slowly comeing together.

a little paint to keep the flash rust down, go back and grind the welds down flat. and its patched.

do a little sand blasting on the surface rust on the rest of driver floor, then a coat of bed liner sprayed inside.

then it is ready to flip on its back so I can weld the back side of patch, then coat the firewall/cab bottom with the bed spay on bed liner.

ACE did a 59 chebby and I do like the finished look of the spray on bed liner inside and out of the cab. easy clean up with a hose and not soggy carpet.

last 3 trucks Ace has sprayed,he used the rustoleum rubberized spray bed liner.

same finish look you have there in the raptor.

the 64 chebby got it in the lower cab with a gloss white dash and upper 1/2 of cab.

the 59 chebby got same inside with a full undercoating and all of the underhood/engine bay.

what was a fast patch up to swap in the 5 speed is turning into a little more body work than i had thought about doing.

but I am really enjoying the project again for a change.

I am ready to flip the cab and weld up the bottom next,then on to sparying the bedliner.

Looks like you are moving right along I will be following this closely I just started my first cab swap, I havnt gotten nearly as far as you yet my cab is still hanging from the beam in my garage here are a few pics of my project.

Here are my trucks befor I pulled the donor cab

another

You gonna bring donuts over to the neighbor?

got some spray on bed liner done today, now to let it cure a couple days and it is flip over for bottom side.

another one

and another shot.

20$ for sheet metal,60$ for bedliner = 80$ for patch work so far. with cab/tax = 400$ to replace the 85 cab. well worth the effort and cash so far. hope to squeeze it all in under the 550$ cash mark.

going to need another roll of wire for welder, another gallon of bedliner to finish up the cab.

little progress at a time.

the 5 speed conversion is coming in under 900$ but still need to build a drive shaft yet.

the whiplash roller cam swap added another 550$ to the bill.

it will be like a new truck for less than 2000$ invested. which is better than a 350$/month 5 yr payment plan right now.

Isnt the bedliner on the inside gonna get messed up when your weldung on the bottom ?

Mike, lookin D****** good my friend!!! I took my junkyard truck for a ride today; have to dial in my distributor as I switched from an MSD mechanical to a firecore vacuum advance. It runs a lot cooler with the vacuum but I think it suffers a bit on HP. It lights them up on demand and is a blast to drive. Bodywork and paint are next but it will be a while as I am enjoying it as a rat rod and the looks on peoples faces when I pop the hood or shut them down. LOL

I did a whole cab swap on my truck last year,its a lot more solid and quiet now Your donor cab didnt have the lower rear window trim did it? I would be interested if so.

the rocker is next up for repair, my first rocker patch.

pretty solid exept for the holes. the 85 cab has 2 good solid rockers to chop away at.