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That suburban/short bed is in Joplin?! You need to take that thing to the last cruise-in of the year for Wheaton!!! I wanna see that thing up close!

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started lineing up the cab today. Notice I said "started". What a pain! Did you know, that the body lines on a crew cab get larger as they go to the rear of the truck? This info is especially useful when building a concoction of a truck like the one I am building.:lol: I must admit I scratched my head for just a sec when I could get the top body line to line up, and the bottom one wouldn't. Then I'd line up the bottom body line and the roof wouldn't line up.:lol: Then I measured!!!;)
oh what a day.

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Here are some pics from last week. I was able to fix the gas tank from the truck with a repair apoxy, and install and plumb in the truck gas tank. the old suburban tank is out of the back of the bed now. Yay! It is on the garage floor awaiting the day that I may use it again by mounting it where the spare tire is. Still contemplating this. My range has gone from near 400 miles to 200 miles with the smaller tank. Still need to work some more on cab alainment. I spent probably 8 hours on it a couple weeks ago and still need to spend 8 hours on it. I want to get this just right, so no rushing this part of the project.

I did manage to conect the emergency brake back up. peddal works and everything! :)

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Looking good...

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I'm glad to hear you don't want to rush it......

It's looking very cool!!

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So cool, but man I would hate to park that at my work ;)

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Looking great man
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She's lookin' perty! Well, as perty as a 4-door extra cab suburban pickup hack job can look before it gets finished and painted lol. Keep 'er comin'!

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I found this on google, its not exactly what your doing but I think it looks pretty cool.
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/...xtendedcab.jpg

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I am showing a Chevy Top Kick that was built to haul this boat (Turbine powered)...... At the time we had to fabricate the design, because no one made one back then. The sides / front / back is thick aluminum.

I wanted to show the fender skirt we had someone make to close the large gap at the wheel well.

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Posted via Mobile Devicethx for the encouragement guys!
Nice pic rockin, and nice ride mountie :)

I've done some more work on my truck but havent had time to post lately. Hopefully it will be in primer by the end of the month, may take it on a hunti.g trip in dec with a bunch of guys frome the fire dept. :-)
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sweet can't wait to see them.

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Your truck is looking great!

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Here are some pictures of my poor welding skills :)

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Here are some pictures of the bondo that coveres the cruddy welds and the interior. :)

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It's not your welding...that gap is just too large...if you had put a small piece of metal between it would have helped out.

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you're right

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like so?


http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/o...617101506a.jpg

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Look good. That interior looks like it was rolled that way off the assembly line.

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(You mean)..... "You cant's wait to see the bunch of guys from the Fire Department?"

.............. Ha

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Lol that's funny :-)
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Correct me if I am wrong.......

Isn't the sturdiness of the body important to the strength of the truck/frame?

Those welds .... I hope the photos are of the welds are before the welding was completed.

Bondo won't hold up, if it only hides those welds?

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not knowing much about this subject i will attempt to go ahead and answer.....I believe you are correct sir :), and yes those were some very "before bondo" pics :)

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I'm glad..... I'd hate to see a video of your first test drive, and "wham"....

The video goes viral for the amazing truck that went two directions at the same time!! :m6:

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so it's official I entered the truck in my first car show, in the unfinished category. :) Should be fun! Carthage Mo Maple leaf festival car show Sat 15th