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Hello all, thanks for checking in and following along.

I am a tired camper today, I spent 7 hours at the shop, then went for a 5 KM walk with the wife. She has been fundraising for the local food bank and today was the walk for it.

It was worth it though as I had another productive day at the shop.

The weather has warmed up, which is nice. 3 weeks of bitter cold was not fun, just sayin’
The shop compressor was replaced as well which is nice, back to full power on the tools which saves time.

I hit the shop without a real plan for the day, I figured I would just see where things go. I am still working towards getting the cab finished and in epoxy primer. I started filling a few small holes and grinding them down, working my way around the cab. I then discovered, well re-discovered as I had forgotten that the sheet metal spot welds on the rear edge of the passenger door frame were popped loose. It was an “oh yeah, we did that” moment... before I removed the doors we did a bit of alignment work getting the door straight. Using a hydraulic ram we pushed on the bottom of the door frame to the upper hinge and in doing so broke the spot welds. Clamping things in place, I drilled holes every couple inches or so and then welded them up. Once ground flush they look good and will be much stronger than the original spot welds. Then over to the drivers side door and did the same thing.
Moving on from there I filled some holes in the firewall, found some cracks and cut them out, welded and ground flush.
Pretty much rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat...

Moving on to the bottom of the cab, I flipped it onto the firewall.
Rinse and repeat.... found some more cracks...

The pictures are kind of lame, it is kind of hard to capture the sheer scope of ALL the fantastic welding I did today.

Stay safe,
Steve