[JJorgensen52]

Originally Posted by Advanced Design

Awesome! Nice work, great detail. The placement of the pedals looks spot on.

Originally Posted by oldman3

Like this set up...Jim

Thanks as always! I'm just hoping my new pedals don't look too goofy with the original park-brake pad ... I supposed making a new pedal for that is peanuts after the rest of this nonsense

Tonight was more about rework than anything - if I'd been a little more careful when I did the rocker and floor fit-up on this side, I would've been two hours less work tonight. But anyways.

Park brake brace (which I finally succeeded in buying after four months of backorder) bolted to the floor and the rocker

If the rocker were about 5/8" further forward I could have made it fit without modification.

Here's the after shot, with the pedal and bellcrank mounted.


And the pedal position appears to be pretty much spot on inside the cab.


Now on to new work. I made the dash-firewall brace tonight.

Pardon the ugly welds, I tacked it up inside the dash and I wasn't too worried about making it super pretty

The bolts are recessed into the firewall, so thusly they are bumped OUT on the inside. I made this piece from two pieces of 1-1/4"x1/8" plate and welded the studs into it.


And here's a couple shots showing the geometry. The electric wiper conversions don't mount to this brace anyway, so I'm free of that constraint here (though it could be made to work easily enough).



I tied it directly to the column drop. You may notice that I don't have any threads protruding through the column drop nuts ... I'm not terribly happy with that, so I'm probably going to pick up some longer graded flange bolts for the final assembly.

Just for fun, I put it all back together with the original nuts and washers


Going to pick up my donor truck frame tomorrow, as long as all goes according to plan. Then the real fun begins!