QUOTE(mepstein @ Jul 26 2017, 11:50 AM)
Jeff Hail replaced one in his build thread. Scotty B replaced one on my car - mepstein build. I think Jeff's goes into more detail if you can find it on his thread.
Thanks! In case someone stumbles across this thread looking for the same info in the future, I found the relevant section of
Jeff Hail's thread here, and the
mepstein build here and here.Unfortunately for me, Jeff wound up repairing he tube in place without removing it from the jamb, and Mark's car had been kind enough to pretty much rot cleanly away from the tube so there was little left to do to detach it. But I'm probably going to do something similar. Just cut around the hole in the jamb and then grind back to the tube until I have a clean edge to insert into the new jamb.
worn: I think you are right about the brazing. While scraping away sealer with a screw driver, I caught a hint of yellow at the seam. I'll get in with a dremel and wire wheel when I get a chance to confirm. But pretty sure that's the deal. Curiously, I found no foam inside my sail panels or roll bar.
Did they stop doing that at some point?
I found absolutely no trace that anyone had been in there to do work before. All spot welds looked factory fresh, seam sealer was intact, and primer matches what I've found in other internal structure. Given the quality of body work elsewhere on the car, it seems unlikely such an expert job could have been done.
This brings up a curiosity. While cutting and cleaning out the long for replacement, I found a couple spots of brazing at each end of the long seam (red arrows). But I also uncovered some genius's rust repair where they just brazed a hunk of sheet metal over a rust hole and then bondoed away (blue arrow). Can you believe that expert repair rusted out again? It left me wondering if the seam brazing is factory or if there could be another nice surprise left by a PO's body man in this box of Cracker Jacks.
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