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Rebuiding Inside-out |
bkrantz |
Feb 1 2020, 10:46 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
And ground down to almost pretty.
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bkrantz |
Feb 1 2020, 10:48 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Since the front floor corners are where the front jack point donuts, mount, I decided to reinforce things on the inside.
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bkrantz |
Feb 1 2020, 10:49 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Left side welded in.
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bkrantz |
Feb 1 2020, 10:49 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
And the right side.
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bkrantz |
Feb 1 2020, 10:51 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
While welding in the neighborhood, I filled in some holes in the floor from where a PO pop-riveted some sheet metal in a cheesy attempt to cover the holes in the floor.
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bkrantz |
Feb 1 2020, 10:52 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
With all the preliminaries down, its time to fit and weld in the rear floor panel. To make that easier, and avoid any asymmetric sag with the car sideways, I rotated the car to upside-down.
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Kansas 914 |
Feb 2 2020, 07:47 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,999 Joined: 1-March 03 From: Durango, Colorado Member No.: 373 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
While I have been hibernating you have been busy.
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bkrantz |
Feb 2 2020, 09:22 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Got the floor panel fitted today. My plan to is do a few spot welds along the sides, tack a few spots on the butt seam with the front floor, and a few short beads along the rear edge. Then I can flip it sideways again to get all the flanges on the inside.
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bkrantz |
Feb 3 2020, 08:25 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Before welding on the new floor section, I painted the areas that will be inaccessible (inside the center tunnel and the firewall). That's Rustoleum self-etching primer.
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bkrantz |
Feb 3 2020, 08:28 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
While waiting for paint to dry, I started work on the rust at the base of the A-pillars. This is the right side. Note the small hole above the sill edge (and remember the car is currently upside down). That was probably from when somebody pulled the pillar straight from a previous collision--and did not bother to fix it.
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bkrantz |
Feb 3 2020, 08:32 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Here is the rusted section cut out, after removing part of the sill edge.
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bkrantz |
Feb 3 2020, 08:34 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
And a cardboard template for the patch. (The left side is about the same, maybe a bit smaller.)
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bkrantz |
Feb 4 2020, 09:38 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
No garage time today, but got some more body parts from AA and RD.
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sixnotfour |
Feb 5 2020, 02:18 AM
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bkrantz |
Feb 5 2020, 10:08 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Great. Now I have to check the rotisserie lock.
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raynekat |
Feb 6 2020, 05:56 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,162 Joined: 30-December 14 From: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Member No.: 18,263 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Yep.....just a whee bit left of the tin worm in there.
Doing a great job there Dr. Bob! |
bkrantz |
Feb 6 2020, 10:02 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Thanks, Doug. I may need to pick your brain soon. I hear little voices telling me about how I should "improve" the car and deviate from a stock restoration.
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bkrantz |
Feb 6 2020, 10:03 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Back to 914 work today. First up: finish the A-pillar patches. Here is the right side patch in place.
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bkrantz |
Feb 6 2020, 10:04 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
And welded in, ready for grinding.
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bkrantz |
Feb 6 2020, 10:05 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,148 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Left side patch, a bit more challenging since the base of the A-pillar is curved inward for clearance for the fuel vapor hoses.
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