Start of a Dart
Lots of progress today. I started with getting the trunk floor cleaned up. Not good enough for paint, but good enough to get most of the crap off, find the pinholes I need to fix, and move on to the tire well. Except oops, I turn a wrong turn and went down the rabbit hole. (Where are my two traveling companions, @DentalDart, and @billsdartgt?) I was way down the hole but didn't see either of them. While down there I got caught up taking off the messed up trunk seal, then cleaning up the extraordinary amount of glue on the trunk lip, the scraping all the seal sealer out of the trunk. Luckily, as I was eyeing the wads of undercoat on the inside of the back fenders I saw a sliver of light and swam back to the surface. The project for today was to was fix the tire well, dummy. Get back to work.
So, once back in the sunlight I cut down the donor piece and got it ready for the welder. Then I took a deep breath and cut out the floor of the well. Yikes. That's a big hole! I may take tomorrow off and do something fun with my sweetie, but if not, Mr. Lincoln and I will get down and dirty with the pan.
Here's a test fit. Things are about to get fun.
Lots of progress today. I started with getting the trunk floor cleaned up. Not good enough for paint, but good enough to get most of the crap off, find the pinholes I need to fix, and move on to the tire well. Except oops, I turn a wrong turn and went down the rabbit hole. (Where are my two traveling companions, @DentalDart, and @billsdartgt?) I was way down the hole but didn't see either of them. While down there I got caught up taking off the messed up trunk seal, then cleaning up the extraordinary amount of glue on the trunk lip, the scraping all the seal sealer out of the trunk. Luckily, as I was eyeing the wads of undercoat on the inside of the back fenders I saw a sliver of light and swam back to the surface. The project for today was to was fix the tire well, dummy. Get back to work.
So, once back in the sunlight I cut down the donor piece and got it ready for the welder. Then I took a deep breath and cut out the floor of the well. Yikes. That's a big hole! I may take tomorrow off and do something fun with my sweetie, but if not, Mr. Lincoln and I will get down and dirty with the pan.
Here's a test fit. Things are about to get fun.
