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Lovely welding, but I hope you are putting some strength in elsewhere as those framehorns have been severely weakened...
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The steel I used to "fill in" the part I cut out is 1/4" thick and is fully welded, but will add some material under the frame horns just in case.
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I didn't realize the CVs on the 915 conversion were that much of a clearance issue?
Pretty easy to beef that area back up though. Work is looking awesome! Jeff-
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Hurry up and get this monster done. Drive it to work and let me slobber all over it already. Looks good, cya Wendell..
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Glad you finally joined the GL forums Dude!!
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I got the gussets almost complete. Just need to cap of the ends. This is 1/8th inch plate formed to the frame horns. (I hope Ricola is happy now )
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Looking really good. Feel free to come over my place and use some of those skills.
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I finally got some time to finish the gussets (and some other stuff)
They are now complete!
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Well, at some point in this cars life the gasket on the bulk head inspection cover plate must have started leaking because, I found some rust inside it! Also found three strange factory holes on the passenger side frame head (see pic) there are none on the drivers side . These holes didn't help keep water out either. I brushed all the loose rust out and cleaned it out best I could. Had to cut some access points out on the "napoleon hat" to get in there too. The metal is still plenty thick enough though. So, I got out some trusty POR-15 and made some "extended reach" paint brushes, and coated all the rust (the rest of the inside tunnel looks brand new!) It's not the prettiest finish, but it sealed the rust.
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Well, its been a year since I posted (and worked) on my rust repairs. So hears what I've done last nite and today.
Lots of work to get this to fit good. Now the other part is getting this aftermarket panel to fit. None of it matched up to original one, but I'm getting close! Still a few more hours of fitting before welding it in. I guess I need to have a thread in the "project builds" section...
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Yes, you do. We can move this one over though if you'd like.
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Very nice work on the bulkhead!
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Nice work as always.
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Well, you move slow, but your work is of very high quality, so your forgiven :-)
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