During that time I had switched phones so there was a whole series of pictures from the first series of panels that we cut out and replaced that are gone now- we found some on a digital camera and posted those to the photobucket site- all in all we replaced:
driver and passenger lower rear fenders (behind wheel wells)
driver and passenger inner fender braces
Drivers side fender bracket (lower)
driver side inner(50%) outer rocker complete
passenger side outer rocker components ( just what was rotted)
Drivers side lower A pillar (inside rocker)
bottom or rear cab corners ( small holes with hand made patch panels)
drivers floor section
drivers kick panel
drivers front cab support
drivers and passengers rear cab supports
That's it for the cab metal that was replaced- of course the box bottoms were cut out and replaced with 16 ga steel plate - that process was photographed pretty well.
The wrinkly steel sheet of the bed was replaced with new 16 ga plate
We made the rear bumper out of light gauge metal framing members
Never really planned on taking the whole thing apart- it just sorta "happened" as we started to get to the body panels that were bad.
"it's only a few more bolts then we can get to such and such and clean and paint it..." There was alot of that.
It was a fun and at times frustrating process but we received alot of support from our friends, families and Stovebolt through it all- and now my son and I have the memories and the experience we shared getting the truck to where it is- and that's so much more valuable than the truck could ever by worth dollar-wise....
