1948 GMC - Cab - Page 19


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		Now primed with a self etching primer and ready to return back to the floor board.
		With spraying on the self-etching primer, the areas to be welded where also primed. This would not due, so with a small sanding disk on the die-grinder, those areas were cleaned up and shot with weld-thru primer. This also included parts on the patch panel where the E-coating was sanded away and primed.
		With the patch panel in place, I used butt weld clams to help align the toe board along with a few vice grips on the back side. Keep in mind that the butt weld clamps don't align the metal perfectly due to fact that no piece of metal is perfectly flat, I used a small putty knife in between the seams to align the parts before each spot weld.
		Here is the patch panel in place and welded at the toe board using butt welds and at the lower cab support frame using rosette welds. Welds that were possible by first locating the frame and then drilling wholes to weld in the appropriate locations.
		Here is a photo looking for any warpage along the butt weld at the toe board.
		Floorboard welds now sanded down cleaned up.
		This picture is on the bottom side of the door pillar looking at the bottom edge of the inner right panel. The reason for this picture is due to the problems I am having with this replacement panel. Just like the other side (has not been addressed just yet) the panel is poor representation of what it suppose to be. It is not one of the nice panels that come E-coated and run real close to being an exact fit. This one is the wrong gauge, seams don't line up, bends are out of place and the primer that has been applied to it has runs and all sorts of issues. Primer that has to come off. (In this picture, it has already been removed.)

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