440 to Cummins Crew Cab Swap: Rockin' the rocker

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Monday, December 20, 2010

Rockin' the rocker

With the rocker section removed you can see two of the factory rubber plugs. I can't believe how clean the inside is.

Tomorrow, I will work on the remaining crease. Now I can get to the back side of it. I need to smooth out the spot welds as well.

Next, I went a-harvesting in my 1989 ram-garden. Before anybody wails about hacking-up a clean cab, this is the cab I cut the firewall out of for the ramcharger. It may need to give up its floor for said ramcharger as well.

Here is the "new" steel. This is straight and rust free.

This is a pic of the plate down in the hole. Looks like in 1989 they used even more gobs of goo-gob magic seam putty.

After an hour of drilling more danged spot welds and blasting my eardrums with the air chisel, I got the donor panel almost ready. Her it is sorta stuck up in place. Maybe I get it welded in tomorrow.