Hey y’all. Basically I got a 1956 f100 with a rust bucket of a cab . I decided that I was gunna do the repair myself so I bought all my patch panels complete new front cowls, cab corners, floor, firewall, and roof, ohh and door bottoms. I was wondering if anyone had gone about this particular process before and could shed some wisdom on the order in which I should do things to try and keep this body as straight as possible

 

I would start with the cab and doors all together. Make sure it is straight, square, etc. From there brace it with a bunch of 1 x 1 square stock. Then take the doors off. I would probably do the floor and firewall first but others may want to do the roof first.
Before all that though, what are your skill sets? And what type of welder do you have?

 

Check out my thread below, if you want, though it is quite long. Lots of other build threads on FTE to check also- My advice? Just jump in. We all do it differently, though when I started my rust bucket I searched thru a bunch of old threads. Got lots of info then jumped in.

 

First off welcome aboard and good on you for deciding to do the work yourself. If I were you I would look up the thread of 56panelford. John does beautiful work with tons of pictures. You will learn a lot. As far as bracing goes a great friend of mine who owns his own shop and also works for another told me to use EMT tubing for my bracing. He said they use it all the time. It works great and is a lot cheaper than buying regular steel tubing. Good Luck.

 

EMT, I'm surprised it would work. It is soft, easy to bend and is galvanized so special welding is required.

 

My cab was a rusty mess when I started and I had very little welding experience. But in the end I was glad I did it myself,. Check out my albums for progress pic I took.