The corners getting welded together.
Second round of welds to fill in the low spots. Chris used the router with a round over bit to get a nice even radius after the build up. We had some contaminants in some of the welding that took some time to work out, but Chris persevere to get it perfect. The back will all be polished so everything had to be dead on.
Some more hinges being installed for the back doors
Using concealed hinges for a clean look.
Starting to putting together the back panels. The propane gas regulators will be placed inside these opening in the panel. I know square would have been easier but where's the fun in that.
Getting ready to weld in the pockets.
Panel all welded, fitted, and being glued in place. We glued the panels in so we wouldn't have to deal with the effects of the heat that the welds would produce.
Started to polish the panel where the gas valve will be placed. I'm thinking this might have not been my greatest idea, but man it's going to look awesome.
Just have the valve in place to see what it's going to look like. Need to do some work on the base so it will fit closer to the back of the opening. The header piece that goes above the door was formed wrong so we are waiting for the piece to finish out the doorway. Once we have that we can measure for the doors and get started on them.
We moved onto cutting the extruded aluminum so that we can fit them to truck.
Each panel needs to be fitted to the trucks body line that was designed so that the extruded metal would fit just right. A good profile gauge is a big help on getting a nice fit.
To make it easier for the body man we are having the body work done on the body line where the extruded metal will be. It would be almost impossible to achieve a nice clean line if we installed the siding before this was done.
