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Ok, here we are on day 6 or something of the War on Rust. Today, I am focusing on the inner wheel house, lower portion. I removed the outer skin and the inner structure. Before would seal this area up, I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions about what to do about the bottom of my interior longs. As you can see from the following pics, they are rotted on the bottom. I was kind of surprised that the car can rest on the jackpost here. The sides of the longs are redeemable, after some POR-15. Any suggestions? Should I just treat it with POR-15 and call it good? There door jambs are fine on this vehicle.
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About the same time that Saddam was being dug out of a hole in the ground, I managed to fix the rust on the inside of my inner longs. The rust here wasn't so bad that it weakend the frame much, but since I went this far, I wanted to do something. My solution was to keep as much original metal there that I could. I created L-shaped patches out of 18ga metal and spot welded them to the good metal. I used to be able to flex this area slightly by gripping the frame at the jack point. Now, it is very firm. I will be following up by treating the whole area w/ POR-15. The rust extends about 6" to the right of the last patch shown, but I won't be doing much about that other than treating it because the heating tube doesn't allow much room to work. I did weld a patch from the bottom, however.
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