My 1970 GMC “Project Splice”

[TA_C10]

Originally Posted by cornerstone

It is amazing what a guy will go through to have a clean firewall! More nice work man. You better watch out or your gonna have a trailer queen on your hands.

What kind of hooch is this???

It's wet, what do you care

[Kronald_70GMC]

Now that my firewall is done for the time being, I have been working at getting my cowl panel back on. Alot of the spot welds I drilled out went a little deep so I had to weld them up. I also got the paint stripped off the inner cowl so that I can re paint before installing the cowl. Now I have to figure out what I'm going to do with the pull vents in the kick panels. I think I'm going to delete them as I will not need them with the vintage air. My only concern is that I have heard of other guys having issues with getting fresh air. I was thinking about having some sort of opening in the delete plates I plan to make just so a little bit of air can flow through.

[Kronald_70GMC]

I also have been working on welding up the seams in the corners of the windshield opening. It's crazy how diffrent these are from one side to the other. The lower drivers side and upper passenger side took far more work to get them right than the other two. I guess that's what you get when all the work is done by people instead of robots. I forgot to take a picture of the other top side but you get the idea.

[cornerstone]

Now that's not only a sexy upgrade, but a smart one too! I'll bet you've totally improved your chances in having a leak free cab.

What king of tool are you using to clean up your welds?

Love the way you store your wrenches... gotta steal that one too.

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by cornerstone

Now that's not only a sexy upgrade, but a smart one too! I'll bet you've totally improved your chances in having a leak free cab.

What king of tool are you using to clean up your welds?

Love the way you store your wrenches... gotta steal that one too.

Well thanks for the compliments. I have a small arsenal of tools to clean up my welds. My main one is a 90° air grinder with a Roloc disc attachment. I use 50 grit 3" discs. Then I also have a straight air grinder with a 3" grinding wheel for when I'm working in a concave curve. And for those super tricky areas, I have a die grinder with a 1/2" round file head (not sure what it's actually called) I can get some pictures if you would like.