My 63 Unibody

[BobbyFord]

Thank you.

[04sd]

The seat looks good.

[BobbyFord]

The seat looks good.

Thanks bud. I hope I never have to do it again.

[BobbyFord]

Working on my replacement doors this week.
One thing I've noticed is that on most daily driver trucks the doors are cracked on the inside at the bottom of the window opening.


The reason is because the door flexes at a spot behind the felts where there is a gap in the stamping of the metal.


The fix is to bridge that gap with a little piece of metal. I did this 20 years ago to the doors that are currently on my truck and they've never cracked again.




When I did the repair before, I O/A welded them with a shield behind the repair spot to avoid burning the inside of the door. Today I used a MIG welder. It's a little difficult to get the MIG tip angled in the window gap but it came out decent.


The outer side of the door has a gap in the stamping also, but doesn't crack because of the contour of the outer door skin.

[BobbyFord]

Haven’t done much to the truck lately. It’s been too hot. I was also in school after a long promotion process at work.
I was searching for truck parts tonight for a buddy that lives in Wisconsin. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I stumbled onto a factory Unibody tailgate on eBay.
From the pics and the description, it appears to have one tiny rust hole.

[BobbyFord]

The tailgate arrived today. Absolutely the best factory Unibody tailgate I’ve ever seen. I’m going to weld up some seams tomorrow.

[BobbyFord]

Right side gap sucked, so I filled it...


This is doable...

[BobbyFord]

Cab de-seam...