tdgray
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Great work… tricky little section there. So glad I didn’t have to yank mine out.
sympathetic restoration on a 73 CSi
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davekillen
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All done patching up the driver's side inner rocker. This went smoothly and I'm glad I went ahead and bought the full inner rockers from WN rather than trying to fabricate patches as I'd initially considered. I kind of hate cutting up expensive new parts but I'm sure this saved an order of magnitude of time, and it was really nice to see the front section fall into place as there was a real mess there before (shoddy old repairs combined with not just rust, but some collapsing due to ill-advised jacking).
I've started fitting up the new intermediate sill, and the original b-pillar support, which was in fine overall shape, just needed one patch and a new lower flange. My plan is to use the method I saw on @nosmonkey's thread of assembling everything from the intermediate sill out off of the car, then spot-welding it all on as one unit. This should make the lower intermediate-to-outer-sill welds a lot better and save a bunch of time overall, in addition to being how the factory did it of course. I bought and fixed an enormous old spot-welder a while back with just this sort of thing in mind, but I haven't actually used it yet, so we'll see how that goes!
I've started fitting up the new intermediate sill, and the original b-pillar support, which was in fine overall shape, just needed one patch and a new lower flange. My plan is to use the method I saw on @nosmonkey's thread of assembling everything from the intermediate sill out off of the car, then spot-welding it all on as one unit. This should make the lower intermediate-to-outer-sill welds a lot better and save a bunch of time overall, in addition to being how the factory did it of course. I bought and fixed an enormous old spot-welder a while back with just this sort of thing in mind, but I haven't actually used it yet, so we'll see how that goes!
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tdgray
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I agree Dave. I did section one of the new rockers I got from WN. Felt bad doing it but it wasn’t worth tearing the entire side apart after I saw that the inside was in good shape.
Sometimes you have to known when to stop.
Wise man.
Sometimes you have to known when to stop.
Wise man.
davekillen
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Getting close to being ready to button up the driver's side sill. Pretty much everything is set to turn over to the spot welder with the exception of the rear inner wheel arch, which I'm in the process of fabricating patches for and rebuilding (it's not really visible in the photo, but it's in two pieces right now from when I removed everything). I'm headed out of town for a week and a half, though, so that'll have to wait until I get back.
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tdgray
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Top notch work Dave