Both corners off. That's the last thing that had to come off of the cab, Hallelujah! I did have to make a small patch on the passenger side inner corner, also.

 

Since it was so nice over the weekend, I was able to get POR-15 on the iside sections of the cab. This is now ready for the inner and out cab corners to go back on.

 

Damn, looking good there bud.....keep the pictures coming

 

Well, since I couldn't mow during the storm, might as well work in the garage! Got the passenger side cab corner fitted.

 

After cleaning up some rust on the inside of the outer panel, there are a few pinholes. I thought about just patching them, but since I'm going to cut up the DC cab corner for the drivers side repair, might as well patch this side also. Just need to do a little trimming on the corner, and it's good as new!

 

I'm really not impressed with the DC cab corners. I thougth they would fit much better, but the channeled section in the middle of the panel isn't the right size, it would have taken a ton of work to make it match. That's why I'm going to save those outer panels and use them!

 

Progress! Keep at it Pat!

 

The drivers side outer panel required some major excavation. But, again, I was able to use the DC panels as patches.

 

Coated the inside of the passenger side cab corner, the inner corner piece, and a few other peices in POR-15, in preparation for installing on the cab.

 

That must smoke and stink like hell when ya weld it in after painting.
And no way to paint the weld on the back side after it's in. Right? What
keeps that weld from rusting?

 

The spots that I weld to, I'll grind down to bare metal, and then shoot with weld-through primer. I'll be able to get to most of the spots on the back side, and those will be re-coated in POR-15, then all of it will be shot over with Epoxy primer.

 

So, I ran into a little issue with the drivers side. After perfectly aligning the inner and outer corner panels, the innner panel is about 3/8 of an inch off. I messed with the panels for an hour, but couldn't get them to line up. So, choices are A. exend the outer corner by 3/8 of an inch, or, B. shorten the inner panel 3/8 of an inch. Well, doing the inner panel is much less work, so that's what I went with. I used my electric shear, to get a nice straight cut.

 

After welding the two peices back together, the panels line up perfectly. So, time to coat these in POR-15 also.

 

Looks good Pat. The attention to details will be worth it in the end.

 

Thanks Neil!