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This left hand door has exploded into a full restore. As I exposed more and more, the rabbit hole got deeper and deeper. I am still awaiting patch panels for the doors. I assume the right will be the same. 3 of the 4 parts I ordered were on back order so I have to wait. I have cut a lot of this bottom, and some vertically, out of the left door. I would clean a spot with a wire wheel lightly and would break through pinholes. Ugh it just got worse and worse. I have cut out all the rusty/crusty crap. Hopefully, as I mentioned before, the door fits as well as it did before I started this whole mess.

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While I wait for parts I began finishing up some items on the cab that I had left for a while. The cab floor reproduction was a close fit but, of course, it needed some massaging in places to fit right. One area was the trans tunnel. The lips from the hump to the doors lined up and seated quite well. Unfortunately, the trans hump lip on the floor did not meet up with the firewall lip very well. I cut a relief in the floor to open it up. I then clamped the lips together, tacked them, and then fabricated a filler piece to fill the gap. This is where I sit tonight. Slow as sin but still going forward. I hope I'm doing things right...

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/fXXf8mBKKe3gVYAf9

I don't have recent photos of the doors. But, let me tell you, I've cut a lot more steel out of this rusty bugger.


Update: tonight I welded out and finished the trans tunnel. Also, patch panel parts have arrived and I planned out my attack on these doors. Wish me luck.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/pw7RqXYkenSgUupf9

Cab: 83
Fenders: 34.5
Doors: 7.5
Frame: 10

Total: 135 hours.
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