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above picture is not my truck, unfortunately the bottom one is.
The inner cowl on my 65 F100 has some serious rust damage, the lower half is completely gone.
I need some expert advise on how to go about repairing it, a junk yard for a donor truck is not an option since none
of the yards near me have F100's. I don't believe anyone makes an aftermarket version, but I hope I'm wrong, I just have been unable to find one when searching the web.
I think I'm calling it the correct name, it is the area that is behind the side panel air vent. The rusty pic is what I have to work with,
the other picture is to show what I'm talking about.
I had a good pic of the pieces I made, some reason it's corrupted and won't upload so I took a pic of the pic, I made it all out of 16 ga steel.
Charlie
The holes here are what you would see from under the dash. My repair was to cut the top of the cowl off (as shown) and make a new floor... tack welding it on top of the original floor. I sealed the edges (potential leaks) with POR-patch and top-coated entire the floor with POR-15 paint. There's probably a better way to do this, but it worked fine.
Cutting off the cowl is not hard.. it just takes time. I used a spot-weld cutter from Harbor Freight to for the welds at the windshield. I bought several, but it only took one for the job. A cheap body saw did the rest.
You can't really see it from here, but the new floor is L shapped at the front. The vice grips are holding the new piece tightly to the front.
I'm looking now for an "after" pic, but I haven't find one yet
If it was mine and I lived in southern California (which I do) and it needed that much repair, I'd just find another cab......
Believe me the thought crossed my mind, But this was my grandfathers truck and it was a given to me when I was about 8 (I'm 40 now)so the sentimental value is the drive to keep it intact. Without a long sappy story I had it shipped to CA from Indiana last year and the price of shipping was a hell of a lot more than the truck is worth.
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