Milestone

Left side is essentially back together. Still need to grind the quarter down, but it's all back together finally. Door isn't hanging correctly, but I'll wait until it's back down on its wheels to get the alignment right. Took a long time, but the right side should go a lot faster now that I know what to do (and what not to do).

Moving on to a new area

Tackling the windshield rail and the left corner of the dash. This should be interesting. Lots of rust under the windshield rail as expected. Patch panel is going to be a little tricky.

Update

Almost finished with the driver's side. Replaced the fender joining panel, inner rocker, seat rail support, kidney, jack tube and support, lower hinge post, lock post, outer rocker and about to weld the lower quarter in

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Tank and hinge post done

still a little clean up work to do on the hinge post - ran out of welding gas :)





Here's the before pic

more progress

1st coat of wurth stoneguard on the tank and welded in the front corner of the tub. Getting the new sheet metal to match up with the existing metal is a serious pain in the @ss. Lot's of cutting and hammer/dolly work.

Seat Rail Support

This was a pain. Completely rusted out. Had to use what was left to create a template for a new piece. Used a hammer and dolly to recreate the shape and then weld in place.

Gas tank

step 1 - Eastwood rust encapsulator (next step is Wurth stoneguard)

Started with stripped tank