The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Interiors Found out something new on AD Cabs

Was scrolling through one of the regular sites and came across an Advance cab for sale and seen that the older models look to have this added metal piece inside the cab corners. I thought I would point this out for some who have taken the behind the seat tank out and are looking for options to dress up behind the seat.

I f I am seeing that correctly, there is space between that piece with the oval opening and the exterior cab corner?
If so , I would be tempted to shoot that space full of foam to deaden the sound chamber.

It looks like a good spot to mount a speaker. Of course you would have to fabricate a mounting bezel to flatten out the curve. A 3D printer could help with that!

I was thinking the same thing

I put 6x9 oval Sony speakers in my cab. I used stand offs to mount them. Trucks like my 47 had the gas tank under the bed so the cabs were different. When I restored my truck I was a little surprised that the 50 and newer were unfinished in the back corner like my 47.

Those look great and I bet they sound amazing too!

That stretcher that the panel is attached to away from the door looks deeper than on the later trucks with the in-cab gas tank (photo.) But it would still be possible to fabricate something to fit in there. Might be a good english wheel project (if one had an english wheel )

That extra metal is likely there in the earlier models to stiffen the cab up due to the center swivel type rear cab mount.”-

That’s an interesting idea. Yes, my cab is mounted in the center back and rubber bumpers on each side.
Phak1, I installed a Custom Audio Sound radio and their stereo speaker in my front speaker grill. I have a 10” sub woofer under the bench seat. It sounds as good as any newer car or truck. I can even use the phone thru it.

I have seen this from ls fabrication. I do like the original curved look and I wonder if something like this would fit with the gas tank next to them.

The Original post picture must be a 47 cab like mine. It has a screwed down windlass, and the proper door relay where the link arm is in the recess in the door. If replacing the door relay with new, you have to use the opposite side door relay and mount it upside down to keep the arm in the recess and the handle up. Thats what I did to replace mine. I like the original way they designed the door with handle pulled back to open, push forward to lock, strap in the recess.

The original door relays that laid nicely in the recess, had the handle facing down, requiring you to push the handle forward to open the door and pull the handle back to lock the door. GM quickly realized that in a sudden stop situation, the door could fly open by a drivers or passengers arm, not something you want in an accident.

GM’S engineers in their infinite wisdom, decided to flip the relays over, there by keeping the down position of the door release handle. I’m suspect GM bean counters got involved when the recess did not get relocated, but instead added a couple of pads under the door panel to keep the rod from binding.

As you discovered, the relays can be swapped putting the rod back in the recess and if you face the handle up, the door will open by pulling back on it and locked by pushing forward.