Slick 60's

heres the latest to the slick

and some more picks of the work on the slick

I had mentioned earlier that the sill plate I got from Carpenters is shorter than the original Looking at your latest pictures I notice that your sill plate is shorter than the original. When I saw this I had to go take a picture of a set.
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The ends do add an extra amount of support.

Dean

so whats the fix buy another one and cut and add or can you get the longer ones from somewhere else let me know and ill hold off on welding them up just yet

What am going to do is make the ends and weld them on, as the ends provide a lot of support to the step. The rear actually is spot welded on three sides and the front is spot welded on two(?) sides with the third side being the lower anchor for your front fender.

I will extend the new ones, and then repair the old set as I will be needing both sets for my uni's. All that needs repair on the old set is the front where the fender attaches, it needs a 1" flange welded in where it looks broken off the side as displayed in this picture.
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ok i got you now they just stopped it where the door meet the frame and didnt extend it past under the front cab mount i can make that piece and the rear and weld them on for better support is that what your talking about

Thats it, and you might want to weld it to the rear panel as there isn't much support on the outer edge of the sil plate. What did you do about the torque box behind the cab, I know I don't have any info on it other than I know it is an integral part of the body.

Keep up the good work and keep us posted.

Dean

i made a rep. to the factory one out of 14 ga and welded it solid to the back and the bed sides and made the floor fit flush with the frst ill try to get some pick of it up tomorrow or sunday

Looking forward to it. Have you done any more work on the front suspension?

not yet concentrating on the body right now and ill get back to the frame when the body is done but the only thing let on the suspension is the track bar really

heres some updated picks of the bed area and tomorrow when i get my door piece back from my friend ill post the picks of it installed in the truck.

Nice replication of the Torque Box.

You may want to article that and post it with dimensions.

Looking good.

Garbz

can do that garbz its a little heavier than factory it 14 and not the 16 or a little thinner than what the factory uses

Man, You have your hands full. That is a shitload of work my friend. Good job.

Garbz

a lot of welding

some more picks of the build heres what i got done tonight

heres the torque box welded in place with the bracing for the floor and all


underside of the torque box



and the door jam with the freshly sandblasted corner

Nice-should be stout. Are you migging or tigging?

right now mig but ill tig the frqame and the body work but the heavy stuff gets mig

Before you full weld the bottom sills mount a door and check the opening. I had one grow too wide on me on a project and i had to take out a 1/4 inch.

Just a little insurance.

Garbz