Thank you
BossHogg69 for the encouraging words
Nice to have you on board,
mingoman, I hope you won't be disappointed.
Once again, this is a repair project, not a restoration. I work on a budget, and
am an amateur just trying to make do with my limited tools and skills.
So, on with it. I worked some with the tail en since my last post. First i
welded some scrap pieces to the outermost corner of the tail, and tried pulling
to the side. No matter how hard I hammered away with the heavy slide
hammer, nothing gave. In the end I gave up, and cut it all away:
Then I drew a template from the right hand side, and welded in the new tail strip.
After a few spot welds I chacked the fit, and all was good, so I welded it all
and ground the welds. Now it looked good, and I called it a night.
The next day, when showing the pics to a buddy, I noticed that it really didn't
look that good, so when I got home I checked with the template I had made
before.
I was right. Apparently the whole thing had warped badly as I was welding
it.
The green part shows how far off the curve was and the white arrow
shows where the little sharpie V should point at.
Luckily it was pretty pliable,and i got it sorted. I cut out som pieces for the
bottom part to fix it all. After I had welded a four or five spots I chacked
again, and... Rats! it had moved again.
I was close to giving up for the night, but hated the thought of being at work
knowing I hadn't figured this one out yet, and started over. Cut out the few
spot welds, and hammered away until I was satisified with the fit. Then lying
under the rear of the car, cut pieces to fit, and slowly spotwelded them in,
checking the alignment and all after almost every spot was welded.
Rear corner seen from below. Also visible in this shot is the scrap pieces of
sheet metal spotwelded to the corner, that I pulled with the slide hammer and
used for grounding the welder.
This rear corner is welded now,and just waits for grinding.
As usual, this dented corner took a lot more work than anticipated to get it done. About four times. I should remember that
