Interior is almost completely removed from the S10 now. Carpet, 3rd seat, headliner and a few trim pieces are all that's left.

Seats are out, steering column is out, dash is out, pedal assembly is out. Now I need to fill the hole in the floor on the Sonoma and I can start putting the interior back together.

 

Got a little done on filling the hole in the floor today

Hole cut out of Sonoma



Patch panel cut from S10



Fitting the panel



Welded in place



Next I'm going to grind it all down so I can see what holes still need to be filled.

 

Finished off the floor tonight, it's not perfect but I think it's pretty good considering I've never really done any bodywork before.

Ground down the welds



Filled a few more holes



Ground down the welds again, and done



Then I started looking at the steering columns, I was planning on swapping the lock cylinder from the Sonoma to the auto column from the S10 to keep the key correct to the truck. I would have had to swap the wiring over as well because the wiring from the S10 was hacked up and the clock spring was broken and gone long ago.

After looking at it a little, it looked like it would be much easier to just take the shift lever off of the S10 column and swap it over to the Sonoma column.

The Sonoma column already had the hole for the shifter, but they weren't threaded so first thing I had to do was tap the holes.



Then removed the bolts attaching the shifter



and drilled out the welds holding a bracket on



Removed shifter assembly



Then I transferred it to the other column, and welded the bracket on

 

I got the floor cleaned up and primered







I also went to the wrecker to try and find some of the things I still need that none of the other trucks have, didn't find any of that but I guess I'm going with the GMC front end now lol

 

Looks like you're making good progress. Are you still planning on driving the Sonoma this winter?

 

Nice patch job, looking good. Cant wait to see this done!

 

Thanks guys

That's my goal, I'm kind of doubting it'll happen but if I don't keep it as my goal it definitely won't happen lol.

 

Paul and I got a fair bit of work done today, we completely removed the wiring harness from both trucks and re-installed the harness from the S10 into the Sonoma.



Then removed the front windshield



And then the rear window.



I had also painted the floor with Tremclad, it's all dirty from doing the wiring in these pictures.

 

Ran wiring for the power seat



Installed the pedal assembly, and mounted the body relay block



Installed the carpet



Transferred the wiring for the power windows and locks from the driver’s door of the S10 to the Sonoma. The actual conversion to power windows will wait until everything else is done, but I wanted to transfer the wiring for everything now while it was torn apart.

 

Looks like you're making some decent progress. I hope you can get it ready to drive for this winter.