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‘82 GMC “Junkyard JIMMY” {Build bash Rebuild}
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euzoa
1/2 ton status
Yep...thats what she said when she left 
(yes that is either a little dick joke, or a my ex wife is a slut joke, take your pick).
Been busy with UTI, but I love the half doors, Keep up the great work!
(yes that is either a little dick joke, or a my ex wife is a slut joke, take your pick).Been busy with UTI, but I love the half doors, Keep up the great work!
Let's call it a slutty ex-wife joke.I would hate to try to come up with a small dick with a UTI joke.
Thanks for the compliments and the chuckle.
It's rained almost every day since I put them 1/2 doors on.
Thanks for the compliments and the chuckle.
It's rained almost every day since I put them 1/2 doors on.
euzoa
1/2 ton status
Ha! classic.
Same thing happened when I put that softtop toneau cover on
Same thing happened when I put that softtop toneau cover on
TheBeast_88K5
Banned
Them half-doors are $exay.... 
Thank bro.
I'm daily driving the JIMMY. It's all good...
I'm daily driving the JIMMY. It's all good...
I decided to ream another TRE for the Norcal_Cris crossover. The other one was a little too big as I reamed it for a drag link the first time.
Then I swapped the DL on the pitman arm for a TRE and built a new cross over bar with the bends at slightly different angles. This cross over bar also has only RH threaded links so I can easily replace them with the stock replacements.
Then I went for a cruise around town with the lady & the dogs.This is Sunset Cliffs.
Fiesta Island, San Diego
The other side of Fiesta Island. There was a big sand pile I couldn't resist.
I also pulled a stuck truck & boat out of the water.
Good times. I think I'm ready for a trail run.
Then I swapped the DL on the pitman arm for a TRE and built a new cross over bar with the bends at slightly different angles. This cross over bar also has only RH threaded links so I can easily replace them with the stock replacements.
Then I went for a cruise around town with the lady & the dogs.This is Sunset Cliffs.
Fiesta Island, San Diego
The other side of Fiesta Island. There was a big sand pile I couldn't resist.
I also pulled a stuck truck & boat out of the water.
Good times. I think I'm ready for a trail run.
K5 Jess
1/2 ton status
Very nice! 
What gauge the sheet metal is on the roof?
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andyblack
Registered Loser
16 gauge? Whatever you can find and shape is better than a rusty hole in my opinion.
I have various gauges of sheet metal laying around.
It looks lighter than 16 ga (.54mm)
I think it's either 18ga (.47mm)
Or 20 ga (.33mm)
I thought someone would know exactly what it was.
I pm'd ryoken and he didn't know either but agreed it was lighter than 16.
This is going to be a big job for me...
andyblack
Registered Loser
It is pretty thin. I've dented mine a little just from putting my knee on it for a second. It must be thinner than 16 gauge. I wonder if you could cut a piece off an old cab at a junk yard or something that's a little bigger than what you need. I dout they would allow that, but an auto scrapper might. Then you could cut out the rusty part and graft in the scrap piece with tack welds and all that jazz. Just a thought.
I have various gauges of sheet metal laying around.
It looks lighter than 16 ga (.54mm) tolerance size for 16ga 0.598 +or- 0.004
I think it's either 18ga (.47mm) Correct dimension for 18ga.
Or 20 ga (.33mm) Actual 20ga thickness 0.359
22ga is 0.03 so its in between 20 and 22 but no 21ga exists..?
I thought someone would know exactly what it was.
I pm'd ryoken and he didn't know either but agreed it was lighter than 16.
This is going to be a big job for me...
This is what I do so these #'s are accurate.
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I could do that but I don't have any cordless cutting tools.
I'm gonna need a new CK5 sticker too cuz my windshield is cracked.
I'm gonna need a new CK5 sticker too cuz my windshield is cracked.
The metal I have is for construction and stamped by the manufacturer and have mill certs confirming the gauges are true and correct per SSMA.
*Steel Stud Manufacturers Association www.ssma.com
Thickness variations in automotive manufacturing.
There is usually some variation in the "finished "material thickness once the profiles have been stamped, spot welded and sanded or ground prior to the prime and paint.
The location of your rust would suggest there likely was some shaping to get the tie in from the pillar to the roof blended before filler, so as long as you can "work" the new piece you plan to use, I would go with something slightly thicker than what you measure from the surrounding material.
This way you will have a bit of forgiveness or cushion when you do your welding grinding and sanding.
The metal I have is for construction and stamped by the manufacturer and have mill certs confirming the gauges are true and correct per SSMA.
*Steel Stud Manufacturers Association www.ssma.com
There is usually some variation in the "finished "material thickness once the profiles have been stamped, spot welded and sanded or ground prior to the prime and paint.
The location of your rust would suggest there likely was some shaping to get the tie in from the pillar to the roof blended before filler, so as long as you can "work" the new piece you plan to use, I would go with something slightly thicker than what you measure from the surrounding material.
This way you will have a bit of forgiveness or cushion when you do your welding grinding and sanding.
Thanks KJ. I have the perfect size metal at work.
I wrote my gauges incorrect. It is not in mm's it's actually "mils"
For the record the gauges of the material I have on hand is
20 gauge - 0.0346"
18 gauge- 0.0451"
And more but I gotta go...
I wrote my gauges incorrect. It is not in mm's it's actually "mils"
For the record the gauges of the material I have on hand is
20 gauge - 0.0346"
18 gauge- 0.0451"
And more but I gotta go...
andyblack
Registered Loser
Yeah I was thinking that sheet metal was measured in mils and not millimeters. A mil is .001 inch, right?
Correct.
The trades up here are not all converted to metric,(thankfully) so the thicknesses mentioned are in 0.001 of an inch.
The trades up here are not all converted to metric,(thankfully) so the thicknesses mentioned are in 0.001 of an inch.
andyblack
Registered Loser
Yeah people think that only the USA still uses the inch system and that everyone else has totally swapped over to metric, but that's not the case. I think many countries have a strange mix of both, in the western hemishpere at least. I went to Hounduras a couple of years ago and they were selling water by the liter and gas by the gallon (if I remember correctly). There were almost no American cars or trucks there, so I wonder if they had any SAE tools at all. When we went to do a construction project outside a little villiage in the mountains, I thought "oh great - they're going to want to measure everything in centimeters." But they used normal inch based measuring tapes and refered to everything in inches. They also sent text messages on cell phones while riding horses and donkeys, but that's a different story.
