Finished extending the bedside on the drivers side. I had an issue with the bedside previously when I was welding the fender on. I had some extreme oil canning. I used a stud gun then and eliminated the oil canning but there was still a really high spot that I never addressed.

Instead of trying to keep shrinking areas I just cut some slits in the trouble spot, straightened the metal and welded back. Probably took an hour or more to weld back. I laid a few tacks, ground down with cutoff wheel then smoothed with roloc then repeat. It turned out great. The metal is straight and no oil canning.

Well church got cancelled tonight because of snow and I got a little stir crazy sitting around so I at least put in an hour of tinkering. P/O butchered the dash filled with resin and mat.

I cut the hole a little more square. Tried to hammer the edges a little flatter and made a brace out of 1/8" steel to weld back in the middle. I put it in the vice and bent the edges for support to match the original brace.

Hopefully will get the patch installed this week.

Here's a little more work on the dash. I shaped a piece close to the same profile.



Here it is trimmed smaller.



Here it's shaped a little bit tighter.

Here is the bend added.



Trimmed down to final size.



Partially welded in.

Got some more of it welded. Just need to finish welding lower right corner and on the bottom bend. I'm also going to do some more hammer finishing on the top seam.

Looking good man, looking good. I wish I had something to report, but its just a block sanding party going on at my house.

Your project is looking great man.

Thanks Bam. Still have a ton of welding and grinding left on the bed so I made a stand to put the bed on. I'll also do the bodywork & painting on the stand.

Once again every thing is looking great. I love the bed stand. Great job.

Been doing a lot of small detail work on the bed along with grinding welds. Started working on relocating the filler neck on the gas tank today. Cut a c-notch in the frame. Hopefully will get it welded tomorrow along with this filler neck I made today.

Got the filler neck welded to tank and c-notch welded up.