Weekend update

Kicked my shell over once again on the weekend. Cleaned up some of the welds and patched some more of the floor. Cleaned some of the tar off the inside floor. Rust under some of it. Found more that needs to be replaced. Wont be much of the orginal floor left soon.



Gave one of the front guards a hit with the wire wheel where I knew there was some bog. Turned out to be much worse that I expected. Has been bingled at some point, and who ever fixed it decided they were better at applying bog than using the hammer and dollies.

Called Jeff (danidad) to see about some donar steel on Sunday and he mentioned that there was a good van shell on the Mini Trader for $250. Called the guy got his answering machine. Waiting for him to call back put a dampner on the motivation to keep hacking on my shell. Also have run out of steel for patching, so not much I could do anyway.

The van shell guy got back to me this morning. Already sold. Full steam ahead with fixing my shell then.

Cutting the rusty area, you can see some of the holes.


Hole cut:


With the light behind you can really see how rusty it was:


I had a little steel left to start forming up a patch: