Midnight Mods: Printer Truck

I had some problems with the cab corners on my truck kinda rotting out. So I fixed them the way any snap tie user would, with snap ties!!!! I thought this was a great mod to my truck a while back. It got some good laughs. The problem was that the ties would get brittle and break after a while. This is one of the initial times that I did it. It changed a few times after this.

I was just full of ideas yesterday, so in the middle of though of fixing a hole in the bed of my truck, uhhh, which for some reason the picture I took is missing. Anyways, I had a hole in the top of the fender of my truck. Some water came though or dirt getting stuff in the bed dirty every now and then. It was just a small crack in a strange place. I took part of a printer I had sitting around and made a piece to fit and then sheet metal screwed it in. It worked so great I got the idea to fix one of the cab corners the same way!

I guess I should have rotated that picture. You get the idea. This one was simple. I screwed it into the rocker panel and bent it into place with the ball-pien hammer. I could be spelling pien wrong there. Oh Well. This worked great! I was happy with the results and the door closes so nice now! no more wiggling around. I was so ecstatic about this, that I decided to tackle the other side.

I had to put an L-style bracket under the rocker panel on this side because it was getting fairly rotted out. Then the cab corner on this side was much more rotted as well, so I had to get creative and bend the metal a bit and do some cutting. I ended up using 2 pieces on this side as you can see the perforated piece on the top. I just used the ball-pien hammer and the dirt to bend it around and a pair of channel locks. Having a good set of tin snips was essential to this project. Thank god for my nice high quality wiss snips. Those things are awesome!! Price tag was awesome too when I bought them. You gotta have good tools though! I went a little crazy on the screws, but that is alright. It will hold in there good. This side is so much more stable now, and the door shuts better as well!