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I agree with you, a lot of little pieces vs. some big ones. Just the firewall and rust under the dash makes it look pretty endless, but you wouldn't be the first to take something like that on. I think that you'll be happier in the long run with the one your working on. It looks like it has good bones and will come out nice.
Some progress today, finished removing the rear cross member cleaned up the valence, and hit it with rust converter, removed the trunk drop off.
With luck tomorrow I can start putting the trunk in along with the rear cross member. I left the original trunk edge in the hopes it will make things easier to line up properly.
Got a late start today, silly little things like mowing the lawn.
Trunk drop-off is in and the rear cross member is tacked in.
I may try to get the car flipped back over and onto the frame to ensure proper alignment.
Finally got the trunk tacked in.
Haven't decided how to handle the center seem yet but through some aerobatics, I managed to get trunk dropoffs aligned.
I finished welding up the trunk.
The new cross member has multiple mounting points which allowed me to extend the rotisserie arms wider so i could roll the frame in place leaving the rotisserie attached.
I lifted front with an engine hoist and was able to move the front of the rotisserie out of the way
Looking good, when do you think you will be ready for primer?
Steve
Thanks, Steve,
I am about a week away from the 1-year mark of the initial tear down.
I would love to have it primed by then.
With luck, I will have the frame attached today and have the rear braces welded in.
I have to replace the RH front cowl. If all goes well I will be priming by next weekend.
Little work today but big progress I managed to get all 8 frame to body mount bolts installed.
Normally probably not that big of a deal, however after repairing several body mounts on the frame, installing a new rear cross member, and welding a section of floor brace, I was very concerned about 1 or more of the 9 or so opportunities to out of tolerance.
With luck, I will weld the trunk braces in tomorrow.
At first glance I thought you were lowering the body down onto the unpainted frame and thought OMG how can he be doing that, then remembered you had the frames stacked and took a closer look. Great progress and Looking good, amazing job you are doing.
Removed the rotisserie and engine lift for better access.
Got the trunk braces tacked in.
Figured I'd take advantage of it being on the frame so I started removing the RH cowl.
tk, that looks like it is coming along nicely. I kind of wish that you'd continued on ole red, because that's even rustier than my ole red, ha! I never saw one worse, at least that I remember. I haven't posted it up here yet in detail because I don't want others to talk me out of it. I've already spent too much on parts to turn back now...
Tackled the trunk gutter I am pretty happy how it turned out the channel from rust repair helped tremendously but I had to fab a companion piece based on all the rot. Channel from rust replace fabbed companion piece
It's coming along. Are you getting close to completing the metal work?
Steve
Getting closer, moved on to quarters and patched outer wheel wells.
Not sure about the shape and size of the edge on the outer wheel well, had to guestimate based on the edge of a rusted piece.
The bulge goes below the quarter panel, not sure if it should. Anyone with pics of the quarter to wheel well behind the tire. Not sure about the bulge from the outer wheel well
It's a little late but I was told you could take the opposite wheel arch and they would fit. PS front to DS rear or DS front to PS rear. You could cut it out and it would fit properly. Needless to say, you are doing a great job. It's nice to have all the sheet metal equipment to fabricate and have the space o work in.
Steve.
Got a couple more patches in on the passenger quarter, realized I had the outer wheel well patch on the driver's side inverted. the rounded edge goes in front of the wheel, so I will be doing a lumpectomy on that lump on the drivers side.
April 17th, 2021, 01:36 PM
