After my time in the garden I went ahead and got back to work on the Mustang Chicken Coupe. First thing I did was remove the old drinker cups that I had hooked up. Since the drinker cups are low pressure units, they will be replaced with units that screw into some PVC pipe tees that have are 1/2" with 1/8" stems for the drinker cup thread. I'm still waiting on the tees but the least I can do is prep the rest of the PVC pipe where all I gotta do is just take the PVC tees and assemble them with whatever pieces of pipe and the drinker cups so I can just make one glue joint to mate the drinker cup assemblies to the ends of the car's plumbing pipes. I used some more PVC to change the ends to a smooth piece of PVC pipe to accept the end of first PVC tee. With that done I moved on to getting the floor built in the cab of the car. I started off with laying a pipe across the back of the subframe rails I laid another pipe between the subframe rails forward from the first pipe. After welding those in I moved on to the sheet metal. I did a bunch of cutting and welding on several pieces of sheet metal, I managed to get the whole first section of floor taken care of. I had to do some shaping and extra welding to take care of the transmission hump area as well as cut a slot for the PVC pipe coming up into the car from the bottom. Unfortunately I ran out of welding wire before I could finish one small patch to cover a rust hole under the driver's side floor. Without any welding wire I couldn't continue with the build but the least I could do was prep some more materials for when I do get some more wire. I measured and cut several pipes to cover the span from the first section back to the rear subframes working up past the rear driveshaft hump (or what's left of it after cutting the rusty metal out). When I do get the welder back up I'll be able to get all the floor support pipes welded up so I can get the floor panels put in. Just like with the front floors I will bend the panels to allow for securing with the self tapping screws so I can minimize the amount of welding necessary to get the floor built.
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