Time to setup the workshop for the body building phase. So the chassis was rolled out of the workshop and on to the side street and towed up around the corner to the front of the house.
Neighbours came around quickly to give me a hand to get it into the garage. Nice to have help like that.
New resting place for the next few years while I start building the body.
Hard to believe that a cab will be made from these parts.
Donor floor and firewall will be tack welded to the heavy trestles I made to keep it level and square.
Decided to try something different to remove what was left of the old floor from the bottom of the rear wall. Rather than drilling out all the spot welds, going to carefully grind them away from the other side. Noticed how the spot welds are dented in from shrinking from the welding heat. Don't want to be left with that if I can.
The spot welds were punched down from the inside to make them flat on the outside before cutting them away.
Used a 1 mm cut off disc in the grinder to cut around the spot weld.
Material cut away from around the spot weld.
Then ground away. Doing it this way creates far less heat them just attacking it with a grinding disc for the whole thing.
All of them done. Still takes some time but you would have had to grind down if drilled out and then welded up too. This way much less heat and distortion and no risk of blowing though.
The spot weld dents are much less after punching them first. The lip was also dressed flat that was on the bottom of the wall as will be cut to suit the new floor profile.
