worked on the new tranny/t-case tunnel yesterday. its pretty much done, I just need to make another piece of sheetmetal that will screw on top and hold the boots in place. I cut the sheetmetal with a large enough hole to give me easy access to the shift covers when i need to remove them. The top cover plate that I am going to make will screw onto that peice and cover up the access hole area. First I needed to re-brace the main supportive crossmember on the body that the seatbelts and seats bolt to. So i peeled back the top layer of sheetmetal and welded in a piece of 1/4"x2" up and over the driveline to the other side to strengthen everything up. Then I hammered the top layer of sheetmetal back down and welded it to the plate. Then I cut out a peice of sheetmetal to cover the driveline area. I spot welded it to the brace first, then hammered it down into place and welded it to the existing floor. For the main tunnel I used 1/4" solid rod to frame out where I wanted the sheetmetal to fit. Then I cut one sheet to cover it all. I tacked it to the 1/4" rod all the way around and worked it down to the rest of the body and welded it up. I ended up putting about a one inch weld every inch and a half all the way around the tunnel. Then I sealed up the rest of it with some 3M seamsealer I got from the body shop. It turned out pretty good, not real pretty, but its functional and it will be covered with carpet anyways!
