Where is everyone #5

Pretty grim history here. Sunshine Skyway, I live almost exactly 10miles to the south of the summit. Connects Palmetto, & St. Petersburg, crossing Tampa Bay. Love the drive, crossed it daily for about 4 years when I worked in Tampa '06-'09.

See historic photos from the Sunshine Skyway bridge disaster 40 years ago

The fishing pier you see on the left is part of the old bridge..

After the freighter took out the southbound lanes, N & S bound traffic crossed the bay on the remaining N bound side until the new bridge was completed. As a little tike, I remember my mom getting all sketched out as we'd approach the metal span with head on traffic, especially in the rain.. LoL

 

Either it was good, or I was hungry.......!!

 

Just got back from my buddies fab shop. 3/16 with a 3/4 bar stock welded to the lip 36 dia. ×24 deep. ...should make a fairly decent fire pit ??

 

So now I will have to pay shipping on @SAR rim? Thanks Buddy!

Oh well maybe I can get some of those heavy haulers on Uship to bring it cheap!

 

Old crusher cone is what we use. Helps having contacts in the gravel business.

 

Any of you fine folks know of a good way to remove these old huck rivets on the KW cabs? Looking at my cab, thinking I may just replace the entire firewall and floor plate. She purty rusted up and thin under the cowl area. Thinking I might just go with a single flat steel panel and bend it to match the original.

 

I take my angle grinder with a cutting disc and die grinder with an arbor/cutting disc and cut halfway through the Huck side and then use my air hammer and chisel to knock it off. Then I use a punch in my air hammer to punch them out. It can definitely take some time to do.
Can you take a picture of the rivets for me?

 

They're the little baby hucks KW and Pete put their cabs together with. Probably about 3/16" or 1/4" steel shank on them. I'll get some pics when I go out there later today.

Probably gonna have to grind them off. Seems like a ton of work but I guess it'd be cheaper than paying the bodyshop $180/hour to do it lol.

 

I know exactly which ones you're talking about. If you can access the head of each one, cut an X-pattern in the hear and use a chisel on your air hammer and knock that head off and and then punch it out.

 

Oh access is VERY easy: