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1973 K10 : Chloe

1973 K10 offroad build
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I have this very odd problem at my house. I have a ton of stuff, old parts, torn up sheet metal, cardboard boxes. I have to race my wife to the garbage can. She fills it with weeds and tree clippings, I mean to the top.
No room for my garbage. I guess I’ll have to wait for the next bulk pick up and set it all out on the curb. I really don’t like doing that.
 
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BoondocK5 said:
I have this very odd problem at my house. I have a ton of stuff, old parts, torn up sheet metal, cardboard boxes. I have eye race my wife to garbage can. She fills it with weeds and tree clippings, I mean to the top.
No room for my garbage. I guess I’ll have to wait for the next bulk pick up and set it all out on the curb. I really don’t like doing that.
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All that stuff is recycling.
I always get money for my scrap metal, and cardboard boxes I could if I bothered getting enough flattened and bundled, but I drop them in the dumpster down the street that they city provides all over the city, it's free and they make some money on it.
I only need to put garbage in our garbage bin, we have a separate one for green waste
 
BoondocK5 said:
I have this very odd problem at my house. I have a ton of stuff, old parts, torn up sheet metal, cardboard boxes. I have eye race my wife to garbage can. She fills it with weeds and tree clippings, I mean to the top.
No room for my garbage. I guess I’ll have to wait for the next bulk pick up and set it all out on the curb. I really don’t like doing that.
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That is why I have a dumpster
 
Got the passenger side floor rot cut out

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In the pic below, one can see where some ham fisted numpty cut his stainless steel braided transmission cooler lines in half when cutting the rusty sheet metal near the transmission hump:doah::whistle:
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So, ordering new tranny cooler lines right now. Will start welding in the new floor pieces tomorrow after church.
And, yes, Helen Keller welded the last floor repair on this side to. Spot welds every 2.5 inches on the longitudinal substructure. Then where the crossmember runs laterally towards the rocker area, there are 20-30 random ass spot welds. All requiring drilling and grinding. Not much good to say about it.
 
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You're getting there, I didn't replace my floors, just patched them and it seemed like I was working on that forever. But it does end someday. Keep at it, you'll be happy when it's done!
 
Starting the rocksliders.
Got the ends of my 2”x3”x 0.250 wall rectangle tube welded in so it’s “sealed” painted the ends so won’t rust so easily.
Used my farm jack to press it into position with a couple of BFH moments and a pry sticking got it where I wanted it. It’s not done being welded on, but, it’ll hold itself in for another day for me to get back on it
That door is as crooked as Obama… just saying!

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Babaganoosh said:
I need to do this on my truck, is this single layer?


I'm scared to attempt it because I want it perfect.
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it’s a 50” piece of 2”x3”x0.250 wall rectangle tube, I welded caps on the ends to keep stuff out. Now I can just patch the floor to the inboard side of it. It will act a the door sill. It is very sturdy. Plus, I will be running 4 stiffners from the frame to it to strengthen it up. I gotta install the new body bushings before that to get it to proper height.
 
What about the floor? I think it's just single layer? my floor has a bit of rust and that pinch weld the rubber sits into rotted.
 
Babaganoosh said:
What about the floor? I think it's just single layer? my floor has a bit of rust and that pinch weld the rubber sits into rotted.
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Stock the pinch weld is 3 layers:
Outside layer is the rocker, inside layer is the floor turning up, and the middle layer is vertical to cap the back of the rocker.
I did an 2x6 just like this here and eliminated the rocker but kept the back of the rocker
 
I’m probably going just do the single layer of floor, with a few pieces of 1x3x0.125 runners welded in to strengthen the flat floor where pieces are welded together. Underneath, of course. Then the actual 1.5 OD x 0.125 wall DOM stiffners running from the frame to the rectangle tube. Should make for a superior strength floor.
 
BoondocK5 said:
I’m probably going just do the single layer of floor, with a few pieces of 1x3x0.125 runners welded in to strengthen the flat floor where pieces are welded together. Underneath, of course. Then the actual 1.5 OD x 0.125 wall DOM stiffners running from the frame to the rectangle tube. Should make for a superior strength floor.
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Are you using a door?, do you want to put the door seal on?
If not then you're fine.
 
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