Project: "Daddy's Cool Cool Green Green Car" Build
Update:
Finally got to spend some time away from the wife and kiddies by getting some "garage time". Switched on the tv, cracked a few beers and got to work!
Swapped the wheels on the dollies and found I also needed some strategically placed bracing to aviod a disaster....They seem to finally work well.
Then it was on to some welding....You can see in the pix that the right side inner fender rail was so badly rusted that I just cut it off all together and fabbed a new piece of metal in its place....Also, the inner fender itself had it's share of rust, so I templated with cardboard and fabbed a piece there as well.
With my VERY limited welding skills and a cheap 110v stick welder, I think I did pretty well....I'm happy with it.
If anybody can help, I have two questions:
First, after replacing the inner fender rail, I need to create the oblong hole for the fender clip....Does anyone know a simple way to recreate the factory hole?
Second, I need to finish the welds with filler and hope someone here has done something similar....Is a typical body filler flexable enough to resist cracking?....Should I use gorilla hair (fiberglass), or is there something better?
Thanks!
Front Dollies:
Rear Dollies:
Inner Fender and Rail Before:
Cardboard Template and Donor Metal from one of the original fenders which was hit at the headlight.
Inner Fender and Rail After:
Update:
Finally got to spend some time away from the wife and kiddies by getting some "garage time". Switched on the tv, cracked a few beers and got to work!
Swapped the wheels on the dollies and found I also needed some strategically placed bracing to aviod a disaster....They seem to finally work well.
Then it was on to some welding....You can see in the pix that the right side inner fender rail was so badly rusted that I just cut it off all together and fabbed a new piece of metal in its place....Also, the inner fender itself had it's share of rust, so I templated with cardboard and fabbed a piece there as well.
With my VERY limited welding skills and a cheap 110v stick welder, I think I did pretty well....I'm happy with it.
If anybody can help, I have two questions:
First, after replacing the inner fender rail, I need to create the oblong hole for the fender clip....Does anyone know a simple way to recreate the factory hole?
Second, I need to finish the welds with filler and hope someone here has done something similar....Is a typical body filler flexable enough to resist cracking?....Should I use gorilla hair (fiberglass), or is there something better?
Thanks!
Front Dollies:
Rear Dollies:
Inner Fender and Rail Before:
Cardboard Template and Donor Metal from one of the original fenders which was hit at the headlight.
Inner Fender and Rail After: