WOW, my "solid" car aint so solid, but now it is solid!, It is off jack stands!!! Options

[wayne1234]

Well, I decided to look into the new car more that I got from a member on here. there was a trunk floor repair that left a little to be desired. I tried using flux cored mig welding and didnt have much luck, so yesterday I got a tank and some gas @ $200 (ouch) and I was doing some survey work on the front trunk. Let me say I was way too excited to get my car and I looked underneath and saw a couple of rust throughts on the passenger side near the rear but the "longs" where I spent most of my 5 minutes looking was solid. and I though no big deal just a couple of pan spots. and under the new battery tray looked solid from the engine compartment. well under the battery tray "hell hole" was described as" not perfect". there is a piece of metal screwed over the bad stuff. making it appear solid. Then the big suprise, there has been por15 used on the motor mount I thought it looked real rough and when i pushed on it with my finger oops a hole. some poking with a screw driver resulted in the hole you see. the I looked further back at the arm that goes to the rear suspension and it is also por15 with a odd look . more poking and you guessed it a hole. I guess some one thinks por15 is structural. NOT,,, Well I dont mind documenting this because I will fix it right. but hopefully my eagerness to finally get my 914 will make someone else take a second look at the car they are looking at. Mine look great in photo's and even pretty good in person. but it had a dark secret. Now the Real question on the motor mount and (trailing arm mount?) guess that's what its called. what should I paint the back of the metal with and what gauge should I use, should I make drain holes so It wont hold water in the future? Im gonna try to do all this welding with the motor in the car. I fear I will never get the car back together if I take out the motor. Thanks for all your input. Wayne

[wayne1234]

Wow we have been putting in the hours on the 914. Well I got the passanger fender hammered into shape using my templates from earlier and it came out awesome just a light skim coat to even out the tiny hammer dimples and it will be good.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) Shaping that metal takes forever, especially since I'm fairly new at it, but I'm so pleased with how it came out, (I'm pleased at how both of them came out I just had to start from scratch on this side so it was more involved)... I threw in a picture of when I was grinding out some of the old bondo to show how thick the PO had it in spots... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif) then we started to tackle what is hopefully the last of the rust (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) I hope... I had noticed a while ago there was some expanding foam under the sill extension metal on the drivers side up real high the other night, which I thought was odd, so I started scrapping it away and guess what, it was there to hold in the bondo under the sill plate (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) there were rust holes where the outer screws hold on the threshold plate. and a larger hole in the front from who knows what.. I had looked at the longs before and knew they were solid but I hadnt laid down with the car high enough on stands to see this... Not a huge deal as the sill plate covers everything so it doesnt have to look pretty just need to be structural. (And there was zero rust on the actual long)... What I dont understand why would you go the the trouble and time of putting filler in this rust holes and not fixing it right, when its going to under the sill plate (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif) it probably only took 2 hours to cut out the bad make up some metal weld it in and grind it down. I know it took longer than that to put in filler sand it down and make it paint worthy, because again the bondo looked decent, Who knows. I just think its funny.. So now thats done the screws will have something to thread into now, imagine that. also my buddy drew the short end of the stick since my ankle was killing me and he wire wheeled every inner fender getting all the grime and grease, and non sticking paint behind there removed, so now the inner fenders and under fenders are getting pretty close to being paint worthy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) . well here are some pics .. keep the comments coming they keep me motivated.
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