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Thanks. She absolutely is.

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Congradulations.











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I made it into the shop for the first time since Daphne was born. I have filled in the radius in the rear corner of the passenger rocker/cab corner. I then started to fill the leading edge of the rocker as it was much to rounded for my liking. Only a small piece of wire was needed to match the door to the rocker near the front.

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Thank you!

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Gaps are looking real solid! Keep it up!

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Thank you.

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This afternoon I was planning to finish up welding the edge of the passenger rocker but that turned out to be a bust. I got all set up, turned on the welder and went to make a tack.....out of gas.:banghead: Oh well, found something else to do for the afternoon. I cleaned up the upper windsheild area and got some marglass over the seams I welded shut. While I was there, I also filled in the spot welds under the lip of the roof edge. Once that was done, I tried yet another door I scored off of my uncle and bam! We have a winner.;) after a few more adjustments, I will be happy with this door as a start. The body lines are off very slightly but at least the upper window frame has nice gaps. I can always adjust the body lines with filler.

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Congratulations on the newborn! Truck is looking awesome. I am jealous of the body/welding work. That's probably my weakest area unfortunately. I'll stay tuned and see if I pick up a few tips from you.

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Thanks man. It's been pretty cool being a dad so far. The biggest thing I can recommend is practice when it comes to welding. Stay tuned and you see alot of body work :lol: Thanks for the compliments on the truck as well.

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Progress continues on the passenger side. I got the rest of the rocker edge welded up and smoothed off. I also got a good coat of marglass laid down on the outside of the rocker. Should be done with welding on the cab now for a while so hopefully I'll be laying down some regular bondo soon.:metal:

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First of all, congratulations on the arrival of little Daphne, she is so precious!

You really had a lot to deal with on this truck, and I thought the rust issues on my truck were bad... You are doing a spectacular job! I still have a rust area up under the dash where the cowl inlet rusted through. That will be a challenge to fabricate the replacement patches and get them welded in. Once that is done, I can epoxy prime the cab interior and apply the Lizard Skin.

Have you given any thought to applying any sound deadening/thermal barrier? My goal is to do such a good job rust proofing my truck that it can be a daily driver without the worry of it rusting out again.

Again congrats on the beautiful baby girl and the work you have done on your truck!

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Thank you for all the compliments. I am planning to use something like a raptor liner on the under side of the cab. On the inside, I'm planning to use something like a kilmat or equivalent. I'm hoping that will be sufficient to get fairly decent sound deadening. I also plan to use a piece of kilmat underneath the factory headliner.

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You'll like the Raptor Liner, goes on easy and it is tough as nails.

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Are you doing liner inside the cab? Im trying to figure out if I want to or not.

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I'm not decided on that either. I was leaning more towards just doing the underside but not too sure. Does anyone think it would be beneficial to do both sides?

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I did the Raptor Liner on the underside of the cab (over epoxy primer), and will epoxy prime inside the cab and then coat the floor, firewall, and part way up the back with Lizard Skin.

To finish my rust protection, inside the rockers and the void in inside the roof area will be coated with Waxoyl. The truck should never rust again...

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That sounds like a solid plan right there. Should be impenetrable.

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Well there was no progress last week as my Sunday was much too busy with getting Daphne baptized, but this week I have had the afternoon to work on the cab. I have been putting more marglass in the passenger door jamb. It is coming out quite nicely so I hope to be starting with regular bondo sometime early July. I still have to body work out the firewall but I may have to leave it until the bottom of the cab has been finished and painted as I will have to set the cab on the firewall to accomplish that.

I will also have to order my Altman Latches at some point as well. I plan to rebuild my door hinges as well at the same time even though they seem tight. Might as well do it now. If anyone has any good info such as where to buy a good quality rebuild kit and a how to link, that would be much appreciated.

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How is marglass to sand compared to rage filler? Ive used short stand products and they are torture sanding

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The stuff that I am using is not bad. It's definitely harder to sand than just regular filler but from what I remember the stuff I used to use when I worked in the body shop sanded horrible. I think the stuff I have now is called Pro short strand reinforced body filler.

