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| thomasotten |
 Nov 29 2003, 07:51 PM
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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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| thomasotten |
Dec 14 2003, 05:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,565 Joined: 16-November 03 From: San Antonio, Texas Member No.: 1,349 |
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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thomasotten What to do about my inner longs Nov 29 2003, 07:51 PM
thomasotten More pics... Nov 29 2003, 07:53 PM thomasotten last one... Nov 29 2003, 07:56 PM ! Fix em or buy a roller..... Nov 29 2003, 07:58 PM SirAndy yup, weld'em up ... Nov 29 2003, 08:03 PM thomasotten yes, fixem, but how? Not much room in their to we... Nov 29 2003, 08:20 PM ! Depends on your welding skills.....the right way i... Nov 29 2003, 08:31 PM RustyWa Wasn't there someone here that recently, last ... Nov 29 2003, 09:03 PM Rob Ways Nicely done! Another 914 saved..... Dec 14 2003, 05:26 PM Brad Roberts Thomas,
You are doing fine. The only thing I can ... Dec 14 2003, 10:58 PM SirAndy spray plenty of metal ready onto all of the inner ... Dec 14 2003, 11:39 PM jdogg Looks good, Thomas. I am facing the same repair in... Dec 15 2003, 10:21 AM thomasotten jdogg:
I actually called George at AutoAtlanta wi... Dec 16 2003, 12:30 PM Brad Roberts Problem is: the car's SHRINK when you start we... Dec 16 2003, 01:56 PM stock93 Yeah make sure you do what brad is talking about. ... Dec 16 2003, 02:00 PM Brad Roberts You'll have to cut any tabs you have connected... Dec 16 2003, 02:03 PM stock93 The doorgaps are even, they are just to small. I... Dec 16 2003, 02:07 PM RON S. I had to make a door jig when I replaced my inner ... Dec 16 2003, 02:09 PM Brad Roberts We jig the cars PRIOR to cage/welding..
Cellette ... Dec 16 2003, 02:14 PM Brad Roberts This what we found BEHIND someones hack job.
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Brad Roberts The Cellete pics up EVERY bolt hole in the bottom ... Dec 16 2003, 02:16 PM |
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