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little more too it than that. if you don't know what your doing you'll warp the metal. when i did my dart i drilled out all the spot welds. its nice to have a set of clicos ( little clips that hold the Panel in place)then you can spot weld it . moving from one area to another to keep from getting the metal to hot.

Yes, very much so.

The drastic change in the car with the quarter skins peeled, trunk floor etc are plenty of work but there is just as much or more work to me done in finishing the removal. I now have many spot welds to drill and split at the door jam area for the quarters as well as the tail light end of the quarters. Then I need to drill and seperate the trunk floor tin from the inner wheel houses.

Last night I worked on removing the very tail section of the trunk floor which involved locating and drilling spotwelds for the trunk latch assembly, a couple of tailpan braces and a bunch of spot welds both on the tail pan to trunk floor and trunk floor to rear crossmember.

When I get closer to hanging the quarters I'll be deciding on a weld seam location and then I'll make the final finishing cut on the upper portion of the quarter that remains on the car as well as on the new quarter skin itself.

STX, although it may be sort of unconventional I'm seriously considering placing my cut and weld seam above the top body line where the quarter panel starts to reach towards the trunk.

Well it was one of those nights where you work plenty but if nobody knew any better they would have a hard time figuring out what you got done lol!

I cleaned the top surfaces of my frame rails some and did some more trimming on the front edge of my trunk floor. I'm thinking about splicing the trunk floor here mostly because I have a one piece trunk floor and i will be limited as to how much of it I will be able to fit into the trunk without having the tail pan completely gone or a wheel house completely gone.





I decided to use the full length of the new trunk floor in back where it lays over the rear crossmember and connects to the tail pan.



I had to shut it down early last night to go to a birthday party. i'll work on drilling my inner wheel house to trunk floor welds tonight and i'll start mapping out a plan for the wheel house repairs, drill and seperate the quarter to door jamb area as well as the quarter to tail light pan area.

Then it will be time to hail the little chunks and scraps out and sweep up under the car again.

looking good Dave. Keep em coming. i cant get enough of this stuff.

Well it's got to look scary for a while before it starts looking nice again.

I'm close to turning that corner where the niceness starts coming into play

As with this other old B-body soon whe will turn the page from this:



to this:

i thought about doing that on the dart. but since it was so strait there i couldn't get myself to cut it there.
heres a pic of the widened wheel wheel

Just found this thread and spent an exra half hour at lunch catching up on it.

Lookin good Dave! You're knowledge of this stuff never ceases to amaze me.

Thanks man, well hopefully very soon I can start posting pics that look like progress rather than carnage.

Are you a POR-15 fan? I was wondering what you did to treat the frame/metal that your are saving?

You must have a crystal ball, because POR15 is on standby, waiting for the frame rails to be cleaned with a little sand blasting.

No crystal ball- just a fan of the stuff (other than its price).
I think it's the sole reason I have one of the only remaining old body style Suburbans (an '88) left in the area. It's kept that old F150 of mine in decent shape as well. Great stuff.

I keep reading good things about it.

phthththt, like you can read....

This thread oughta be a sticky - least till it's done...

No, no, there's too much sticky around here with my name on it already.

I'll try to keep the pace up and post updates frequently, then when it's done it's done, let r sink to the abyss.

who knows- maybe this old dog will learn enough from what you're doing to tackle my GTO. I've already learned a lot from what you've posted on the Mustang and this. Thanks for taking the time to do so.
Jim

That sounds like an old Bill Clinton quote.

I think I spotted the beer fridge...

Indeed.

If it wernt so full of dead frozen bobcats, various critters and an elk hide... there might be room for a beer or two.





Well maybe I better slow down a bit and post some detail on spot weld drilling, panel splitting etc.