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I got the new exhaust put on today. Made up a wye pipe and went back to a single exhaust. Tudked away pretty good and sounds good without the manifold leaks.
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Got some more fabbed on mounts for the seats. Welded the tabs on the drivers side to bolt the sliders on. When I get the tabs welded on passenger side I can paint the whole works and then figure out if the stock belt holes will work with the latch and link belts. This Carolina humidity is rough.
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It's not so bad once you allow yourself to become completely saturated.
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First my glasses fog up so I take em off and then I cannot half see. Put the welding helmet on and it also fogs up. when you cannot see ya have to do more grinding on ugly welds. Do work make more work. Oh well I am making some progress.
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Went to town and bought a half sheet of 16 ga metal which i will use to patch most of the existing floors. I plan on reinforcing critical areas with some 11 ga panels. The cross members look to be in pretty good shape but I will know more about that when i get the floors cut out. I am guessing most of you have run into similar situations.
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I've seen it too many times. The rest of the floors won't be too far behind.
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I have started whittling on them trying to leave all the cross members and braces intact. The floors towards a foot or so inboard of the outer belt mount holes and amazingly good. I am still over the barrel as to whether to try and cut all of the flooring out or to patch the bad. Ideas and thoughts are welcome on this. Keeping in mind that this is gonna be a trail truck and I do not even entertain the notion that I will ever make anything other than that out of it.
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If you don't care about keeping the stock look, i say go ahead and do the whole floor. You will spend more time patching.
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