a suggestion for next cab: do any metal replacement with the cab properly mounted on frame, with fenders and doors in place [even if not always bolted] - after each area is repaired one piece at a time, refit everything before attacking the next area .... sounds like you wound up with an accumulation of minor misfits .... if you repair the steps, corners and pillars carefully with the cab on the frame, there should be no need to cross brace the openings even when the cab is removed, except [maybe] when removing a major part of the floor

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics & Rust-a-holics Unanimous parking lot