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Re: Sparky's 1978 Silverado Build "Addiction"
Worked on fitting and tacking in the passenger floor tonight. Seemed much easier than when I 11 years ago!!! No overlap weld this time around. Taking my time and slowly butt-welding in the floor.
Pictures:
1. Put a 16ga plate at the intersection of the floor brace and cab support and plug welded in place. Seems like the right thing to since the original floors have??
2. Used self-tapping screws to affix the floor to the appropriate surfaces. This allowed the piece to press against what is left of the existing floor, cab support and floor brace. I then crawled under the cab and scribed around cut floor, frame brace and cab support. This gave me a pretty good fitting panel after it was cut. Was also able to more accurately drill my holes for plug-welding as well.
3. Under cab view of self-tapping screws from the bottom and fitment.
4. Plug welding floor to floor brace, cab support and started tack welding the new piece to the existing floor.
5. Another pic of under the floor after plug-welding.
More to go. Would like to get the driver side done tomorrow. Hopefully what I learned tonight will speed along the process tomorrow.
Thanks for looking. Mike
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