well rain has been a big bust as yet, every day they say storms and NOTHING.
doing the running boards (i will save you the photo of the drivers bondo fender I attached) and needed the drivers apron, figure I will show the process of shortening long aprons to short.
the long is exactly 9.25" longer than the short. you can measure this yourself, because there is one extra hole on the longbed aprons to attach to the running board and they are exactly 9.25" apart. so i started with a straightedge of tape and another 9.25" apart.
choppy choppy! see that little finger I left?
that shows the distance is right (I cut it off after this pic, it was more a sanity check)
still learning the welding settings for sheetmetal. the way i do it is turn the heat down to 1 and the wire down to 1, then tack. if it pushes back I turn the wire down. if it pops a hole i turn the wire up.
since its not storming I think i can finish the rest of the details on the 54 tomrorow.