7000 series cab modifications
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Topic: 7000 series cab modifications
Posted By: Red Bank
Subject: 7000 series cab modifications
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2020 at 10:58pm
| After buying a 7040 a couple of weeks ago I have started to work on it and I have a couple of questions. The cab has more rust than I thought when I looked at it. Does anyone have a source for patch panels? Also has anyone ever made the right door functional? It appears to be bolted in and I wonder if it can be modified to open? |
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Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2020 at 6:26am
| Anything is possible. It looks like the frame is different so you would need a mirror image of those parts and the door latch would operate backwards unless you could modify that and then find or fabricate hinges. After all that, can you get in and out without tripping over the console? Just a thought. |
Posted By: Tim NH
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2020 at 7:06am
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I have thought about putting hinges on that door. I am tall and have a hard time trying to do anything in that corner of the cab. My thought would be to tack weld some hinges on the outside. Take the screws out, and weld hinges on the inside. Make it like the other door. All the handle hardware can be sourced from Heitman tractor salvage. This new access would be just for maintenance. ------------- 1950 WD 1959 D14 1955 WD45 1976 7000 B 207 |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2020 at 7:19am
I always thought that the original idea was to make that cab with two doors and then perhaps the idea was axed and that window panel was bolted in instead. Otherwise why did they not just make that side solid like the factory cab of a 200? As far as the door handle I believe Hiniker or Year-A-Round made both left and right door latches and they would work in a 7000 series cab.
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Red Bank wrote:Posted By: Red Bank
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2020 at 7:58am
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Posted By: automaticdave
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2020 at 9:31am
| Bolt a 8000 cab on it, you'll like it ! |
Posted By: Ron(AB)
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2020 at 6:56pm
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I've welded the floor on my 7000. Put some new pieces in and a bit of rust paint. If the cab is that bad I'd look at the wreckers. Most are just junked. You could get one cheap? It all depends on how much or how long are you going to use it? and how much life it has left in it? (and how much life you have left?) |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2020 at 8:55pm
That last line says alot. Some repairs now are decided by "it will last longer than I will". |
Posted By: Red Bank
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2020 at 9:09pm
| True about how long I will last. The cab needs the front cab corners and a patch panel under the seat where the lift speed valve rod is. I just hate to buy a cab kit and put in it without trying to fix these bad spots. I am not necessarily trying to restore it for shows but I want it to look decent. One of my customers came by to look at it he does fabrication for show trucks, and he said no problem to fabricate new pieces and make the right door functional, so I am going to turn him loose on it and we will see how it turns out. The tractor was bought to work and I probably should have doubled my money and bought a nicer one but in my area there aren’t many to choose from. |