If I am not mistaken the cowl vents allow fresh air in to the truck. If i need fresh air I'll roll the window down lol..
Has anyone noticed that the tranny tunnels on these trucks is not only huge but it is offset to the passengers side. Well I fixed mine today. I posted earlier that I am dropping my floors down on either side to drop my seating height. when I started the passengers side today I also cut about 4" of the tunnel narrowing it giving myself the same amount of room on both sides. The measurement from the kick panel to the curve in the tunnel on the drivers side was 27" and the passengers side was 22 and 1/2. Thats a huge difference (to me anyway). Now they are both about 27". Looks alot better too. Here's a couple of pics i am not done with it but you can see how much of a difference it made.
First this is the drivers side floor after I dropped it down. If you are saying "whats the point" I understand..... But I am just trying to make the truck more comfortable to ride in because of the body drop I have to crane my neck just to see the traffic lights.
you can see how much I narrowed the tunnel
I know you guys know what it looked like before but Heres a before & after anyway
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Tranny hump is offset because the motor and tranny are offset.
Hump is that way to give more room for the pedals on the driver side.
Work looks good - keep up with the pics.
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I just found this build thread, read EVERY SINGLE POST haha. When u did your cowl vent, did you just plate over top the vents? I accually cut mine out and it warped all to **** because of the stresses on the stamped steel from being stamped. After that was a real pain in the butt.
To 77460, you can cut some holes in the front side of the cowl along the sides, inside the wheel wells. My '78 has a plastic wheel well liner then to keep water and mud out. Then I put little funnels under the wiper holes and drain tubes out the bottoms on the sides. Only reason I did it in the first place was water leaking from the bad old cracked seem sealer inside the wiper cowl. Heres some pics of it, I think the build shots are on page 2.
Personally I buttwelded everything, so I used some of those adjustable welding magnets to hold the peices flush. But remember what I said about cutting out the vents, that cowl is under alot of stress from stamping at the factory, and when you cut out the vents it WILL warp-nothing to do with heat. So upon my rough adventure, I'd sugest that as long as you dont have a rain water leaking issue like me, then you should save yourself some headaches and just plate over them and be done with it.
the only thing about shaving the drip rails is on mine the door gap is large at the top of the door . if you look closely you can see it. I have not decided what i am going to do about it but I am leaning towards living with it
If you talking about the door sitting in (not flush) I have an idea for that. I took and put a pry bar between the upper door and the cab and slammed the door shut. The door set even, only thing is you have to make it keep that shape. My guess would be to heat it to releave the stress to keep the shape. I'm trying the bfh rubber mallet right now and it has not been succesful. I also thought about pie cutting the door (way to much work but it'll work) because on mine both the fron and rear tops sit below flush. As Far as the gap, when they come flush it's even just large, so the door hinges need to be slid back.
whats up guys.
I have always wanted to try fiberglass work and I want to eventually build a dash but I figured my first attempt should be something a little less ambitious. So I started on a set of kick panel speaker boxes. I got the frames built, wrapped in fleece and a good coat of resin on tonight. I will see about building my dash after I get these glassed and mudded and ready for paint.
Here's a few pics of what I got done tonight. Remember.....my first time building anything out of fiberglass.
I have a little advantage as I am a carpenter so the wood frame was a snap
and My mom has done upholstery All my life so the fleece was easy too We'll see about the rest
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I thought about doing some kick panels in mine, but it may block use of the emergency brake. And possibly the dimmer switch for the headlights. So I haven't done it yet. I've made some before for other cars I've had and I never had to add matting for just some mids. Now if this was for a sub then matting is a must.
It's looking good!!
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