I still need to have Don come over and approve my quarter panel top before I put the window box back in. So while that is on hold, I am working on getting ready to replace the floor, rocker box, quarter panel bottom, and lower front wheel house.
One of the things I hadn't got around to doing was drilling the holes for the tranny cover screws and then fitting the DSM tranny hump. I am still not sure if I am going to use the stock style screws or not. I am not sure how I feel about screws sticking out of the floor bottom. I may go with nutserts and machine screws. Regardless, I still have to get the holes in there.
Then I started fitting the DSM hump. I am not real thrilled with the fit. In hindsight, I am thinking I may have been better off making a tranny hump from scratch. The front is too tall and will have to be trimmed. The contour is not correct. The hump itself is not welded and has a large gap which will need to be drawn together and welded. I started working on the contour at the back where it mates with the tunnel hump. It's closer, but it still needs a lot of work.
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Beautiful day today. A little brisk when I hopped in the truck to run my MIG bottle over to exchange it for a full one.
Then, my friend and co-worker from Switzerland came over to split wood. Adrian likes to do it the old fashioned way, so we swung axes for about 2-1/2 hours. We have been doing this nearly every weekend this year. Adrian's pile is in the foreground, mine is the small pile in the background.
After lunch, I finally got back to working on the 41. The PO had purchased the floor extension and installed it. No paint, just bare steel. I needed to save it in order to clean it and make the piece which goes at the back of the rocker box assembly under the lower quarter panel. In the second photo, you can see what the PO covered up with the replacement panel.
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The day started off too cold and dreary to work. Besides that, I need Don to come over and tell me the body work is OK. Once the window box goes back in, it would difficult if not impossible to get a dolly back up in there.
Anyway, the big news is the crew came and removed our beaver dam! Took several trips, but it is all gone. Now all we have to do is finish splitting the firewood.
Next week is supposed to be sunny and slightly warmer, so I expect to work. Getting anxious to get back at it.
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The POR-15 was applied to the quarter panel and the back of the window box. This will allow me to proceed during the upcoming weekends where the temperatures are predicted to be considerably lower than this weekend.
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Great weather this weekend. I had some other stuff to do, but I was able to get a lot done on the car.
The first photo shows the start of the clean-up on the inside of the quarter panel. The inset in the lower right corner is the "before" photo. To get to this point required a putty knife. Some of the undercoating and the sound deadener mat came off with a putty knife and elbow grease. What didn't come off that way required a heat gun and putty knife. Once done with that, scrubbing the metal with a rag soaked in lacquer thinner removed the most of the remaining film. Finally, brake clean got off the stubborn stuff. The seam sealer was also removed.
A DA with 80 grit removed most of the surface rust. The sandblaster cut some of the tough spots. The surface was cleaned with Marine Clean, scrubbing the surface with a red Scotch pad. Rinse and blow dry. Squirt the whole area down with Metal Prep, scrubbing the surface with a clean, dry red Scotch pad. Rinse, blow dry, and finally blow dry with a heat gun.
As I was low on gloss black POR-15, and running low on semi-gloss, I masked off only the area which could not be accessed once the window box was back in the car permanently.
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All times are GMT -6. The time now is 11:15 PM.
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