Passenger sill panel

This arvo was sill panel day.

First we start with a piece of steel sheet.



Clamp between a bit of angle iron and some rectangular tubing, bend with the help of a BFH. And we get:



A mock fitup, some trimming & bending needed:



With this panel a couple of meters long, your forearms get tend to get a good work out on the tin snips.

Getting the curve in the panel required flattening some of the bend and redoing it at a slightly different angle.

A tack here, a tack there [note the curve in the sill panel]:



Then the mother of all seam welds with the mig:



And there you have it, one home made sill panel.

Yeah, I was too lazy to put the little vent bumps in it.
The bend wasn't has sharp as I would have wanted.

It's far from perfect, but hey it only took a few hours and few people will see it once the car is back on wheels. What was that saying about an amatuer having built the ark, while professionals built the titanic?

Passengers sill

Been spending some time in the middle of the day on the monster truck and workin
g from home later in the evening. This way I can use all my loud tools and not p
iss too many people off.

Recent victims:



Notice the missing section of seam. And the large whole in front of the wheel ar
ch.



It's good to go back a remember why:





Back to the future we get:




Not my best welds, but there is a large unsupported panel above this so I had to do it in really short bursts to prevent too much warpage.



A bit of rust gaurd and it should bog up nicely. Also notice that I have welded
and painted the top part of the seam below the door.

More seam construction followed:




Finally a hit with the mig:



Looking at that photo I'm not joking when I say that this car is more mig weld than anything else.

Up next: fabricating a sill to cover that mess.

Drivers sill

Got about 4 hours in on the monster truck today in between stuffing around with other people's cars:



Cleaned out the driver side sill, sand blasted a little. Rust converter then a heap of fish oil. Patched the hole I cut ages ago in the top of the sill in the door jam. Patched the hole in front of the rear wheel.




Once upon a time it looked like this: