New floor

I finally got the truck running this last weekend after more than a week of scratching my head. It ran perfectly in closed-loop when I pulled the chassis out from under the hotrod. When I wired the computer, fuel and ignition into the 1967 F100 wiring harness, I did a great job with the grounds, not cutting anything and spreading them out all over the firewall, engine and frame. But I combined too many of the 12 volt sources and it wouldn't even start. The computer requires its own, separate voltage source from its own switch and relay. I had jumped off of the key on power that also supplied the old '67 ignition coil, and this pissed it off!

So the wiring is complete and now I'm finishing the remaining welding. I'm making a new floor and making a custom length steering column. I'll be flat blacking the whole truck also.

This is the driver's side floor pan I cut out of the 1967. After pulling up the floor mat there were holes completely through. Channeling the cab made a bit more sense seeing just how bad the cancer was on the floor of this old truck.

Here's a couple pics of the skeleton structure that I finished last night that will support the floor pan. I've already made the cab mounts and the cab, bed and front clip are all bolted to the frame and ready to go.

A shot of the structure and support bracing for the sheet metal floor. The 4) cab mounts are all 1/4" steel plates, the and are fish plated into the rocker panels and A-pillars. You can see the driver's front cab mount in the upper left of the picture.

A view looking into the cab on the passenger's side with half the sheet metal fit and tacked to the steel bracing.

A closer view of the passenger side sheet metal tack welded to the steel bracing

I formed the sheet metal to match the ribs and contours of what was left of the existing cab. The existing cab had a couple steps in the floor and the hole thing slopes down to the rocker panel at the door.