements and verified along the way, but there was no change. We started by trimming out the rusted section of flooring, keeping overall patch size to a minimum.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/012-3.jpg
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Moved on to the rocker, starting at the seam in the rear and doing 1/2 of the rocker at a time. This allowed me to seperate the skin from the inner portion and retain the factory seam the best I could. It also allowed me to gauge the condition of the inner rocker and keep and eye on its integrity.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/016-2.jpg
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With it all the way up, we could test fit the rocker and determine the final shape of the drivers floor patch. Should get to that this week, and get it all welded up so I can move onto the other side.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/018-1.jpg

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

Getting there, looks good! :metal:

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

I really like your truck and what you are doing to it. Hope you get a job soon so that you can do more to it. Your progress is looking really good. It is amazing what a carpet will hide....keep up the great work!

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

Nice work on the floor. I just went through this on my cab. I know exactly what you are up against.
Keep it up.

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Ya the floor had some surprises, but it wasn't all that bad. I knew what i was getting into to a certain extent, just never got around to it last season. As for the job...things are developing. Hopefully the newest prospect will afford a move to a 12 month car season-state, as well as some industry hookups...and lets say its LSx specific.


Laying out some more of the patch panels.
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The rot
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Then some welding....
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and welding
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and....welding
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Not bad
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I didn't have a patch for this part, so my bro decided that it was time to hand form some sheet metal. My dumbass also forgot to switch my welder back to DCEP (i had put it to DCEN to burn out the roll of free wire that came with it)...I just could NOT figure out why my welds were coming out so BIG....a complete lack of current will do that. You can see the bead gets smaller about half way up, where it was corrected. I have to grind all the welds flat anyway, so I'm sure that one will have some re-welding in areas.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/011-3.jpg

We don't have a workshop, or forming tools...but we do have some hammer and dollies...which we left at the other garage. So we beat the bastard with a framing hammer on a brick. I think he did pretty damn good. There is one more little patch on this side before the rocker gets its final fitment and finish welding.

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

Good job fitting the patch and custom forming on the smaller patch. Loads of fun doing rust repair. Looks like you have the left side under control. How's the pass side?

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Ok, when I started this very same repair, I thought I was doing something wrong, or my patch panel was misshapen somehow because I got this gap at the forward edge at the firewall.
I see now that you did too, so all is well in my little world, I know now that I will just have to make a small triangle patch to go in there.

I paintshopped your pic with an arrow to show exactly what I am blathering about.

Looking good man!!
I am right behind you on this part.

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

Truck looks good. I also have been replacing my rockers and door skins. I bought the truck thinking it didn't have much rust. Well, it is in the doors, left side rocker, cab corners and bed. You are doing a good job! Check out my build page!

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Thanks for the comments guys.
McMurphy, that patch confused me also. I don't know why they didn't cut it to fit the seam, instead it angles toward the floor. I have a leftover piece of patch from the fender, which has a nice seam already pressed in it. I'm going to tweak that to fit, so hopefully I can keep the seam in a stock place.

We've only looked at the passenger side briefly, as it was the cleaner of the two. The driver side is easiest to access in my garage, and were gonna finish it before flipping her around for the other side.

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Some weight reduction?
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More welding and patching and welding and patching. Drivers floor is all done, and the rocker is back on.

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Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

Nice work and thanks for all the great pics
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The truck's looking good. How's the welding tan on your legs?:lol:

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

Hahah, I don't have any tattoo's on my legs so I don't care about protecting them. Plus half of the one already has skin burned off it. Its not TOO bad, the part that usually gets me is when I get some sparks that shoot off down my sock!

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Had a drop of slag do that, right into the top of my shoe. Got a scar there now.
I need more long sleeve shirts to weld in though, got done one day, had sun burn on my right upper arm the next day from welding. Guys at work could not believe it LOL

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Thats why I rock the HALF JACKET!
Seriously, everyone looks awesome welding in workout shorts and a bright green canvas half jacket.

Even better when I weld shirtless, half jacket only.

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

Got a question... how did you hook up your floor shifter to the 4L80e? Can you post a few pics? Thanks!

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

What exactly do you need a pic of? It was in there from the 700r4, same one you use for the 4l80e

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OH. Wasn't sure if my cable operated shifter would work on the 4L80e. Got a shot of your linkage at the side of the 4L80e?

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I just finished my rockers this weekend.
I have a patch at the gas pedal base that I am going to redo, then a tranny access door where someone chopped the hump up for a shifter still to do then I am done with floor metal working.

Are you going to coat your floor with anything?
I am thinking herculiner (because I can roll it on) then deadner, then carpet.

I like the RaptorCoat stuff some of the guys here are using, but I dont have a spray gun ...... hmmmmmm ....... yet !! :lol:

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Im down in SoCal for the week, so no progress will be coming. I'm going to be peel 'n' sticking the floor then covering with the foil/foam matting then a custom carpet I'll be making myself, to extend over the back gas tank portion and up the back wall.

