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Back at it after a long break to get stuff done around the property. Acquired some used equipment that needed some work but I didn't realize April was the last time I got anything done, yikes. I've made about every rookie welder mistake imaginable and warped the first panel trying to run beads instead of stitch weld but that will at least get covered by bedliner. Can't do that on the body panels. Cutting and fitting these panels is slow work

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Getting the lower part of the kick panel in. Upped the heat on my little Lincoln 140 and spot welds are looking less booger like but overlap and butt welds still don't look great. And i guess i get to make this part. Its 3/4 inch wide and 24 in long for anybody else dumb enough to do this

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It did suck , mostly because I put it off for so long , but having my dad helped made it fun.
 
All good things come with time… I’m slowly starting over, looking for a 69-72 tub as mine was completely destroyed in the fire at my brother’s house. I try to spend at least one hour per day that I’m home doing something with it. These are extremely hard to come by for a reasonable cost on the west coast nowadays
 
19Tim69 said:
All good things come with time… I’m slowly starting over, looking for a 69-72 tub as mine was completely destroyed in the fire at my brother’s house. I try to spend at least one hour per day that I’m home doing something with it. These are extremely hard to come by for a reasonable cost on the west coast nowadays
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I remember you were close when that happened. You have geography on your side. Hope you find something soon
 
Just read the whole thread, had a few thoughts, that I can't recall all now.

The Warn locking hubs appear to be the premium, good call fixing those up.

The double floor is to give the full vert stronger support of the firewall and A pillar ?

Go to your body shop buddy and get some of the bent up sheet metal from wrecks. cut it into small squares and drill holes in it. When you at the weld in the patch faze on the k5, use the pieces to warm up on butt weld fill holes. It always helps me .

oh and what were the fish that the gulf is full of now ? looked like a carp of some kind.
 
19Tim69 said:
All good things come with time… I’m slowly starting over, looking for a 69-72 tub as mine was completely destroyed in the fire at my brother’s house. I try to spend at least one hour per day that I’m home doing something with it. These are extremely hard to come by for a reasonable cost on the west coast nowadays
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I never noticed that you are in my area.
I am in Lincoln.
 
Wes Harden said:
Just read the whole thread, had a few thoughts, that I can't recall all now.

The Warn locking hubs appear to be the premium, good call fixing those up.

The double floor is to give the full vert stronger support of the firewall and A pillar ?

Go to your body shop buddy and get some of the bent up sheet metal from wrecks. cut it into small squares and drill holes in it. When you at the weld in the patch faze on the k5, use the pieces to warm up on butt weld fill holes. It always helps me .

oh and what were the fish that the gulf is full of now ? looked like a carp of some kind.
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i'm always glad when i can fix something old rather than throw away and buy something new. ive come a long way- i didn't know what a roll pin was when i started this a few years back. yeah the floor pans are incorporated into rocker boxes to stiffen the tub for the full verts. some people fab their own rocker boxes and convert 76-91 k5s to full vert. several on this site at present. the fish my son and i are holding are red snapper. they are one of the main game fish down here and probably the most popular restaurant fish on the gulf coast. they really werent very plentiful in the northern gulf coast until the oil and gas industry started building all the rigs. then around 2009 the federal government tried to shut down our fishing entirely. the snapper population exploded and you couldn't catch anything but. there was a big prolonged legal fight between the feds and all the gulf states and an agreement was reached so that the states could mostly regulate their own waters and somewhat into federal waters as long as they had a method for reporting catch. things are much better now. sorry, probably way more fish info than you were looking for but its my main hobby and i tend to go on about it
 
Slowly getting the rear floor panel in and it's going better than the front but I managed to cut the back short so I'll have to deal with that:doah:

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My spot welds seem ok as long as I use the 2nd highest energy setting

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Butt welds are still a challenge but overall better and when my gap is a little too wide I have to turn down the voltage

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