Cab Supports
 

Okay, so after butchering the passenger side cab support I started thinking that there has to be a better way to remove them. Any advice?

TIA
Mike

Re: Cab Supports
 

Front or rear support? Are you drilling out all the spot welds? They're definitely time consuming and tricky to remove.

Re: Cab Supports
 

It will be both front and rear. So, just find all the spot welds and drill them out eh?

Re: Cab Supports
 

Yeah, I wish I had a good short cut I could pass on to you, but drilling out the spot welds is the way to do it. I think the rear is the worst, since it's so close to the cab corner.
Do you have a spot weld cutter? It makes it easier than using a drill bit I think. You can pick them up at Harbor Freight.


Here's a pic of one of my fronts, you can see all the spot welds along the length of the support, plus there are four on top of the channel that the cab sits on (far left of pic, around the cab mount hole) and two on each side of the support under that channel. Of course if you don't want to go this far, depending on how rusty your's are, you can always cut it in half and just weld the outer half in.


http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...e/000_1143.jpg

Re: Cab Supports
 

I don't have a spot weld cutter right now, but I'm always begging for an excuse to go to HF :D