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

Carpet going up the back wall sounds cool.... Hope you post lots of pics, I want to see your peel and stick.

Have fun in SoCal... still 4feet of snow on the gound here.... Le'Sigh :waah:

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SoCal was most excellent, it was a bit cooler than usual, but still VERY nice during the day.
I'm sitting on edge waiting for some information before I can post more on what and why.
Hoping to get the passenger side worked on this weekend, so I can start looking at the carpet.

My brother decided we should do a headliner out of the matching door/seat vinyl, anyone know where I can find the cardboard base to wrap a headliner? I thought those existed at one point.

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Not a "truck" update...but a "me" update. I'm signing my contracts, as I finally got a job! Not only that, in about 4 months I should be moving to SoCal, to work as contributing editor. Those of you that read LsxTv, Street Legal TV and the like will get to hear my inane ramblings about things. It should also mean nice exposure, and ideally some "comp'd" parts from sponsors. Obviously I'm happy.

If weather is ok here I'll be starting on the other side of the floor, but knowing the forecast I'll be doing a gun build or two. We shall see.

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

Glad to hear you got a job, and a cool one at that!

Moving to SoCal is going to be a bit of a trip.

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

WOW....what a "dream job". Congrats!!!

No doubt you'll be able to get your truck involved in various projects...netting you some free hardware. I'm jealous! :lol:

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Thanks gents. Sponsor hardware is a plus, it'll be a while before I could get in que for feature work; but all good things come with time.

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wow congrats man !!

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I did'nt notice if you hung the door back on to check the rocker fit before
welding?. I hope so, been there, done that. look's great!

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didn't bother because my door bottoms needed work internally, the curvature of the door would be different anyway. We took a number of measurements, and everything stayed the same. My gaps were piss poor to start, so there really didn't seem to be an advantage to re-creating a bad gap.

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cleaned things up and fired her off for the first time this year. My optima managed to die (hard to kill those things but it was a few years old and was only holding <5v) so I picked up a new battery, and she started up first turn of the key.
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Pulled off the outer rocker on the passenger side, and cut away the bad part of the floor. Had my patch panel so I just had to cut to fit and weld her in. Not bad for an afternoons work.
l.
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Just need to clean these all up/grind smooth and do some trimming for a small patch where it meets the old rocker. The holes at the top of the toe have actually been filled and smoothed but I snapped this pic 2/3 of the way through. Hopefully later in the week I should be able to get the outer rocker replaced and take a look at some sound deadening and floor covering.

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Got a bunch of junk done today; got my passenger floor finished and put the replacement outer rocker on the passenger side as well. Forgot my camera so didn't take a pic of that yet, but I did grab my phone later a take a couple quick snaps of some of the work.
We did an initial layer of deadening on the floors, running from the back wall all the way up into the footwell area. A second layer will be added in key areas, and then we will be adding new black carpet as well as doing carpet on the back wall.

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We need to change the positioning of my gas pedal to make a more comfortable drive, so we cut the old pedal into 3 pieces, saving only the foot pedal and top arm. After some positioning and measurement, we made a new lever for it. Said lever was made out of a leftover piece of shotgun barrel....not everyone can say that :)
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I'll try to get decent pics on my camera later in the week, and I'll get some of the completed passenger rocker area too.

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Got my regular camera back out, so I got some better shots. I still need to learn how to clean the INSIDE of this thing, I keep getting those white spots you see on some of these pics.
Floor and adding the heat mat.
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So we had some warm weather and decided to finally get some clear on all those black accessories and trim pieces I painted earlier. Although I had some clear around the house, I saw this "Paint Shop Matte Clear" and wanted to try it out.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/004-7.jpg

With our gun setup, we started laying 3-4 coats of clear down on all the parts.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/003-9.jpg
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We let everything cure for about 36hrs, and did a scratch-test on a leftover piece. The clear is extremely hard and layed down VERY well. Even the areas that I slightly oversprayed, never ran and leveled off and cleared really nicely.

Even though I have another round or so of bodywork to do before the rest of the truck gets paint and needs assembly....I REALLY wanted to test fit some components and get ready to cruise a little bit. (The truck is really really dirty)
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With the new door cards I showed a few posts back (the doors themselves need finishing)
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...0chevy/020.jpg

And the grill (bezels not on yet)
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I also forgot I picked up some new sills from member here, so I unboxed those bad boys, and will toss them on when the carpet comes (C'mon Classic Parts, don't backorder stuff on people without having it listed as backorder on your site...thats garbage and made me miss an event)

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...hevy/019-1.jpg

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

thats looking goood man!!!!!! keep it up

Re: Br3w City's Project omgwtfbbq
 

that black satin looks great. is that a dbw pedal assembly you modified?

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The swap and paint are looking good. Dude, get a mask.