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> BUILD-OFF CHALLENGE: Trojanhorsepower's Rusty 74 restoration Mark II, Progress thread to keep me going
trojanhorsepower
post Nov 14 2013, 07:28 PM
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After finishing my rotisserie I am finally getting back to actual car work (started in 03). I am redoing what I did in the past (made a mess of it) and hopefully moving on from there. Doug has is helping me with the restoration, so hopefully we can make some actual progress. The entire passenger side of my car is pretty rotten so we have our work cut out for us. I got the good part of the long cut out so when Doug gets here maybe we can start filling in the gaps.
In this pic I have cut out the outside long bit.

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post Nov 14 2013, 07:31 PM
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post Nov 14 2013, 07:32 PM
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At this point I was afraid that there was not enough metal to really support the car suspended from the rotisserie, so my lift to the rescue. Now I feel better about cutting out more metal. Hopefully when Doug gets here I will have things ready to go so we can make some real progress.


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post Nov 16 2013, 08:34 AM
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I have an old Restoration Design? patch panel for the lower inside firewall. It is basically flat. The original has a dimple as does the current Restoration Designs panel. What is the dimple for?


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post Nov 16 2013, 08:46 AM
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The dimple actually touches the outside panel. That gets spot welded to add strength to the box the inner and outer panel are forming. Does that make sense?
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post Nov 16 2013, 09:42 AM
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Thanks Rick,

That makes sense. So I need to make a part to weld between the inner and outer firewall parts since min patch does not have the dimple.
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post Nov 16 2013, 03:12 PM
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That makes sense. So I need to make a part to weld between the inner and outer firewall parts since min patch does not have the dimple.



I can probably get you a dimple patch to weld in if desired. How was your outer lower firewall?
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post Nov 17 2013, 08:08 AM
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That would be great Doug. The outer section is bad to. The lower inch or so is gone and the part under the seam sealer around the heater tube is also gone. I also found some rust on the engine mount.


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post Nov 17 2013, 06:53 PM
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Did a little work to boost confidence. It did not come out great, but it is much better than before.


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post Nov 17 2013, 07:21 PM
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Thanks Rick,

That makes sense. So I need to make a part to weld between the inner and outer firewall parts since min patch does not have the dimple.


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post Nov 17 2013, 07:46 PM
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Hi All

After finishing my rotisserie I am finally getting back to actual car work (started in 03). I am redoing what I did in the past (made a mess of it) and hopefully moving on from there. Doug has is helping me with the restoration, so hopefully we can make some actual progress. The entire passenger side of my car is pretty rotten so we have our work cut out for us. I got the good part of the long cut out so when Doug gets here maybe we can start filling in the gaps.
In this pic I have cut out the outside long bit.


Sweet! Kids are ready to test drive!
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post Nov 17 2013, 08:50 PM
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Hi Doug,

Glad to see you here. Don't hang out too long or you will have to learn to weld! Some mean person suggested that all the recent effort was so I could have the car ready as a collage graduation present for Hugh. Personally I did not think that was funny.... well maybe a little.
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post Nov 20 2013, 08:08 PM
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Tackled another little spot tonight. I am not quite finished, but it looks better than the rusty holes.


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post Nov 29 2013, 08:58 PM
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Plugged the antenna hole.


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post Nov 29 2013, 09:01 PM
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Doug Leehr came out today and we got right to work. Doug and I have been busy cutting out the cancer. First we did a little bracing.


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post Nov 29 2013, 09:04 PM
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Next we started cutting. First the motor mount had to come out.


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post Nov 29 2013, 09:06 PM
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Then we cut a patch panel to weld in after we clean up the rust.


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post Nov 29 2013, 09:07 PM
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Lastly we cut out the rest of the rust. In this section. And started to test fit patch panels.


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post Nov 30 2013, 08:32 PM
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Doug and I worked like elves today. While I did some cleaning Doug whipped up a curvy inner long bit.


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post Nov 30 2013, 08:36 PM
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We got that part tacked in and cut out the rest of the lower inner long, and tacked in new metal.


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