Attached is a pic of my 1951 GMC 100 firewall. I have seen many trucks with these bolts deleted for that clean look. One pair of bolts is for the cowel vent support, the other two coming from the steering column support. One option is to tack weld supports to cab side of firewall, then bolt delete. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Last edited by Gdads51; 02/09/20242:54 PM. Reason: fix title spelling
The way I'd do that is remove one bolt at a time, put a backer inside the cab and plug weld the support to the firewall. You'll never get them out again, but that's probably not a big concern. BTW, the bolts are carriage head, and are secured to the support, so you could just take one nut off, grind the bolt flush or a little below the surface, then weld the bolt stub to the firewall. Repeat for the other bolts. Pretty easy, and no need to crawl under the dash to do any welding.
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