The right side torque box came out relatively easy. When I jammed the scraper into the seam sealer between the ‘box and the firewall, it poked straight through into the cab. OK – time to fire up the body-saw and do some trimming. Still got some bad metal in there, but I’ll worry about that later when it’s time to cut out what’s left of the floor pans.

And finally, got the driver side torque box removed. Turns out the floor on that side was a little more gone than I first thought, so I wound up just cutting this one out as well. Just like on the passenger side, I’ll be removing the leftover torque box ‘flashing’ by more drilling of spot welds.

No more torque boxes – got the real Fred Flintstone look going now. Now I gotta get the rest of the frame rails out and score some metal for the firewall patches.

Didn’t feel like cutting any more, so I decided to get all of the rubberized undercoating off the firewall. Looks like only a couple of minor bad spots that can be repaired with some flat sheet metal (later). Cleaned up pretty nice.

Since I was heading out of town and it would be a week before I got back to it, I put a first coat of Rust Bullet Black Shell on the newly cleaned firewall. This stuff is awesome! Can’t wait til I get the cowl repaired and painted, and slide the new front clip under there – It’s Gonna Pop!! LOL!

Looks kinda weird seeing something that looks almost ‘new’ on this car. Shouldn’t be too much longer til the front clip goes on.