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Finally got some time to make progress this weekend. Yesterday I got the parts all welded in on the driver side. Once that was done I started working on the back of the cab. First step was sandblasting the rear cab mount structure - it looked too hard to do a good job with a wire wheel, so...

I have considered that, and that is the reason I added the bracing while it was in the normally installed position. It’s challenging with so much metal removed because I don’t have a datum to measure off of - everything is just floating in space. Part of the issue I found was that I had also...

I had a hell of a time this week getting the floor pan and inner rocker to fit like I did on the passenger side. So I decided I’d work backwards and get the door hung and outer rocker installed first and that would establish where the floor needed to fit. I got the outer rocker all welded in and...

I got a lot of the old cut out tonight. For the passenger side I used the oxy-acetylene torch to cut a lot of the metal out, tonight I used the plasma and I was happier with how it worked, so I’m glad I gave it a try.

It's just sitting on 4x4s that are on jack stands. I thought about making a rotisserie, but I wasn't sure how I wanted to do it exactly, so I just did it the quick and dirty way.

Today I got the passenger side pretty far along. First thing I had to do was change some of the door opening bracing so I could install the door. I hadn’t really thought about installing the doors when I embarked on this, but I was thinking lately that it made a lot of sense, so that’s where I...

I guess rust repair is my philanthropy, ha.

A couple popped up recently. Two of them were $1200 and one was $1500. I have $700 into patch panels, so yeah, I'm saving myself some money, but I'm starting to second-guess whether the savings are worth it. On the flip side, they don't make cabs anymore, so I am saving a cab that might...

Yesterday was a lot of panel installation, measuring, removal, tweaking. Install, measure, remove, tweak. Install, measure, remove, tweak. After many iterations I got to where I was happy with the fit and ready to start permanently installing parts. I decided the floor patch and inner rockers...

This is the pile of what I’ve removed so far. This is the pile of patch panels I started with.

Started working on rust repair today. I started out by bracing the cab with some 14 gauge 1” square tubing. Maybe overkill, but I know I’ll be cutting a lot of metal out so I want to be sure the cab doesn’t move around too much. After that I lifted the cab off the chassis and got the chassis...

Thanks man. It depends on the day whether it has felt fast or not. Here it is the end of April and I sure hoped to be further along by now.

Not much to report…..I got the chassis with the cab pulled in to the barn, but that’s it - the rest of this week/weekend has been consumed by house projects.

Patience, Grasshopper….

I got some new summer wheels and tires for the Envoy. I’ve been wanting a set of these for about 3 years and I found a set 2 hours away with tires and TPMS sensors already installed for less than half the price of new. These are a copy of GMC “Y-spokes” in a 20” x 9” size, that have the 6” x 5”...

I got it back on 4 wheels tonight, now I can move on to the next part.

We'll find out together.

This weekend I got the rear axle and its hardware painted. Unfortunately I made a mistake while painting...... I had the first coat of paint done before 8:00 yesterday, so I was expecting to be able to do the second coat around 12-12:30 or so. Unfortunately I had to wait until almost 3:00...

Finally installing the Yukon Grizzly locker I got off of Amazon Marketplace for cheap 3 years ago.

A hot day for us is 90 degrees F and 30% humidity. We do have hotter days (the hottest that I recall last summer was 95F and 43% humidity), but 90F is getting pretty hot for us.