1968 2WD F250 Rangoon Red

[hfdco4]

Great to see you are still making good progress! Let us know what you decide on the FE. I think it's a great engine, and you will love the T-18.

[68RangoonRed250]

It has been a crazy couple of months! The wife and I welcomed our first born in March during the start of the "pandemic". Thankful that work has been busy as I guess I am deemed an esssential employee. What a time to be alive!!!! All I wanna do is work on my bump! Anyways I have been doing some work near the fresh air intake of of the cab and I am looking to replace a panel but both of mine are rusted away so I don't know where they end. Any help? See attached photos.

[68RangoonRed250]

A few more photos of the needed kick panel I am looking to fab myself.

[390FE1972]

Congratulations on your addition to the family!
Here is a youtube from RIPbiker13 on repairing the kick panels, maybe this will be helpful.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H59QuMXqe8U

Regards

[68RangoonRed250]

Congratulations on your addition to the family!
Here is a youtube from RIPbiker13 on repairing the kick panels, maybe this will be helpful.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H59QuMXqe8U

Regards

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for!

[68RangoonRed250]

The more panels I take off the more I realize I need to replace! I was able to remove the passenger side floor pan support today and exposed what was left of the kick panel, not much. I went back to the drivers side and started work on making a template for a patch panel. It took awhile but I was able to get it to where I wanted it and went to cut it out but realized I didn't have enough of the right sheet metal I proceeded to finish gutting the rest of the cab. Underneath the dash pad is nothing but shiny red paint The remaining wire harness, wipers and heater controls were the last to go. Nothing left to take off which means nowhere but up to go from here. I finished off the day by temporarily putting in the F500 instrument cluster I bought. I loved the red and white! A real win to end the day!

[68RangoonRed250]

Some more photos!

[sargentrs]

[hfdco4]

Awesome pictures and progress.

[68RangoonRed250]

Got some time the other night to knock out some more cab repair. I cut out a piece to replace the kick panel on the drivers side and started tacking it in. I am waiting on the front cab pillars from Tabco (Part # 60043) before I fully install. So I moved over to the passenger side firewall and started hacking away. Definitely going to be looking a some sort of wheel well liner to prevent this same kind of rust again.

[68RangoonRed250]

Some more photos of the progress.

[68RangoonRed250]

Got the rest tacked in before I had to call it a night. Stay tuned more progress to come!

[sargentrs]

Excellent fab work!

[jzjames]

Love that sheetmetal fab. Jealous!

[hfdco4]

Great work, did you test fit the heater box too?