Next I started to review the rust situation along the firewall / front door jamb area.
As you can see someone's failed attempt to mix old newspapers with bondo did little to fix the rust issues.
I removed the outer skin to see how this area was put together at the factory and decide how to go about everything. I have never done metal work on a 47-54 style truck so all of this is new to me.
It looks like the best way to go about it is going to be to remove the rotten floor and toeboard, inner kick panel, and repair the from the inside out. I started to remove the floor but than found that I am going to need to remove the emergency brake set up before I can get all of the floor board and toeboard out.
So I was able to remove the emergency brake set up and we ordered all of the patch panels that we don't have yet. Next week I well remove all of the rotten metal and start building everything back up.