[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by Chopped53

Brian,

Great story, but a magician should never reveal his secrets! What about the illusion that a chop job is a precision task performed by experts who know what they are doing every step of the way! Just kidding.

I was using the come-along to try to position the front posts for welding. If I recall, the back section was tack welded in place at the time. We took a different approach than your truck. Instead of adding a strip to the roof (like you're supposed to!), we angled the front posts back. It was meant to save us time and effort, but we had to hack the posts almost to bits before we could get a fit. The posts are now mostly welding rod material rather than original steel! I kinda like how it turned out, but I wouldn't do it that way again.

Thanks for sharing your story. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who had to take extreme steps to correct previous decisions. Hey, that might be a topic for a post: "a collection of our biggest screw-ups"!

Bill

I replaced my cab back 25 years ago and this chop I did things very different, I combined the two methods. I lengthened it half the way then I raked the posts back the rest so it's more of a "factory" look.

I heated and bend the the posts, worked pretty slick!

Brian