[theastronaut]

Finished cutting out the front brace and bed floor this morning. Having a fab shop bend a new brace, just the center part since the outer edges bend up. The outer bed floor panels weren't rusted through but we knew they'd be hidden rust so we went ahead and cut them out.







Brace and header bottom cut out.




Drilled the spotwelds out of the bed mount plates and crush spacers to swap onto the new brace.






Inner fenders bodyworked and shot with black high build.






I taped over the stamping details to keep the primer from covering them up. This way the details stay sharp.








Started working on the fender lip, smoothed out a crease on the right rear corner, and did some heat shrinking and hammer/dolly work below the lower body line. Forgot to get after pics.