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1987 K5 Rebuild- narrow and dovetail the body-Painted

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I think you guys are talking about the bar that is below the bedline, that would make sense why you would call it a node. I just have not added those tubes to connect it to the frame/add in seat mounts. I am basically cutting out the whole back of the body floor as well.

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Basically a empty node is where a bar ends it should end at another bar, or the frame or something. The ones on your horizontal bar end at the bar no support on the other side.
Some times you have no choice but when you can make sure they are not empty.
 
With the holidays and just life, I finally got a chance to bend the A pillar... and man what a learning curve that was, SO many different angles, but I think they are burned in my head now. I only screwed up 3 times.... but this last one is great I think.



 
With my graduate classes being over for a month, I've had time after work to actually work on it. I have basically finished all the tube work for the outside of the truck. I still need to brace the inside of the back to the frame, do seat mounts and tie it all into the frame.











 
I need to do a bit of brainstorming here. I have welded the cage all up, I just need to add seat mounts and interior bracing for the cage itself. I plan on cutting out the back floor to get a jeep seat nice and low in the body and attach tube mount to the frame etc. I have been thinking, the type of wheeling my friends do here is at a place where you essentially need a buggy, its tight. I have been playing with the idea that I would make the bedsides removable, basically hang the bedsides so I can take them off when going to that tight wheeling spot, as well as pop them back on for general wheeling etc. I still love the look of a truck aka a k5. Have any of you done this? Is it a total pain in the ass? I've been looking at pre-runner set ups and they look pretty solid.
 
stockk5 said:
I need to do a bit of brainstorming here. I have welded the cage all up, I just need to add seat mounts and interior bracing for the cage itself. I plan on cutting out the back floor to get a jeep seat nice and low in the body and attach tube mount to the frame etc. I have been thinking, the type of wheeling my friends do here is at a place where you essentially need a buggy, its tight. I have been playing with the idea that I would make the bedsides removable, basically hang the bedsides so I can take them off when going to that tight wheeling spot, as well as pop them back on for general wheeling etc. I still love the look of a truck aka a k5. Have any of you done this? Is it a total pain in the ass? I've been looking at pre-runner set ups and they look pretty solid.
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I just built a couple small brackets. But am going to redesign em. Mine don't have exposed bolts.

My bedsides are cut down long bed. Still pretty heavy even after skinning em

I'll be remounting em in a couple months. One thing I learned is I need more mounting points mine are loud when I bang off a rock
 
I think you're going to find out the part you need to worry about the most is going to be the back door pillar taking a hit. I would worry about making it as strong as possible. Because when it gets smacked by a tree and gets moved back 3" all the work making removable rear panels would be a waste.
Tight East Coast, tree/rock damage and keeping a full size body nice are a hard thing to do.
 
I agree! The B pillar will be very armored like Schaffer offroads k5. I plan on cutting off the back end. then plating the crap out of the B pillar area.
 
Did a little more work today after attaching the cage to the frame.. the bedsides will be off this week I hope.

I chopped the floor out today. I have to develop a rear tailgate that I can bolt the bedsides to as well... The bars going across are just temp bars to hold the bedsides up .
 
Not super exciting updates, this is mostly for me to keep track of when I did it all.

Today I cut off both bedsides, cleaned up any rust that was left over and spent a few hours wire wheeling the frame... never a fun time with that.







 
Well, I bought a bunch of 1/8th sheet metal.. and a few more tubes. I did a lot of tube work today! I just need to make the B pillar brace now, still deciding.












This is a rubicon seat, with me sitting on the seat I have about 3" of clearance to the cage, Its pretty tight, I was thinking finding another seat or notching the frame, plus I think if I was doing something real risky while wheeling I'd have those passengers out. Thoughts?


I think this is what I am going to do for the B pillar and then all the rear cage work shall be done minus tabs, gas tank supports etc.
 
Find another seat. RZR seats are really sort and small, a lot of guys upgrade theirs so the old ones are for sale rather cheap. My second and third rows are built for kids, second an adult can squeeze but its tight third is little kid only.
 
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