Some repair pics, to give ideas, and hopefully help..

[foodstick]

Rebuilding 65 cab front lower , all my own scratch built pieces, none of this stuff was available at the time...

[foodstick]

I sorta laugh when I see this, because I did this repair one handed when my left arm was in a sling..(shattered my elbow in bike wreck)

[foodstick]

Some inner door post work...Made from flat steel, my own template..couldn't buy them then..

[foodstick]

check out the top right, and lower left pics to see how much metal I replaced

also that kickpanel is one of my design to super build the cab from the bottom of the door postup to half the height of the kick panel..makes the cab TOUGH as heck...

[foodstick]

fixing Kids 65 quarter panel, large patch install...

[foodstick]

the INFAMOUS 65 frame repair, one soft smack from kid with a hammer, upper spring bearer fell off showing NO frame behind it ..


No words to describe this...

[foodstick]

Here is the frame cut from long box to short on the 64, Now Donny's truck..

[olliesshop]

Thanks for the pics ... I have to rebuild my lower door posts too, they're rotted pretty bad.

[1965fordf100]

foodstick...awesome work! You wouldn't happen to have the dimension written down somewhere for that kickpanel you made, would you??? I have to do all of those same repairs on my cab.

[Kid]

Dang, we do pretty good work for not knowing what the heck we are doing.

[slickmainer]

is it tricky to replace the floor boards without messing up the cab supports? my supports are good but the floor is bad, just wondering how to approach the the job and how not to mess up the supports

[foodstick]

Somewhere I do have some templates..for my parts..

And as far as the floor repair and cab mounts goes..if the floor is bad over the mount area, they will probably need to be removed from the floor to do a clean floor install...

[foodstick]

this will beef a old cab up with overthick metal for the new kick panel

[foodstick]

Replacement piece for cab post base...

[foodstick]

[slickmainer]

you did more in one day than i did in 3 months

[foodstick]

These aren't all current pics,

I am just uploading reference pics from the old board I had taken..

so people could look at how I did repairs, and maybe give them ideas...or just see how things look with some parts , and metal removed...

[69supercj]

Hey 'stick, when you cut the frame on the long bed to make it a short, you took 12.5 inches out between the wheels. Did you have to take anything out behind the rear wheels? Also, can you tell me where exactly you cut the frame and why? I'm getting ready to do this to my '66. Thanks a bunch!!

[foodstick]

I THINK we cut 6 inchs out of the box behind the wheel well (been so long not positive) so we would have definitly cut that much off the rear frame . I think we just shortened it, not grafting. When we cut the fron part we just cut the straightest piece out..with no mounting points I believe..when ever you cut anything, thats best..so the parts will line up the easiest...

[jhewitt]

I wish someone would take good panels as these and do temp lets and offer Laser cut replacements, I found a guy in Canada that does similar stuff and his designs has small laser slits along bend lines so there is small tabs every so often, you then can place part in a vise and bend to 90 degree angles and then lay a weld bead perfectly down the bend line filling in the laser slits.

I would add along with his great designs a tab and slot design, the mating parts would have a male/female tab and slot mating.