The pre made access cover us very nice looking, but I decided against buying one because, frankly, I’m tapped out on this truck build and therefore strongly inclined not to buy anything if it can be avoided. I’ve sold off all the toys I can to fund a 2 year frame-off build that I didn’t really plan on , a build that took on a life of it’s own. But I digress.
The beautiful rolled edge sheet metal work is way outside of my skill set and tool kit. Sure looks good though.
I came up with a piece of steel left over from another project , approx 5” x 6” , maybe 12 gauge, a good stout piece. That made it easy to decide on the size for my master cylinder access port. I cut a hole leaving 3/8” overlap, cleaned up the edge, lined the perimeter with aluminum duct tape to soften the metal on metal contact, drilled and fastened with self tapping screws at the corners and buttabing- done. Carpet hides a multitude of sins.
In my opening line I said ”Almost”. The almost part is I still need to come up with with a good way to release the 2 spring steel hold downs. I can get the aft one with a screw driver style pry bar , but the angle of attack to the forward one doesn’t allow that. I’ll need to fabricate a special good , which is doable.
My brake fluid level is fine. A nagging task is checked off.
