BUILD THREAD Rustier then I thought!!!

[joesregalproject]

Looks good. As far as the low spot where the weld is, use your best judgment. You're gonna need some mud there regardless, so if you can fill it without the mud getting too thick, don't make your life harder than it has to be. If you think it's a little too deep, tap it out some with the hammer and dolly.

Body work is all by feel, that's why the women love us 😉

 

[Doug Chahoy]

Can you get a pry bar from inside and try to pry it out ?

 

[RabbitHoleSS]

Looks good. As far as the low spot where the weld is, use your best judgment. You're gonna need some mud there regardless, so if you can fill it without the mud getting too thick, don't make your life harder than it has to be. If you think it's a little too deep, tap it out some with the hammer and dolly.

Body work is all by feel, that's why the women love us 😉

Yea thats what Im gathering the more I do it. It only did it in that middle body line area. The bottom is pretty straight.

Can you get a pry bar from inside and try to pry it out ?

I have complete access to the backside. Im gonna try to work it out this weekend after i fix the rest of that wheel well with patches from my spare qtrs. Thanks for the replys guys.

 

[RabbitHoleSS]

Started forming a gameplan for the driver wheel well. I cut the first patch out until all the rust was gone. I cut the outer wheel house out too and replaced it. I forgot to get a picture.

Smoothed out.

I accidentally dug into the bodyline. I plan on welding and smoothing it out. I flipped the car over and cut out the rust on the top wheel arch. It was was a larger area then I expected.

I clean the patches and the car really well. Since I started focusing on welding clean metal I rarely blow thru anymore. I feel like this is key. I weld on the wheelhouse.

Then the qtr panel patch. I try to stay as close to body lines as possible to help me not warp the s#** out of the panel.

Here it is knocked flat. Kinda. The left side kinda got wonky on me. I hope it'll look ok when its done. I still gotta mimic spot welds on the lip of the wheel arch.

This is next on the list. Then the driver wheel arch/house is fixed.

 

[RabbitHoleSS]

I havent had much desire to get out in the garage. The heat at work beats me down to where I dont feel like going back out into it when I get home. I got the front of the wheel arch cut out. I forgot to take pictures. I had to make patches for the outer wheel house. Here it is welded in.

Then I made the wheel arch patch and welded it in.

I got the wheel well metal replacement finished.

Im moving to the passenger side wheel arch. Its not as bad as the driver. I should only have 1 spot i have to fix the outer wheelhouse. The rest is the lip of the wheel arch.

 

[Doug Chahoy]

I was wondering what happened. You usually post every Sunday night. It’s looking real good. Those are tricky areas to do. Mainly because they’ll be visibible. Having a wheel opening moulding is helpfull. I always set it in place to check for high and low spots

 

[RabbitHoleSS]

I was wondering what happened. You usually post every Sunday night. It’s looking real good. Those are tricky areas to do. Mainly because they’ll be visibible. Having a wheel opening moulding is helpfull. I always set it in place to check for high and low spots

The moulding is a good idea but i dont have any. I wonder if an LS moulding would be the same as an SS without it.
Yea the dog days of summer got to me. Luckily I went on vacation this week. A week of fishing,swimming,and skiing will work wonders for morale.

It wouldn't be 2020 without stuff goin fubar. I think the impellar went out. It started getting hot so we shut it down.

I got home last night and jumped on the car this morning. The top of the wheel arch lip was rusted. I thought the wheelhouse was solid there but i was wrong. I spotblasted until I stopped putting holes in the wheelhouse then cut out the bad.

Alot of these spots were "surface rust" but when I hit it with wire wheels and the spot blaster they grew. I thought I got pictures of it all cut out. I guess I forgot.

I had to get into the body in front of the wheel. It was quite thin so I cut back to clean metal. I used a patch from my spare qtrs. I had to piece this together because i accidentally cut the wrong piece in half while trying to make multiple patches at once.

Here it is welded up and knocked flat.

It turned out alot better then the driver side. Its smooth with no lows/highs that I can feel.Im putting oshpo on it to keep it from rusting until i can get epoxy on the panels. Im stripping the paint out of the trunk now so I can paint the inside of the cab and trunk at one time.
My stepson brought me this yesterday when I picked him up. If it was white itd be a replica

 

[Doug Chahoy]

The wheel openings are the same wheather base, LS, or SS . Almost sounds like you should have used your doner lower 1/4s as 1 piece.

 

[RabbitHoleSS]

The wheel openings are the same wheather base, LS, or SS . Almost sounds like you should have used your doner lower 1/4s as 1 piece.

I probably would've but the driver qtr had a big rust hole in it. Just about where youd expect a gas tank door wouldve been. And the pass was mangled and filled with bondo in back of the tire lije my driver side was. And whoever removed them used a torch and cut off the bottoms that the bumper cover attaches to I just didnt wanna replace the whole qtrs and then still have to patch areas.

 

[Doug Chahoy]

Didn’t know the doner was that bad.