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With the paint on the back of the cab and the bed it was time to re-install the cab on the frame. As you could see in the pictures I went ahead and painted the rest of the exterior of the bed because it was ready, but the cabs were still ruff. I needed to replace both corners on the front cab, weld plugs into the old gas spout holes and plug weld all the old holes from mirror and anything else. Thier was also some minor dents here and there to take out plus addressing the seam where I married the cabs together.

I also cut some plates out of 12 ga sheet metal to fill all the areas in the floor of the front cab that had the removeable access panels to make it flat. I bolted these down because I intended to carpet the floors in both cabs and if I need to get to anything under the floor, I could get to it by tilting the cab or a lot of it, I could reach with just swinging the steps out. The floor in the upper cab I replaced flat when I was building the sub frame for that cab.

I was trying to get all the sheet metal and body work done so I could prime it one last time before paint and I wanted to paint the interior with the exterior.