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Started reading your build and like the plan.
Great score on the donor truck too.
You made me wish I had friends with a crane.
Like the Christmas lights too.

Totally dig it man!

Subscribed.

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Loving the Project man !!!

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:lol:yeah friends with cranes come in handy! I appreciate you checking out the thread!

Thanks man!:metal:

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This is exactly what I want to build next. Love where it's going, great job! I'll be following along.

Wade

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So I haven't had alot if time this past week to work on much, between overtime at work and school plays had more important things to do. I did however start to welding in my notch for the steering when my old welder crapped out on me, luckily tis the season for marked down prices and I scored a new Hobart so now I am ready to get back on it. I did have a little time today before having to stop and get ready to go to work, to weld up that notch and fill a few holes.

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Nice welder!

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Well I haven't worked on the frame that much, I did get the driver side notch finish and while crawling around on the floor I realized one thing...That I am to dang big (6'7" 300+) to be rolling a round in the floor for the rest of the frame work.. I cant remember but it seems like I saw this, on this forum but this is what I came up with..

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As I was leaving for work today I found I had a box of goodies waiting for me on the porch, my dimple dies set from TRMcustoms. Anyway here is a preview of what the upper arms will look like..

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Thanks Rus! That big ol tool box you got is mighty nice too, and I love the stance on the truck!

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Dig the mini rotisserie set up. Can you ad a little blurb about the bike?

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Here you go Bomp. This is a bike a friend and myself built. Its an 81 yamaha 550 stretched 20" and we modified the neck to run a 01 yamaha r1 triple tree amd forks. 81 wheels and oem tank, and custom optima battery case battery box.

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Nice! Can't wait to see the final product. Subscribed

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Wahooo! UPS finally got my parts to me, only took 14days to get from az to nc, so much for logistics. ..lol Can't wait to get back home and start mocking up and installing:metal:

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Alright!!

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you got that right, and I'm coming up on a weekend off:metal:

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Ok guys I have a question for everybody out there. You all know that I have a Cummins 6bt slated for this project, but after switching to a c10 frame I am worried about the frame handling the torque from the motor. I have been toying with the idea of boxing the frame but I don't know #1 if I really need to and #2 how much of the frame I need to box if I do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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Personally I'd box as much of the frame as possible but thats just me. I like to go totally over board.

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HAHA! Yeah I can be a bit of a Captain Overkill myself, I was leaning toward as much as possible but I didn't want to take all of the flex out of the frame and cause breakage in some other area.

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Hey guys been working on the truck for about half a day and got all the rivets knocked out and the crossmembers removed, then started mocking up the PB dropmember and notches.. stopping for the night and will jump back on it in the a.m. here are a few pics, hope everybody is having a great weekend:metal:

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I dig it!

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Everybody that has visited this thread and who uses this wonderful forum, I hope you and all of your families have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS! !

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Hey guys hope everybody has had a great holiday. I have been busy with family and haven't been able to work on the truck much. But I was able to break away a little today and have come across some thing I need some advice on. I have one of my porterbuilt notches fitted to the frame loosely bolted working off a plumbob and center line. I am on the other side and have done the same thing and before I drilled and bolted I took some measurements off the front and back of the notch to the rear of the frame and I am 3/16's off from one to the other but dead on my center line?? Any suggestions...

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Subscribing to see your progress!:metal:

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Check out Rusbuilt's "Darcy" build thread. He had the same issue. As long as your rearend isn't making contact with the notch you should be fine. I only say that because of the various post I have read that mention the same issue your having with your notch.

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Also I have been measuring various body mounts from one side to the other and the drivers side mounts are setting back an 1/8 more than the passenger side .. and the drivers side notch is the one I am trying to get figured out now.. frame is not damaged either.. idk. I guess I will be calling PB tomorrow and see what they say..