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More filler in the passenger door jamb tonight. Not alot of progress as it is quite hot out and it is hard to stay motivated when it's this uncomfortable to work. We are under heat warnings all week. Today was about 32° C and its only supposed to get hotter as the week goes on. By Thursday, we are supposed to be hitting 38° C. Good thing I'm headed to the lake Thursday morning.:metal:

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Looking great sir!
I hear you on the heat thing! 111F here yesterday and hotter today. I have a mini-split in the shop and it was not happy at the heat.
I am in about the same place with my "66 cab yours looks better than mine though.

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Thank you sir, you got me beat on the heat by a few degrees. :devil:

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Haven't had a chance to work on my truck for a bit but I did swing by and check out my brother's truck on the way home from work today. It's coming along pretty nice! Can't wait till mine looks like this. :lol:

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More filler progress tonight. Passenger door jamb is nearly finished, at least for the Mar glass stage.:lol: I found out that the passenger side of the cab may have been involved in an accident of some sort at some point. It would have been something very minor but as I was doing the Ole body work rub down, I felt a few waves and the rounded portion felt slightly flattened. So I got a coat of glass on that as well. I'm looking forward to being done with the glass. I hope that the lightweight filler will go on smoother as I remember it being much easier to apply. We will see.... any way, here come some more boring pictures.:lol:

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All that hard work will definitely pay off! I was in the same boat and you just have to take it one day at a time. Have you looked into using feather fill as your filler? It was a lot easier to spray the filler than it was to spread the filler. Keep the updates coming.

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I have never used featherfill before. I had thought about it at one point but I already bought a gallon of bondo. I'd it turns out rough, maybe I'll use feather fill for the final coat. Thanks for following along with the build, I will definitely keep the pictures coming but they are pretty boring lol

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That cab is looking good!!!!

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Thank you! I'm pretty happy with how it's coming out

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Good progress- going to be sweet!

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Thanks. If only I was faster :lol:

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No progress to speak of on the truck. Hopfully soon. Things were piling up in the shop again and it was time for a major cleanup. I scored some more lighting from work so I've been working on that. One thing led to another and next thing you know, I'm painting my severely yellowed out pegboard to nice bright white. That along with the upgraded work bench light and things are very bright now. I also hung a new light on the other side of my shop and fixed/added more lighting along the front by my welding table. At this point, lighting upgrades are complete as I will not have room for any more fixtures.:lol:

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What a big difference a nice and clean, bright workspace does. Makes a guy wanna go out and get to work again! ;)

I really like your shelves way up high all around the shop. Looks like it would free up more floor space... a good spot to put things that you don't use that often.

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It sure does make a difference with bright lights, especially during bodywork. The shelves are awesome! I needed to keep as much of my trucks parts up out of my limited work area. I'm getting very close to having it clean. I have a certain standard I need to uphold on account of the wife parking in the one side. Should be back at it again soon

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Work continues on the cab, more body filler more dust.:lol: I needed I small block for some sanding in the door jambs so I found a machined aluminum block I had lying around the shop and used it. It works awesome for what I need.

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As per the usual summers, I have not been able to drum up much time on the truck. I have however started the process of installing a new top on my welding table that I scored from work. The top that was on there was extremely beat up and very saggy due to the lack of supports in the middle. I will be beefing it up before installing the new top. Hopefully that will be wrapped up by the weekend and I can get back to the feature presentation. ;) :lol:

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I'm gonna have to stop giving myself deadlines during the summer, I never make them anyways.:lol: I have finished up the welding table which has cleared up space in the shop so I was finally able to keep hitting up the Mar glass. It is taking much longer than expected to get everything to where I am happy with it. I feel like that is pretty standard when bodywork stage starts. I'll keep on plugging away and hopfully with some luck, I'll be able to move onto regular filler soon. Last picture is a real beauty that showed up at work the other day.

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Wow you really think you have nice straight sheet metal until you get the filler sanded.

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You are doing a great job on your cab!!!!

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Hey right on! Thanks man :metal: