Well, I have been dinking around with the sea hag on a regular basis as of late. If you know your early chevy trucks, you will know that they are full of wood until 37. Well, I am lucky enough to have a 36 so I have a bit of work to fix it. The first thing you need to do is build yourself a floor. I think I showed some pics of that earlier last week. Then you need to get your door gaps where they need to be. You need to push, pull, prod, poke, and pound to get it there. I used a porta power and a bunch of ratchet straps to get mine straightened out. This thing is floppy so you need to work at it and redo thing over and over until it stiffens up. When you get the cab where you want it you need to weld the cab to the floor front and aft. With that done you can take out the wood. This is a stinky and messy project. Do like I do and have a nice cold beer in your hand while you cut all the hardware holding the wood in. That way you can cure your scratchy throat from the smoke and put out any little fires that you WILL start from one handy can. Being a tool junky comes in handy sometimes. I got one of those cheap ring rollers last year and it is tits for rolling sweeping bends in tubing. I thought I took a pic of it but apparenly I neglected to do so. I used the interior trim piece as a template and rolled out the shape I needed. Make sure you get it right because the cab derives its shape from this piece. I then reinforced the pieces and cut out the spot for the hinges. I put the door back on and lined up the gaps and welded the hinges to the tubing. Now the door shuts effortlessly. Before it was about falling off and wouldn't hardly stay on. Simple! I did this project in about 2 hours and 4 beers. I used half of one putting out a small fire though.
Very cool. I passed on a '36 Chevy 3-window coupe a while back, the wood scared me. And that is a SWEET Olds Rocket engine you got in there..
I had a 34 Chevy 3 window that I sold last year because I didn't want to screw with the wood, even though it came with a brand new wood kit. The Cisco kid has been working on his stede coupester as well. He has the doors swinging and stuff. His kid Jeremy is just as screwed up as him, look at the "power upgrade" he added to his little electric scooter. I was over there last night and he had a whole car battery on there. Ha Ha Ha
Nice, Plowboy - I just replaced what little bit of wood that was left in my 31 Ford cab too, all except the header. I was working on that and a buddy dropped by and said he had a new wooden one. I also had one small fire, (which happened to be my pant leg) and no beer to put it out. Good tech tip for next time! I like the electric scooter too, I've been wondering when someone would HotRod one O' those Segway scooters.
Nice! Thanks for the ideas on twisting one into shape... I'm gonna need all the info like that I can get when I get my truck cab into the garage and ready for splicin'.
It was a Homier item. Might as well be HF. I think it was around 200 bucks. It doesn't accept too thick of stuff in its stock configuration but I put some smaller rollers in mine from my benchtop bender to accept up to 1 1/2, I believe. Nicky, if you ever get married, you will find all kinds of reasons to get out of the house and work on stuff. Ha Ha Ha
Aaron, you and Russ have been busy lately! Wish I had nearly as much done on mine ......... Looking good guys! Tim D.
That Stude has to be one of my current favorite builds. Aaron thanks for keeping all of us abreast of all the Cerro Cornfield builds. Not even sure how to say this and not sound gHey. "Nice wood"
Could you please post the pictures and a description of the whole process. I have 29 4 door what full of wood as well. Thanks
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