avnsteve

I cannot imagine why one wouldn't join the stroker group, expecially with an MJ :nuts:

welcome aboard! If you ever need a hand, or wanna get together for an adult beverage with like minded jeople, I'm about 45 minutes away from you in Kyle. send me a pm sometime...

...and a leak! :brows:

the truck, or the girlfriend? :brows:

20 ga is the stock dimension, cold rolled can be had for about 60 bux 4x10 sheet, and you'll easily find something to do with the rest...

whoa!! hold on a moment! I bought the c2c pans, because they were the cheapest, it was a waste of my money. The pans were poorly sized, inaccurately formed, and i wound up buying more sheet to make up for what they lacked. AND, i had to reform the pans anyway. If you're going to do your floors, just buy some sheet and form it yourself. a 4'x10' sheet of 20 gauge in austin cost $55, those c2c floor pans cost 125! if you want some help, send me a pm, i'll be happy to walk you through it

those look really nice, I may consider that option as my bench sux right not, and I just put new floors in, I can still fab up any mount arrangement i want/need. thanks

ahh, lessons from our youth... i can remember the day too

I don't have the answer, but I know that 5-90 over at NAXJA will know that information. you can reach him by PM at NAXJA.org or go to his website and browse around a bit: http://www.kelleyswip.com/

"I'm already planning on pulling carpet when I do my seat swap here in a couple weeks. Any recomendations on a floor pan or what grade of metal to weld in?" 18ga will do, that's what i'm using, and it's close to original. my supplier only sells it 4X10 sheets, so I will have much to spare... I'm considering just fabricating a custom floor pan and eliminating the seams and all that crap...

be very judicious about that bedliner on the whole truck, it do tend to hold dirt and will NEVER look good after a few miles of filth etc.

yes i am. my wife cannot dig it. she thinks i'm in over my head. I explained to her if i could do this kind of work on a helicopter, then a truck should be a piece of cake...

OK, here I am. I've been lurking for awhile, and decided to post progress on my 87 long bed. I traded a small pile of camping gear for it. I thought it was a good deal (since it was all leftover army crap) I was browsing around here and read the "infamous" red text about pulling up your carpets and guess what!?!?! before Image Not Found after Image Not Found above is the drivers' side looking aft, that looks structural, so I guess I'll be making a new piece to stob in there... in the next pic you can tell, the floors were STILL wet from the carpet holding in the moisture! :shake: Image Not Found Image Not Found and finally here at the last pic you can see a little bit of progress. I tried a spot weld cutter, but the rust was SO BAD i couldn't tell where the spot welds were. So what I ended up doing was just cutting all the metal around the frame rails with an angle grinder/cutoff wheel, and then using an air chisel to reveal all the spot welds, then took a grinding wheel to the remainder. It's cleaned up pretty good now. I have no sure plans of where I'm gonna go with this truck, but i'm sure there's enough ideas here to give me some inspiration. please feel free to pipe up with your ideas and opinions

HB is $45 at local parts store new (autozone) with warranty...