Wes April 13, 2020

• 67 Panel Project

Often it seems like you are jumping around a lot during a project and it is true. Sometimes money is an issue and so you work on less expensive areas, or perhaps you are waiting on back ordered parts. Our project hasn’t been any different, and that is why you will see us working on […]

Wes April 13, 2020

• 67 Panel Project

After giving it much thought we decided that we wanted to shave the stock gas filler, and install a fuel filler door in it’s place. We had been agonizing over what we wanted to do with it for several weeks prior to doing it. We didn’t want just any filler door. We knew that it […]

Wes April 13, 2020

• 67 Panel Project

We decided for a couple of reasons to use some of the left over floor patch panels from an earlier repair to make little pieces to replace the bad metal that we cut out. We have the lower door patch panels here in stock and could have very easily used one for this repair. However […]

Wes April 13, 2020

• 67 Panel Project

As explained near the beginning of this project, we decided to go with a 72 Suburban 1/2 ton front end. We had the crossmember, upper & lower control arms, front sway bar, sway bar brackets, 2″ lowering coils, and 2 1/2″ lowering spindles, and disk brake backing plates all powder coated for ease of clean […]

Wes April 13, 2020

• 67 Panel Project

The next step was to cut the area out. When we cut it, we cut it small. We did this for a couple of reasons. 1.) Because we were using a cutting torch to cut it, and that leaves a ragged edge, so we needed room to grind it clean. 2.) Because we only wanted […]