Neighbors dont really mind me much usually I am pretty clean and keep stuff put away in the shop. These ones just seem to be a bit bigger than my garage.
Thanks guys,
I am attempting to pull the cab without pulling the bedoff for now, and I have a winch on my buggy so that might work.
I also have a Warn Pullzall that I think I will hook up to a big a frame that I have at work and see if that will do the job.
As far as the heater box goes, it was one of those things that I was dreading doing, so I got everything out and laid both heater boxes side by side to see just how different they were. Turns out that they really are not that much different than one another.
I had already cut out the firewall from the other truck so I was acutally able to overlay the new firewall right over the old firewall and see exacty what needed to happen.
I Marked the new opening and got to work with a step drill, cut off wheel, die grinder, hammer and dolly.
I left a 1/4" inside the two small areas that needed trimming passenger side top corner, then I trimmed out the new opening. Once that was done, I took the hammer and dolly to it to get a nice radius to mimmick the factory flange. The heater box still covers the entire area so with a new seal, it will look just like a factory opening. Cut out a small hole for the heater lines to pass through, then enlarged it to make it just big enough for the lines to fit through.
It really was not too painful.
So I also was dreading the drivers side, but I think I came up with a nice solution.
I was trying to figure out a way to stiffen up the firewall near the pedal assembly and the same time I needed to cut up the firewall to move the harness cutout. Lots of factory firewalls are doubled up with sheetmetal in the pedal box area and spot welded together.
I trimmed out a panel from the 93 firewall that I wanted to use. Once it was trimmed to fit right, I took to the hammer and dolly and beat a lip all the way around the outside of it and trimmed it all up with a flapper wheel on the grinder.
I think it turned out ok, Just wondering how it will look on the firewall, I really like the idea of it though stiffening up the firewall, covering up some holes and not having to do a bunch of bodywork on the firewall. What you guys think?
Sean