Recent content by volaredon

About like sweating new copper pipe to old copper pipe.. I can sweat new copper all day but had problems when sectioning in new to old. I always had to go back to the last soldered joint on the system and start back from there. Until I discovered silver solder. Once I found that, new copper, old...

the farther I go, the farther behind I get.... Every time I think "I'm close, only 2 more things and its done" I uncover more crap. I had a lead on a supposedly solid rust free cab via MP only 6 hours away for a good price. I can only hope that cab would have actually turned out to be a POS...

well, gettin close to done with this cab finally. The welding is gettin easier, beads looking better, weld penetration looking more like the demo's I had to watch years ago when I took a few welding classes (never could get that right, back then) less grinding and rewelding another pass as I...

Yup. We used to have a great car quest the next town away. Then advance bought them and ruined the chain, ran them in the ground. Advance auto sucked before and they're no better now.

Be sure to use imported junk for your smashing "guinea pig". Toyota's kia's Hyundai, Nissan, honduh etc

I have. Each of the 2-3 times I've ever tried tig has been on aluminum

Had an 86 Ford 5 ton Louisville series truck that I had to make a pan for, I used a retired "road construction ahead" sign, a solid 48"x48" solid sheet of aluminum. I drilled and pop riveted that in a few years ago (I still don't know anyone who can weld steel to aluminum) I then used a couple...

On my 78 d300 dually I used to have, I cut 6 pieces of sheet metal and welded those in to make a floor pan. back then I had to bend the seat riser separate from the rest rather than hand forming it out of 1 pc like I've since learned to do. anyway, on that 78 after welding in the home made...

I wish I could Tig. Strangely I'm actually pretty good with oxyfuel setup and hand feeding rod that way but can't seem to keep the tungsten tip out of the puddle.

Id post these at the "sister" truck site but that site everyone sleeps, there's little action over there.... And what action there is, most are also members here anyway.

Though I did also cut out the trans tunnel and welded one in that I cut out of a local junkyard refugee as well. Not because of a rust problem with the original to this cab but just like when switching to a 4 speed on an A body from an automatic, you need more space underneath for the new...

Here's my floor pan patch in this 90 truck cab that's going onto my 83 D250 the rest was solid as new. Wasn't worth cutting the whole thing out for "that". I'm sure not gonna lose any sleep over knowing that part of my floor pan was once the lid on a 55 gallon drum that brought me ATF at work...

I'm never going to be privileged to be able to restore anything rare or desirable as a "collectible". I have 2 mopars not often seen these days (4 if you count the 2, 80s trucks) That said, floor pans are hidden by padding, seats, carpet, maybe a console. Not readily seen at a cruise night...

No I'm swapping the other way. Auto to stick. I bought my 83 D250 back, my son and I had the rusty body picked off at the local yard and we have all out of state sourced sheet metal, complete body to go back on. Cab is a 90 and is off of a Cummins dually cab and chassis. That tunnel...

I had to swap tunnels as I had the small 2wd automatic transmission tunnel originally and I'm putting in an NV4500. Granny gear stick equipped trucks, 4wd and all club cabs got a bigger tunnel. I got this one out of a 90 club cab in my local junkyard which is nice because I don't know if the...