78 Big Ten (Floor pan redone!!)

[78 BIG TEN]

looks like your tear down is coming along nicely. how did you get your bed off? I just grinded the heads off the bolts on mine and me and my wife just rolled it off my truck cause my bed wasnt any good anyway. Jeremy

I was able to get all the nuts off the bolts except one. The one I couldn't I just made the hole bigger on the bed and used a hammer and pounded it out of there. Then to get the bed off me and my friend rolled it off the truck also.

[VileZambonie]

Why don't you want to keep the 73-87 style bed on your truck?

[hotrod24]

what are you going to do about your rocker panels and cab corners

[78 BIG TEN]

Why don't you want to keep the 73-87 style bed on your truck?

Something different. It really just depends on what comes up and is cheaper.

what are you going to do about your rocker panels and cab corners

I am going to buy the replacement parts and have my buddy weld them up.


Also, does anyone know how that back trim piece under the rear window comes off without tearing it up?

[hotrod24]

yea the corner moldings have speed nuts just reach up inside the corner of the cab and spine them nuts off and the middle slides out

[autorepr]

Keep On Truckin good buddy!      Long live the "78"s!!!!!!!!!

[NevadaNeal]

Not to hijack the thread,but what makes it a Big Ten? ive seen them around i was just wandering.

[bowtieguy]

Big 10 and Heavy Half trucks are just that, Heavy Duty.  They should have the Z85 suspension package as well.  If no stickers on the bed, you can count the leafs.  My big 10 has 8 on each side. Regular half ton's have 4 I believe.

[78 BIG TEN]

Well started tear down on the interior. Had to to get to the rusted up floor pans. Here are some pictures.



Here are the pieces waiting to be dyed..

[hotrod24]

your floor is not that bad mine i have to replace both sides of the floor and both kink panels just take a grinder and a sanding wheel and sand the rust around the holes and make sure if you do use a grinder take your insulation out under your dash

[Bowtie Bomber]

My old cab had a hole in the floor where my uncles shotgun went off (it was his hunting truck)..

It was a pretty impressive hole.

And heyyyy, doing great on the tear down! Your moving pretty quick!

[SUX2BU99]

^ Related to that, when I was in high school, a guy in my grade had an F250 of which he and a buddy were in the bush hunting for something. His rifle went off in the truck and shot thru into the transfer case. Came to auto shop on Monday and there he was taking the t-case out   

[ccz145a]

^ Related to that, a buddy of mine had his carburator shot with a 30/30 by a hunting buddy riding in the bed who saw and lined up on a buck. He fired just as the driver saw the buck and slamed the brakes. 

[Bowtie Bomber]

^

Talk about itchy trigger fingers. 

[78 BIG TEN]

Guess where I took it from... Let me know what you all think about this idea. It could work.