Edie: The Dart
Hi there, its been a few weeks since my last post, progress has been slow as far as eye candy, but I've done a bunch of work.
Door skins came out well, still working the passenger skin, the original skin I botched after not taking the right approach. So I got a good "clean" skin, only to found out, it needs a patch too! Grrr... The great thing about it is, I finally learned the system, I do it in rounds of 6-8 tack and dolly every weld. It's coming out clean, its time consuming, but looks good!
Drivers:
Passenger:
Door frames sanded, ready to be cleaned and painted:
Did the hinges and 'S' springs:
Last week I ordered some new Sherman quarters for Jeg's. Motivated, I jumped to the trunk and quarter area, did a bunch of demo work.
Now I can see what I'm up against for this area. Crossing fingers that the inside of those rockers look decent...
So breaking work down roughly in this area:
*Replace the wheel houses instead of fab a lip all the way around, paint what I can inside rockers, if needed. Might as well mini-tub while I'm there.
*A little fab patch work around certain areas such as the tail panel sides, floor leading up to the shock mount.
*Fab up a trunk floor and extensions.
*Brush out rust in top underside of trunk area.
*A little stripping and dolly work on the upper trunk/quarter to window panel, sand and paint.
*Hang quarters.
Starting tomorrow, I'll finish cleaning up the edges of the work I cut out last week, then probably do the passenger side door skin metal work off and on, might paint some innder skins and door panels if I feel frisky.... Then move into the rest of it. BOOM.
Enjoy!
Hi there, its been a few weeks since my last post, progress has been slow as far as eye candy, but I've done a bunch of work.
Door skins came out well, still working the passenger skin, the original skin I botched after not taking the right approach. So I got a good "clean" skin, only to found out, it needs a patch too! Grrr... The great thing about it is, I finally learned the system, I do it in rounds of 6-8 tack and dolly every weld. It's coming out clean, its time consuming, but looks good!
Drivers:
Passenger:
Door frames sanded, ready to be cleaned and painted:
Did the hinges and 'S' springs:
Last week I ordered some new Sherman quarters for Jeg's. Motivated, I jumped to the trunk and quarter area, did a bunch of demo work.
Now I can see what I'm up against for this area. Crossing fingers that the inside of those rockers look decent...
So breaking work down roughly in this area:
*Replace the wheel houses instead of fab a lip all the way around, paint what I can inside rockers, if needed. Might as well mini-tub while I'm there.
*A little fab patch work around certain areas such as the tail panel sides, floor leading up to the shock mount.
*Fab up a trunk floor and extensions.
*Brush out rust in top underside of trunk area.
*A little stripping and dolly work on the upper trunk/quarter to window panel, sand and paint.
*Hang quarters.
Starting tomorrow, I'll finish cleaning up the edges of the work I cut out last week, then probably do the passenger side door skin metal work off and on, might paint some innder skins and door panels if I feel frisky.... Then move into the rest of it. BOOM.
Enjoy!
