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    Quote Originally Posted by blackknight View Post
    Holy shit Batman! Nice progress !
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    Hoping to weld the new in tomorrow.
    I put these panels in on my 95 DaK. Your vehicle will probably not be a street conveyance but where the weld bead was on mine, rusted like anything right through to the outside. I should have coated it with a rust preventative and then applied Chassis Guard (like POR) and painted that over instead of just spraying primer on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arro222 View Post
    I put these panels in on my 95 DaK. Your vehicle will probably not be a street conveyance but where the weld bead was on mine, rusted like anything right through to the outside. I should have coated it with a rust preventative and then applied Chassis Guard (like POR) and painted that over instead of just spraying primer on it.
    Luckily for me. I can treat the back side of the weld during and afterwards. Most of the time you cant, and the weld will rust from the back side forward.

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    Made a little progress on the bedside repair today.


    Ran into an issue, the patch panel had the wrong arch and radius.

    But nothing a little hammer and dolly work couldnt work out

    All tacked in now.

    Hoping tomorrow I will finish the long progress of tack, hammer, tack and get this part finished.

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    Picked up some metal for a chassis jig. Shooting to build it this week

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    Quote Originally Posted by niebs View Post
    Tin can here i come lol
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    I really do feel for you guys dealing with rust, we have none zero, zip, nada up here. Like I've said when we make ornamental gates we have to chemically "Make" rust. The underside of my 1998 and 2001 Rams are just dusty. And my Dakota RT is rust proofed with rubber...How did that happen?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adobedude View Post
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    I plan to!

    How did you remove the sound mats?

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    Quote Originally Posted by niebs View Post
    I plan to!

    How did you remove the sound mats?
    Heat gun and a putty knife. Total PIA, but worth the effort.
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    Floor boards gonna scratch, I rolled on Gray Herculinar and sprayed it with Red Rustoleum, left everything else smooth. Perfect.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adobedude View Post
    Heat gun and a putty knife. Total PIA, but worth the effort.
    Great, thanks! Figured it would be a PITA. I know some ppl use dry ice and i did not feel like going thru that mess.

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    Dry ice will fuck you up...But so will a heat gun. DAMHIK.
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    Crappy day outside so I could not work on the truck. I decided to get the mock rear set up and ready for the chassis jig.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niebs View Post
    LOL yeah. I think so. Ill mount it down in chassis as much as possible. But its kinda tall. plus a carb and hat on top
    The super stock guys, like Shane Studley raise their engines and move them back as much as the stock fire wall will allow, helps with weight transfer. That's a 9:1 carbed 360 BTW

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adobedude View Post
    The super stock guys, like Shane Studley raise their engines and move them back as much as the stock fire wall will allow, helps with weight transfer. That's a 9:1 carbed 360 BTW
    Nice!
    Im hoping to have the power and suspension to make low center mass work. ~11:1 with a bunch of boost should help haha.

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    Had a little bit of decent weather so I decided to get the motor and trans ready to be pulled. Just motor and trans mounts and she'll come out :biggthumpup

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    Shooting to have the chassis jig done this week.
    This weekend I have a motor and trans setting in a 49 f100

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    Little progress this weekend.



    Im trying to decide how far i want to strip it before it goes on the chassis jig.

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    I can see so much weight that can be removed

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    Quote Originally Posted by niebs View Post
    I can see so much weight that can be removed
    For starters....
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    And all that wire shit...Hello over 60 lbs gone.
    Power Brakes. Gone.
    Power steering. Gone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adobedude View Post
    And all that wire shit...Hello over 60 lbs gone.
    Power Brakes. Gone.
    Power steering. Gone.
    No doubt front crossmember is gone. power brakes and steering are both are already in the works of being replaced.

    Glad you chimed. I have not looked into the wiring nest yet. How much can I pull out and keep the lights and switches happy. Did you gut it all and get a 'painless' system?

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    Funny how my truck is missing that cross member,
    previous owners must have done that and i just noticed because one of my rack bushings is gone. Did a good job i don't even see were it was

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