81 Oldsmopile ( G-body rust repair )

[EME_Mack]

Started to make the small piece of floor that goes over the body mount.

This piece will get painted before its welded into place, just gotta get a HVLP spray gun.
Made a new bracket to house the nut.

Used some zinc weld through primer then some tremclad. This part will get sand blasted again before its painted properly just wanted something under there before its all covered up

Used some Tek screws to test fit it into place to make sure it didn't get warped with all the welding

 

[EME_Mack]

Need to fix The firewall were the heater box bolts too. Decided to cut it out to make it easyer to fix.

This is the mount for the inner fender

Must of had a leaking heater core at some point

Traced out a plan of attack

Then started the attack

Test fit

Then another Cutlass rolled into the shop a '64

Sand blasted and ready to be put back on

 

[mymontess]

Wow. Gotta say, your enthusiasm in attacking these rust issues is inspiring! Keep up the good work!

 

[EME_Mack]

The cutlass took a back seat over work. Had a little time to work on the car this weekend tho. I wanted to finish the fire wall before moving on to the floor, which meant I had to take care of this pesky hole.

Cutting it out was a pain because the disk wouldn't fit into the corner without some creativity

New piece

Some zinc primer, then burn her in

Wile I was there i finished up under the heater box hole, welding in the replacement

The completed fire wall. gonna treat the pitted areas with some por15

 

[liquidh8]

Nice to see you tackling those bends. I did a great deal of compound bends on the wagon, and I had to make them in multiple pieces just like you.

 

[EME_Mack]

Started this last week but ran outta wire over the long weekend. Fixed up the door mount then welded it back into place

Painted the inside of the body mount then welded the two halves together

Wile the paint was drying I fixed up the trans tunnel

And the rebuilt body mount welded into its final resting place

 

[ssn696]

Then another Cutlass rolled into the shop a '64

SQUIRREL!

 

[EME_Mack]

The back body mount is going to be a little more difficult to work with since im starting with this

I made one out of cardboard to see if it will work. Im pretty sure that the stock support doesn't wow out near the rocker, but if it were straight then it wouldn't cover the body mount so I widened it on the one side a little more so it supports the body mount bushing

Used the same scrap metal as I used for the door brace and some 14 gauge metal

Its the same depth near the trans tunnel, and near the rocker the bottom steps up and gets shallower. The car has been driven around with all this rot and the body started to smash down on the frame since the body mounts were none existent I can't tell how far the gap is between the frame and floor. I figured that I can ad spacers between the bushing and support if the body docent sit down onto the bushing in the end

 

[EME_Mack]

Before I can weld in the body mount support I need something to weld too. So after measuring test fitting and eyeballing, the inner rocker was plug welded into what I hope is the correct position. The body is sitting off the frame thats why its sitting on an angle

Maybe some one can help me out here. This is the first G-body I have worked on and don't know them very well. Is there a body mount and bolt here, the hole forward to the spring seat. or is that just for a rubber Isolator.

And If any one has pictures of this area of the wheel house to rocker area it would be greatly appreciated since I plan on rebuilding it but don't have any idea of the shape

 

[Pasikiainen]

No bodymount there, only isolator 🙂