11-07-2010: Today I had a couple hours to kill so I decided to do a little work on the 54 cab.

I pulled out the templates I made for the floors last spring. I dug out a sheet of 14 gauge steel floor plate ( aka diamond plate ) . Then I traced out the driver side floor. I pulled out the jigsaw and made a couple cuts. Tried it out then marked out the bend. Then I clamped the metal down to the front crossbar on one of my trailers and bent the floor by hand.

Then I did another test fit. It's pretty close. I still need to do a little more trimming, then I can weld it in. I'm going to try and get it welded in tomorrow. It felt good doing some work on this again!

In the first picture you can see the marks on the floor. They show how wide the firewall recess is going to be. I'm going to have to mount the gas pedal on the firewall recess.

Owner caption November 2010 · Photo 418 of 594