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Wow that came out fantastic. Your doing a terriffic job on all the mods and such.Well built with a very nicely finished appearance as well. Im having fun reading and watching the progress on it.

                                 John

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Excellent design and fabrication.

Gotta love that!

With the diesel engine a 1/2" or more of Dynamat or factory like sound/heat block would be nice.

I'm sure you have a good plan.?

 

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15 hours ago, minicooper said:

Did you do the fabrication and install cab-off-frame? Can’t tell by the photos, other than how awesome it looks!

 

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Cab is on frame and all welded while in place.  I will remove the cab to finish stitching up the butt welds and grind any (ha-ha) excess material.

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Well, for better or worse, TODD has a full floor.   Some spots just downright gave me fits so I ended up chasing welds.  Knowing I'm going to grind a radius on the outside of the frame notch, I bridged the hundreds of spot welds to give myself some meat to dig into.  I really was trying to watch distortion on the cab back.  I used the old cab floor corners (body panel glued to the outer skin) and made fill in panels.  Some selected grinding left, but I'll wait on that a bit so I give the rust monsters less to work with.

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My neighbor offered me the use of his rotisserie....gonna make finishing the welds SO much easier!  Fun week ahead!

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took my "free" day and did some grinding on the welds thus far.  I will have to redo one whole line of welds on the trans tunnel as I ground thru them since I didn't prep the seem properly. 

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well the weekend is over (at least I think it's Monday), floor and firewall work is done, now on to filling in the missing bits of dash and the random holes that are there, clean up my fill panel by the drip rail, and finish the cowl/firewall plug welds and the cab will be done until I tackle the doors and get a steering wheel and seat set up figured.  I little bit of filler and sanding on the lap joint interfaces and butt weld areas when it's paint time and things will be nice and pretty.
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Meanwhile, AFTER being done on Saturday, AFTER I cleaned up, I took off my PPE and THEN got this little bugger in my eye and ended up in urgent care to get it removed.

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11 minutes ago, ggdad1951 said:

well the weekend is over (at least I think it's Monday), floor and firewall work is done, now on to filling in the missing bits of dash and the random holes that are there, clean up my fill panel by the drip rail, and finish the cowl/firewall plug welds and the cab will be done until I tackle the doors and get a steering wheel and seat set up figured.  I little bit of filler and sanding on the lap joint interfaces and butt weld areas when it's paint time and things will be nice and pretty.
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Meanwhile, AFTER being done on Saturday, AFTER I cleaned up, I took off my PPE and THEN got this little bugger in my eye and ended up in urgent care to get it removed.

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Fabrication looks good.  Been there done that with the chip in the eye (twice).  Quite painful.

 

 

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been there....it seems even though I know ahead of time that this stuff is in my hair, eyebrows and even on the PPE itself...and I try to blow it off prior to removing the PPE...anyway..whamo right in the eye like the eyeball is a magnet of some sort...sorta like being on a golf course....ever notice how the trees seem to suck a ball in their direction?

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Today's progress.   Needless to say the cab PO mucked up the dash bad cutting in 2 holes, a huge notch for a SW, and the speaker area cut apart.  Nothing a little filler and building primer won't fix.

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