BIG RED REBUILD

[bigrandy]

This thread sure makes me want to tear mine down and finish it the right way.Keep up the good work,it'll be an awesome ride when youre done

 

[BIG DAVE]

More stuff done today

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I had to weld the mount for the brake and steering bracket

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I started mocking stuff up

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I'm going to run my gray dash but the tan one is so I don't mess up the gray one

 

[papastruck]

Great to see such progress.

 

[BIG DAVE]

Yeah I'm so pumped to be working on the body!!!!

 

[1994IDI]

Damn, your going to have one hell of a truck. Keep it up, and keep up the pics.

 

[BIG DAVE]

This is how to turn a 96 ford fire wall in to an 89 fire wall!!
I cut the stuff off the 89 fire wall

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Then I cut up my 96 fire wall

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then the rest of the pics tell the rest lol

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The I cut the steering hole need trimming

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I bought some primer today!!!

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I also had to do some work to the drive side A-pillar

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[BIG DAVE]

before

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after

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[Bill-W]

While you have it torn that far down are you going to add a firewall reinforcement plate? Might be real easy to do it not and you would not have to worry about your firewall swap (which looks awesome!), fatiguing and letting loose on you in the future.

Your rebuild has been inspiring me to start thinking about my crew-cab / short-bed conversion. It'll be a while though before I get all my parts lined up though.

 

[BIG DAVE]

While you have it torn that far down are you going to add a firewall reinforcement plate? Might be real easy to do it not and you would not have to worry about your firewall swap (which looks awesome!), fatiguing and letting loose on you in the future.

Your rebuild has been inspiring me to start thinking about my crew-cab / short-bed conversion. It'll be a while though before I get all my parts lined up though.

Yeah I've been thinking about a fire wall reinforcement plate. I almost did a crew cab with a short bed on this one. I have a cab so my be I'll do my blue truck as a cc short bed

 

[BIG DAVE]

finished stripping my firewall today

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Then I did some filling

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This stuff rocks!!!!!

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[papastruck]

Man, 'Git 'er dun" doesn't even begin to describe the head of steam you've put on!

What'd you use to strip it?

 

[BIG DAVE]

Man, 'Git 'er dun" doesn't even begin to describe the head of steam you've put on!

What'd you use to strip it?

Right now i'm using a wire wheel to take the paint off then i'm going to go over with some 220 sand paper and then 320. I'll tell ya, they used some good paint it 96 this **** just dosen't want to come off

 

[BIG DAVE]

Look what I got last night

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I'm looking for a tilt manual steering column. I have one but it's not tilt.

 

[BIG DAVE]

finished the filler

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[BIG DAVE]

its on it's back!!!!!

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Pulled the heat sheelds off and the running board

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This is a trip lol

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