Originally Posted by C9x
Gettin' cold there I'll bet.
Temps are dropping here in N/W Arizona, but not bad.
Days are still in the 70's here which is great garage - or exploring the dez - weather.
It's 29 degrees right now, with today's high expected to be ~45
Nice battery holder.
What's the large access hole in the sheet metal for?
I grafted a set of '32 frame horns to the TCI frame and am using a 15 gallon '32 style Tanks fuel tank. To easily access the the sending unit and pickup fitting felt that an access panel would work nicely. As a note, the Tanks 17 gallon tank was too low by 1.5", compromising ground clearance. Yogi's made an even exchange - a 15 for the 17 gallon tank
It looks like your trunk floor is a little flatter than is the trunk floor in my 31 Brookville body.
It has the 32 floor option and what looks like a little more drop down to the main floor at the front of the trunk floor than does yours.
Or . . . it's just an optical illusion, but I seem to remember you did change your trunk floor.
Brookville supposedly has as an option, a flat floor, so, being naive, said great, since I'm getting the trunk option, it will be flat from one end to the other - wrong !!! I sectioned the front of their trunk floor panel and made it flat. If I were to do it over, would make up an entire new floor and gain a bit more space plus strength - would have used 16 or 18 ga cold roll rather than their very soft draw quality 20-22 ga
If you have the standard flat B'ville floor, you have about a .75 +/- drop between the top of the body cross members to the embossed tin boards. What happened was that as I was kneeling in the body while installing my body bracing, they bent. I'm not a real heavy weight at ~190. So, off to the tin shop I went. They made me a set of double floor boards that fill the space to level with the body cross members. A swap meeted (invented word) the old f'boards for more than I paid for the new ones.
I added some square tubing for added support between the 2 pieces with tabs to bolt my Glide seats through then painted them up real well internally, then added some insulation from Juliano's (one of my LEAST favorite places for rod parts). These are now bolted in place rather than rivited. I hope this makes sense because I forgot to take in-process pictures
So far, my F150 seems to be doing ok in the front end dept.
The roads here in Sunny Arizona aren't too bad.
We travel a dirt road once in a while as well as about a hundred foot dirt run to get to the paved road, but other than that the F150 is living a life of ease just runnin' errands and the like.