RetroRanger

Nice job fabbing up that piece.

iirc scrappie removed that entire top part in his resto thread if you want to get a look at how it is under that panel

tkcutlass

Got the inner patch installed still a bunch of pinholes I keep blowing through some of holes making them worse.
went back with a copper backing got the large holes filled not sure if it's worth trying to patch those little holes.. I made a bunch of little holes into large ones.

tkcutlass

My buddy Mike the madman went to town drilling out spot welds and we got the under rear seat pulled out.

tkcutlass

Back to working on the cowl.
Patched a few pinholes primed it up with weldable primer, and got the outer patch close to ready to weld in place.

tkcutlass

The patch is in, a little more tweaking and grinding but could be worse.

tkcutlass

Decided to take a shot at filling some holes on the windshield frame.
A lot of patience and grinding I managed to fill a couple holes






Found a better way, make a little patch, shape and hold it with a coat hanger







Getting ready for the next one

no1oldsfan

Nice great hard work. 👍

Mr Gadgets

Nice Work!!

tkcutlass

Got a few more patches in, with all this practice my horrible welds are slowly ...(very slowly) getting better.
Plenty more to practice on

woodie582

Have you thought about replacing that header?

tkcutlass

I wasn't aware just the top windshield header was available and wouldn't that be very difficult to get it aligned perfectly?

tkcutlass

The last patch on the cowl is done, well at least up top.






the tipping wheel makes it easy to do curved bends.

Mr Gadgets

Looks good.. The welding is coming along.. The other day I tried a change on the settings on the mig. I turned the heat down and slowed the wire feed down.. I was shocked at how nicely the weld came out. I was actually able to control the puddle better that way. Give it a try and see what happens..
I hope it helps!

tkcutlass

Started patching the wheel wells.


Started with a big patch making it easier to form

ended up with just a small portion of the original patch

I left the edge of cut piece attached to help with aligning the contour of the patch









welded the inside edge




Filled a couple holes on the other side

tkcutlass

Started fitting the back seat floor patch.
Going to try and slip it under the spot welds.
Tips anyone?

tkcutlass

We managed to get the patch tucked between the brace and the old floor and peeled back the side.
Not sure if that's the right way but should be a lot stronger than a butt weld. (Is this overkill?)

tkcutlass

Started welding up the seams on the previously installed floor pan

tkcutlass

Moved on to the trunk area to patch the inner wheel well.



Ran out of welding gas so moved on to prepping the other side

tkcutlass

Started fitting the trunk pan.

Drilled the spot welds for the seat divider to slip the floor in between.

Mr Gadgets

It's coming along nicely!! Keep up the good work!!

tkcutlass

Got an hour to sneak out to the garage more welds on the floor pan.
Got an 80 cf tank so I don't run out every time I turn around.
Turned up the gas flow a bit and I think my welds are finally coming around.

tkcutlass

Finished welding up the main floor​​​​​​​

tkcutlass

Noticed the front body mount was shifting when rotating the frame.
welded the inner brace and made a 16 gage patch.

Mr Gadgets

Coming along nicely!! Keep up the good work!

tkcutlass

I figured I'd check the other mount while I had everything setup.

It looked good but after deeper examination, it was actually worse than the other side.

Tim75

This is an impressive build!

tkcutlass

Thanks, Tim

It has been fun and challenging.

tkcutlass

Been practicing with my new English wheel amazing how even a rookie like me can create halfway decent results.

tkcutlass

Waiting for the 18 gauge I moved on to repairing the floor brace.








Going to wait for the nice weather tomorrow so I can open the doors and put a fan on while welding the galvanized area

tkcutlass

Welded up the brace

tkcutlass

Next up outer wheel well patch

tkcutlass

The quarter patch has many contours and was tricky but I am pretty happy with how it turned out.
Needs a little fine-tuning but getting there.

tkcutlass

Spent some time cleaning up all the misc parts laying around and got them stored used my body cart to move old red to the lower garage.

tkcutlass

Been busy... going to try and catch up.

Got a bunch of parts a GTO was getting upgraded to a Ford 9 inch with a Tremec 5 speed so I got a good deal on recently removed parts. With about 50 miles on them.
3.55 posi

tkcutlass

Started filling in the windshield frame and front cowl.

tkcutlass

Prepped and painted the Upper control arms that I just picked up.
Added new bushings while at it. (They came with new ball joints)

tkcutlass

Thanks to Trophyblue442 I got a rear cross member and with luck, I can get that and the trunk welded in.



Got most of the spot welds drilled out.

no1oldsfan

Nice. Progress is progress. Keep at it.

Phoenix8990

WOW, you are doing a lot of amazing work. I would suggest playing with the amperage and wire speed. It should run a nice continuous bead, sounding like bacon crackling. It looks like it's sputtering, either a little less wire speed or a bit more amperage. I'm happy to see you found this car to work on, the rust bucket would have been a crazy amount of work. Looking forward to seeing your progress!!!

Steve

tkcutlass

Thanks for the kind words. I can always use tips... especially on welding.
I still have old red and acquired almost everything I need to make two.
This one is turning out to be a 1000 piece puzzle, the other might be easier by replacing a small number of large pieces vs all the small pieces as I am doing with this one